Peanuts. Christmas. Cookies. What word could you not like?

Coming in October is the Peanuts Christmas Cookie Set – that’s 50 recipes, plus cookie cutters in the shape of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and a doghouse. And it’s all written by Charlie Brown. Now I never thought of ol’ Brownie Charles as a particularly good cookie baker… but then, I’d rather have his book on making cookies than Violet’s book on making pies. Mud just isn’t my flavor.

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