‘Tis the season for cookies, and every day till Christmas, Star journalists are taking turns baking a recipe from the Star’s extensive archives. Follow our holiday baking adventures here on The Star, or get the recipes first — plus some inspiration for your inbox — with our free Cookie Calendar newsletter. Sign up here. Find the Star’s 2025 Cookie Calendar here.

Today’s baker

I’m McKenna Hart, a multimedia journalist on the Star’s graphics team. My only baking experience comes from making my grandmother’s three-ingredient shortbread cookies once a year, so this recipe was a welcome challenge.

Today’s recipe

Star food writer Karon Liu first tested this orange gingerbread cookie back in 2019.

The cookies

I have a sugar sensitivity and often find holiday cookies to be overly swee

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