Large Print Christmas Baking Word Search

For anyone who spent December evenings in a warm kitchen. This edition sticks to the kitchen favorites: sugar, icing and sprinkles, fudge, shortbread and a slice of pie, with cinnamon and nutmeg for spice. Solve it while a batch is in the oven, or before a holiday tea or bake sale at the community center.

This edition hides the first 12 of the theme’s 20 words in an 11×11 grid, never backwards. How our large print puzzles work.

All 20 words in this theme: Cookies, Fudge, Sugar, Icing, Oven, Pie, Sprinkles, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Eggnog, Fruitcake, Shortbread, Gingersnaps, Peppermint, Rolling Pin, Cookie Cutter, Molasses, Yule Log, Brownies, Toffee.

• Gingerbread houses became popular in Germany in the early 1800s, after the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel.
• Peppermint candy canes were first made all white; the red stripes came around 1900.
• A well-wrapped fruitcake keeps for months; many bakers brush it with brandy or rum every week or two.

• What did your family always bake for Christmas?
• Who was the best baker in your family, and what was their specialty?
• Did you ever help roll out and cut cookies as a child?
• Do you have a handwritten recipe card you still treasure?
• Fruitcake: do you love it or give it away?

Activity tip: Set out a plate of plain cookies or a few cinnamon sticks to smell while people solve. Afterward, ask each person to share one recipe they remember, and write them down for a group recipe sheet.