When we finally began Christmas vacation on the 19th of December, I started baking. My goal was to have everything done and ready to go for December 24th to deliver gifts of cookies and candy to the neighbors.
I made it, but not without some anxiety! I had some new cookie cutters this year, and wanted to try them out in addition to some of my favorites.
I also found some new sprinkles... Christmas lights! I'm a sucker for Christmas lights... Love them!
This is one of the many cookies I made from the kit "Ugly Sweater Cookies". I used my own dough, but bought the kit for the sweater cookie cutter.
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HERE for the recipe for this awesome cookie dough. One thing I did change in the recipe this year was to use Orange Emulsion from the bakery supply store. It has a more intense orange flavor than regular orange extract, and kept the cookies nice and moist.
I had lots of fun with the candy cane cookies this year.
One of my very favorite designs. I saw it on the Wilton site, and this is the 2nd year (I believe) of using the holly sprinkles. I used them everywhere this year.... and still only used 1 tube! Amazing.
The reindeer were too much fun! :) Do you see that they are gingerbread cookies turned upside down?
I also made the following candy to add to the cookies in the gift tins:
English Toffee
Haystacks
Pecan Fudge
Chocolate dipped peppermint sticks
Salted caramel Pretzel Bark
I had a great time playing in my kitchen as I always do, and was able to give many friends these edible gifts.
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