Cookies are a Lisson family affair. Three generations of cookie decorators including Debbie Lisson Keating, Marianne Lisson Kuhn, Rita Lisson and Angela Keating work on decorating holiday cookies.
The cookies are laid out so the frosting can harden before they are placed in containers. The family makes about 30 different shapes each Chrismas.
Decorations are carefully layered and placed on cookies during a three to four hour decorating session. These are just a few of the dozens of cookies made each Christmas in the Lisson family.
Rita Lisson still can handle the decorating tube at the age of 89 as she decorates Christmas cookies with her daughters and grandchildren. | Photos by Judy Buchenot
Judy Buchenot
Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween and Christmas all have different traditions but the Lisson family celebrates every one of these holidays by making cutout cookies. The head baker is Rita Lisson who can still roll out dough at the age of 89. She is a lifelong …
