Sugar Buzz

Jen has always done a load of baking at Christmas.  Me not so much. But I remember enjoying making Spritz cookies as a kid with my mother but that was the extent of it.  Cooking before I turned 33 did not interest me; it was solely dependent on the pay off.

Yesterday and the Friday before I spent with Jen at her house building batch after batch of cookies.

I’d discovered neon food coloring a few years back and opted for lime green Spritz Chrisms Trees.   (Very tie-dye fitting I thought)

Then moving away from simple vanilla I switched over to lemon for the hot pink Spritz Poinsettias.  Very cool. Emma got creative giving them blackberry and strawberry preserve centers.

4 batches of chocolate and peanut butter combinations of chip cookies.  Jen got on the bus for Snickerdoodles and Rosetta fritters.  

Our Guest Cook, our friend, Anita, wanted chose  cookies that called for Crazines, but being that we only had fresh frozen cranberries, they spent 3 days prior in the dehydrator.  They came out crumbly.   So frozen ones went into the cookies  and Emma crushed the crumbly ones into cranberry powder that we added with sugar to roll the Snickerdoodles in and dust the Rosetta fritters with.  Awesome.

We fit Gingersnaps in there somewhere!

Jen brewed up a pot of raspberry tea adding a tea ball of the dried cranberries. An exquisite contrast to all of our taste testing! 

It is Sunday now and I am cookied out. 

Oh, I need to mention we wore Santa (Jen) and Elf (me) hats in our sugar buzz haze!! HO HO HO

~ Cheryl

P.S. Jen’s oven runs hot, so we need to back off to 25 degrees……….someone! Help me remember this for next time!