Denise~* > wrote in
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>
> Me? I'm the cookie person in our family, so I always have a couple
> days of baking, but I'm also making some tins of various candies so I
> have done much more this season.
>
> So far I have made (to be divided amongst decorative gift tins)
>
> Old Fashioned Fudge (3 successful batches, one more to be made)
> Rum Balls (2 batches)
> Almond-Cranberry Biscotti
> Orange-Pecan Biscotti
> Peanut Brittle (2 batches)
> and I might possibly make a coconut macaroon type cookie, Maybe with a
> Hershey kiss in the center. Only if I have the time Thursday.
>
> And for the cookies (for the annual Christmas eve family party)
> Spritz
> Lefse (I make the flour kind, and it turns out wonderful)
> Krum Kake (to be made Thursday)

That all sounds pretty good.So far I've made

4 batches Rum Balls (if anyone has the RFC cookbook, it's the Fruity
Truffles recipe) - these all went in to work, to the two locations for
the Mail Program (where I currently work), and a couple of small
containers to people at the main office (where I was based previously).
One of the guys I sent them to at the main office hangs out for these
all year - between him, and the staff at the mail centres who had them
last year, I'd have been lynched if I didn't make them. I'm making
another couple of batches tonight to take in to work tomorrow (Christmas
Eve)for the shift who wasn't on when the last lot went in.

2 batches Caramel Fudge (Nestle recipe, made with sweetened condensed
milk, butter, golden syrup, brown sugar and white chocolate - very easy
and yummy)- this went to work. Will be making another batch tomorrow
night to go into gift boxes for my nephews.A couple of colleagues copied
the recipe and I believe are making it for gifts also.

1 x 22cm round (almost 9in), 2 x 13cm round (5in), 5 x 15cm round (6in)
Christmas (fruit cakes). Should have been made a couple of months ago,
but were only made over the last few weeks - still taste good, just
taste better if they age for longer. A couple went to work (from what I
read of perpetual fruit cake gifts , this may not be so in much of the
US, but fruit cake put out on the lunch table at work goes pretty
quickly). The rest are being packed up with Christmas cellophane and
cake frills etc. and are parts of gifts for people - oh, one was
requested by a colleague who is giving me free range eggs and herb
cuttings in return.

2 rounds Scottish shortbread - traditional recipe, made with flour, rice
flour, caster sugar and butter. These were packaged up into gifts.

Still to be completed - some Christmas biscuits (possibly Lebkuchen) and
mince pies.That's about all I've been able to manage this year.I'm
majorly disorganised this year, and I've also had handmade cards and
presents to try to get finished. Luckily it's my sister's turn to feed
us this year, so I don't need to worry about that.


Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia