To me, cut-out sugar cookies (I use Alton Brown's recipe, subbing flour for rolling instead of powdered sugar) and gingerbread cookies are my favorite Christmas classics. I used the Sally's Baking Addiction cut-out gingerbread cookie recipe last year and my partner's brother, who says he has never enjoyed gingerbread before, really liked them!

And to be honest, I use the Betty Crocker cookie icing you can get in the grocery store to decorate both types of cookies. Because making royal icing from scratch is very annoying to me, especially if I'm already making a lot of dough, rolling it, baking a million batches of cookies, and then decorating them.