Making a list and checking it twice isn’t just for St. Nick anymore. I plotted out what goodies I will be making for my near and dear and the far and dear as well. I have a month and a half of baking ahead. Here’s the list. I’ll be happy to pass along recipe or sources if anyone is interested. You can email at victoria at foodieporn dot com.
Baking and Confectionary:
Trinidad black cake
The amazing triple chocolate brownies (my siblings get these every year and are addicted)
Pecan sandies with cooked sugar icing (my oldest brother’s wife’s faves)
Stollen
Glazed chestnuts
Pannetone
Lebkuchen with almond flour
Rum balls
Chocolate bourbon balls
Gingerbread men
Decorated sugar cookies (mostly snowflakes this year, I think. I bought one of those cutter sets with little tiny cutters)
Speculaas windmills (if I get around to actually ordering the mold)
Pfeffernusse
Spritz cookies
Pepperkakor (Swedish gingerbread, if I get the pig cookie cutter in time)
White chocolate Mexican wedding cookies
Almond mice
Angel food candy
Peanut butter chocolate kiss cookies
Panforte
Zimsterne
Chocolate truffles, various flavors
Basler Leckerli (another type of gingerbread… do you see a theme here?)
Mincemeat pies with Irish whiskey
Checkerboard cookies
Crackle cookies
In addition to all of that, I have stuff to make for this weekend for the turkey feasts we are attending (2) and we are having people to our house Thanksgiving morning for crepes and the Macy’s parade. Joie de Vivre also has a catering gig on December 2nd for 45 people for tapas. And we are having the Boxing Day party as an evening open house since Christmas falls on a weekday this year and everyone has to go back to the grind on Tuesday.
I was joking with Julian last night and he asked if he was the only one who enjoyed all the baking and I honestly told him no, I enjoy it, too, or I wouldn’t set myself such a list. Today is the day for making things that need to age: rum balls, bourbon balls, gingerbreads. But first there is work, then the gym and Power Point homework.
I will try to remember to take pictures and post as much of the chaos as I can. Let the holidays begin (but dammit don’t start playing “Rudolph” and “White Christmas” until after Thanksgiving. I like my holidays one at a time, thankyouverymuch.
I would love your recipe for gingerbread men and perhaps the triple chocolate brownies….yahoo! Thanks.
Kathy, I will email those to the address you provided in the comment. Let me know how everything turns out. –Victoria