{"id":6329,"date":"2012-12-30T06:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=6329"},"modified":"2012-12-30T14:14:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T19:14:34","slug":"christmas-cookie-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/christmas-cookie-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cookie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a whole lot of baking going on around here this month but most of it was so pedestrian it wasn’t worth posting recipes of! I let the kids choose what we baked every time they asked to, so we ended up with A LOT of chocolate chip cookies and we did sugar cookies over and over and of course we made gingerbread maybe half a dozen times. They teamed up and decorated a gingerbread house together and there was much decking of halls and wrapping of gifts and watching of Christmas movies while I knitted on Christmas socks (as in, gift socks for Christmas, not Christmasy socks).<\/p>\n

When I had a little time to steal, like say after they went to bed and before they got up, I tried out these recipes and they were all winners. Usually, I make batches and batches of cookies starting in mid-November so by Christmas I have a stockpile of 6 or 7 different kinds of cookies. Then I make assorted tins and bring them around to our friends and family as gifts. This year, I didn’t do that because while I had a handful of people that I could have brought assorted homemade treat tins to, it wasn’t enough for a the amount I end up with when I bake so many different kinds. <\/p>\n

The funny thing is, the closer it got to Christmas, the more treat tin-worthy friends we were all making and by Christmas week, I easily could have given away as many as we would have had if I had just done my Christmas baking as usual. Oh well! Next year I will make lots!!<\/p>\n

Here is the roundup of the four recipes I used this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n\"White
\nI made these one afternoon for a ‘bring a snack’ style mini potluck with some mommy friends at Silly Goose<\/a>. They went over well with both kids and parents, which surprised me because I didn’t think the kids would be into it. (read<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\"Butterscotch
\nThese were originally intended and baked up for my father and my dear friend’s brother. The kids always get to try new cookies even if the batch is destined for someone else – they liked these cookies so much they ate almost the entire first batch and once my husband discovered them, it was game over. I didn’t have enough left to send a decent package! Hilarious but nice to know when I have a winning recipe on my hands like this one. (read<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\"Cookie
\nThis is not a recipe, it’s 5 things you have on hand mashed together and rolled into balls. Oh and you can drizzle them with chocolate but I was taking them to the park and they are not very mobile once they’re covered in chocolate. This is the kind of treat I’ll whip up before bed for the next afternoon when I know I’ll have no time but the kids will be asking for something<\/i>. Be careful though, the part of you that is still 6 years old will want to eat as many as you can get your hands on and if you have a 6 year old, you’re going to want to keep a close watch on these babies. (read<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\"White-Chocolate
\nI usually only do one cookie for Christmas that involves white chocolate, but this year I was so smitten with two recipes I went for it. This is the second of the two. I’ve never used maraschino cherries in a recipe before so it was a first and it totally worked out! Definitely drain the cherries well after you chop them, too much liquid will ruin the recipe and the cookies wont hold together as well. (read<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

More little pieces of our Christmas, this time, kitchen edition.<\/p>\n

-decorating a gingerbread house in your Hello Kitty pearls and Tink costume is a must (duh)
\n-making fondant from scratch and letting your kids attack gingerbread people with them makes for a seriously fun afternoon
\n-gingerbread houses can never have too many teeth breaking candies stuck to them
\n-pancakes taste better when they have seasonally appropriate shapes
\n-everyone loves festive treat boxes (I’m glad I haven’t met anyone who hates them, anyway)
\n-cakes should be baked in tree pans, painstakingly decorated with homemade buttercream and handed over to the little ones for dessert
\n-3 year olds are seriously into baking (another duh) <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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There was a whole lot of baking going on around here this month but most of it was so pedestrian it wasn’t worth posting recipes of! I let the kids choose what we baked every time they asked to, so we ended up with A LOT of chocolate chip cookies and we did sugar cookies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167,99],"tags":[9,960,11,961,182,958,959,962],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6329"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6354,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions\/6354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}