It’s the
time of the year when you can make and eat cookies, drink mulled wine and watch
soppy Christmas films all you want.
I love this time of year and all the
preparations. Not to say that I am keeping on top of things, but every year the
planning, the illusion of the home-made presents makes me tingle with
joy. This year is not any different,
but with two small girls I should lower my expectations.
On Friday
we made Ginger bread cookies together with the “Skinheads”, who are not so hairless anymore.
I guess I should go back to calling them Hanna’s post-natal group.
This was the
start of a weekend of gingerbread cookies. We baked and tasted on Friday, we
ate at least a kilo of cookies on Saturday and then we made some more on Sunday.
Christmas is all about traditions and we have now
managed to make a tradition of baking gingerbread cookies together with Sergio’s Senoritas (Ashley, Audrey and Adriana). We operate by the rule of when something
is done three years in a row, becomes a tradition. So now it is.
Little H is
not the most patient of girls, and she got really disappointed when we were not
going to bake something she could roll into small or large buns. She was however
good at handling the rolling pin, and extremely good at eating the Smarties and
the other sweeties we had to decorate the cookies with.
So now our
cake-jars are filled with hearts, stars, reindeer and small gnomes, all with a more than healthy tan and dressed in icing, sprinkles and Smarties (most of them pink).
So what to bake next?
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| Rather tanned, but I love the colour scheme |
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| Pappa Kas, Ashley and Little H in full concentration |
Så fine de var da :) Her har vi bakt jule/kakemenn og kanelsnurrer i dag ;)
ReplyDeleteKanelsnurrer. Det må jeg få laget ila uken, sammen med Biscotti og kokosmakroner og kanskje noe konfekt?
DeleteÅ, så koselig! Mannen min og jeg pleier faktisk å bake pepperkaker til jul selv om vi aldri får spist dem opp:) Men det er noe med kosen, lukten av kakene som stekes mens vi spiller julemusikk og drikker vin:) Ellers blir det lite kakebaking, men jeg baker faktisk krinalefse (nordnorsk spesialitet) og krumkaker som hele familien til mannen min er gale etter!
ReplyDeleteVin til pepperkaker? den var ny ;-). Vel, dersom en ikke er fan av gløgg med vin så ser jeg den. Krinalelefse har jeg aldri smakt eller hørt om dessverre.
DeleteMen krumkaker har sterke tradisjoner i vår familie. Det var min morfars spesialitet, men nå har mamma overtatt. Krumkake med multekrem- åhhh