Christmas Preparations and a cake!

Cake I made while with Mr Husband's family,

for my birthday, Mr. Husband's name's day and a niece's birthday! 

A lot of wrapping and stamping was done in the quiet days of 

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day!

Christmas is this Thursday for us!!!

I baked cookies with butter, eggs,

 chocolate covered dried cherries + chocolate chips!

Recipe here (in cookbook picture, made with eggs, butter).

I also made sugar cookies,

which I still think of as butter cookies!

I baked two pans of apricot bars,

note to self: next time do one batch of the filling at a time,

as it overflowed your small food processor and 

clean up took a while!!! 

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At some point I hope to put up the steps and recipe for this!

The cookbook I used for the apricot bars said they are quite sweet,

so cut them in small squares; I did and they are so delicate, soft and wonderful looking.

I wrapped them up, 6 to 8 pieces in two layers with wax paper, 

taped it shut and wrote that they are homemade apricot bars,

and put them in the Christmas tree cello bags that I have.

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Next year I hope to make for Christmas the orange scented Christmas cookies.

I ran out of time and energy for them this year!

Earlier I had made turtle bars,

and lemon bars, and I made up two cute Christmas containers full!