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[taerowyn]

The Christmas Baking Extravaganza has begun. Tonight I made three dozen weird cookies* and two dozen rum balls and Mom made several loaves of strawberry bread. This weekend we'll do the rolled out iced cookies and the Santa Clauses** and mom wants to do chocolate covered pretzels. And people wonder why they gain weight around the holidays.

*My mom got a secret santa gift of this home-made cookie mix in a jar where you just needed to add butter, egg, and vanilla. As far as we could tell the jar had sugar, brown sugar, flour, oats, mini-m&m's, cocoa crispies and chocolate chips. The resulting cookies are a little odd, especially because they turned out to be raspberry chocolate chips. One or two is good, but that's really it. We think we'll each take some to work and share them there.

**So cute and yummy! Just round cookies with white icing and then a coconut beard, red sugar hat, red-hot nose, chocolate chip eyes, and a marshmallow for the bobble on his hat. I like the cookies with just red sugar though, they're made with orange peel and are quite tasty and I'm not a big coconut fan so...

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[gremlingirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I embark on my baking extravaganza tomorrow...I do the exact same Santa Clauses! But I make them for others, because frankly, too many toppings.

[insert Apu voice] A snickers is not a topping!

Heh.

I am going to try to find cherry brandy for my brandy balls. I posted my cookie list a few days ago. I have quite the quest ahead of me.

But I love it!

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[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm all about the Santa Claus cookies with just the red sugar, because the cookie itself is so good.