Holiday Baking Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish all of you were my friends.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have made ginger snap cookies, Christmas frosted sugar cookies (the cut out kind), and going to attempt to make a Buche de Noel on Christmas Day for dinner. A bit nervous about that one. Send tips my way or if you have a tried and true recipe for one

I’ve been wanting to do this as well. Very unlikely that I will actually get around to doing it this year. Please do let us know how it goes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid wanted to bake cookies for school club so I helped do molasses crinkles and brown butter snickerdoodles. 4 batches of cookies later, I'm pretty much done. I did 2 rounds of homemade chex mix (tabasco garlic, and a sweet&savory south Indian version) for neighbor/friend gifts. I was going to do homemade cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning, but the take-and-bakes were on sale and, well, I'm okay with that for this year. We always have way too many sweets and treats, even when I'm not the one making them!

I want some Chex mix. I’ll have to try and make some today. The stuff that you buy is just nowhere near the same.

+1
Chex mix is a great idea for us savory types on this baking thread.
I'll try to score some of these to swap out for the very unpopular pretzels:
They never have them at the grocery stores but I have seen them at cvs I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid wanted to bake cookies for school club so I helped do molasses crinkles and brown butter snickerdoodles. 4 batches of cookies later, I'm pretty much done. I did 2 rounds of homemade chex mix (tabasco garlic, and a sweet&savory south Indian version) for neighbor/friend gifts. I was going to do homemade cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning, but the take-and-bakes were on sale and, well, I'm okay with that for this year. We always have way too many sweets and treats, even when I'm not the one making them!

I want some Chex mix. I’ll have to try and make some today. The stuff that you buy is just nowhere near the same.

+1
Chex mix is a great idea for us savory types on this baking thread.
I'll try to score some of these to swap out for the very unpopular pretzels:
They never have them at the grocery stores but I have seen them at cvs I think.

OK. That’s it. I will definitely be making Chex mix today lol. Extra Worcestershire sauce.

[Anonymous]

I bought a bunch of cookie ingredients but now I don't have the energy, maybe I'll do it after Christmas.

DH made fudge from a giant tub of marshmallow fluff, overcooked it, and now I don't know what to do with two big trays of brick hard fudge. I asked him to just make half at a time but ....

[Anonymous]

I'm making two batches of cinnamon rolls (one will be vegan) tonight. They are kind of a chore to make (multiple rises, etc) but they're now a family tradition. My favorite recipe is from Stella Parks.

[Anonymous]

Anyone have a good (and simple-ish) ginger snap recipe??

[Anonymous]

I made 7-layer bars for a cookie exchange and we have a lot of variety of cookies after that party. Will just make a couple other family favorite cookies -- Peanut blossoms and Kringla (a family Norwegian recipe)

And other baking...
Julekake (Norwegian Christmas bread)
Yule log for Xmas dinner
Orange-Cranberry bundt for xmas breakfast

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid wanted to bake cookies for school club so I helped do molasses crinkles and brown butter snickerdoodles. 4 batches of cookies later, I'm pretty much done. I did 2 rounds of homemade chex mix (tabasco garlic, and a sweet&savory south Indian version) for neighbor/friend gifts. I was going to do homemade cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning, but the take-and-bakes were on sale and, well, I'm okay with that for this year. We always have way too many sweets and treats, even when I'm not the one making them!

I want some Chex mix. I’ll have to try and make some today. The stuff that you buy is just nowhere near the same.

+1
Chex mix is a great idea for us savory types on this baking thread.
I'll try to score some of these to swap out for the very unpopular pretzels:
They never have them at the grocery stores but I have seen them at cvs I think.

I made some at thanksgiving and it wasn’t as good as I remembered. I found the bagel chips at grocery store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have made ginger snap cookies, Christmas frosted sugar cookies (the cut out kind), and going to attempt to make a Buche de Noel on Christmas Day for dinner. A bit nervous about that one. Send tips my way or if you have a tried and true recipe for one

I'm going to do Sally's Baking Addiction Buche de Noel next week for an after Christmas party that I'm hosting. I just made her Chocolate Cake Roll and the Buche de Noel is almost identical, except different flavors/ingredients. When I unrolled the cake after it cooled, it did crack. But once I frosted it with the chocolate ganache, it covered the imperfections. So I would imagine the same would be true with the Buche. I used a towel instead of parchment paper when I rolled it. And go slowly when unrolling.

[Anonymous]

I love to bake and have been doing quite a bit. I've made several batches of cookie dough over the last few weeks and I freeze the dough. Then I bake a dozen cookies - but a variety of the different type of cookies. Every couple of days, I'm baking another dozen frozen cookie dough balls.

Raisin Molasses Gems
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip cookies
Chocolate Chip cookies with red & green baking M&Ms
Ice box shortbread cookies with caramel and chocolate topping
Snickerdoodles
Chocolate Chocolate Chip cookies

I'm making the dough for sugar cookies today and will bake them first thing tomorrow morning. Tomorrow evening, we'll decorate the cookies with royal frosting and sprinkles.

For Christmas dessert, we're having a cherry pie. I'll be baking that tomorrow. I'll also serve homemade dinner rolls.

[Anonymous]

I have been baking these since the 90s when we ate the Trilogy Maui cinnamon buns served on the snorkel sails.
It makes a lot. Recipe here, scroll down to Mama's Cinnamon Rolls.
You can use any nuts or skip nuts altogether.
https://blog.sailtrilogy.com/featured/a-guide-to-trilogys-famous-recipes

[Anonymous]

I will make corn muffins tomorrow for Christmas dinner to go with the Cornish Hens.

What I really crave are iced sugar cookies in tree, bell, star shapes. Haven't made them in years, have never found good ones.

[Anonymous]

Anyone have a good roll out sugar cookie recipe? I usually do the all recipes one, thinking of trying Sally's Baking Addiction this time, but would love a recommendation.

[Anonymous]

I always like when people use a traditional cookie recipe as part of their assortment. For my family it was kolacky or a few other Polish cookies. I enjoy trying other family traditional cookies, too not just the usual chocolate chip or cookies you see year round. This year I made pizzelles on my mom’s 50 yr old pizzelle maker, chocolate crinkles, rolo pretzels, and spritz. No kolacky, I will do it next year.