Christmas Cookie Cutters, Plastic & Metal Cookie Cutters, Cookie & Cake Decorating Supplies, Candy Making Supplies

I just got finished making cookies for my first cookie exchange using the Santa and Christmas tree cutters. I used them as a girl growing up in Chicago and have inherited the cutters from my Mom who traditionally made the Santa cookies for all my teachers in elementary school when I was growing up.
I couldn't sit that long at the kitchen table when I was young, so my job was to put the raisins in the eyes.
Well, today I mixed the dough, baked and decorated 48 of them! She is looking down and having a great laugh! Probably saying, "it took you long enough!" I'm 56

I was born in 1956 and my grandmother had all the Aunt Chicks cutters. I could hardly wait for Christmas just to see the beautiful Santa cookies. When she passed away 25 years ago I asked for the cookie cutters. I continued the tradition. I moved away from my family fifteen years ago but I still mail Santa cookies to all the family. One year I didn't have time and trust me that will never happen again. Do not let go of tradition.

My husband's family always talked about the Santa face cookies that his grandmother made. The family really wanted to keep the tradition alive but had long since lost the special cookie cutter. I have spent the last 3 years searching and I have finally found it!! Now to figure out which recipe she used...

I've been making your cookies for 51 years. Since I was 7 in my mothers kitchen. I made them with my children and their friends every year. Now we have a decorating party with our friends every year. After a few glasses of wine we get some interesting cookies. It is such fun we actually have two decorating parties a year. One with family and one with friends. It is a wonderful tradition.

My story sounds so much like everyone's story, but tradition is tradition.My mother had these red cutters that we used every year that I could remember from my childhood. I received the cutters from my mother and have carried on the tradition, even gluing across the top of the Santa cutter so I could continue to use it. I have ordered a dozen of the Santa cutters to give to my siblings, my children and my grandchildren.Everyone loves to look at the cookies first but somehow cannot keep from eating them.

I found a copy of Aunt Chick's pie book in my mothers cookbook collection when she passed away. It was not in very good condition, falling apart. I showed it to my granddaughter who was a student at Michigan State Univ. and she was doing her work study in the school library. She said that she could fix my book. She took it to school and put a clear cover on it and glued all of the pages. It was as good as new. My granddaughter loved the book so I looked on eBay and found a copy, purchased it and gave it to her in thanks for the great job she did. She loves the book and uses it all of the time just as i do. My mother would be so happy to see the recipes past on.

My mother, Florence Hardin, made Santa Claus cookies every year, from my early childhood until about two years ago. She is now 100 years old. Until a few years ago, she would make a cookie tree, a small artificial tree on which she would hang the Santas. When children came to visit at Christmas time, they always left with a cookie. I have tried to continue the tradition, but we have moved around so much that I have only occasionally been able to make the cookies. Apparently, my cutter is in storage, so I had to order another one. I hope I'll find time to make the cookies for my friends' grandchildren this year! My first grandchild is due in February.

I don't have a childhood story but am so happy to have tracked down the Santa face cookie mold that was used for the cover shot of the Sundance jewelry catalog. I contacted Sundance and they tried to help me, and then I kept on web searching until this site and the mold that was obviously used for the cookie showed up. I just ordered it and hope to make my cookies look like the cover photo from that catalog.

I have letters from Bill McBee dated 1976. My family have been making these cookies sine before that. Tonight I finished 55 Indian cookies to give to friends. They were a lot of work but I know these gifts will be received with fondness.

For the past three years, I have had an event at my home where we serve lunch and ask everyone to bring presents for the Christmas Bureau. Every year we get hundreds of gifts for the needy children. Everyone who attends leaves with a Santa cookie. I think that they keep coming back because they love the cookies. I have a different color scheme each year. Red hats and green trees the first year, Silver hats and trees two years ago, muted pinks and greens creating an old fashioned cookie last year. This year may be gold and white.
I also make extra cookies and include them with the money gifts I give to people who help me out through the year.