For many, the holiday season means hours spent shopping and mountains of gifts to be purchased, wrapped and hidden and hopefully a few wonderful things to open themselves. For me, I do some shopping and wrapping, albeit on a fairly small scale. But mostly what I do is bake. Each year I bake dozens of small cakes and cookies to pile into baskets for my husband’s best customers and then I bake more cakes to cookies to give to friends and family. I even used to bake for my kids’ teachers but they are now in high school and that would definately not be cool. This past weekend was my big baking bonanza and my kitchen is still coated in a fine dusting of sugar and flour.

Work in progress

Almost finished!

Now that everything in this first round is neatly packaged and off for delivery, all that is left to do is clean my kitchen. And just a little more baking, cookie swap this week! One thing I appreciate about making all these cakes and cookies is that I seem to have lost interest in eating them. Maybe if someone else makes a tart little lemon square it will taste delicious but for now, bring on the pretzels and salt!

Here’s to a sweet holiday season, Joy

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