These are the top twelve most requested and precious Mancini-family Christmas cookie recipes. These tasty cookie recipes come from all over Italy, from the Molise and Puglia regions, to Venice, all the way to Positano, Capri, and Sicily.

Give the gift of homemade sweetness, nourishment, and love!

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Blue-Ribbon Recipe Winner, Christine Scott-Hudson, is a Licensed Psychotherapist who bakes and cooks as a creative mindfulness practice. Her recipes come from her Italian grandmothers and their grandmothers before them. Scott-Hudson learned to bake by helping her Mother, Grandmothers, Aunts, and Great-Aunts in the kitchen as a little girl. Her website is www.createyourlifestudio.com

She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Owner of Create Your Life Studio in beautiful Santa Barbara, California, where she lives with her appreciative husband and their two darling dogs.