Before working full time, I made salt water taffy. I made a batch of peppermint using the peppermint sundae topping from McD's (I was an employee at the time) and a batch of vanilla & then twisted them together. Yuuuuuuuuuuuummmmm!!!! Sugar cookies, peanut brittle, dream fudge, aaaaaaall sorts of goodies. Now I don't have the time, or I'm too tired or broke.


Now all I do is our family bratzeli recipe (if I have the $$ for the ingredients). It's a Swiss tradition that we learned from my grandfather. We make the dough, roll and chill the balls and then press the cookies in an imported bratzeli iron.

They are soooooooooooooooo yummy.....! When my sister and I were little, we were the ones that rolled the dough. And it was always funny b/c Grandma would come in and scold us for EATING the dough balls, instead of putting them on the trays for pressing. Then we got older, and just didn't eat as much of the dough, but waited for the bratzelis.

They're eggs, butter, sugar, flour, and then your choice of either almond, lemon, vanilla, cinnamon or any combination. Allison even made two batches; one with maple and the other w/caramel. There's a bunch of other ways to flavor them, but we haven't tried those. Gma loved the lemony ones. My mom preferred more vanilla and cinnamon, and I mix the dough w/greater amounts of everything for a bit more flavor. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm*slurp*