Holiday baking time! (Find Holiday baking from 2007 here, 2009 is here, 2010 baking here and here. Not sure why there’s no baking for 2008!)
Yummy Peppermint Chocolate bars, from a recipe printed in the Toronto Star years ago, plus Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies (find the recipe here):
Had to run out to Yonge Street to do an errand, captured some holiday lights/decorations:
Kris Kringle cookies and Easy S’mores Fudge (find the recipe here):
One more shot of the gift bags:
A few images from the last two weeks.
Adorable dog in my local park:
Trip downtown to the Eaton Centre and back:
Alice has a new cat toy:
This past Sunday was cool and wet, perfect day for baking. These Molasses Cookies were delicious:
Whoa nelly! These cookies are super sweet and rich! I couldn’t even finish mine, but Noah was happy to finish mine up. My daughter, and a friend, grabbed a couple on the way out the door, will have to hear her consensus before I decide whether we’ll bake them again (I know it’s a thumbs up from my son, he wanted to eat another one!). (Recipe posted after the photos.)
(All of the following were shot with the Canon 1DMkIV and the lensbaby composer lens.)
Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
Place one scoop of dough on the top of an Oreo and once scoop underneath it. Use your (clean) hands to mold the dough around the Oreo so that there are no holes. Place on cookie sheet and repeat until you have used up all the cookie dough. (We found the dough too soft and sticky to use right after mixing, so refrigerated it for a while before making the first batch.)
Bake for 9 to 13 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
BTW, the images do not show how LARGE these cookies are. They really are three cookies in one, two chocolate chip cookies + the Oreo cookie. Enjoy!
Here’s the last of the holiday baking for this year! Noah helped me decorate, and Alice kept watch, then we packaged them up for delivery:
Later I discovered Alice in one of her new favourite snoozing spots, tucked in among napkins and plates in the sideboard in the kitchen! (Thankgoodness she is toilet trained, so I don’t need to worry about dirty paws from a litter box!) Snoozing cats are so adorable, aren’t they?
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