I have a confession: I really dislike making Christmas cookies and treats. A roast or a stout stew, yes, but a couple dozen cookies can easily slay me. I marvel at the amount of cutely and carefully packaged homemade cookies, bon bons, brittles, and mini-loaves of breads that arrive at my house this time of year. It’s always a glorious outpouring of love in little tins, boxes, and baggies. If it were possible for me to put a bow on some seared ahi tuna, I may be in business, but cookies and treats….I just can’t seem to pull them off. Despite all this, I am enamored with the “idea” of holiday baking and sweets. A friend of mine made this comment the other day on her Facebook status: “Sometimes [reading blogs] makes me feel like every other mother is frolicking through the kitchen with laughing babies following behind and they […]

Pin It