Christmas Desserts 2023

Nothing changed this year– I still drove myself crazy with Christmas stuff.

I was contemplating baking less, but every time I named a cookie that I could leave out– either my husband or one of my kids said they love that cookie.

So I made 27 types of cookies/chocolates. 

How did I get so out of control??

This year, I made Lemon Slice Cookies:

I also made some sugar cookie trees with drizzled glaze, to make it a little easier to decorate some of them.

The rest had glaze all over:

I didn’t have time for anything else new, because I had so many of the usuals to make.

But I did make cute stickers to label the cookies I was able to mail.

I love them!

I also made cute gift tags for my chocolate boxes:

I made many platters for friends and family, hot cocoa boxes for teachers (not pictured), over 100 chocolate covered Oreos, and little cookie plates for my kids’ teachers from previous years.

And of course my kids ate some, too.

Although they always wish they could have more. :)

And now I’m wiped out, but happy that everyone enjoyed all the cookies.

Hope you had a great holiday season!

Christmas Desserts 2021

I love to spread Christmas Cheer in the form of cookies, chocolates– and lately, also hot cocoa.

I make a few different types of cookies each time, to add to some of my usual stuff. This year, I added these:

Chocolate Covered Oreos

Mini Elf Bites (Shortbread with sprinkles)

White Chocolate Peppermint Snowflakes

Mixed Berry Thumbprint Cookies

Chocolate Almond Biscotti

And just like every other year, I ended up exhausted. And happy.

But this year, for the first time in many, many years– I realized I’m doing too much. I end up with no time to do more fun stuff with my kids– like watching Christmas movies, going to see Christmas lights, etc.

I made 46 hot cocoa boxes (these included 21 total teachers and bus drivers):

Ten chocolate boxes:

Ten sugar cookie boxes:

And about 35 plates of 15 types of cookies (including those above):

Don’t get me wrong– I love to do this. But I need to scale down a little to enjoy more of the Christmas season with my family.

Believe it or not, it was the hot cocoa boxes that took me the most time. I made all the little designs with my Silhouette, and it took forever (since I’m new to all that). Plus, I made stickers and designed the Christmas tree tag myself.

So, no hot cocoa boxes next time.

What else should I cut down on?

I’m not sure, because I’m already dreaming up more types of cookies!

Lol, we’ll see what happens when next November comes around.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, and Happy 2022!

My Christmas Desserts

I haven’t even started wrapping presents.  And I still have a couple of desserts to make.

So there’s no time to write you a story!

Therefore, you’ll just have to look at pictures.

Here are my Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies:

I figured it wouldn’t be fun to show my Christmas desserts AFTER Christmas, so I’m just throwing the pictures up here.

Here are big (and I mean big– almost the size of my hand) Snowflake Sugar Cookies. 

This was the second time I’ve ever piped icing on cookies. Hard work!!

And medium snowflakes:

And little snowflakes:

OK, no more snowflakes.

I also made little brownie reindeer:

M&M and Oreo Bark:

White chocolate fudge (I made it a few minutes ago, so this is the only picture I have):

And Chocolate Spritz Cookies with chocolate glaze:

Gingerbread men (sorry for the bad picture, but I’m running around like crazy)!

And finally, the Holiday Party Mix I made for all the teachers.  All 15 of them!

I have a few more, but I didn’t get to take pictures yet– so I’ll post them some other time.

Time to run…  HAPPY HOLIDAYS!