This year, we’re stretching our annual Giant Crossword and Cookie Baking Marathon over the course of an entire weekend!
And we’re incorporating a baking challenge!

Saturday

On Saturday, we’ll grab a copy of the Globe & Mail for its annual Giant Holiday Crossword, sharpen our pencils, and begin to solve.
We’ll also pick 2-3 of our Tried & True Christmas cookies to bake from scratch:

SSJ:
Brownie Cookies
Pepparkakor
Pfeffernüsse
Snickerdoodles
Soft Gingerbread Crackle Cookies with Candied Ginger
Vanillekipferl

Offsite:
Better Homes and Gardens Sugar Cookies
Better Hoems and Gardens Gingerbread Cutouts

Sunday

On Sunday, we’ll continue with our Holiday crossword,
and we’ll choose ONE of these baking challenges:

Try 2-3 recipes from Luisa Weiss’ Classic German Baking

or

Make tins of Butter Cookies to rival the store-bought blue tins, referencing Sally’s Homemade Butter Cookie recipe and Saveur’s Sweet Pretzel Butter Cookie recipe

or

Make Linzer cookies, referencing Bon Appetit’s Spiced Brown Butter Linzers , Jam-filled Linzer Stars, and/or Chocolate-Tahini Linzers

or

UPDATE: COMPLETED! VIEW THE LINK!: Develop a recipe for amazing Speculoos!

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