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!

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Anonymous wrote:Tell us about your holiday baking here! Do you make and distribute cookies? What are you making for Christmas dessert? Etc. Let us know.

*I made a gingerbread cake today (Sally's Baking addiction). It's cooling, so haven't frosted it or tried it yet.

*I made toffee about a week ago, and it was good.

*I want to make pecan pralines like my mother did every Christmas when I was growing up. If anyone knows of a good recipe, that would be great.

OP here. Don't love this gingerbread cake. Super disappointing because I almost always love anything I bake from Sally's recipes. It was dry, not spiced enough (even though I added a bit more cinnamon and cloves than the recipe called for), and the frosting was way too sweet. Not all the recipe's fault though -- I think I overbaked it, and I have finally decided I just don't love cream cheese frosting. Oh well, onward.

Here's my go-to gingerbread: https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/12/gramercy-taverns-gingerbread/ and she did a reworking of it with frosting that is too much for me (I'm a plain w/ powdered sugar type), but my guests have really enjoyed: https://smittenkitchen.com/2015/12/gingerbread-layer-cake/

I do a cookie baking party with two friends going on about 14 years now. We each make two kinds. From our get together I have

Mine
- Lace cookies dipped in chocolate (flourless, made with almond flour)
- Mint brownies
- Vegan chocolate chip cookies

Friends
- Peanut butter kiss cookies
- Mexican wedding cookies
- Oreo truffles
- Raspberry oat bars
- Chocolate balls

I am known for having a lot of cookies so I give them to people and take a huge platter to the extended family Christmas dinner. People look forward to it.

My kids want to make cookies too so one wants to make Brazil nut cherry cookies and the other will make coconut caramel cookies.

Oven crapped out on me. I will be making no bake cranberry tart for Christmas.

I love to bake but I don’t actually do much at Christmas. Too many other things to do and eat.
I do make truffles every year and give to friends. And this year I made linzer cookies (with a fabulous cranberry raspberry filling) and ginger cheesecake cookies. And today I made cranberry orange bread to give for gifts. I’ll make another batch over the weekend for a neighbor and maybe even to eat myself!
Come January when things are quiet I’ll make a batch of cut out cookies— mittens, snowmen, and snowflakes.
The thing I have long wanted to make and never have is a stollen. Maybe after the new year.

Anonymous wrote:Tell us about your holiday baking here! Do you make and distribute cookies? What are you making for Christmas dessert? Etc. Let us know.

*I made a gingerbread cake today (Sally's Baking addiction). It's cooling, so haven't frosted it or tried it yet.

*I made toffee about a week ago, and it was good.

*I want to make pecan pralines like my mother did every Christmas when I was growing up. If anyone knows of a good recipe, that would be great.

OP here. Don't love this gingerbread cake. Super disappointing because I almost always love anything I bake from Sally's recipes. It was dry, not spiced enough (even though I added a bit more cinnamon and cloves than the recipe called for), and the frosting was way too sweet. Not all the recipe's fault though -- I think I overbaked it, and I have finally decided I just don't love cream cheese frosting. Oh well, onward.

I'm thinking spritz cookies and maybe molasses plus DD15 insists on the corn flake/marshmallow Holly things (I don't not have the patience to shape them into wreaths).

We are going to a friend's house for Christmas dinner and they said everything was covered when I asked what we could contribute to the meal, but I may make an apple pie or something to bring.

For Christmas Day, I made a pumpkin roll a day a few dozen ricotta lemon cookies. I don’t give any away.

I made cookies and toffee last weekend (the 14th) because I had parties coming up that week. I brought some to work and gave some to friends and we ate an unhealthy amount. I had bad baking luck-burned a batch and overheated the toffee mixture the first time so had to redo it.

I love cooking but am not really a baker. I do make pumpkin pie and get the premade cookie dough to make cookies for Santa - that’s all I got. I love when people are good at it!

Anonymous wrote:I make Oreo balls every year. They are simple and delicious. This year I did mint oreos with white almond bark and a batch with nutter butter cookies and chocolate almond bark.

To make:
Crush 1 package of cookies in a food processor. Mix with 1 block of cream cheese. Form into balls and then freeze for an hour or so (they are easier to dip when they are frozen). Melt almond bark and dip the balls. Store in fridge. It's that easy.

I'm also making white chocolate cranberry cookies, cocoa krispy treats with crushed candy canes and peppermint extract added, Hershey Kiss peanut butter blossoms and chocolate covered pretzels.

This sounds great -- my DH would LOVE these oreo balls.

I make Oreo balls every year. They are simple and delicious. This year I did mint oreos with white almond bark and a batch with nutter butter cookies and chocolate almond bark.

To make:
Crush 1 package of cookies in a food processor. Mix with 1 block of cream cheese. Form into balls and then freeze for an hour or so (they are easier to dip when they are frozen). Melt almond bark and dip the balls. Store in fridge. It's that easy.

I'm also making white chocolate cranberry cookies, cocoa krispy treats with crushed candy canes and peppermint extract added, Hershey Kiss peanut butter blossoms and chocolate covered pretzels.

I order our cookies from a local bakery and gift them to our friends/neighbors and serve at our holiday parties.

For a number of reasons I won’t be baking this Christmas, but what I’d like to be making again, as in years past, is:

gingerbread
monkey bread
pumpkin pie
fudge brownie pie
date nut loaf candy
mulled cider

Tell us about your holiday baking here! Do you make and distribute cookies? What are you making for Christmas dessert? Etc. Let us know.

*I made a gingerbread cake today (Sally's Baking addiction). It's cooling, so haven't frosted it or tried it yet.

*I made toffee about a week ago, and it was good.

*I want to make pecan pralines like my mother did every Christmas when I was growing up. If anyone knows of a good recipe, that would be great.