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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Cookie Season

For last week's Weekend Cook and Tell we asked all of you to break out the flour, butter, and sugar in honor of holiday cookie season. Our plan was to do a little vicarious baking by heading into your kitchens to see what sorts of cookies all of you were pulling hot and fresh from the oven. Here's a peek at some of your sweetest batches.

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The Nasty Bits: Rendered Lard Cookies

For the last three years, I've made the same cookies for the Serious Eats cookie swap: biscochitos, the official cookie of New Mexico, an all-lard cookie made with rum and anise seeds then rolled in cinnamon and sugar. I keep hoping that the next year, the lard trend will catch on, but people are so partial to butter. And I can't blame them.

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Serious Eats YouTube Playlist: Cookies

'Tis the seasons for cookies! Here are some videos of Christmas cookie ideas, a tour of a cookie factory, a musical number from Cookie Monster, and more.

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Snapshots from France: Nutty Sweets and Biscuits from Brittany

While traveling through northwest France, I was on the hunt for new, nutty discoveries in Brittany. Strolling through the tiny historic tourist village of Rochefort en Terre, I stumbled upon a tiny shop, L'Art Gourmand, and was blown away by all the nutastic treats. Almost every nut is represented here: almonds, pistachios, pecans, hazelnuts, even humble pignolis, not to mention one of the largest, most playful assortments of marzipan I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot of marzipan). Puppies, dinos, bunnies, pigs, and an assortment of fruits—all in marzipan form.

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Happy National Animal Cracker Day

Today is the most official day to celebrate the Animal Cracker, those somewhere-between-cookies-and-crackers shaped like lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!) and of course, hippos. We want to know: which part do you eat first? The head? Legs? Tail? Elephant trunk or camel hump when applicable?

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Serious Entertaining: A Pre-Ski Breakfast

People love to après-ski, but what about breakfast? It's an important meal to think about on any day, but especially one that may include strenuous exercise, inclement weather, and overpriced or inedible lodge food. This Pre-Ski Breakfast menu is tasty and hearty, ensuring you'll have more than enough energy to make it until cocktails.

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Valentine's Day Baking: Sprinkle Pink Peppercorns on Sugar Cookies

Pink peppercorns are deceiving little things. They're not actually peppercorns but, in fact, dried berries cultivated in Madagascar. To me, these faux peppercorns have a delicate floral taste with a spark of pepperiness.

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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Cookie Recipe Swap

As our second annual Cookie Month draws to an end we thought that we'd ask all of you to chime in with the cookies you've baked over the holiday season for our weekly Cook and Tell challenge. Judging by the responses, all of you have been baking nearly as much as we have and testing out many of the recipes that we've shared over the past month. So before those New Year's resolutions kick in and cookies are shelved for the season, let's take a look at the dozens upon dozens of cookies that have been filling your kitchens with intoxicating buttery, sugary goodness.

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Cook the Book: 'Sarabeth's Bakery'

Sarabeth's newly realeased cookbook, Sarabeth's Bakery is filled with gorgeous step-by-step photos, especially helpful for baking beginners. But for those who prefer to keep it sweet and simple, cookies and jams are as easy as can be. And since it's the final week of our whirlwind month of cookie baking,all this week we will be sharing cookie recipes from Sarabeth's Bakery including her signature Rugelach, crisp Shortbread, and Chocolate Clouds.

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Cook the Book: 'My Sweet Mexico'

Fany Gerson's My Sweet Mexico is a gorgeous journey through Mexico fueled by icy paletas, warm chocolate caliente, and plenty of pan dulce. Gerson, a New York-based pastry chef, has put together a coffee-table-worthy dessert book devoted to the vast and varied sweets of Mexico. Enter to win a copy here.

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