Cookies done!

[mrissa]

The fudge topping on the meringues is cooling, and I am done with Christmas baking! I may make caramels yet, but I very well may not. Or I may make them during Christmas, after our return from Michigan, instead of in preparation for Christmas. The world is full of caramel-related possibilities. But the point is, as regards Christmas baking and candy-making, I am done done done. YAY!

I have now discarded four library books half-read this week. That's a lot of times to say, "Yarg, I can't take this any more!" in one week. I'm on the last of my library books for this year, and it looks to be moderately competent, thankfully. So that's something, at least.

Onwards! To the short stories and the wrapped packages and the trips downtown! And the excessive use of exclamation marks!

Comments

[selkie-b.livejournal.com]

Rosettes for me this afternoon :) Then the cookies are done! jenett was here making chapati with me a bit ago, and those came out very well- to be served with Indian pickles and chutney. Tomorrow it's poori and papad for the same, and gulab jamin... I have an English husband who used to live downstairs from an Indian family so he misses these things.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We haven't done rosettes in ages, but if you look closely at what I'm holding in my icon....

[misery-masque.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, caramel !

[aszanoni.livejournal.com]

-wishing I lived next door to house of M'ris!-

Very keen on exclamation points myself.

Yay for doneness of cookies, candy and all their relatives. Mmmm. Fudge. Meringues. Caramel. Happy thoughts of sugary goodness...

-hugs-

- Chica

[everyonesakitty.livejournal.com]

*drools* Sounds so yummy!

And I got your card! Sooo beautiful! Thanks!

[one-undone.livejournal.com]

There is such a thing as being "done" with holiday baking?

::boggleboggle::

Doesn't this imply that there is a set amount of holiday baking and an orderly procession one must undertake and all of that sort of thing?

I don't think I can function that way. I generally just buy baking ingredients in rough approximations of what I think will be enough for creating "something" and they clog up the pantry until I finally get so annoyed with not being able to find anything that I bake out of self defense. Or it will feel like a cookie day, and I will hunt down specific recipes for the type of cookies that whisper to me to make them that day, and my poor husband will see the determined glint in my eye and hear my mutterings and cursing, and he will resignedly put on his jacket and hat and walk to the door, then turn and call out to me, "so what are we out of? I'll be right back." And he will go, no matter what the weather, no matter what the hour, and buy the missing ingredient for me, because he knows it's easier to short-circuit my frenzy that way. And also because he loves chocolate, and I make many chocolate things, so there's usually a payoff for him, and he gets to be the hero.

I guess whatever system works. :P

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, you've jumped to a bit of a conclusion here: no, it doesn't imply a set amount of holiday baking or an orderly procession.

What it does imply is this: there are a few things that I absolutely must make for Christmas. Come hell or high water, these things will be made by noon on December 24. They are pistachio fudge meringues and pepparkakor. In addition, Mike gets his ribbon fudge (two layers: chocolate and peanut butter) and matastas gets his rum balls. Everything else I can make on the "what do I feel like today? cookies? what kind?" theory, including sending markgritter to the store. But the two kinds of cookies that are What I Make must be made by 12/24. After they're made, I am done. Even if I make three more kinds of cookie that year. They're bonus cookies, because I am done.

This year I made a lot of "bonus cookies" first, before I got to the pistachio fudge meringues. (I did make the pepparkakor early, though.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, and apple bread with hazelnuts. That's important Christmas baking, too.

My mom has "required cookies" and "bonus cookies" as well. Unfortunately for her, several of her "bonus cookies" went over so well that the family started demanding them as required!