Holiday Treats

Well, I've started my list of holiday treats that I am going to be making this season. It's getting pretty long. It doesn't help that I'm taking requests from the kids. My husband is easy, he'll eat anything I make and take anything I offer to work to share. And then, to make matters worse, my eldest decided to take some recipe books out from the library. We spent the weekend taking note of all the recipes (majorly desserts) that we wanted copies of.

And I've started stocking up on ingredients. The hubby will only allow me to get a few items each shopping trip. So I've got a few special extracts, like the mint, raspberry and almond. The chocolate powder. I know I'll want some more extracts. Of course I can only get the dry or bottled ingredients at this point. Cream cheese certainly doesn't last around this house. And it'll be fun to experiment with the homemade jams and jellies that my daughter's boyfriend gave us.

So the list so far:

Spritz Cookie- Almond and Eggnog flavored.
Chocolate Chip cookies- which include chocolate, peanut butter, butterscotch, cherry, toffee, chocolate mint chip, cinnamon and chocolate raspberry chip batches
Minty Cookies
Russian Tea Cakes
Ginger Snaps
Stove Top Cocoa Cookies
Sugar Cookies
Rum Balls
Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls
Gumdrop Cookies
Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
White Chocolate Raspberry Macadamia Nut Cookies
Mocha Truffle Cookies
Lemon Snowflakes
Raspberry Kisses
Chocolate Filled Poppy Seed Cookies
Mini Peanut Butter Treats
Cream Cheese Dainties
Mocha Cookie Pretzels
Chocolate Pecan Thumbprints
Raspberry Ribbons
Chocolate Meringue Stars
Peppermint Biscotti
Scottish Shortbread
Stained Glass Cookie Ornaments
Gingerbread Cookies
Cappuccino Flats


Other treats include
Marshmallow Ghosts
Frightening Fingers
Sweet 'n' Spicy Halloween Munch
Puppy Chow
Chex Mix- in which we like the traditional, taco flavored, jalapeno flavored and about any kind we can think of
Apple Pies (multiple pies!!!)
Pumpkin Pie
Marbled Pmpkin Cheesecake
and last but certainly not least
Samoa Cheesecake Bars

It's gonna be an exhausting time, but I'm gonna love it!