It’s the most delicious time of the year. The holiday baking season has begun, and for extra inspiration, we’ve rounded up a collection of Christmas-ready cookies from this fall’s fresh batch of baking cookbooks.
First, we stop in Germany, where the Advent season is marked by a steady parade of traditional treats. For Anja Dunk, the half-Welsh, half-German author of “Advent: Festive German Bakes to Celebrate the Coming of Christmas,” vanillekipferl, light and crumbly crescent cookies with a generous coating of powdered sugar, are one of the most defining sweets of the season.
