Holiday Baking
 

How has their holiday baking done?? What do you make?

I spend ALL day yesterday baking goodies for family and friends! Whew! That was a chore! Today, I am packaging them and hopefully getting rid of everything I made!

I made fudge for the first time! Wow! It was super easy! --I thought it was going to be hard!

I made:
Peanut Brittle
Fudge (w/ and w/o nuts)
chocolate covered coconut balls
spice crinkles
oatmeal raison cookies
pecan bars
peanut butter drops
rum fruit cookies

and for us, my daughter came up w/ chocolate covered honey nut cheerios! Ha! --hey, that was pretty creative and they looked cute --- not to mention, tasted good!

Plus, we went over to our neighbors house (the same one that had Rusty) and baked and decorated cookies - some for us to keep and some to share. Her mother had once had a bakery and all of the kids worked in it......she had home-made cookies and icing and the pastry bags and tips! It was fun! We loved it!

Oh, Hersey Kisses now come in every flavor you can almost think of! So, I bought tons of bags fo those to add to our cookie platters.

We got: mint kisses, candy cane (peppermint) kisses, cherry kisses (like a chocolate covered cherry w/ the cherry or mess - kiss w/ the cream filling), caramel kisses (filled w/ caramel), special dark chocolate kisses, normal kisses and macadamia nut (yum) kisses!

Okay, I went "kiss" crazy! YUMMY!

i dont know if im going to get any baking done like i always do...i have had so many treats to make that i have made 1 batch ONLY of sugar cookies..:eek: I always make cookies, choclate covered pretzels, peanut butter balls, apple bread, cranberry bread, choclate fudge, peanut butter fudge....i have not gotten anything done and today i feel kinda crappy so i havent gotten much done today except sit on my butt and yack!! :(

I hear you! If I hadn't of set aside all day yesterday for baking, I know we wouldn't have gotten it done! I didn't want to spend all day slaving in the kitchen, but we did. My daughter helped and that was a big help, not to mention fun. I took two breaks yesterday (to get on YT and eat). I was up late last night trying to finish some trays for my DH to take to work and people on the way!

You know, I thought about pretzels later yesterday, but then I thought, nope we have more then plenty.......plus, my daughter seen that look and was like "no more mom"! HA!

I usually make 10 different types of cookies but I haven't baked anything yet...possibly tomorrow but I'm not going to make as many.

Has anyone ever cheated and bought store bought stuff and give out w/ home-made stuff? Just curious..........I would never do that! HA! --just kidding! I have done it before and probably will again! My neighbor just brought stuff over and you can tell she worked hard to make it look home-made ---nothing wrong w/ it at all -- we like it all the same! It just got me thinking, how many people do this?!

I usually bake up a storm at christmas time and give homebaked goodies as gifts to my co-workers, but this year I just got lazy! I didn't even put up a tree! I'm not going to be home for xmas anyways so what's the point? I'm going to my mom's tomorrow and won't be back till new years.

So all I made this year was some chocolate-peanut butter truffle mice and some baklava (no, I'm not greek...I just like baklava!). So here's a picture of my cute little mice. He's Reese's chocolate on the inside (melted pb chips) and dipped in dark chocolate, with peanuts for ears and black licorice for a tail, draguees for eyes/nose and coconut for whiskers. :p

Bake...what's that??? :confused:

That's cute!

I have seen the chocolate mice made out of a Hersey Kiss, Chocolate covered cherry and something else (can't remember) - oh, maybe almonds for the ears?? Those are cute and good too!