I lived in “snow country” as a small child and remember the fun part of snow with fondness...making snow angels, letting snowflakes melt on my tongue, building snowmen. Snowflake cookies remind me of that time. And like real snowflakes, each cookie is different.

As everyone knows, red and green are the traditional colors for Christmas. Red Santa hats. Green Christmas trees. Red ribbons. Green garlands. Red and green icing on Christmas cutout cookies. Perfect. Unfortunately, I lost all but one of my photos of these cutout cookies, which leaves this page a bit wanting. Instead of complaining, I’m going to consider it a challenge...a challenge to make traditional red and green Christmas cookies this year. Come back in December and see how they turned out.

Ice cream is probably my favorite dessert. There are so many varieties — my current favorite is jamoca almond fudge — and so many ways to dish it up, from sundaes to ice cream sandwiches to ice cream cakes. These ice cream cookies are an homage to the unbeatable deliciousness of ice cream cones.