I think I’ll be making Toll House cookies, plain and chocolate Rice Krispie Treats, Gingerbread cookies, Pumpkin cookies, Oatmeal Raisin cookies and a great big bowl of Chex Mix.
At Christmas, we have several meats, cheeses, breads, cheeseballs, soups and the aforementioned yummy treats, for family and friends to nosh on while they’re at our house. How about you?
I’m making fudge, caramels, ginger biscuits, molasses cookies, cream cheese butter cookies, chocolate peppermint pretzel twists, and maybe rum balls if I can remember to buy the rum. Oh, and peanut butter cookies.
I don’t have money for presents for anyone but my kids this year; everyone else is getting cookies.
At work I take part in a cookie exchange. I’m a good cook and I like to bake so I try to pick a different recipe each year from one of my magazines. This year I took one look at the cover of December’sBon Appetit and decided I had to make those chocolate sandwich cookies. They have peppermint buttercream in the middle and then you roll the edge in crunched up candy canes. Yum! Of course I need 4 dozen and the recipe makes 18 so we’re talking quite a time commitment here.
I’m also making a couple of different varieties of Chex party mix to send to people…( www.chex.com )
And fudge…I love the recipe where you use marshmallow creme…I’m experimenting with it…I want to make a two layer fudge----one chocolate and one peanut butter.
I’m making a margarita cheescake. I’ve never made a cheesecake before, so this should be interesting. My family loves cheesecake(I don’t), and margaritas(I do)…so
And oatmeal caramel bars, they love them so I have no choice.
I saw a recipe in the paper sunday for a spice apple bundt cake, I think it was in Parade. That looks like something I’d like, so maybe I’ll make that. 2 is enough, but I’ll see how much time I have and how long my mom will be here from SC. Plus I like the idea of a bundt cake. There’s something about that shape.
Already in the freezer: fudge, snowy crescent cookies, and for Christmas morning breakfast, a loaf of banana bread.
Will also be making ginger snaps, Russian tea cakes, and chocolate chip cookies. Maybe more if I have the time, but I’m determined to make those.
I’m making three batches of baklava tomorrow, one for work potluck on Friday, one for a party Saturday night, and one for my daughter to take to school.
I made some cheese straws which I think I’ll get sick of soon because I misread the butter and put in too much so then had to triple the recipe and my arms are killing me from rolling out the dough. I don’t think I’ll make anything else that requires rolling dough.
I am also planning on making some pumpkin spice cookies, eggnog cookies or eggnog bread (because I’m going to be sick of drinking eggnog before I finish that half gallon jug), coconut macaroons (may even dip some in chocolate), oatmeal-kahlua cookies (I took some of these to work and they got snarfed up in one night) and finally I may use up the puff pastry in my fridge by making some swirled cinnamon cookie things (like palmiers). I also saw a recipe for coconut madelines that I might try. I always plan more than I actually finish.
I was also going to make some dog and cat treats for my pets and my co-workers pets but I can’t find the recipes and they usually require rolling out the dough. So that may not happen.
Simple here. I have a cookie exchange to go to, so I think I will make the traditional peanut butter crackle (the PB cookie with Hershey Kiss stuck in the top).
C’est tout.
Fudge and sugar cookies certainly. Alias’ mother gets her usual batch of white chocolate cherry scones. Alias may still set me up to do some cooking for christmas dinners, probably just a pie or two. I’ll even try my hand at homemade egg nogg.
New Zealand Holly cookies (my younger son’s favorite), brownies (my older son’s favorite), dark chocolate covered english toffee, milk chocolate covered sponge monkey candy (I’ve never made it before, but I’ve been told it is very like a Cadbury Crunchie bar), and either chocolate crackle cookies or Death by chocolate cookies. I made some Snickers-on-a-stick (half a pretzel rod dipped in caramel, and then rolled in chopped milk chocolate, butterscotch, and peanuts) for my son’s band concert last night, and I still have leftover stuff enough to make another batch.
If the weather and my schedule cooperate (I need a cold, dry day and the time to do it), I’ll make cream candy for my Dad and brother.
Cream cheese mints, and red velvet cake.
Rice krispie treats, although this year I can’t find the Christmas-themed Rice Krispies that have red and green krispies scattered in.
I’m going back and forth. I love to bake. I don’t take the opportunity to do so as often as I would like, as I am a bit fanatical about my weight. I have 20 million recipes to try, every one looking better than the next. If I baked, it would be to give as gifts. And if I baked, I of course would have to try some of what I made before I gave it away. And I keep thinking that everyone else would be baking for themselves. So I am torn. To bake…or not to bake?
Susan
Made some chocolate truffle cheesecake for some coworkers. You never saw a dessert disappear so fast.
Am considering taking it to the next level and trying the chocolate oblivion truffle torte recipe I found over holiday, which is basically a nine inch across truffle lumped into a cheesecake pan. Problem is, my family isn’t that big on rich chocolaty things. 
Bourbon pecan pie. My daughter did one for Thanksgiving and it is to die for.
I guess, on further thought, I probably should not be posting this as far as the OP goes. I will not be making it, and we haven’t actually informed our daughter, who will be staying with us for the holidays of this.
But rest assured it will be made!!!