For some of us, Christmas cookies are the best part of the holidays: chewy sugar cookies, peanut butter blossoms and more. Rachel Vanni for The New York Times For perfectly tender, highly alluring ...

Julia Gartland for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Liza Jernow. This recipe is very close to the original created by Ruth Wakefield, the inventor of the chocolate chip cookie, who ran the Toll ...