The Goodies ride once again

[primsong]

It's definitely "that season" again - coming from a Christmas party that had rockin' gingerbread cake with spiced whipped topping and cream-cheese-and-nutmeg stuffed dates to holiday events with everything from brandy beans to peppermint cookies going by it's hard to know what comes next.

We have our church Christmas event this coming Sunday, so I'm busy making marshmallow popcorn balls and green tree-shaped spritz for that, at the rate we're going I may not even need to make any Christmas cookies this time around as we'll already be full up on enough goodies to cause us to all roll out the door like that girl that turned into a blueberry in the Willy Wonka thing... but y'know... there's still those soft sugar cookies with lemon in them... and the peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate....and that amazing fruitcake with all the wine in it....

What are you making this year? Any extra good things orbiting past you?

Comments

[linaewen]

I haven't started baking yet, but I am hoping to do some today. I usually try to make Norwegian sandbakkelse, Scotch shortbread (family traditions), and some sort of ginger-flavored cookies. I'm hoping to make this for the staff Christmas party next weekend:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/magic-cookie-bars-ii/detail.aspx

I'm also thinking of trying this one -- I've not made it before but it looks easy and pretty awesome:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/easy-decadent-truffles/detail.aspx

I expect my son will want me to make some buckeyes (peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate) and the traditional sugar cookie cutouts with frosting. So much for my diet!!

[primsong]

Those look rich but oh so tasty too! I like ones that can look fancy without too much effort involved - I just made the 'gelatin spritz' from the same site for our church event, you just dump a pack of jello into it to instantly add both flavor and color (lots of little lime christmas trees, anyone?) I added some extra food coloring and a bit of pandan to bring up the level of green, they came out pretty good.

Buckeyes! Mmmmmm. That one's a family tradition here too.