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This week's Cookie of the Week is brought to us by Families First's friend Lisa Hiland.   Lisa has shared with us one of her family's favorite holiday cookie recipes.   This sounds delicious and is easy to bake.
Thanks Lisa : )!

Here's a little bit more about Lisa:

Hi my name is Lisa Hiland and I have been homeschooling now for 4 years my fifteen year old daughter Kendra. I also have a son, Kalen, who is in his first semester of college. I am a mixed blood Cherokee married to my wonderful husband, Kevin, who is a full blood Navajo. This is one on my favorite, just for the holiday, cookie recipe.

Lisa's Eggnog Cookies

What You Need:

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup eggnog
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 5 -1/2 cups sifted flour

What you do:

1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggnog, nutmeg and baking
    soda; mix well.
2. Add enough flour to make a stiff dough. Chill. Roll dough to 1/8 inch thickness on lightly floured board or pastry cloth and cut with Christmas cookie cutters.
3. At this point you can brush the cookies with slightly beaten egg white and decorate with candied fruits or colored  sugar.
4. Bake cookies at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned.

Martha's Eggnog Cookies
This week's Cookie of the Week is brought to us by my cyber buddy Martha Wisniewski who says "I have started my baking marathon. There are so many terrific cookie recipes. They are all wonderful. It will be hard to choose which ones to bake. My daughters and I plan to give boxes of cookies to friends and family as our little way of saying Merry Christmas. We always have a wonderful time baking together. The kitchen takes a beating, but it is more than worth it."

Vanilla Sugar Cookies
This week marks the beginning of our popular annual holiday event Cookie of the Week. Our first cookie recipe is brought to us from cookbook author and chef Gregg Gillespie. Gregg has every recipe you could ever want - including the ones from your grandmother's cookbook and numerous brownie recipes. Gregg's Vanilla Sugar Cookies are great for the holidays and very versatile. They can be made into round shapes or for the holidays, into any cookie cutter you desire. They also can be decorated. The Vanilla Sugar Cookie recipe can also be used all year around- it's a super basic recipe for Valentine's Day cookies, Easter cookies, Halloween cookies, Christmas cookies etc...

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