Originally Posted By ReadingMom It's been several years since I've baked anything around Christmastime. However, this weekend we will be baking fools around here. We'll be baking the following: Toll house cookies (MY FIL's favorite) White chocolate thumbprints Layered mint chocolate fudge Snow caps Jingle jumbles Double delicious cookies bars Butter toffee chocolate chip crunch cookies Swedish spritz Snickerdoodles Oatmeal raisin cookies Lebkuchen (for 2oony) Depending on time I may add in a few more cookies. We just need to keep busy right now. Oh, and none of them have ANY calories in them at all!
Originally Posted By lesmisfan I love christmas baking but i think i am too busy with work this year sadly. I work at disney and during the holiday times, at least my leads told me, i will be gettng lots of hours. but we will see. My specailty is russian tea cakes. They are so good!!!
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS We make chocolate covered marshmallows, chocolate chip cookies and homemade hot chocolate.
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 I love reading what everyone is making! Anyone have a real good no-bake cookie recipe? My mom used to make these ones with chocolate and oatmeal but she hadn't made them for many years and last time she tried it wasn't quite right, lol.
Originally Posted By JazzCat I let out a "yay!!" when I saw ReadingMom post! On topic, I've made some sugar cookies and C.J. made some molasses cookies. I'll be making some Strawberry Cream Bars this Saturday for our church's Christmas program. I've never made them before, but it calls for jam (any flavor), cream cheese and yellow cake mix. It sounds good huh?? BTW, does anyone have a NO FAIL fudge recipe? I cannot make fudge to save my life! Every recipe I try never "sets" to fudge consistancy.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I do! I passed this on to IceKnyght and even he makes fudge now and quite good too. I like this recipe because you don't have to deal with the marshmellow creme and it's not so sweet it hurts your teeth! ;> <a href="http://www.eaglebrand.com/detail.asp?rid=57" target="_blank">http://www.eaglebrand.com/deta il.asp?rid=57</a> Servings: Makes about 2 pounds Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 15 minutes Ingredients ----------- 3 cups (18 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate chips (or milk-chocolate chips) 1 (14-ounce) can EAGLE BRAND® Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk) Dash salt 1/2 to 1 cup chopped nuts (optional) 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract Instructions ------------ In heavy saucepan, over low heat, melt chocolate chips with EAGLE BRAND® and salt. Remove from heat; stir in nuts (optional) and vanilla. Spread evenly into wax paper lined 8- or 9-inch square pan. Chill 2 hours or until firm. Turn fudge onto cutting board, peel off paper and cut into squares. Store leftovers covered in refrigerator.
Originally Posted By RAM1984 I love Holiday baking. The regulars are: Tons of sugar cookies Chocolate rum balls Magic cookie bars Gingerbread Buckeye candy Almond Roca At least one pumpkin/creamcheese pie Probably more but that is all that comes to mind right now.
