Growing up, my grandmother taught me to bake traditional German Pfeffernusse cookies each Christmas. Small, round, and sweetly spicy, the cookies were finished off with a dusting of powdered sugar. My siblings and I gobbled them up along with the other family favorite: bourbon balls.

When I moved into my own apartment, I taught my roommate and girlfriend to make the cookies each Christmas. They poked fun at me for owning a sifter, but stopped laughing as soon as they tasted the cookies!

– Scott Knutzen

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