If there was one thing Alejandro insisted on every year for Christmas, it was cookies. He made all kinds and flavors–from chocolate chip to oatmeal to sugar. If it was a cookie, he had dozens made within the first week of December.

And this time, you'd been roped in to decorate. Before you sat an impressive spread of Christmas-shaped cookies–bells and trees and gingerbread men.

“Get to work, cariño,” Alejandro said from across the kitchen as he pulled yet another pan of cookies from the ov