A new Lesiak/Rayhill Christmas Tradition is born. Grandma Rayhill’s Cookies!
These delicious and unique cut-out cookies have a way of bringing back wonderful Christmas memories for Kent. We both love traditions, so our first Christmas tradition was born. Rita was kind enough to type and email the recipe to me and also gave me some pointers for making them. It’s a bit tricky to handle the cookies, as the recipe calls for the dough to be rolled out very thinly, but chilling the dough (and keeping it chilled while you are rolling the batches) really helps keep the right texture. These crisp, but not crunchy cookies are topped off with colored sugar and rainbow ball sprinkles. The nutmeg scent develops nicely when the finished product is dunked into a glass of milk. Yay for traditions and Christmas!
- Miso isn’t so sure about all of this.
- Wearing my Christmas Apron, sewn with love by Rita.
- My trusty Cookie Cutters.
- Carefully cutting.
- Look how thin they are!
- Palm trees and Evergreen trees coming together in cookie form.
- Kent carefully applying the sugars.
- Green…
- and Red!
- Don’t forget about the rainbow sprinkle balls!
- Ready to bake…
- Looking good!
- Do we have to wait for them to cool?
- A tradition is born.
- Miso approves.















