The 12 Days of Cookies Beckon

Even now, so early in the season, if you traipse over to the Food Network site's Holidays and Parties section, you'll find a link for Cookie Recipes. Click this nearly hidden link and ta-da! You're whisked to Food Network's lovely new cookies section, with a big, fat 12 Days of Cookies promo front and center.

I often forget to sign up until it gets late in December and I start wondering why it's never arrived. Not this year!

I don't know for sure that you will not get the newsletter if you have signed up for a subscription in past years. Maybe my preferred e-mail address has changed often enough that I miss the renewal inadvertently; maybe I confuse Food Network by attempting to sign up halfway through the newsletter's run most years.

Whatever my problem is, there's no reason it has to be your problem too this year. Go ahead and refresh your subscription now, early enough to make sure you get all the recipes but late enough that you're aware Christmas less than two months away.

All signed up? Now you can comfortably forget about the whole thing until it starts arriving in your inbox. One item checked off the holiday stress list and one sweet baking surprise on its way to you later this year.

While you wait, feel free to get in the holiday mood by perusing the archives here for last year's bacchanalia of 12 Days of Cookies posts:

Food Network's 12 Days of Cookies: 2002
Food Network's 12 Days of Cookies: 2003
Food Network's 12 Days of Cookies: 2004
Food Network's 12 Days of Cookies: 2005
Food Network's 12 Days of Cookies: 2006
Food Network's 12 Days of Cookies: 2007
Food Network's 12 Days of Cookies: The Whole Six Years