Christmas isn't Christmas without a gazillion cookies in my house. And I'm always on the lookout for new recipes. So, since we talk about food here every Wednesday, I thought maybe we'd start a little online cookie exchange.

We'll have new recipes each Wednesday in December. Please share your own.

Here's mine.

I found this recipe last year in the magazine Wondertime. It was part of a story about making treats instead of crafts for relatives for Christmas. Who needs another handmade ornament anyway, the story says. Well, my sister, since my daughter just made her a ton, but these cookies are good to give too.

They keep for a couple of weeks in an airtight container. Plus, there's no egg, so you can eat the dough with no worries of some foodborne illness (which makes them probably my daughter's favorite cookie too).

Grandma Weld's Cookies (from December/January 2008 Wondertime magazine)

2 sticks unsalted butter, softened

1/3 cup sugar

2 cups all-purpose flour

1-2 teaspoons pure almond extract

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 cup miniature chocolate chips

Cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Then beat in flour, almond extract to taste and salt. Stir in chocolate chips by hand. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill for at least one hour. Preheat oven to 300. Shape 1/2 tablespoon amounts of dough into 1 1/2-inch-long fingers and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake cookies one sheet at a time in the middle of the oven for 20 to 25 minutes, watching carefully and breaking open a couple of cookies to check for doneness. They should be firm to the touch and cooked through but not brown. Cool cookies on racks and store them in an airtight container. Makes about 5 dozen.

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