This is the weekend (next to Christmas) that my kids look forward to all year long. For most of today and tomorrow, we will be baking and eating holiday goodies while listening to Christmas music.

(Note to self - hide BOTH Chipmunks cd's)

So on today's menu:

1. Banana Bread (already did this last night)
2. Melt in your mouth sandwhich creme cookies (ditto)
3. "Snowed on" Powdered sugar & sprinkles Browines (ditto again)
4. Peanut Butter Cookies with Hershey's Kisses in the middle
5. Snowballs (also known as Mexican wedding cake cookies)
6. Chocolate Crink Cookies (chocolate balls rolled in powdered sugar)
**double batch at the husband's request
7. 7 layer bars
8. Rolled sugar cookie candy canes
9. Popcorn Balls

And I'm really disappointed that I can't include No. 10 on the list this year. Usually I make holiday rice krispie treats but I can't find the red/green rice krispies anywhere this year.

1/2 of each batch gets put away for Christmas Eve. The other 1/2 is for snacking and giving away. On Monday the kids will take an assortment of goodies to their teachers, bus drivers, neighbors and dad's work.

I'll try to take a picture and post it for "blog drooling".

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 Anonymous said...
oh annie, what a wonderful post. for years my daughter and i would spend days making all kinds of christmas sweets. i would pick 5 of my patients to bestow these goodies on. usually they were picked because they were amazing people in their own ways and i wanted them to know how pleased i was to know them. so after cooking my daughter and i would take our homemade presents to the chosen 5. it was the best part of christmas for me and i think for my daughter. we would sit for hours at some of these visits just listening to the person talk and remember things as they used to be. it certainly made my heart feel good and i think was probably good trainng for my daughter to get a grip on what was truly important in life. good fellowship, good sweets, good god let's eat! (sorry that just came out!)
cat  

 KarbonKountyMoos said...
Hey Annie!

We've been on a sugar high the last couple of days, too. No children here, it would help if there were - less for me, my husband & the critters.
And I'm not finished baking yet...  

 Pink Poppy said...
YUMMY! I am hoping to do something similar with half the neighborhood next week. The plan is that Son1 and Son 2 and I will bake the cookies the day before, then their buddies will come over and decorate them. We'll see. It now seems that Daddy will be getting out of the hospital the day we are supposed to be baking. So I may BUY cookies to decorate. Regardless, we'll be doing some decorating with carols and good friends, and THAT's what it's all about.  

 KarbonKountyMoos said...
Your list & mine have a couple of the same things on it!

Re: #6 - I tried a batch rolled in coconut instead of confectioner's sugar & they're wonderful that way, too.

#5 are Greek wedding cookies in my house! We called them "chokers" because that's what happens if you inhale while consuming one.

I need to go make some peanut brittle...  

 Torlla said...
Very tempting and very tasty but watch those figures ladies! Like paint it's much easier to put on than to take off! Agree?  

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