Christmas cookies, packed up in a paper box, ready for delivery.

Date balls with toasted coconut.

Chocolate covered cherry cookies. This recipe came to our family through a friend who had recently moved to the United States from Japan. This recipe was in her cookbook to teach Japanese women how to cook like American women. American women would never cook a recipe with so many steps.

Rum balls. Basically ‘Nilla wafers, chocolate and rum, rolled in powdered sugar.