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| The Christmas Cookie Deck: 50 Delicious Holiday Confections (Epicurean Delights) | 
| Author: Lou Seibert Pappas
Creator: Frankie Frankeny
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1057634
Media: Cards
Number Of Items: 50
Pages: 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 4.8 x 3.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0811843440
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
UPC: 765145105811
EAN: 9780811843447
ASIN: 0811843440
Publication Date: September 23, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 Delicious! January 22, 2007
I received this set as a Christmas gift two years ago and I've given several of them for Christmas gifts ever since. The recipes are solid and the photos are beautiful. I really like that each recipe is on a card and I am not balancing a huge book as I'm trying to bake. I've been known to even throw the cards of the cookies I want to make in my purse before heading to the grocery store instead of making a list of the ingredients to save time. I highly recommend this!
 Recipes Are Complicated And Most Feature Nuts December 11, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Today, families bake and pass along their treasured family Christmas cookies as heirlooms from past generations. This clever card collection features timeless cookies, family favorites, cookies for gift giving and mailing, and elegant party cookies." - From the deck
The Christmas Cookie Deck by Lou Seibert Pappas includes 50 cards with a festive, colorful photograph on one side and recipe on the other.
Some of the recipes you'll find in this deck include:
*Springerle
*Lebkuchen
*Viennese Marzipan Bells
*Christmas Biscotti
*Dried Cherry-Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
*Embossed Macadamia Stars
*Coconut-Pecan Toffee Squares
*Tangy Lemon Bars
*Pepparkakor
*Almond-Praline Wafers
*Gianduia Snowballs
In addition to cookies, recipes for bars are also included. While The Christmas Cookie Deck contains familiar recipes such as Sugar Cookies, Gingerbread, and Peanut Butter Blossoms-most of the cookies seem exotic. Not only that, most recipes include nuts (hazelnuts, pistachios, and almonds especially)-and not everyone likes nuts (and some are allergic to them). Also, the recipes call for unsalted butter. I don't know about you, but I only use salted butter so that may prove to be problematic for some individuals.
The photographs are very attractive and festive, but many of the recipes seem complicated, employ ingredients that most won't have on hand (some ingredients I've never heard of before!), and are just not that appealing.
I realize there's no accounting for taste. In addition, some people enjoy going all-out when baking for Christmas. However, if you're looking for time-saving family-friendly recipes-especially ones without nuts-you'll probably want to pass on The Christmas Cookie Deck.
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