After the success of last years baking day, Amey and I were really looking to up our game this year. We knew that we wanted to make more of the recipes we loved, and find new recipes to add to it. We started buying stuff early and pinning recipes. So when the big day came we had lots of stuff to start out with.
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| Amey's bar and dining room table is packed full of supplies. |
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| We went shopping seperately and together and even had to get a little more on baking day itself. |
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| We had help this year with the addition of LIzzy! We are so glad to add her to our team of bakers. |
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| One of the biggest changes we made this year was the way we dipped our chocolates. We learned that if we used the wax it made prettier chocolates and the chocolate was much easier to dip. |
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| Lizzy was the master of the mixer. |
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| That is why she was covered in flour most of the day. |
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| Amey was the go between. Stirring this and grabbing that. Poor girl worked her tail off that day. |
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| While I spent most of the day in front of the stove making fudge and the candied things. |
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| Although tedious and tiring, we had lots of fun. |
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| Maybe too much fun. |
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| Even Joslyn had fun playing with the animals and toys. |
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| We decided that dipping the chocolate was the most tedious. |
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| WE dipped and dipped and dipped |
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| And stirred and stirred and stirred |
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| But the rewards were great. Homemade almond joys. |
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| our newest recipe was homemade butterfingers, which required us to melt candy corn. |
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| Nope its not chex mix |
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| It's christmas crack! |
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| We had marshmallows coming out of our ears. |
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| And enough cookies to feed the white house staff. |
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| These are my favorite butterscotch haystacks |
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| Homemade marshmallows are sticky. |
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| smores truffles are gooey and melty. |
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At the end of the day we felt like this!
SO it was lots of fun and if I wasn't so busy eating the Christmas |
goodies I would have gotten smart and posted pics of the end result. But I didn't. So here are the recipes or links to what we made. Happy New Year!
peanut butter balls the recipe worked but we had to do a lot of converting because it was from the UK
cinnamon almonds this recipe does not work with crock pot bags, dont use one if making
we also made pudding cookies and oatmeal cinnamon toffee cookies which I don't have recipes for.
Wow, that's a heck of a lot of baking! Well done!
ReplyDeletewe didn't do our usual amount this year--maybe next year God willing--happy new year brownie :)
ReplyDeleteThat looks like lots of fun...and yummy! Cool tradition :)
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