Christmas Baking

The Christmas baking has begun! We've made various cookies, fudge, and peppermint bark to give to friends. The kids have enjoyed planning what to make and eating anything that looks even slightly damaged to them. :)

Thank you Dayspring fellowship church as well as Amanda, Aimee, Danalyza, and the Domer family for sending all the baking supplies and presents! We made the gingerbread cookies below with the little mini M&M's you sent. 

We brought in some amazing bowls from Cash & Carry. They get used daily for all kinds of baking needs. 

David figured out how to make peppermint bark. It's interesting because we looked up various recipes on the internet and it showed white chocolate chips, chocolate chips, candy canes, and various other items that we did not have.  

                                                  

                 

We would then google how to make those various items from scratch. David has found out that making peppermint candy is really easy with mostly just sugar, water, peppermint, and red food coloring. 

The kids also put together a gingerbread train that was sent to us. It was a little smashed up in the luggage, but we were able to piece it back together. We then gave it to LiAnn for her kids. She says the kids really loved it! 

Naomi is always wanting to help in the kitchen. She was trying to help David make the cinnamon rolls, but mostly she just wanted to taste the icing. 

We've begun baking pies as well. We'll make a couple more tomorrow as well. Everyone is very excited for the turkey and ham that we brought in from the states. Always funny to watch the airport security inspect a frozen turkey as we carry it on the plane!

Snicker doodles are also a big hit. We've been playing around with baking with lard and how to adapt recipes. Seems not many people use lard anymore. When we lived on the mini farm in Cherry Grove years ago, we would render our own fat and use lard all the time for baking and soap making. It's been fun to revive those skills.