Perhaps it's a cliche, but traditions sometime weather the storm for a reason. When one bakes cookies while it's snowing outside, the house gets even cozier. The air smells like vanilla, sugar, butter and yummy-ness.
Martha Stewart's incredible team at Everyday Food has come up with this fantastic idea for holiday cookies. Make your favorite sugar cookie dough recipe, separate the dough and dye each kind a different color. Roll out the "main" dough into a sheet, add different colored dough on top (with dots, stripes, or whatever you'd like). Roll again, use cookie cutters, and voila! For some reason, this exact methodology is not posted on the Everyday Food website even though it was featured in their printed magazine (the last printed issue that's ever going to be published, apparently).
Happy Baking and Happy Holidays!
