The best of plans…

Merry Christmas!! I had grand plans today to post video of the kids opening their gifts and such today. However there are lots of short videos of this and so I need to join them together so it is going to take a bit. So give me a day or so. This evening while the … [Read more…]

Christmas baking day 3…

This is the final day of my cookie and candy making. I made from top left of the bottom photo (red bowl) Cream Cheese Mints, Million Dollar Fudge, Divinity, (second row) Fattigmann, Cranberry Orange Biscotti, Apricot Cream Cheese Thumbprints, Scottish Shortbread, (bottom row) Berliner Brot. (Items without links were in prior days post). We have … [Read more…]

Christmas Cooking Day 2…

Well as you can see, I got a bit more done today. Another cookie and a candy. I made Apricot Cream Cheese Thumbprint cookies. This is always a favorite and I think this is the 3rd year I have made them. I have also made Cream Cheese Mints. Another favorite that I believe this is … [Read more…]

Christmas baking day one…

I got some cooking done today. The cookies on the left are Scottish Shortbread that I made with dark brown sugar.  The one on the right is Divinity. I grew up LOVING Divinity. Sadly I grew up in the Pacific Northwest though so this meant that making Divinity was EXTREMELY hard. Humid, rainy or about … [Read more…]