mmmmm!! I would love one, they look fabulous!!Quote:
Originally Posted by bluerose
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mmmmm!! I would love one, they look fabulous!!Quote:
Originally Posted by bluerose
Molasses oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for my nephew's 7th Birthday.
bluerose, i would love to have your recipe for the Czech kolach pastry!
My Christmas baking is coming along just great! So far ive made from scratch: Spice Cake, Dates Cake, Shortbread cutout cookies; Rum Balls; Christmas cutout cookies; Sugar Cookies made with oïl; and Raisin Oatmeal cookies.
Tomorrow im making this old recipe from my Mom which she called Parakladowany. It has 3 layers of dough and in between spread with Plum Butter, finely grated walnuts and Brown sugar. And im also making fancy choco chip cookies and adding some candied fruit.
Hubby has been helping me because of arthritis in my fingers. A couple of years ago, he bought me a Mix Master which is really great but some things have to be done by hand so i need help. Yay Hubby!
Scones.
I feel like a slacker, I usually have all my baking done by now, but I've had family visit from Edmonton, then when they left I have family now from Vegas. I had my mother in laws 80th birthday party yesterday!!My husband's is on the 23 and my daughters is the 29th!! I think I'm going to be buying dessert trays from Costco this year...I will still make my thumbprint shortbread cookies, with homemade caramel and drizzled with chocolate, (I usually make about 15-20 dozen) I only make these at Christmas, my kids always ask , "how come you only make these at Christmas?"
It wasn't actually baking, but I made a double batch of haystack cookies on Sunday. I packed a container for Dh to take to work, but he keeps forgetting it at home.
Made the dough for my snickerdoodles and ginger molasses cookies yesterday. Will roll into balls and bake tonight with mom's help doing the tedious stuff. I'm thankful for the -15 weather today only because outside makes a perfect fridge for the balls to chill before baking.
A tip, if anyone makes ginger cookies or other spiced baking and find theirs don't have that rich scent and flavor you get at bakeries, leave your dough OVERNIGHT before doing anything with it. I tasted a nip of the dough right after making, and one right now, almost 24 hours later, and the difference is night and day at how developed the flavor is. Chilling for the recommended hour gets you the right texture of dough but overnight gets the best flavor.
Still have butterscotch bars to do, brownies, and if I'm feeling up to it I'll take a stab at shortbread. I've never made it before but my mom likes it.
Just made some fruit cake. I'm hoping they taste okay.
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These cookies go by many different names depending on which Country they are from. I will call them Snowball Cookies, but other names are Russian Tea Cakes, Mexican Wedding Cookies, Italian Wedding Cookies, snowdrops, butter balls or more specifically pecan butter balls.
Mmmm, melt in your mouth deliciousness!! They look so pretty and white too!!
Figured I'd make a quadruple recipe, only one mess to clean up after.
recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/pecan-puffs-47521
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^ Those look great, Walks :) i know them as Russian tea cakes and funnily enough, I was just thinking about them a couple of days ago. I think I might have to make some over the holidays ;)
Silk
I just hosted a charity bake sale and am happy to be done baking! I did banana chip muffins, sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, white chocolate cake batter fudge, Rice Krispie squares and pops, Oreo pops, Oreo bark, and brownies.
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Eeeeek, just started Christmas baking this evening - made 9x13s of magic cookie bars and chocolate peanut butter buddy bars.
Son took a pic of the baking I sent home with him - mind you, the colours seem a bit off, though..
In that container, they are about four deep.
l-r: magic cookie bars, cheesecake squares, cuban lunch, chocolate peanut butter buddy bars
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Dec 23-A very sensible strategy in my opinion Nat as that way notbody could snarf them all down ahead of time as happened at our house!! My DH and DD prebaked and preate the Xmas baking about 4 weeks ago-lol! She is away for the holiday so it makes sense. In any case we have company now and loads of chocolates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Natalka
Your baking looks just lovely and very festive Nat!
My DH has made a couple of loaves of bread the last couple of days that have been delicious. and also a sour cream coffee cake.
