Kitchen

[ECBG]

Half of DS's Christmas is when his mama cooks.

He's totally nuts over Kraft Marshmallow Fudge, homemade Mexican Wedding Cookies, (I could eat them all day as well..) and Nestle's 7 Layer cookies, another of my favs.

I may not do more "treat" cooking.

[Sooner]

None.  We do buy a fruitcake, Panettone, and cookies and mince pies from Fortnum Mason some years.  It's a once a year treat for January and February, with a box of Kirklands tin of cookies saved for late spring!  

I used to bake, my mom used to bake, but honestly like this better now rather than baking.  I retired.  Husband used to bake a lot, but we just don't have a lot of sweets now.  

[Zwervend]

Absolutely none! None of my family are big sweets/treats eaters, and I have no interest in baking. 

[Shihtzursqmom]

I make a cheesecake, peanut butter thumbprint cookies with a chocolate ganache in the center for my son , sugar cookies , Chocolate layer cake , I buy a coconut layer cake from a bakery ,and Edward’s Ga pecan pie

[candys mine]

@ECBG   I LOVE Mexican Wedding Cookies!  We can share the batch and not feel SO guilty!

I used to bake them, walnut shortbreads and ginger cookies.  I found out early on I had no talent for roll out cookies.  I went from fancy cutters to my biscuit cutter ( snowballs and ornaments)  to giving up completly and focusing on drop, hand shaped and log cookies. 

I sometimes make those easy peanutbutter cookies

Nowadays I don't bake much unless someone asks or the mood strikes.

[SloopJohnB]

Struffoli (Italian honey balls)

[KathyM23]

I am not a cook or baker.  I tried to bake a pie once.  It was a very odd looking pie as for some reason only had enough dough to cover half the pie and filling didnt go so good eiher.  Also baked a cake from a mix and tried to icing it.  The icing was full of cake crumbs and the cake full of gouges, it was laughable.  Ended my baking attempts.

My mom baked the most wonderful things.  Some of the things I remember from Christmas were Apricot or nuts rolled up in a tringle of dough of some kind,  milllion dollar fudge, cookies in tree and star shapes with icing, our favorite oatmeal/chocolate chip/banana cookies, chocolate balls rolled in coconut, whoppie pies.  She also made hard tack candy.

Mom also made fruit cake but none of us liked it

[Trinity11]

Absolutely none. Nobody in our family eats baked goods. My son is a health nut just like mama.🤣

[Yahooey]

my niece is hosting Christmas dinner and i may bring a meyer lemon tart

cookies - i make with the intent that many can enjoy

florentine

mexican wedding (seems to be a fav of mamy replying here)

italian bakery cookies w/raspberry jam

snickerdoodle

and trying fruitcake cookies after reading the fruitcake poll thread

i never had fruitcake but have always been intrigued

recipe is courtesy of @SouthernBee 

[ECBG]

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@KathyM23 wrote:

I am not a cook or baker.  I tried to bake a pie once.  It was a very odd looking pie as for some reason only had enough dough to cover half the pie and filling didnt go so good eiher.  Also baked a cake from a mix and tried to icing it.  The icing was full of cake crumbs and the cake full of gouges, it was laughable.  Ended my baking attempts.

My mom baked the most wonderful things.  Some of the things I remember from Christmas were Apricot or nuts rolled up in a tringle of dough of some kind,  milllion dollar fudge, cookies in tree and star shapes with icing, our favorite oatmeal/chocolate chip/banana cookies, chocolate balls rolled in coconut, whoppie pies.  She also made hard tack candy.

Mom also made fruit cake but none of us liked it

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@KathyM23 

Don't be sad over cake crumbs in icing.  Just put large droplets of icing on the top of the cake and connect!