every holiday season i can count on a few things.
my tree going up (eventually),
some late night Christmas shopping,
yummy scented candles burning,
lots of Christmas music
and baking day!
this is a day that we
(the sisters, mom, grandma, aunt, cousin and kidlets)
all get together to bake up our favorite holiday treats.
one day + one mess + lots of yummies = delightful
(marshmallow snowmen instructions can be found here at the speckled egg.)
ingredients for a successful baking day:
– invite the people you love
– recipes
– all the ingredients for your recipes
– something salty to eat while you’re baking
(cheese ball + crackers, chicken salad croissants are a few favorites)
– something to take your goodies home in
do you have a baking day?
Jodie
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I don't, but what a great day!
i LOVE those snowmen and am thinking it is the perfect treat for my son's preschool class – they look slightly melted…did you heat them up a bit before placing on the skewers?? SUPER CUTE!
We don't have a baking day. We bake here and there throughout December. I love that you get together with your family to do this – what a blessing! It inspires me to want to do the same.
It looks like so much fun – and Holy Cow you guys really make alot of yummy looking stuff!
I am 30 and my brother is 27 and by gosh…as long as my mother is alive we will bake + decorate Christmas cookies (and Easter Eggs. Can't forget the Easter Eggs). It's a staple in the holiday celebration prep and has become something we look forward to. No matter our ages.
My mom also takes a day to bake for others, which I have now adopted. Breads and cookies…loaves and pans of them to be wrapped up all adorable-like and used as hostess gifts and random holiday cheer.
Love your spread-o-bakers and goodies!
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Yep and we call it Cookie Day. Read about last year's here: http://tracykuethe.blogspot.com/2009/12/cookie-day.html and 2008 here: http://tracykuethe.blogspot.com/2008/12/cookie-day.html. Dec 18 is on the calendar for 2010! Thanks for sharing, I love your blog.
We bake non-stop one weekend this month, then take the goodies to neighbors, friends, and the fire station. 🙂
Love your tips and suggestions!
Oh…..look at baking day! LOVE! I usually don't bake until the week of Christmas. I should move it up, but apparently my sugar cookies have become "Santa's" cookies at a bunch of my neighbor's houses….and they've threatened if I get it together earlier. And hey, I don't have that many friends…I'd hate to forefit them to a sugar cookie debacle!
What ever day it is….Christmas Traditions make me HAPPY!
ooh! I just love those snowmen!
We don't have an actual DAY set aside. We do it over the course of the month for our Advent Activities. Today we made HAYSTACKS (no bake "cookies" or "candies" using low mein noodles, butterscotch chips, PB & marshmellows) to go with our NATIVITY day (read the birth of Jesus & watch THE NATIVITY). Then next week we make another snack or meal and then the next week we make goodies for friends & then cookies for Santa on Christmas eve.
I just love this time of the year! It really is "the most wonderful time of the year!"
What fun!!!!
My sister and I bake cookies with our kids on the first day of school break. This year I'm actually going to bake and make gifts to give out though, so there will be a lot of baking, mixing, taste testing around our house for the first time ever. I love how you all get together and do this and your menu sounds yummy. We always get pizza because we are tired and the kitchen needs cleaned up.
Do you have a special receipe for the chicken salad croissants, I love them when we eat out.
Love it! We usually have a baking night right before Christmas and even the hubby gets involved! It's such a fun tradition!
Oh wow, how wonderful & great idea to have some asvory snack for tasting.
What a beautiful tradition!
SO fun! My girls and I were just talking about our Christmas baking ~ we usually do 6-8 different types of goodies. I suggested that we skip the snowmen this year and try something new. You should have seen the looks on their faces!?!?
I feel happy from reading your post and looking at all of your photos. I've always done all of the baking myself. My sons are young adults now and have lovely girlfriends. Thank you for a great idea and the inspiration to start a new tradition!
We have a gingerbread man cookie decorating day. All the cousins get together and decorate cookies, it is so fun to just focus on spending time together instead of the hustle and stress of the holiday season.
You have some of the CUTEST ideas! Those are some charming photos of the family 🙂
just found your blog and am in love. I'm doing about 12 of your ideas for people I love this Christmas. Thank you for sharing & for being organized enough to be able to do this! I love love love this blog & will refer people here often!
Wow this looks like crazy fun! I wonder who would be (in)sane enough to do it with me!
Love it!
I don't have a baking day now. But, when my children were still home, we always spent a day making Candy Cane Cookies and Sugar Cookies. Lots of good memories!!
Being an only child, this makes me wish i had a sister:(
I just love seeing all of these generations together! Blessings to all of you!
We always have one cookie party where my two sisters, three sisters-in-law and mom get together and bake my Great-grandmother's swedish shortbread cookie recipe- it's not that hard, but involves hard boiled egg yolks and lots of time. It was at one such party 9 years ago my sister got me laughing so hard my water broke and sent me into labor with my first baby! It's a tradition I hope we keep for a long time.
I don't have a specific baking day since i don't have any kids yet, but I sure bake alot of (cup)cakes through december for every friend we visit or dinner we attend!
Super cute snowmen!!! I love them.