Merry Sugar Rush!

Yesterday, my mother and I had a cookie baking day. Mom and I are pretty much on the same page when it comes to baked goods. Chocolate and chocolate. And chocolate.

We made the classic Wagon Wheels, which have been my favorite Christmas cookie since I was a kid.

Then I took some of the Wagon Wheel dough and mixed in a touch of peppermint extract and we rolled those in crushed peppermints. These were awesome. I say "were" because I think I ate them all already.

We also made toffee crisps (graham crackers, butter-brown sugar toffee mixture, chocolate, almonds).

And a new one for us, a recipe my Aunt Amanda brought when she came to visit last Christmas, the Cornflake Wreaths.

My dad made bread. That had nothing to do with it being Christmas or Baking Day. He just wanted to make bread.

We didn't do anything that required rolling out dough or using cookie cutters. Those are the cookies that we buy.

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Jane

in Foodporn on 12-16-07 at 12:36 Cherry Valley, IL

Milk and Cookies ('Til Santa's Gone) (Clint Black)
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Melanie

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12/16/2007 01:55PM

I think yesterday was the day for baking. I wish I believed in digital cameras, because the bounty we made yesterday was immense. I bet those chocolate peppermint ones were great.

Hey - while I was typing this, I got an email that you commented over on HMITH - jinx!

Jane

12/16/2007 01:58PM

I thought "Jinx" too! So we were like jinxing each other at the same time too! Jinx!

Wait. What? You don't believe in digital cameras?

Melanie

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12/16/2007 05:13PM

Well, that's what I say, anyway. It started back when digital photography was new and the pictures it resulted in weren't very good quality - like you could still see the pixels and stuff. I've held firm ever since, but my resistance is weakening.

I know the quality is much better now, but I love having actual photos, and I know if I went digital, I'd just use it to upload to the computer and never actually get any prints.

I have a kick-ass 35mm SLR camera that my parents gave me as a birthday gift a couple years ago. It's getting annoying, though, because it's so big and makes me look like a tourist no matter where I am. I'm also afraid that if I get a digital camera, my SLR will be totally neglected, because it would be wholly inefficient to take two of every photo.

But since I'm a blogger now, perhaps it's time to invest. My birthday's in February; maybe I'll buy myself one then.

Jane

12/16/2007 05:28PM

I've been digital-only for a very long time. I can honestly say that I've never, ever paid to develop a roll of film. The last time I had a film camera, I was in high school. As many photos as I take, I would go broke developing film. To get one good shot, I typically take 25 bad ones.

When I first got my digital, I worried about having prints too. I have a great printer. A couple of years ago (holy crap, just checked my math and it's more like 6 years ago), it was the bomb-diggity of photo printers. But I still never used it.

I've recently started ordering prints of my favorites from Shutterfly and the only reason I do that is to hang on the wall. I have an enormous shot I took of a Passion Flower hanging in our bathroom, and I have several dozen 8x10s just waiting to go up on the walls when I get other things in order first. I still don't print 4x6s. But in my mind, I have no need, because anyone that wants to look at them can see them here.

My mom had a kickass Minolta 35mm when I was a kid. I remember how heartbroken she was when it broke. It literally froze to death. She was taking an outdoor photo in North Dakota one winter when we went back for Christmas, and some tiny little weak part of the camera froze, and then snapped when she snapped the picture. She has a pretty kickass digital now.

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Marc

12/16/2007 05:17PM

I've seen those wreaths before!

It was the first and last time I ate a whole box of cornflakes in one sitting.

Jane

12/16/2007 05:30PM

My stomach hurt just reading that. But I can definitely see why. I use almond extract in mine - most recipes I found online use vanilla. What was your flavor?

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Marc

12/17/2007 12:30AM

Hahaha I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.

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Jane

12/17/2007 08:16AM

If you're doing something naughty to innocent little Christmas cookies I DON'T WANT TO KNOW.

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Soxy

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12/16/2007 07:18PM

Oh, no, more cookies! I have a freezer full of them, and I contemplated making spicy shortbread today before I realized I ran out of ginger. One would think that getting halfway through my second batch of Paula Deen's ginger cookies and havingt o toss the whole batch would have been enough to remind me, but no.

I ruined 3 batches of saltine toffee this year. It was not a happy cookie year in the Sox household.