Dec 17 2008
It’s Beginning To Smell A Lot Like Christmas
In my kitchen that is. I am officially in holiday baking mode after picking up the last of my baking supplies at the grocery last night. This is probably the only time of year I ever buy brown sugar, baker’s chocolate, or chocolate chips. I’ve already been baking my holiday batches of sourdough bread , but now it’s time for cookies. I found these great little Chinese food style boxes with holiday themes (Santa and snowmen) for $1 apiece to use for my work gifts. $1 is a bit more than I prefer to pay for packaging but these require no wrapping or bows or tape, so it’s an all in one deal. They’ll probably only hold 6-8 cookies, which is just fine for saying “hey I’m thinking of you this holiday season” without going overboard. So the winners of this year’s holiday recipes are (drumroll please….)
Peanut Butter Rudolph Reindeer from Ladies Home Journal. Seriously, how cute are they? And how simple? Kids or non-culinary inclined husbands could totally help with this project. Better make at least a double batch, as helping hands are going to taste while packing.
The other recipe we’re going to use to wow friends and family are these Simply Sensational Truffles from Kraft. Easy peasy and totally decadent. I’m making these for the family get together. I found mini muffin cups at Target recently for $1.50 (for 100), and I’m going to top them with chopped pecans.
What are your favorite holiday gift recipes?
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Those are so cute! YUM.
Yeah, sadly the reindeer did NOT turn out. I was having a crisis of baking where everything I touched did not turn out…wound up going with chocolate chip oatmeal and an almond bark pretzel/chex mix which worked quite well.