Each Christmas it seems that I become more and more ‘domesticated’ for lack of better word, although I personally like to call it awesome. As I grow older more and more homemade cookies and goodies get made to bring to the various places I do during the holiday season, and Mike and I start incorporating more homemade gifts. This year I might have over done it a little bit, as I was trying to keep my spirits up with the momentum of holiday cheer. You can get into a groove baking cookies, wrapping gifts, cleaning, shopping, and decorating for the holidays and it certainly takes a bit of the stress away if you do so without having a major break down over how much you have to do. I averted the major breakdown this year, although there were a few minor melt downs, so I would say I was successful. Here’s a quick recap of this years key homemade moments: Jules’ Gluten Free Sugar Cookies: Colorful and fun! Mike made these around midnight one night when I was exceptionally grumpy and couldn’t sleep, helping him out cheered me right up!
Chocolate Bark: These were a reword of some 2010 recipes, and were also made to honor m brother. We made peanut butter cup bark, walnut bark, and peppermint bark.
Gluten Free Oreo Truffles: This is another 2010 recipe, but it has become an extended family favorite. I never said we were that healthy around the holidays!
Almond Crescents: This is a recipe passed down from my grandmother, and one that I rarely seem able to get right…
FAIL
This year however I was successful by using some random mixture of confectioners sugar and regular sugar in each batch, god only knows what the exact measurements were but they were surely potentially diabetes inducing and freaking addictive.
Christmas Crack: Making this indulgent snack for my floor at work was a last minute decision, and probably took the least amount of time. I used the recipe shared by I’m a Celiac but used cinnamon and rice chex. I also gave each of my direct colleagues a bag of the homemade cookies.
Homemade Lavender and Pine Candles: This year we also tried out hand at candle making for the first time. It was actually pretty quick and fun!
And the packaging was mason jar fantastic!
Finally no holiday season can be complete without having some non handmade snacks on hand for when all the cookies have been handed out. Udi’s Snicker Doodle Cookies and Glutino’s Peppermint yogurt Pretzels were two great snacks that got us through a few games of Cards Against Humanity with friends.
Each Christmas it seems that I become more and more ‘domesticated’ for lack of better word, although I personally like to call it awesome. As I grow older more and more homemade cookies and goodies get made to bring to the various places I do during the holiday season, and Mike and I start incorporating more homemade gifts. This year I might have over done it a little bit, as I was trying to keep my spirits up with the momentum of holiday cheer. You can get into a groove baking cookies, wrapping gifts, cleaning, shopping, and decorating for the holidays and it certainly takes a bit of the stress away if you do so without having a major break down over how much you have to do. I averted the major breakdown this year, although there were a few minor melt downs, so I would say I was successful. Here’s a quick recap of this years key homemade moments:
