Holiday Baking

We made Oreo truffles and Chocolate Gingerbread cookies. First we made the centers for the Oreo truffles. I took them downstairs after telling Katherine she could lick the bowl. I came back upstairs and found Katherine parked on the floor.

Next we started with the chocolate gingerbread cookie dough.

A couple days later Katherine and I cut out to cookies and drizzled them with icing. I made a filling of marscapone cheese and powered sugar. Brian really loved these.

Oh, and I made monkey bread Christmas morning. I rolled the biscuits the night before and threw it in the oven. It wasn't until I checked on it that I realized I had forgotten to make the butter and brown sugar syrup for it! I took it out of the oven, made the syrup, put it back in and miraculously it was saved! Reminds me of the time I did some prep for potato soup by cutting and peeling the potatoes during naptime. I put the pot on the oven for them to boil ... without the water! So I came back into the kitchen when I smelled burning and went into rescue mode. I trimmed off the burnt sides and added water. It all turned out OK. Phew!