Christmas baking
@1creekgirl (44560)
United States
December 6, 2021 1:33pm CST
If you celebrate Christmas, do you do a lot of baking during the holiday?
Some years I do more than other years. Right now I have some sausage cheese balls ready to go in the freezer to cook for our Christmas breakfast at church next Sunday. After the meal, the teens and kids are presenting their Christmas play. That will be fun.
I'll also take something sweet, maybe sugared peanuts.
I always put two or three batches of chocolate mint squares in the freezer. Those are the goodies I mailed to our granddaughter for her birthday on Dec 23 last year, two day priority mail and they arrived eleven days later. Thankfully, they weren't spoiled, just a little stale, lol. I won't be doing that again!
I love cooking things that can be frozen. Sure saves a lot of work during Christmas.
I plan to freeze sugared peanuts, chocolate mint squares, sausage cheese balls, maybe fudge, snowball cookies, and toffee chocolate nut squares, although I'm not sure if they freeze okay or not. I'll probably make them just before the kids come home for Christmas.
Anything you like to fix ahead of time?
Merry Christmas!
I got that little peanut ornament many years ago and my grandma always called him Jimmy Carter!
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
7 Dec 21
I love that ornament and the story with it.
Sasuage cheese balls sound lovely! I don't bake much (I think that frozen cookie dough is GREAT) but there is a shortbread cookie that is just marvelous
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
9 Dec 21
@FayeHazel Lots of butter makes most everything better!
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
9 Dec 21
@1creekgirl They're lovely, only 5 ingredients (including a pound of butter which is probably why they're tasty)
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
6 Dec 21
I forgot about divinity, I love it! But I've never been good at making it. What kind of fudge did your mom make?
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
6 Dec 21
@1creekgirl She made chocolate and peanut butter fudge.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
6 Dec 21
Your house sounds like Mrs Clause's kitchen Vicki!!
No not this year..no baking for me.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
7 Dec 21
Do you and your son have any special traditions for the holiday?
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
6 Dec 21
I think those might be the same as what I call snowballs. It's flour, butter, vanilla, and crushed nuts. Is that how you make yours?
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@NJChicaa (127172)
• United States
6 Dec 21
@1creekgirl yes and rolled in powdered sugar
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
7 Dec 21
That's good you can bake some things.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
8 Dec 21
@Ronrybs I adore fresh home made bread. My husband can't eat wheat, so no baking it for me.
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@Ronrybs (21492)
• London, England
8 Dec 21
@1creekgirl I usually make bread, but have been buying it from the bakers on the High St
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
7 Dec 21
I would love to be baking up a storm in the kitchen; but I can no longer do the walking and standing.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
7 Dec 21
I know, life has a lot of changes, doesn't it?
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
8 Dec 21
@LindaOHio I know. Life brings changes we really didn't want.
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
8 Dec 21
@1creekgirl Yes, I always dreamed of spending my retirement getting all the sleep that I wanted (I'm up all night every night) and being able to cook and bake all day for my hubby. Sigh.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
7 Dec 21
I always thought that was funny when my grandmother named it that!
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@snowy22315 (209121)
• United States
6 Dec 21
Not sure what the Christmas menu will be yet. I saw an interesting lasagna recipe that might be a possibilty,
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
7 Dec 21
That would be yummy. My crowd wants the same thing every year. We've had it going on 45 years now.
@kaylachan (84848)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Dec 21
My husband and I aren't really huge on the whole visiting family for the holidays things. I kind of had a falling out with mine, after the passing of my parents, and he was never really close to his.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
7 Dec 21
I can understand. Years ago my mother, sister, brother and their families came for Christmas dinner. But now we just have our kids and grandkids.
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
8 Dec 21
I think me and Jack will make snickerdoodles this weekend, his mom will be in Chicago so we will have some together time
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
8 Dec 21
That will bless you both being together.
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@LadyDuck (502729)
• Italy
7 Dec 21
@1creekgirl They are similar in the sense that it's also filled egg pasta, the shape and the filling differ.
Those are the tortellini I made a couple of years ago.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
7 Dec 21
@LadyDuck Goodness, that was a lot of work! What's in the filling?
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
7 Dec 21
I freeze everything I possibly can before Christmas.
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@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
7 Dec 21
That's a cute ornament!
Only thing we ever fixed ahead of time was my moms pies the day before. But then we don't do anything big or make a big meal
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
7 Dec 21
I would be completely worn out if I didn't prepare some things ahead of time.
@Dena91 (17038)
• United States
7 Dec 21
Mike's mom still makes candies, peanut butter cups, coconut balls and peanut butter fudge. She also makes kolaches, danish pastries and nut rolls. I don't make much of anything for us unless we are wanting something. We're not bug sweet eaters.
All your goodies sound good. 
