Let the baking begin ...

The first batch of snickerdoodles are in the oven.  The peanut butter cookie batter is in the fridge chilling.  Have sugar cookies and gingerbread men to bake, then some gingerbread too.

It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas ...

SO jealous!!!

I'm a bit weird on xmas cookies now. I slaved over 10 different kinds last xmas and we drove them from coastal Devon up to Halifax and then on to Carlisle for the DH's family. Well, his brother and GF had already bought us a horrid tin of boring, all-taste-the-same McVities biscuits so we didn't take out our cookies out as it seemed a bit snobbish. Then at the in-laws, we left the cookies out all the time for people to help themselves but I can't count how many times I found a package of digestives lying on top of my lovely cookies.

*sniff*

So I sort of gave up. 'Cept we're not traveling this year and this post has got me in the mood to make a batch or 2! 

Then at the in-laws, we left the cookies out all the time for people to help themselves but I can't count how many times I found a package of digestives lying on top of my lovely cookies.

Sometimes, there's just no accounting for taste.  I bet your cookies made McVities taste like cardboard.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

this is the first year i'll miss mom's molasses cookies.  that kinda sucks!!!  

but she's saving some for me in January!

I am SO jealous!!!!!

I have this rubbish tiny oven and can only use the grill oven for baking and everything turns out done on the top and mushy on the bottom.

Enjoy them! 

I just got back from the store with all the baking essentials--- I think! Cookie Sheets, Rolling Pin, Food coloring---couldn't find christmas cookie cutters -- I decided not to bring mine since they had seen better days; wishing I had! I am sure I will get some for next year but for now we will settle with a cheap pack of everyday cookie cutters that have a star and a circle-- I figure the circle an become an ornament :-).

Am going to also try using the toll house cookie recipe with cadbury chunks---will see how that works!

Helena

Helena, I had a devil of a time finding Xmas cookie cutters the first year.  After traipsing around half of London, I finally found them.  Then three years later, lost 'em.  *sigh*  I just have a gingerbread cutter now.

Helena, I had a devil of a time finding Xmas cookie cutters the first year. After traipsing around half of London, I finally found them. Then three years later, lost 'em. *sigh* I just have a gingerbread cutter now.

The secret to finding Christmas cookie cutters is forget the cooking shops and go straight to Early Learning Center and buy their play-do Christmas cookie cutters.   

The secret to finding Christmas cookie cutters is forget the cooking shops and go straight to Early Learning Center and buy their play-do Christmas cookie cutters.   

Thanks! I will be sure to check it out!!!

The first batch of snickerdoodles are in the oven.  The peanut butter cookie batter is in the fridge chilling.  Have sugar cookies and gingerbread men to bake, then some gingerbread too.

It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas ...

OMG, I want to be at your house Cait!!!!  I'm useless in the kitchen!!!  Though I think my mother still has all of her Christmas cookie cutters, I might steal them when I go home (My mother has not cooked in years!!!!)

I've found xmas cookie cutters at specialty cooking shops in every town I've lived in here!

The secret to finding Christmas cookie cutters is forget the cooking shops and go straight to Early Learning Center and buy their play-do Christmas cookie cutters.

Brilliant tip, Mindy!  I'll remember that for next year.

OMG, I want to be at your house Cait!!!!  I'm useless in the kitchen!!!

Stacey, those recipes are simple, otherwise I'd make a mess of it too.   

Stacey, those recipes are simple, otherwise I'd make a mess of it too.

I burn water Cait!!!  WATER!!!!!!!

I've been known to burn broccoli.   

I've been known to burn broccoli.

That I don't burn, weird huh!  (But Rich showed me how to steam it in the micro, so it's not that hard for me to wreck up)