Month: May 2010

Christmas Cookies

This isn’t a video I expected to do. Nevertheless, it was still a lot of fun! Join Richie, Christin and myself as we walk you through several Christmas cookie baking sessions. Thanks for watching and happy holidays! Richie’s Twitter: twitter.com My Twitter: twitter.com Social Blog: thecreativeone.tv

Christmas is becoming a burden….what should I do?

Cristmas is the 12nd time like this: stressful and nerve racking! My whole family is screaming at each other, yelling, being stubborn, and nervous. We can’t get a long! It’s been a week and with hte ice storm and cleaning the lawn, baking cookies, getting presents, setting up the tree, cleaning the house, perparing plans for the new year, cooking Christmas dinner and all the holidday buzz it is just getting unbearable!

Everyone in my family now views Chrismas as the biggest obstacle of the year adn I don’t want it to be like that. The problem is, if one person sees it this way we all do. How should make it more fun and pleasurable for everyone???? I mean this year we got a teeny tiny tree and put maybe 20 ornaments on it all together just ofr the sake of having a tree. And we ididn’t even decorate it all together. Just me and my sister.

I don’t knolw what to do??? Any ideas?

What’s a good no-powdered sugar icing recipe to go on top of holiday sugar cookies?

In the middle of cooking sugar cookies, and realized I don’t have any powdered sugar to make my traditional icing. Any ideas for icing alternatives other than using sprinkles?
FYI, confectioner’s sugar IS powdered sugar….

How do you store your Christmas cookies when you bake them from Thanksgiving till Christmas?

My Mother in law stores hers in tins but I don’t have enough tins to keep each type of cookie in a seperate one and I don’t want them all to start tasting alike. Will ziplock bags work? Will they still be crisp or would that soften them? I can’t rebake them to crisp them up because many are dipped after baking in chocolate and have sprinkles added. I want to bake two different types each weekend so we have a huge variety.
Thank you!

Does anybody know the recipe for Au Bon Pain’s holiday shortbread cookies?

It doesn’t have to be the exact recipe, just one that tastes similar. And the recipe I am looking for is the one for the cut-out cookies (trees, stockings, snowmen, etc) that only come out during Christmas time.

Need a cool project name?

I’m starting a fundraising project that involves baking cookies with some underprivileged kids and selling them as some cute chrismas gifts. Now we’re probably appealing to the very demanding teen market, so we’re trying to make the whole project really trendy and we need a pretty smart name. Anyone has any suggestions?