My Christmas goodies were made over the month of December – mostly from the middle of the month. I was very, very late this year – worse than I have ever been. Most years I have almost everything in the freezer by the beginning of the month. The Christmas Eve goodie buffet:
Sugar cookies. Including Jessica’s shot reindeer and Mr. Kim’s zombie gingerbread man and snowman:
I have a weird family.
PB cookies, ginger cookies (store bought), and chocolate chunk shortbread cookies (a big thank you to @jedovaty for sending me the recipe for these – they were a huge hit):
Mincemeat tarts (store bought) and Lemon chess tarts:
Chocolate fudge:
Reeses cup fudge:
Iced almonds, peanut brittle, sponge candy, and pretzel turtles:
Happy Accident Candy:
This is all of the leftover crumbs and shards from making the sponge candy mixed up with some melted chocolate.
The toffee this year was my greatest success ever. @Darienne gave me her recipe a few years ago and it is delicious, but I had a large learning curve getting the chocolate to stick – I finally figured it out, but haven’t managed @Darienne's feat of a chocolate coating on both sides. Thank you from me and from every single person who tasted this, @Darienne! Unbroken (the moment before disaster or success):
Success – hardly ANY chocolate loss:
Look how nice and thick it turned out:
Toffee (again), happy accident candy and GF cookies:
That sweet tray that the candy is on is no more☹️. Mr. Kim was washing it and it just fell apart in his hands and cut him fairly badly. He waited a couple of days before going to the doctor and they said they would have probably stitched it had he come in immediately.
Not on the goodie bar, but gifts that I made for a few folks – Holiday bread with candied fruit and walnuts:
All of the loaves were that dark on the bottom and sides – and that was the lightest setting. I’ve put a new bread machine on my wishlist. I love using the bread machine and I think mine is almost 30 years old – time it retired. But the insides were lovely and made good toast:
I also made classic Ranch spiced oyster crackers:
Everyone laughs when they see this stuff and remembers it from the 1980’s, but then they grab handfuls and scarf them down!
