Finally, the promised pic of Christmas cookies.
The row in the middle, from top to bottom: brown sugar & walnut cookie, "Christmas crescent" (pecans, butter, and sugar!), secret surprise (with a Hershey's Kiss in the middle), a Betty Crocker marzipan cookie (with almond extract instead of actual marzipan).
The right: a peanut butter chocolate drop and a pfeffernusse (which we Americanly pronounce "feffernee").
The left: chocolate candy (Mom works in a candy store) and a brown-eyed Susan (chocolate icing, almond extract in cookie batter, topped with an almond). It took a lot of food coloring for those brown-eyed Susans to not look like raw ground beef. Even so, they still weren't quite red....