If you don’t have time to bake them—or your own favorite recipe—pick up some delicious bakery cookies to enjoy for dessert with vanilla ice cream.

Or, if you’re in the holiday spirit, bake up a batch of Christmas butter cookies!

• Start with some cookie baking tips.
• Next, recipes for delicious Christmas butter cookies. We’ve got chocolate tangerine snowflakes, molten lava cookies, salted ginger crisps, espresso chocolate squares, fennel pistachio cookies, rosemary blue cheese ice box cookies and lemongrass snowballs.
• Can you name the eight different types of cookies?

Espresso chocolate squares are a bar
cookie—one of the 8 types of cookie.
Photo courtesy Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.

Win $1,000 and a year’s supply!
Photo courtesy Lender’s Bagels.

Whether at breakfast, lunch, dinner or any time of day, your bagel experience could fill your bank account with some welcome bread!

Example: An entry of, “Now That’s a Bagel That… is the centerpiece to our weekly Sunday brunch,” might be accompanied by a photo of your family at the table enjoying Sunday brunch (don’t forget the bagels!).

All entrants will receive a free package of Lender’s Bagels.

• To enter, go to LendersBagels.com and click on the“ Now That’s a Bagel That…” banner.
• You must be at least 18 years of age, and enter no later than March 31, 2010. No purchase is required.

Our recent survey of five supermarket brands showed 190 to 230 calories per slender four-ounce portion. That’s without the rum and brandy, not to mention the whipped cream and/or vanilla ice cream added to many recipes. Have a full-size cup and “seconds,” and you can easily consume 1,000 egg nog calories!

So the tip of the day is: Plan accordingly!

• Don’t fill the cup up all the way.
• No matter how good it is, no matter that it’s “only at Christmas,” don’t have seconds and thirds unless you’ve worked it off beforehand.
• If you’re the host, set out shot glasses in addition to punch glasses, so guests can help themselves to smaller portions.

Drink egg nog in small portions—like shot
glasses! Photo courtesy Chefs.com.

• Check our our diet egg nog recipe.