Originally Posted By goodgirl Topic: The Holiday Season Question: Have you or will you do any Christmas baking? What will you make?
Originally Posted By chickapin I will, but haven't yet. Mostly lots of sugar cookies to decorate--I don't try to do too many different things. My family and the neighbors love the sugar cookies so I concentrate on those. I will make the pies for the big family dinner on Christmas Eve. Not baking, but I will make peanut brittle and carmel corn to send out with the cookies.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd At some point before Christmas, I will get a crazy baking bug and go nuts baking for a day. Will make magic cookie bars, fudge, Vienese cresents, sugar cookies, gingerbread and possibly some shortbread.
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes I will bake a Lean Cuisine spaghetti dinner in my microwave. Probably two or three.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka So far I have made Russian teacakes, peppermint brownies and rum balls. (We haven't eaten the rum balls yet. They are "resting" and ought to be pretty potent by the party this weekend.) ;-) I will be making a bunch of sugar cookies and a batch of gingerbread sometime this week. Last year I had some leftover teacake dough and pressed it into a square tart pan, baked it and then spread Nutella on the top. That was tasty and I might do that again this year. I haven't made peppermint bark yet, either. I made a bunch of batches of marshmallows last night but might end up making a couple more as gifts for people. I want to make Spritz cookies but I don't think we really need them. I used to make panettone every year. I liked to splurge on a lot of different dried fruits for it. My husband and daughter are picky so I found it too much work to go through and didn't need 3 whole loves for myself. So many traditions...so little time. ;-) I will also have to make snickerdoodles because they are my husband's favorite. I started a new tradition last year of making cinnamon rolls (Cinnabon recipe) for Xmas morning. I give some to my SIL and brother, too. For Xmas day, I prefer to have lots of different treats, even if we only have one serving of each type. So, I try to stash a few cookies from each batch and freeze them. It didn't work with the Russian teacakes. ;-)
Originally Posted By mickeymeg I havent had time yet, But I will eventually. I don't know what I will make yet. I'm not good at planning ahead. There will likely be shortbread and mincemeat tarts involved just to keep up tradition.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 LOL Schmitty I used to make tons of stuff, spritz, crescents, sugar cookies, red and green cherry cookies and gingerbread, lemon bars, brownies, etc.. The past few years it's been "from scratch" brownies and holiday m&m's pressed into the toll house recipe and baked in a pan. Those are the 2 that my kids actually preferred My mom is a wonderful baker and she enjoys sending cookies home with us So, I ended up making pretty much the same cookies she made, except for the Danish brundkager (sp) and date bars, and then we'd end up with waaaaay to much. Now I just give her the pleasure of baking for us and DD will probably bake our cookies when she comes home. So, I guess the answer is no, I probably won't be doing any baking this year. The 6 days we'll be in DLR isn't helping, oh darn, poor me
Originally Posted By DAR No I barely have to time to cook dinner for myself, baking is certainly out of the question.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Coconut Oatmeal cookies Persimmon cookies Chocolate Pecan cookies Sugar cookies Peanut Butter cookies Fudge Pistachio cake Rum cake Trying new: Peppermint ring cake Cinnamon Applesauce cake That what I hope to do, what I accomplish will be another story.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>I will bake a Lean Cuisine spaghetti dinner in my microwave. Probably two or three.<< I'm partial to the macaroni and cheese, myself.
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 Usually I do alot of baking, but this year, I don't know. We'll see. So far I have made loaves of banana bread and eggnog bread and froze them. I plan to also make: Decorated Sugar Cookies Gingerbread People White Chocolate Raspberry Bars Chocolate Chip Cookies Peanut Butter Fudge (great recipe I got a few years ago from tapdancemom!) Chocolate Fudge w/ nuts White Chocolate Fudge w/ dried Cranberries Buckeye Balls Rum Balls Spritz Cookies Peanut Butter Cookies w/ the Hershey Kiss on top Snowball Cookies with the cherry center Anise Cookies Also I got a few new fudge recipes from my SP this year, I might try one of those. I usually make mele's rum cake recipe for Christmas dinner too. We'll see how much of that list gets done though. Oh mele......if you make Panettone.....feel free to send me one. I'll gladly take it off your hands It's the least I could do.
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess I live for baking during the holidays! I will make apricot bars, coconut joys, choc chip cookies, snickerdoodles, fudge, butterscotch cookies, frosted sugar cookies, wheaties ting-a-lings, and anything else I can find time to make!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 When everyone says they bake what does that mean in terms of dozen. Meaning if I had to bake a couple dozen of each cookie I listed - no problem!!! My reality is I have to make like 10 to 20 dozen of each of the cookies I listed. What about you guys?
Originally Posted By chickapin ^^^that's why I concentrate on the sugar cookies! I will probably do 12-15 dozen of them but if I had to do that with several different kinds I know I'd talk myself out of it before I got started.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 My daughter and I will be making cookies and breads and Cinnimon rools yum,yum
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Thanks for reminding me to make peanutbutter fudge, TiggerPooh! I whipped some up a few minutes ago. I usually only have to make a batch of each thing. I make a few batches of peppermint bark to give as presents. I will be making at least 4 batches of sugar cookies and one batch of gingerbread for our party on Saturday. Each year we seem to have a favorite cookie so I end up making multiple batches of those. Hm, butterscotch brownies would be good too...
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 <<wheaties ting-a-lings>> What are those? Most things I only make one batch of. The exceptions are the sugar cookies and the breads. I have made 2 full size and three mini loaves of each of the breads. The sugar cookies we will make several dozen of as well as the gingerbread. Oh, the rum balls too, I make a lot of those. Butterscotch brownies sound yummy......have a good recipe mele?
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess Tigger, they're these no-bake crispy chocolate treats whose recipe actually came from my KINDERGARTEN CLASS back in, uh, 1973. LOL! I make them every year, along with a lot more sophisticated, time-consuming baked goods, yet everyone RAVES about these things! Somehow, the chocolate ends up tasting like dark chocolate, and they're very rich and crispy and yummy. Here's the recipe: WHEATIES TING-A-LINGS 2 (6 oz.) pkg. semi-sweet chocolate pieces 4 c. Wheaties (or Total or any flake type cereal) Melt two packages of semi-sweet chocolate pieces over hot water. Cool at room temperature. Mix in gently 4 cups of Wheaties. Drop by tablespoon onto waxed paper. Place in refrigerator to set at least 2 hours. Makes about 42 clusters.
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess Oh, to answer Lisann, my recipes usually are for about 5-10 dozen cookies each.
