Christmas Baking

So I am going to get started on some baking tonight. I have a group coming over to play Settler's of Catan tomorrow night and had planned a few things to serve during the game. Here is what I hope to accomplish before I go to bed. And it is already 4:30 in the afternoon here.

*Banana Bread
*Peanut Butter Fudge
*Lemon Squares
*Caramels

Wish me luck.

What are you making this Holiday Season?

Good luck Tam!!!

I have to make banana and pumpkin bread. This year I bought a kit from work to make peppermint bark snowflakes...it comes with 6 snowflake cookie cutters and you're supposed to fill them with chocolate and give as a gift like that BUT Ken doesn't like that so I am making them and just giving his employees the chocolate part. I hope to make cookies too but it just depends on the amount of free time I have since I have so many sewing projects to get done.

Ohhh that list sounds great and goodluck getting it all done tonight!

On my menu this season are:
Homemade peanut and cashew brittle
Chocolate Rum Balls
Gingerbread cookies
White Chocolate chip and cranberry cookies

and not cookies but I want to make Latvian Pirags this Christmas. I have been too lazy to make them but I know Paul will love them so i figured I need to suck it up after 13 years and make them at least once for him. lol

I left a lot up to my MIL
but I also will be making
scotcharoos
fudge
snow man poop

I finished up the Christmas baking over the weekend, thank goodness! Peanut butter balls, Mint cookies, Hershey Kiss cookies, Banana Bread (I think it's a different recipe than yours - mine uses chocolate chips, cherries & walnuts in it also) & Cranberry Bread, Sugar Cookies, Date Cookies, and Fudge.

I've already made
peanut butter fudge (but I may have to make another batch, cause I've been tasting a piece each day)
turtles
Italian Chocolate cookies
carmel pretzels
traditional WW2 cake (making today)

still to do
crescent cookies
lemon knot cookies
Italian honey clusters

I think we should all put our recipes we use in the recipe section when we make the items.

Shannon wrote:Good luck Tam!!!

I have to make banana and pumpkin bread. This year I bought a kit from work to make peppermint bark snowflakes...it comes with 6 snowflake cookie cutters and you're supposed to fill them with chocolate and give as a gift like that BUT Ken doesn't like that so I am making them and just giving his employees the chocolate part. I hope to make cookies too but it just depends on the amount of free time I have since I have so many sewing projects to get done.

When you make them, do you fill the cookie cutter with the peppermint bark when it's soft??? I think that those would be super cute to do with my cousin, Emma!

I can't bake.

I dont follow instructions well.

Its kind of amusing actually...

rukristin wrote:I can't bake.

I dont follow instructions well.

Its kind of amusing actually...

the chocolate rum balls are no bake and super easy. And added bonus- because you don't bake them the alcohol stays in the cookie

I have the banana bread baking and am starting the Peanut Butter Fudge. It is now 5:45pm. I think I am doing OK on time.

Peanut Butter Fudge can now be crossed off my list.

OMG you are fast!

Peanut butter Fudge does not take long at all. I would say 10 minutes tops from start to finish.

When you get done baking can you post the fudge recipe in the Kitchen section? Id love to make some for the holidays!

No Bake I can do

Rum, I can do

I already posted the recipe. It is super easy and damn near impossible to mess up.

Sure. It is over at the freak and I can just go and copy and paste.

Just finished Caramels and it is 7:30pm.

Next up, Lemon Squares. Just waiting for the boy (Spencer) to unload the dishwasher so I can get more dishes going so I can have some counter space for working.

We did gingerbread cookies and cowboy cookies this weekend.

Still to bake:
snickerdoodles
spritz cookies
Polish roll ups (don't know if Mom and I are attempting these this year)

I've also grabbed recipes for and may try:
Mexican wedding cookies
raspberry cake bars

The Fudge and Caramel Recipe is not in the Recipe Section.

Tess, your Mexican Wedding Cookies. That reminds me of the Danish Wedding Cookies. Now I want to make those.


PS---I just looked up what a Mexican Wedding Cookie is and it looks EXACTLY like the Danish Wedding Cookies. They are da bomb! Yup, think I am adding these to my list.

Tam--I think they are very similar... yummy, no?

Addicting is the word I was going to use.

I have made

choc. fudge
saltine cracker cookies
cake cookies
and choclate chip meringue. cookies.

still to do:
chocolate coverd prestzels and candy canes
buckeyes
7 layer cookies

OK, so my baking has come to a complete stop and I am not finished. I am in the MIDDLE of making Lemon Squares (meaning my crust is in the oven and I am doing the filling) when I run out of sugar. Who runs out of sugar? Spencer even said....Mom, you always have like 100 at a time. Guess who is walking to the store in the morning.