Christmas Cookies!

Sister-oh-Sister,

We suck at blogging. I have baked so many things and I have failed to share them with you. I will start again! I will do better! Starting in no particular order, I want to show you the Christmas (and assorted other holidays - I am celebrating four - Christmas, Hanukkah, HumanLight, and the Solstice - this year, kind of) cookies I have made. I just packaged a bunch of them up for some coworkers, the mailman (apparently the BF chats with him regularly!) and our vet's office, since I have unfortunately been there multiple times a week lately. They're great, I just want a healthy cat. Either way, they really deserve cookies.

 Hello there, clearance Rite-Aid reindeer! Just hanging out for the photo shoot.

I picked up these boxes on sale at a craft store last year. They're Martha Stewart, so they're amazing, but I can't afford to pay full price. They come with the colored lid with the window, a bottom with scalloped edges, enough little square divider-boxes to put four in each box (they have scalloped edges too!) green paper to line the little boxes, and a green ribbon and label for each kit. I love them and love the level of obsessiveness that goes into them.

For the full roundup: so far this year I have made peanut butter blossoms, gingerbread, buckeyes, painted sugar cookies, Nutella fudge, matzoh crunch candy, Russian tea cakes, and lemon stars. I might still make lemon-rosemary shortbread (shaped like deer and moose!) for our Solstice party, but only if I'm in the mood. My kitchen table is covered in tins.

 

I'm not including recipes because there are a lot of cookies here, and I've already made the fudge, and the star recipe will eventually appear.  I get to see you soon and I am very happy!

Much love,

Amanda