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Vancouver Christmas Cookies 2019

Two years ago, I dedicated a day in early December to gather holiday cookies from a few Vancouver bakeries known for their holiday treats. I collected the cookies and assembled a large cookie box accompanied by a cookie box assembly 101, with helpful tips and tricks to answer all your questions on creating the perfect holiday treat box. Those tips and tricks still hold true so for this year’s holiday cookie round-up, we will be focusing on the cookies themselves. This past weekend, Rich and I revisited some of our favourite bakeries from two years ago and added a few new ones to our list (new to offering holiday baked goods and not necessary a new bakery that recently opened). Compared to two years ago, we doubled (!!) the amount of cookies and variety of cookies in our box to make sure there was a perfect cookie for everyone. 

A million photos later, Rich and I tasted all the cookies. We found our comfy spot on our small couch and tasted e v e r y single cookie because ~science~. I even made him (and my parents the next day) do a blind taste test. We each picked our favourites and swore we could not eat anymore cookies for the next little while. (Plot twist: we ate more cookies this evening.) Before I let you know which were my favourite ones, I need to preface it with the fact that I generally prefer a shortbread cookie over a chewy cookie. Unpopular opinion, I know. So let’s talk about every single cookie holiday cookie.

Caramel Popcorn Cookies (from Pastry Love by Joanne Chang)

My favourite season of the year is cookbook season. It falls somewhere between Fall and Winter and it is the time when many highly-anticipated cookbooks are released. I had barely finished flipping through Michelle's new book when my copy of Pastry Love by Joanne Chang arrived in my mailbox. I own and love Joanne's other cookbooks so I knew Pastry Love would be another great one to add to the collection. In case you are not familiar with Joanne, she is known more formally as the owner of Flour Bakery and James Beard Foundation Award winner for Outstanding Baker, and less formally as the queen of sticky buns. What makes this book so special is that it features recipes for many things she could not serve in the setting of a bakery, but still delicious recipes nonetheless.

When flipping through this book that is divided into chapters like 'I Knead Bread,' 'Easy as Pie,' 'Time to Show Off,' and 'I Made This for You,' I gravitated towards a recipe that is simpler but just as eye-catching as the rest. Jessi's Caramel Popcorn Cookie recipe in the 'Afternoon Pick-Me-Up' chapter produces a cookie is equally crispy, chewy, sweet, salty, and everything you would ever want in a cookie. The amount of caramel popcorn you add to this cookie dough is a-l-a-r-m-i-n-g. It calls for six full cups of popcorn and I thought I misread the recipe and that my mixer would spew it all back out at me. When it was time to add the caramel corn, I had the mixer on the lowest setting possible (this is key!) and added the six ...

Woodland Holiday Cookie Box

This post is sponsored by Ingredients by Saputo. The opinions, as always, are my own. 

One of the biggest highlights of the holiday season for me every year is making the cookie box. The tradition started two years ago with my friends Anna and Alex when we made this box of assorted sugar cookies, thumbprints, snowballs, and homemade marshmallows. It still is one the most popular recipes on the blog today. Fast forward one year later and I shared my second cookie box — this time featuring all my favourite holiday cookies from bakeries in Vancouver. In between all those winter-themed cookie boxes I shared other seasonal ones too, like this Easter sugar box made with my favourite sugar cookie recipe from my aunt and smaller ones like this that are also perfect for gifting.

This year I am sharing a woodland themed holiday cookie box — deer wearing holiday scarfs and holly, snow-covered snails, toadstools, trees with Christmas lights, and of course classic gingerbread men/women. I am sharing this with you a tad earlier this month because I am going to be honest — cookie boxes take a lot of time and patience. Cookie boxes aren’t a one-day affair. The process is much more enjoyable when you divide work across several days. Making the cookie dough on one evening, baking it off the next day, and decorating all the cookies when you are able to set aside a larger chunk of time.  These cookies also freeze really well, so you don’t have to fret if you have to spread ...

Cookie Boxes 101 + A Guide to Christmas Cookies in Vancouver

The cookie box makes a return to the blog again this year! You loved the cookie box from last year (it was the most popular blog post of 2017!) that it only seemed right for me to create some sort of cookie box again this year. Originally I was not sure if I was going to make a cookie box this year, especially a box of a similar size to the one from last year. I had so much holiday baking to do that I did not think I would be able to bake 8 - 10 different types of cookies and provide thorough recipes and instructions for each one. I was in a cookie-induced dilemma when the lovely TEAMCHOMP (hi!!) suggested that we create (in his words exactly) "the most epic cookie box with our favourite holiday cookies in Vancouver." So that is exactly what we did. We picked a day and drove all around town to pick up our favourite festive cookies in Vancouver. We also included a few cookies that are not necessarily festive, but we thought were a nice addition to our box.

There were two questions that kept coming into my email and Instagram inbox during the months of November and December —"where did you get the box for your cookie box?" and "how did you make your cookie box?" It seems like many of you want to make your own cookie box this year (yay!) so I am here today to answer both those questions for you.

"Where did you get the box for your cookie box?"

My 'cookie box' is not an ...