Are you baking

[DogMamma]

Are you baking his week, if so what and for who.
I've been in the kitchen for two days here is what I have so far
1 Xmas cake (needs icing)
30 ginger bread men
2 ginger boxes with white chocolate and coconut truffles
24 mince pies (12 in oven )
1 Christmas cake currently in the oven
4 stacked ginger bread stars (9stars to each stack)and I have almond sugar cookies abiut to be but ready to bake then ice
The centre for choc orange truffles setting
Then more white truffles to make

Pics to follow when all complete

I would usually attempt to bake a lot but 38 weeks pregnant so the only dessert prep this year is an apple crumble! The rest are shop bought.

Yep I'm doing:

my mince pie & custard cupcakes
white chocolate biscoff rocky road
passionfruit cheescake for xmas dinner dessert
gingerbread men
Mary Berry's treacle spiced traybake

Today - 2 gingerbread houses without roofs currently leaning against supports tomorrow roofing will be attempted.

Baking is way too complicated in our house. The DC don't like dried fruit plus 2 x family members can't have gluten. I shall probably only make Christmas Day dessert, something chocolatey!

Wow! We ve made some of the festive cookies and cupcakes from asda (just add an egg) and destroyed a b and m gingerbread house (it wouldn't stick properly so we just ate tje sweets!!!) But definitely nothing impressive!!!

I'm making my usual Christmas cake - it's lighter than the traditional fruit cake so doesn't keep so well but we prefer it. It lasts for a week or so in a tin.
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2180/festive-fruit-and-nut-cake
I'm also making a pecan slice traybake (like a pecan pie), sticky toffee and date pudding, and an apple and prune filo tart with marzipan and armagnac. (in this Saturday's Guardian!)
Not baking exactly but also egg nog. And duck rillettes. Usually I do a side of beetroot cured salmon but DS's GF doesn't eat fish, hence the rillettes.

I've made a chocolate and cherry pudding as we're not traditional Christmas pudding fans; loads of mince pies (one more batch to do on CE); port and stilton sausage rolls; chicken and chorizo parcels (essentially samosas but not!); chocolate brownies, Thai fish cakes and Nigella's morning muffins.

I still have cheese straws, Rocky Road, chocolate bark, cookies x 2 types, the last batch of mince pies and something else, I think (I've a list at home!). I'll spread it out over two days, though it's not too onerous for one day maybe! I'll see.

Oh, I've a feeling DH might want carrot cake for his birthday on Sunday. Best check! 😂

Oh yes, I'm doing a Pepparkakor wreath (see photo). That may take me a while!

Yule log, mince pies, apple & ginger crumble and cheese twists by the dozen.😀

Wow go you lot! @Girlicorne use melted white chocolate to stick your house together sets quicker and harder.....I am debating a house myself I've somehow.....(no idea how) hurt my back and been struggling with the pain for last two days so I'll see how I feel tomorrow lol xx

MIL is doing dinner so need to ask her what dessert she wants but I'm loving the sound of your pecan ones mmmmm (pic is what I have so far.....Still some raw cookies a tray in oven and uncooked cake

So far I have made 3 porter cakes (really nice alternative to Christmas cake) taking one to work tomorrow.
4 x Christmas puddings. Going to in laws for
Christmas dinner so I will take 1 or 2 of those along with ice cream or custard.
And I will be making mince pies in the morning.
DH is dairy free so I like being able to make him some of the 'normal' Christmas things so that he can enjoy them.

Brown gunk is choc orange truffle centre that needs to finish setting

I have somehow managed a free day tomorrow so I might do some baking...
maybe some gingerbread or shortbread and some chocolate fudge of varying flavours.

Tempted to give Nigella's Christmas muffins a go too

Yep me and dsis are having a baking day and we're going to make gingerbread (trees or houses) plus maybe a yule log and some melted snowman cookies. Haven't baked anything apart from one cake since DS 6months was born so looking Forward to it

We already did coconut cookies, hazelnut cookies, Hildabrötchen, Vanillekipferln, Linzertorte
Still on the list: cinamon cookies, snowflakes, chocolate chip cookies, and - not very traditional - brownies (again) and an apple-walnut-raisin-cinnamon cake.
I'd love to be able to make my late mother's Spritzgebäck but I can't so I don't do it at all.

so far this week:

48 mince pies
loads of iced festive themed gingerbread biscuits
20 bread rolls (been put in freezer)
decorated an ikea gingerbread house
2 x cauliflower cheese (put into freezer)

prep is everything!

I'm not actually cool g Christmas dinner this year PIL are I cannot wait I'll will inevitably end up helping I can't just sit there and let it go on I'd feel terrible but at least I don't have to worry about all the prep.

I already have Christmas cake and Christmas pudding maturing, and about 60 mince pies in the freezer. Tomorrow I am planning to make stollen, and my sons will be making Nigella’s rocky road, white chocolate and cranberry cookies and sausage rolls with home made puff pastry at some point this week. I need to ice the cake and make a cheesecake as an additional pud for Christmas Day.

Yup, today messed up three (potentially five too scared to check) batches of fudge, and a tray of brownies. The cookies however are really nice 😂

So far I have made:

78 bisuits (and iced them) - for presents for colleagues
65 cookies (with red, white and green m&ms) - for presents for colleagues
29 chocolate star lollies - for my class at work
22 little chocolates - for people coming round on Friday

Still to make:

For Friday:
Lots more little chocolates
A double batch of m&m cookies (for people coming round but also more presents)
A double batch of iced Christmas biscuits (see above)
Mini cupcakes
Cheesy stars

For Christmas Eve/Christmas day
Probably a single batch of cookies
And a single batch of biscuits
More chocolates
More mini cupcakes
More cheesy stars

And then I still have biscuits to make as presents for friends I'm not seeing until the 30th!

All your sweets and treats sound delicious. Well done folks! Bet all your homes smell amazing, can't beat that homemaking smell... even my dogs love it had one parked in her bed wagging her tail.at me for two days just waiting for me to drop pastry or cookie dough! Supoose i best make some christmas dog biscuits so they don't feel left out !

I have done nothing yet. Well, unless you count a coffee cake and a Victoria sponge 10 days ago (both long gone!). I haven't had time to bake in ages.

If I do get plans, I think, in order of priority, it will be:

"ordinary" cookies for Santa (our basic mix, might be plain, chocolate, or orange and lemon variety depending on the mood on baking day)

Chocolate Christmas pudding (chocolate biscuit cake/rocky road mix, in a pudding bowl, turned out and with melted white chocolate poured over as the "custard") - per DD's request

Mince pies
Spiced Christmas cookies
Cheese twists
Sausage rolls (DD already bought pre-rolled puff pastry for this one)
Apple tart
Chocolate tart
Naan bread (for a curry feast)
Shortbread stars
Pinata biscuits
Iced cookies
Brownies

I'd love to have the time to do some for work before we finish - busy tonight, and have loads of jobs to finish yet so likely to not have time tomorrow either (I finish Friday).

Ordinary cookies are traditionally made for Santa on Christmas Eve, so they WILL happen.

Chocolate pudding is the back up request for DD's birthday cake (26th) if M&S don't have something nice on 24th

The rest are for here at home (ourselves and a few visitors will call), to bring to a pre-Christmas gathering of neighbours over this weekend, and to bring to our family gatherings over New Year.

If nothing except the ordinary cookies happen, I won't be surprised. But if everything happens, I will be happy and it will all get eaten (and I will have had a chance to relax in the kitchen!!).

NoWord what's chocolate bark please?
(intrigued)