Melissa Clark

Oh, I am so glad you enjoyed them.

Yeah.

So I love that question because that's exactly how I bake a lot of my Christmas cookies.

The way to think about it is when you take so you take your base dough, let's just say it's a shortbread dough.

You make a double or a triple batch.

You have a lot of it.

And then you put it in.

You divide it up.

And after you divide it up, that's when you can start personalizing it.

And what you want to do, you want to do two things.

You want to add flavor and then you want to change the shape.

So visually your cookies need to look different and then they need to taste different.

So what I would do is I would add spices or I would make a sandwich cookie out of them.

You could put jam in the middle or you could put a buttercream in the middle.

You could dip them in chocolate.

You could put nuts on top of them.

Right.

You can roll them into balls and then you can roll them in coconut.

You could roll them out with a rolling pin and you can cut them into shapes.

So you have so many options.