Our Christmas Cookies Exchange!!

For December, we met early in the month to exchange recipes and cookies for the upcoming Christmas baking. Heather was a wonderful hostess, providing several really yummy dishes to snack on while exchanging cookies. Check out these adorable penguins she made from olives, carrots, and an herbed sour cream dip.

We also talked a little about making candies, how to test the candy stage using a small cup of cold (or even iced) water. Here's a picture of the 4 candy stages (soft ball, hard ball, soft crack, and hard crack.)
Just a tip, to avoid having your candies turn to sugar, do not scrape the sides of your pan as you're nearing the end of cooking it.

As you will see below we still have a LOT of ladies that have not submitted their recipe yet. PLEASE, ladies; email me your recipes ASAP so I can get them posted: jodee.leahy@sherwoodfamily.net

Also, with the sheer number of dishes this month, I'm sure I've messed up who brought what. Please let me know of any corrections I need to make, and I'll get it fixed ASAP.