The Christmas holiday is here!

About a week before Christmas I received a few requests to make the following:

Chocolate/Caramel pretzels
Peppermint Bark
Chocolate Dipped Oreos
Chocolated Dipped Chips with Cayanne
Chocolate Dipped Rice Krispies

I even made a few trays of my goodies to take to family and parties.

I think I may have gotten about 4 hours of sleep a night for that entire week. Some orders took me a lot longer than I anticipated and since I wrapped and boxed up each order individually it became quite a time consuming process.

It was definitely worth it though, especially when hearing that the people who were receiving the items loved them or when the trays were given that all the treats didn't last even an hour!

Moving on to Christmas...

My Family celebrates together on Christmas Eve, so this year I made a few of the items above (pretzels, oreos and peppermint bark) and I also added some Gingerbread Men, Fudge, Chocolate Chip Cookies and Thumbprint Cookies with Hershey Kisses or Strawberry Jam.

I think the decorating of the Gingerbread cookies was my absolute favorite part. It was something that I got to do with my 4 nephews and they had a lot of fun decorating their cookies. One even made a sad Gingerbread man - he was sad because he was going to be eaten! It was super cute and something that I am glad I got to experience with them. I love being able to include them so we can spend quality time together.

Not too sure what I am doing for the New Year, but will be sure to post more!

The beginning...

And so begins my journey into building up my current skills in baking and candy making.

I've been baking since I was a little girl, started during the holidays with my mom. We would start early in the morning and get to baking all kinds of sweet, yummy treats like cookies, brownies & rice krispie treats. It was always one of my fondest memories of the holiday season. As the years passed by the less baking that went on. I got older and busier and so did my mom. We still bake a bit for the holidays, but nothing like the big production that we used to have.

But that's all about to change!

This year, I am going full force with my baking and I'm adding some candy making to the process!

I will be posting my finished products along with my new ideas on gifts and how I put them all together.

So stay tuned...