These Christmas Stamps Will Make Your Hungry

Nothing beats decorated homemade cookies around the holidays. In 2005, the United States Postal Service brought baking fun to your Christmas envelopes. These deliciously looking cookies will make you smile and remember the fun that baking brings, especially during the holiday season.

The Holiday Cookies commemorative stamp featured four 37 cent stamps. These festively decorated stamps have a Santa Clause, two snowmen, an angel and two cute elves made from gingerbread and sugar cookie dough. Did you know that long before glass ornaments, people decorated their Christmas trees with real cookies? Gingerbread was the most used cookie dough of the time as it held up longest.

The Pillsbury Dough Boy was on hand for the dedication ceremony which was held in Minneapolis at the General Mills Headquarters. There was an additional unveiling at the Postage Stamp Mega Event in New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

These adorable stamps are made from photographs of actual cookies. Cookie creators made 1000 cookies just to find the perfect six for the making of these stamps. Sally Anderson-Bruce was the famed photographer of the cookies. She also served as the photographer of this year’s Nutcracker postage stamps.

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