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Christmas Baking 2013

This was another successful season of baking, although, this year, we didn’t get it all done before Christmas. We ran out of time for the cut-out cookies, so we saved those for a “12 Days of Christmas” activity, which we just wrapped up today! Other than the cut-outs, we managed to give most of them away, thankfully…we made a lot of cookies!

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Here’s the rundown on what we made:

3 trays of peppermint bark:

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2 trays of Christmas cracker candy:

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1 pan of baklava:

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1 plate of chocolate dipped pretzels:

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13 dozen raspberry almond thumbprints:

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12 dozen chocolate peppermint cookies:

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Two and a half dozen sugar cookies:

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2 dozen gingerbread cookies:

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And, one plate of mint truffles (which I will never, ever make again! It’s back to Oreo truffles next year!)

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So, that’s it for this year. As always, I’m a little bit tired of baking!

Shamrock Cookies

Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day!

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I saw these beer mug icing decorations one day at Michael’s, and I knew I needed to use them…fortunately for me, they fit well with the whole St. Patrick’s Day theme. Would have worked for Oktoberfest, too!

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Tasty Tuesday–Christmas Baking 2012

It was another busy season of baking in our household. This year we may have set a new family record…we baked around 24 dozen cookies (and gave most of them away, thankfully…I don’t need that kind of temptation!). We also made two trays of Christmas cracker candy, two bags of chocolate dipped pretzel rods, half white chocolate and half semi-sweet, and about six dozen Oreo truffles, half mint and half regular (I went through about 2 1/2 pounds of Baker’s chocolate making the pretzels and truffles!). I think I’ll be sweeping up sprinkles until next Christmas, and I may smell like frosting and/or chocolate until Valentine’s Day, but we had a lot of fun!

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Here’s what made the final cut…nothing really new or exciting this year. I definitely have a standard Christmas cookie rotation!

Sugar Cookies

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Gingerbread Men

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Raspberry-Almond Thumbprints

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Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

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Oreo Truffles

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Chocolate Dipped Pretzel Rods

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Christmas Cracker Candy

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Christmas Baking 2008

Here are the results of what we made this year:

  • Peppermint Fudge
  • Oreo Truffles
  • Strawberry-Vanilla Cake Balls
  • Gingerbread Men
  • Decorated Sugar Cookies
  • Raspberry Almond Thumbprints
  • Apricot Almond Thumbprints
  • Chocolate Candy Cane Crunch Cookies

I think that’s it–some standards carried over from previous years and a few new things.  Gotta admit, I’m relieved I’m done.  Cookie baking is not my favorite thing–too putzy–but the children love helping, and I love sharing our treats with others (primarily Ryan’s co-workers).

Now, the goal for next year is to actually get them done before our church’s cookie walk so I can donate some.  That was the plan this year, but time slipped away, and I just didn’t get them made.  Haven’t looked at the 2009 calendar, but hopefully next year there will be more time between Thanksgiving and Christmas for me to get this stuff done!