Molly Gallant (Molly McCook)–a Los Angeles-based marketing-executive on top of the world–returns to her mother’s home town of Peppermint Hollow after her plans to launch a business are derailed by circumstance.

Holiday cookies are more than mere sweets: they are gifts, mementos of childhood, and most certainly made with pride. In this Christmas Cookie Challenge hosted by Jonathan Bennett, five confident and daring bakers compete to prove their holiday cookie-making skills. Tough-love judges Duff Goldman, Damaris Phillips, and Sherry Yard are on hand to crown the holiday cookie master, who will go home with a $10,000 prize!