Clockwise from top right: Hannah Holzer’s kitchen sink cookies, pignoli, chocolate hazelnut cookies and coconut macaroon bars. Each December, my family and I go to Los Angeles to visit my grandparents and extended maternal family that lives in the San Fernando Valley, the adjacent canyons and the larger LA area. And each December, as has become my custom, I bake up a storm: I make somewhere between eight to 10 dozen cookies of all flavors and varieties. This year was no different. But it almost was.