All of the goodies are baked, packaged and mailed.....Hooray!! What was leftover....we are eating!
I made four kinds of fudge, chocolate, chocolate pecan toffee, peanut butter and butterscotch. The cookies were chocolate crinkles and peppermint meltaways. I have one more batch of cookies to make and those are the gingersnaps......hopefully I will get those done this evening.
The plate that I won a few weeks back from Adventure Girl's contest is filled with peanut butter fudge. The plate is so cute and it will be filled with goodies for days to come. There is story about the peanut butter fudge and I will share it.....The year I was born, my mom had to have surgery when I was 6 months old, which fell around Christmas time. Mom was not able to do any baking, etc..that year, so my dad found this peanut butter fudge recipe in the newspaper and he made it. And it turned out really well......and someone has been making it every year since than. I have been making this fudge for many years now and mailing it to my siblings and family members. My Dad didn't know it then.......but he started a tradition 39 years ago that carries on today.Have a wonderful Christmas Eve day.....we are expecting a storm later today. So maybe, just maybe we will have a white Christmas.
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OMW! I teared up reading about your sweet papa starting that tradition! Precious!
All those cookies look yummers. I wish I could reach thru the screen and eat a chocolate crinkle!
Opps! Merry Christmas!
Wouldn't you know it..the neighbor just brought chocolate peanut butter balls by for us....and YES, they are good!
My Papa always made biscotti. Just can't seem to want to make it this year...naybe after New Year's.
Your cookies look yummy (it's not possible to gain weight just by looking, is it?)
Have you and yours a very MErry Christmas and a safe and healthy New Year!
(If I can make a quilt, ANYBODY can ,ake a quilt, believe me! It works best when made with love, so mine don't turn out half bad! I read yesterday on a quilter's blog..this is what she wrote on her quilt (and she is a GOOD quilter):"guaranteed to fall apart after much wear..and that's okay".
I'm gonna stitch that on my next quilt!
Enjoy the holidays!!!
Oh my gosh!!! That stuff looks amazing!!!
I did change the name of the blog, I didn't think it would make it so hard to find me...glad you did! I've been bored some so I figured I'd update and change things a little.
Have a great Holiday! Thanks so much for the Christmas card, I'm sad to say I've been slow in getting mine out this year, oh well, there's always next year.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Nice to get to 'know' you too!
Blessings & Good Cheer
Gorgeous Goodies and sweet story too. Den's Mom always made peanut butter fudge.
Merry Christmas to all.
Oh, that is so cool that your dad started a holiday baking tradition! And, what a lucky family you have to receive these wonderful treats from you each year at Christmastime! Enjoy those leftovers!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Mmmm! Your table looks so festive. I'm now really grateful that I got all my baking done last week, as I wasn't even able to make our family's special Holiday Overnight French Toast this year. I was stuck upstairs in bed on Christmas Eve instead...and in the ER most of Christmas. Not fun at all.....
Oh! But I did make a large plate of chocolate crinkles, too. They are my favorite cookie besides Peanut Butter Blossoms.
I loved reading about your family fudge story. Beautiful family traditions :)
Happy Holidays!
~Lisa
New Mexico
Those goodies look fantastic. Wish you were here baking for me;)
I love the tradition of the peanut butter fudge. Sweet of your dad to do that.
Look at all those goodies! But right now? If I never see another cookie or candy for 6 months, I'll be just fine! :)
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