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Hubby has gone up north into the mountains this weekend for the annual men's get together. So the first thing I did was flip through cookbooks and checked my list not once but twice for cookie recipes for the annual seasonal bake-a-thon. I used to make about 20 different baked things each Christmas but in recent years that number has dropped significantly. Now we are down to about six! So I cleaned out the baking pantry, inventoried what I had and I am all set for next week's start.
This year I will be making the annual cream cheese pastries. They are a favourite of the family and I usually do 4 different flavours - chocolate, pistachio, hazelnut and almond. So rich and buttery! The others will be:
- shortbread made with tiny cookie cutters and then dipped in dark chocolate
- shortbread peppermint chocolate cookie with vanilla creme icing and candy cane sprinkles
- white snowballs with walnuts
- and a gingerbread cookie or square with some lemon icing and gingerbread men sprinkles.
I found this great site "Sweet Estelle Baking Supplies" on Etsy that sells these cool sprinkles and I am going to give them a whirl.
Hopefully I will get these recipes onto my website as I complete them. It seems that all I have there are "sweeties"..love my sweets!
So what are you baking this Christmas? Any family traditions?
5 comments:
I have a collection of cookie presses and I like to make almond cookies with them. The all-time favorite is the pistachio/cranberry biscotti. It's addictive! Maybe I should post that recipe on my blog. My kids asked for both cookies and recipe for Christmas!
Enjoy your baking!!
I love biscotti - especially cranberry & pistachio. If you do post let me know - I would love the recipe. Thank you for your continued comments I love reading them!
Will be watchin for your Cream Cheese Pastries, would really love a tried & true recipe rather than taking a chance on Google. Have fun baking!
Mmmmm... I'll be right over for a cookie visit! I'll bring the tea! :-) Your home will have some wonderful aromas throughout the season! I try different recipes from year to year... but, the ones that have been baked more than once are peanut butter (just the standard ones) and then Ruschki (sp?)... they are a rolled cookie with lekvar, apricot, poppy seed or nut filling.
Mmmmhhh just popped over to your cookie recipe. Thanks very much. Everything souncs delicious! Happy Baking :)
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