Christmas Baking

Hi froggieslover. i love Christmas baking! I bake cakes, cookies, pies, fudge, and many other desserts. My kitchn is constantly busy during the Christmas season. What is your favorite Christmas goody to bake?

My mother always does tons of Christmas baking to share with our family and friends. In addition to the things that you've mentioned, she also makes chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies (which she lets us and the kids decorate, it's a family tradition that we all love) and buckeyes (peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate). Her Christmas candy and cookies are a favorite to the entire family. Other great Christmas type goodies are fudge, peanut brittle, peanut butter cookies, snickerdoodles, oatmeal raisin cookies. Really whatever sinful sweets that you can think of to make would be great in a Christmas basket.

This is a great idea. I have done this with the no bake cookies several times. My family loves those things. I have also done the mixes in a jar. Just put all of the dry ingredients needed for cookies/brownies/cakes into a mason jar put a decorative holiday fabric over the top and screw on the lid then tie decorative ribbons around the tops of them. I included a decorated recipe card and a cookie cutter with the cookies. These were received really well and I did not have to actually bake anything. If you look online at allrecipes.com you can find several of these recipes that I used. They are great! Good luck with your baking and treat giving!

I love cookies and it always part of my christmas. From chocolate chip to oatmeal just as long its round, chewy and sweet. I will also bake my mom's recipes. Its gonna be a an exciting christmas this year.

The baskets are a great idea, I did the same the year before last to save money - I got baskets from the Dollar Store nearby and it really worked out quite inexpensive. I don't remember everything I put in, I know I made fudge, and I also made cranberry bread in small loaves, and just packaged both up with festive ribbon etc. I do cross stitch as a hobby and this year I plan to do some personal designs for different people, again to save money (currently unemployed!) Good luck with them, I'm sure everyone will love them!

thats great, i love chrsitmas baking i always wnat to do christmas baking, but i never seem o find the time do sit down and do it, cause im usually shopping until the last minute, some things that i like to make for christmas are ginger cake, gingerbread men, some sugar cookies in differnt shapes such as christmas trees, maybe those wil give you some ideas. have fun baking. Happy Mylotting!

I make cranberry almond squares, lemon bars, and empire cookies. My mom does the sugar cookies and butter tarts, so I didn't have many choices for things to bring once I moved out. Everyone loves the cranberry almond squares, probably because of the chocolate.

Every year my makes these cookies,that I do not know what they are called.They are peanut butter cookies with a chocolate drop on top.Yummy! I also think that brownies with red and green spinkles on them would be good too. Good luck.

Peppermint Bark is easy and looks pretty. I make that every year. I also make sugared peanuts, cream wafers, cream cheese mints, a bunch of different cookies and homemade candies.

Fudge always goes over really well. Fudge is pretty easy to make too. Just buy the jars of marshmallow fluff. The recipe to make fudge is usually right on there. My sister in law always makes these awesome peanut butter balls, I don't make them because they are her thing, but I am happy with a gift of those from her every year. I also make some really awesome bon bons. I have posted the recipe on Bukisa here is the recipe if you would like it. http://www.bukisa.com/articles/119020_happy-chocolate-day-enjoy-some-chocolate-oreo-bon-bons

Christmas is really a great tme to have fun and baking is really fun at christmas. you can also bake candy, fudges, cookies, cake cause i am sure gong to do all that

You might also want to try making a large batch of instant tea - such as Russian tea. Then dividing it into decorative bags and tucking it in your baskets. It's fairly inexpensive to make a really large batch. You could also dry mixing together batches of dry ingredients and putting in decorative bags so that the recipient can add the "wet" ingredients and make fresh cookies.