Today Darren took Caleb and Grant to the farm to visit his parents and I stayed home to be available to the kids who go to school and to paint the shared boys room. I’ll be posting all about their room transformation in March. If you don’t want to wait that long to get updates, I’m posting about it in real time on instagram #sharedboysroom
But for now, I want to give you my favorite Christmas cookie recipes. The easy, last minute kind. I’m going to link up to the original sources, so you can open the same page I do when it’s time to cook :).
This is a more chewable version of a Heath bar. I can’t. stop. eating. this. So I only make it when I have somewhere to share it.
For a delicious twist, Diane made hers with pretzels!
2. Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Ritz
My family has been sharing this one Christmas Eve for as far back as I can remember. It’s easy to festive up with some Christmas candy sprinkles.
3. Melt in Your Mouth Eggnog Cookies
We’ve already made 3 batches of these. They aren’t as easy as dipping a ritz in chocolate, but there’s no dough chilling or rolling out involved. And the frosting just spreads on with a knife. Sooooo yummy.
4. Chocolate Dipped Pretzel Rods
Kids cannot mess this up. They might mess up your kitchen….but the pretzels will be delicious.
via The Baker Chic
5. Fattigmann Bakkles (Poor Man’s Cookie.)
My mother’s grandmother was from Norway. When she got really excited, she could only speak in Norwegian. Sometimes she would call my mother and speak hurredly in Norwegian and then hang up abruptly. Then she would call back and scream and hang up again. My mother knew that usually meant she had lost her purse….and then found it. She adored bananas and would stop at the store and buy a bunch as she walked home from her job cleaning houses. Sometimes she would mindlessly eat the entire bunch before getting home. She brought this recipe with her from Norway and we make it every Christmas to remember our heritage.
Sometimes I sub eggnog for the heavy cream in this recipe—delicious.
via Debesys