Welcome to our Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies link up! For the next two weeks, join us every day and add your favorite cookie recipe for that day’s theme. Please follow Lisa and Lindsay and check out some new blogs! Happy baking! Today’s cookie theme is traditional family recipes. Many families in these United States still celebrate holidays with tastes of the old countries. Italians host a Feast of the… View Post »
Russian tea balls: Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies
Welcome to our Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies link up! For the next two weeks, join us every day and add your favorite cookie recipe for that day’s theme. Please follow Lisa and Lindsay and check out some new blogs! Happy baking! Day 3 features our favorite nut recipes. Some people call them Mexican wedding cookies, but I’ve always known these cookies as Russian tea balls. I love Russian tea… View Post »
Decorated Christmas cookies: Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies
Welcome to our Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies link up! For the next two weeks, join us every day and add your favorite cookie recipe for that day’s theme. Please follow Lisa and Lindsay and check out some new blogs! Happy baking! For day two, we’re sharing decorated Christmas cookies. I love this standard buttercream recipe for frosting cookies. The corn syrup gives the icing a nice glossy shine, and you… View Post »
Christmas sugar cookies: Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies
Welcome to our Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies link up! For the next two weeks, join us every day and add your favorite cookie recipe for that day’s theme. Please follow Lisa and Lindsay and check out some new blogs! Happy baking! I love Betty Crocker’s classic recipe for my Christmas sugar cookies and cookie cutters. If I don’t have time to make the dough, I use a bag of… View Post »
H54F: homeowner status
1. I neglected to wish my wonderful sister a happy birthday yesterday. Mainly because I wrote yesterday’s blog post two days ago about what I did three days ago. I’m just as confused as you are. But Happy Birthday, Leslie! 2. Our Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies link up starts tomorrow! Be sure to stop by with your sugar cookie recipes. 3. It’s amazing how many trips to get stuff… View Post »
We bought a house
This week has been a crazy whirlwind. Yes, it is only Thursday. I flew to Colorado Springs on Tuesday to close on our house. I think at some point I’ll recap the sojourn that was getting to Colorado, but we managed to close Tuesday night. We had painters and Comcast come over yesterday, I set a personal record by going to Target THREE separate times in one day, and our household goods… View Post »