This year is almost over, although I PREFER IT A LITTLE LONGER. This year has been good for me, and I hope the next will be as good for you guys as well. Happy holidays and a happy new year to all!
Fancy shaped christmas cookies may be visually impressive for the half second someone looks at them before eating one but half a second of beauty isn't worth investing work into. If you form simple vanilla/butter shortbread dough into a long thin strip and slice it into segments you can skip the most time consuming part of the cookie making process and churn out like 5x as many. They still taste great so why bother with cookie presses and the like. I PREFER IT A LITTLE LONGER because I wanna eat tasty flavor focused cookies instead of beautiful ones that taste like trash.