[SoCalPol]

Cookies certainly seem to be an American Christmas tradition it is sad but in Britain very few people bake biscuits or as you call them cookies

Hi snugs, I think this comes mainly from the large
population of Americans of German background also the Swedes and Danes. That is a big tradition in those countries and carried over here for over 250 yrs.

I think Prince Albert brought many German Christmas traditions to England during the Victorian era.

[snugs]

Yes you are right the Christmas Tree, Christmas Cards, scraps and of course biscuits/cookies that are hung on the German trees. We tend to put chocolate decorations on ours not biscuits. We can buy the German gingerbread ones though either chocolate covered or iced. We have a supermarket in Ashford which is actually German owned and that has quite a lot of the European Christmas items including the German Gingerbread and stolen.