It Has Begun...

...The digging out of and sorting of recipes.  My goal is to one day make a cooking scrapbook complete with photos of the finished product.  For now I have assorted magazines, books and loose sheets of paper that I sort through for my favorite recipes.

Every year we have a holiday open house.  We invite all our friends and family to stop by for some baked goods and a cup of cheer.  I do all the baking with some help from Dancing Daughter.  I usually start earlier than now, but between scrapbooking weekends and the sunshine we've had I haven't had the time or the inclination to bake.

I finally got a start over the weekend.  This year I decided to do the harder and more time consuming baking first so when time is short I can whip out the easier stuff as the day of the open house gets closer.  Dancing Daughter spied a cheesecake bar cookie she wanted to try so we made those first.

Second I made these babies.  This is a recipe I had been wanting for years.  Recently Asthmagirl posted it for all her bloggy friends to have.  I'm so lucky to be a bloggy friend of hers!!  I highly recommend you make these heavenly delights.

How about you?  Do you bake during the holiday season?  What are your favorites?

Comments

[asthmagirl]

You did not start baking already!!!! And you started with Snowballs?? Great! Now I've got the yen!

[Mental P Mama]

I am waiting for my Baby Bird to get home from school. And we are gonna bake our butts off. Hopefully;) Those look de-lish!

[Stace]

I love love love your recipe scrapbook idea! How fun! I'm thinking of making a recipe book of all our family favorites for my son for christmas who recently moved out.
I love to bake during the holiday season..it's really the ONLY time I like to bake. We don't keep a lot of baked goods in the house because we're always in training for something or other and I'm always on a diet, but who can resist the holidays? Not me! LOL

Stacie

[deb]

Somehow I focused on the scrapbooking part of the post! I have yet to do a receipe book but it is on my list!
and your cookies look amazing!

[Liz C.]

Of course, it never occurred to me to do a scrapbook of recipes. What a great idea!

As you probably already know, I give away my canned jars of hot sauce & chow-chow as Christmas presents, which means I'm now done. It's a good thing too. Since Christmas is my most favorite holiday, I spend waaay too much time on the decorating process...

[Karine]

I am always baking... and I don't have any favorites because I learn how to bake everything :)