Manage Christmas Stress Did you get your house decorated for Christmas right after Thanksgiving? Not me. I like to take things slowly. I think I was born slow! It gives me joy to do it a little bit at a time. I get out our yuletide decor a few things each day, starting on December first. I keep adding to it as the month goes on and I like … [Read more...]
Black Cat Cookies and Pumpkin Pie Dip
I love the way these black cats look! They are made of pie crust, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. True, they are easy to cut out from refrigerated pie pastry, but pastry is easily broken after baking, especially while trying to frost these "cookies." It's just as easy to use refrigerated prepared cookie dough that won't break so … [Read more...]
Getting That Perfect Frosting Color, Easter Egg Color, or Cake Color
Bakeries know how to get just the right colors for all their masterpieces. Now you can too with this cool color wheel from McCormick, the maker of food colorings and colored sugars. All you do is move the indicator to the color you want & they will show you the recipe for getting that particular color. They'll tell you how many drops of each … [Read more...]
Bake a Spring Cookie Bouquet
What a great way to bring some Spring to your table! You can make any sugar cookie into a cookie pop if you make them thick enough to hold the stick. I love the way these flower cookies look, but Easter egg cookie pops would be even easier to make. Lots of color & lots of fun for not much effort and not much money. These would make great gifts … [Read more...]
Woman Bakes iPhone Cookies, Sells Them for $33 Each
Like to bake? You might like to try making these cookies that look something like iPhones. I don't know if you can get as much as this Japanese woman gets for them--$33 each. But you could make something like them & change what people will pay. Click title for link at IntoMobile to see the cookies and the article. … [Read more...]
An Easy Cinnamon Roll Christmas Tree and Frugal Christmas Baking Tips
The link has several tips to save on Christmas baking. One person says she adds a teaspoon of real vanilla to cake mix batter to give it a more homemade flavor. Another person says she uses real butter to grease pans for baking to give extra flavor. You can use the paper that butter quarters are wrapped in to grease them with.Another person … [Read more...]
Our New Family Tradition
My grandson, 5, showed me his booklet he made at school the other day. They were supposed to draw & write about their family traditions for the holidays. His first page was a Christmas tree & he wrote "We put up a tree." The second page was just some circles. I asked him about it & he said it was our family tradition of Grandma making cookies with … [Read more...]