20 Days Of Christmas Cookies- Day 20

Stelline D’Oro Cookie Recipe

I am going to donate 50% of my earnings on this post to the No Kid Hungry foundation.

Tomie dePaola was a renowned children’s book author and illustrator. He published over 270 children’s books and 1 found a special place in my heart, Jingle The Christmas Clown. Tomie dePaola passed this year on March 30, 2020, during the start of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic.

I see a compelling likeness to the book’s struggling Italian village and heroes banning together to make sure Christmas is special for those in need, with Jingle The Christmas Clown.

This post is a dedication to our heroes, children, and Tomie whose heart was full of love.

Jingle The Christmas Clown was introduced to me by my sister-in-law Lynn. She has been following the 20 days of Christmas Cookie series with Baking For The Soul and reached out to me after Day 12 when the cut-out cookie recipe was published.

Inside that recipe, I shared a special memory I had and asked what readers had special memories of cookies.  Lynn came back with the Stelline D’Oro recipe published in Jingle The Christmas Clown. She was so inspired, she baked the cookies and shared them with family and friends. She told me the high-level story of Jingle The Christmas Clown, and I was hooked. I had to research this, as I had never heard of it.

It inspired me to feature the Stelline D’Oro cookie recipe as the last post in the 20 Days Of Christmas Cookie Series.

My hope is through the book Jingle The Christmas Clown, new traditions with our families are started. That we teach children the important relationship between reading, cooking, sharing, loving, and acceptance.

Understand no matter how hard it gets, someone is dealing with something worse and you can make a big difference in someone’s life one person at a time, one star at a time, and 1 cookie at a time.

This recipe is republished from Donna Chiara’s Stelline D’Oro Recipe

Tell us about your family cookie traditions. Will you include Jingle the Christmas Clown and the golden star cookies?

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