Christmas Baking 2020

 

405.  Christmas preparations, with cookie and cinnamon roll baking always leaves our house smelling like a bakery.  These mini browned butter cookies with toffee bits were a huge hit.

Delicious almond-flavored cookies are a favorite to make every year.  The recipe is from a Family Circle magazine back in the 1980's.  

Slice-a-Fancy-Cookie is a recipe I found in my mother's recipes many years ago.

Pitzells are a yearly staple and we tried pistachio red peppercorn cookies, sliced, baked and iced with a salted icing.

Cinnamon Rolls from scratch.  Christmas morning is never the same without them.

Someone asked, "What do you do with all those cookies...and who eats them?".  I have always shared my baking every year.  I package them up into cookie trays and then give them as gifts, hostess gifts or my offering to any party.

Creating cookie trays is always a delightful task and so rewarding.

And sugar cookies with royal icing...beautiful!

Rugelach cookies is a recipe from a Martha Stewart Everyday Food Magazine.  It always pleases.

And Eggnog Logs are a Taste of Home Recipe.

Here are a few pictures of our Christmas Feast.

Beef Wellington was on the menu with roquefort cheese, salad and julienne carrots.

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” 

― Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!” 
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!” 
― Benjamin Franklin