christmas baking... what do ya make?

i dont make anything too fancy, sugar cookies, and chocolate chip cookies. but a TON of them, i think i used about 7 roles of sugar, and a big tub of chocolate chip dough (yeah, definatley not a baker, i dont make the dough myself. maybe one day i'll get the hang of it though.lol). got a scar, but my friends enjoyed it. (i'm used to holding things on my hips, and not even thinking, i took a cookie sheet out, one of the really thick ones, and put it on my hip, so im sure this huge burn is going to turn into a scar).
oh well....I'll always remember the first time i baked a TON of cookies! :)

For the Big Dinner, we always have the same things, but it is a family tradition. A smaller sized turkey usually, as we also usually have a smaller ham as a second meat.. mashed potatoes of course, unless someties we have scalloped rarely.. yams that I will not eat.. stuffing (mmmm!) my sister's green-bean/onion casserole too. And enough desserts to choke a Clydesdale.
Followed by a glass of red wine.. I don't normally drink it, but it is one of those family-dinner things. For desserts, we have apple pie, my brother-in-laws signature cheesecake, and anything else that anyone felt like baking! I think I will make cutouts this year.. seems like fun, and I havea few funny cookie cutters :D

Well, I don't do holidays, but baking is something that I most certainally do...all the time.
My *favorite* things to make are cream cheese cookies, log rolls and...well, desserts in general.
My *usual* things to make on a regular basis are bread, rolls, buns, rice bread, tortillias, pitas, naan bread, bread, bread, bread, bagles...did I mention bread? :D

Hey RG, I AM coming to your house for coffee (and to steal your fish tanks) :P

I don't bake cookies or Xmas treats - that's what Gramma's and Aunts are for. =)

But our holiday (read = Thanksgiving and Christmas) dinners are getting a pattern: big roasted turkey, mashed potates, roasted new baby potatoes, American stuffing, British stuffing (they are completely different and neither of us likes the other, so I make both), green bean casserole. I buy the pumpkin pie, hehe...

Mmmmmm

Reading Cassandra's reminded me...

Grandma used to make a delicious marshmallow date roll. And then when we got older and she got arthritic, she's make it, but WE'D beat it....the divinity and the patience candies.

She'd also make some yummy candied popcorn that we'd always snitch.

I wished I knew what recipes she used. :( Now that she's gone, those are the sorts of things I would have like to have passed on to MY daughter.

Ahhhhhhh, but we'll always have bratzelis. :D

Can't go wrong with some chocolate chip cookies or some hershey fudge brownies...

I have my own recipe that you'll go crazy for...hehehe :D

[QUOTE=recycling goddess]okay, i just finished all my tarts... my world famous pecan butter tarts, lemon tarts and mincemeat tarts.

my 'whipped' shortbread turned out amazing :chew:

tomorrow we are making our peanut butter bark and our candy cane bark.

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Can you ship??? lol haha... Sounds good!

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Well, I don't do holidays, but baking is something that I most certainally do...all the time.
My *favorite* things to make are cream cheese cookies, log rolls and...well, desserts in general.
My *usual* things to make on a regular basis are bread, rolls, buns, rice bread, tortillias, pitas, naan bread, bread, bread, bread, bagles...did I mention bread? :D

Hey RG, I AM coming to your house for coffee (and to steal your fish tanks) :P

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only if you bring me some homemade bread!!!

and get your hands off my tanks and my balls girl... i know you waaaaaant them! :carrot:

djslurp1200, actually no i don't LOL my hubby's family all do a cookie exchange every year and i've never participated. i guess the reason is because i don't do my baking until right before yule... so it would never get there in time as they are a province away ;) at least, that's my story and i'm sticking to it LOL

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only if you bring me some homemade bread!!!

and get your hands off my tanks and my balls girl... i know you waaaaaant them! :carrot:

djslurp1200, actually no i don't LOL my hubby's family all do a cookie exchange every year and i've never participated. i guess the reason is because i don't do my baking until right before yule... so it would never get there in time as they are a province away ;) at least, that's my story and i'm sticking to it LOL

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LOL Tell ya what, I'll meet ya at the border. I'll bring bread, you bring coffee, fish tanks and balls. Sounds like a fair trade to me! :carrot:
I want your corns too so....you'd better hide them well! :P

are you still hoping for my organic coffee denise? i think you are going to have to come up here for a visit!!!