Does anybody know the recipe for Au Bon Pain’s holiday shortbread cookies?

It doesn’t have to be the exact recipe, just one that tastes similar. And the recipe I am looking for is the one for the cut-out cookies (trees, stockings, snowmen, etc) that only come out during Christmas time.

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Does anybody know the recipe for Au Bon Pain’s holiday shortbread cookies?

It doesn’t have to be the exact recipe, just one that tastes similar. And the recipe I am looking for is the one for the cut-out cookies (trees, stockings, snowmen, etc) that only come out during Christmas time.

with the holidays coming soon?

What do you do for your dogs? Do you buy them presents ect.

I usually get mine bones from the butcher for thanksgiving, and I make them dog biscuits/cookies for Chrismas. I also get stockings for them with new toys and maybe a few extra treats?

Do you do anything special for yours? Any traditions you have with yours? My fiance likes to make my Malamute a igloo out of snow in the winter~~My mal loves it!!
It isn’t like I think my dogs actually care~ if I didn’t have the money to do what I do then I wouldn’t do it one year. But I love the looks on their faces….like its the best day they have ever had and they can’t believe they have so many great toys……then they usually play with the old toys lol and leave the new ones alone.
howpathetic~ 2 months is consitered soon when you have 2 children under the age of 7. I remember being younger and thinking people were crazy for shopping in Nov, and planning in Nov cuz Christmas was so far away….then I grew up and got engaged to a man with 2 children which I help raise and will be adopting and realized that 2 months isn’t much time at all. Especially since I feel like summer just ended.

do you have any Christmas eve, and Chrismas day traditions?

for me… Christmas Eve – finish wrapping remaining presents while listening to christmas carols and drinking hot chocolate. eat a nice dinner with my sister, my brother, my mother and my mothers bf, then church service, home, read christmas books to my siblings, lay out cookies for santa and scatter oatmeal and carrots out on the lawn for the reindeer, lay stockings out for santa, and when the littles are in bed, me and my mother discuss how lovely the year has been while drinking lots of hot chocolate. (maybe go down to be an elf and pass out presents to the less fortunate )
CHRISTMAS – open santa presents. finish preparing food, family comes over, then great big lunch, open lots of presents and chat the rest of the day. what do you do??????