Hey guys!
Can you believe it’s almost Christmas? Time flies when you are having fun!! This has been a whirlwind kind of week. My husband finished his masters degree on Tuesday (YAY), I had a surprise party for him Friday, tonight is my Christmas party and the hubby’s parents are coming to stay with us for a week – so as you can imagine, life is busy (but wonderful)…
I’ve had a few emails regarding surviving over the holidays being dairy free. I highly recommend taking a look at my Dairy Free Survival Guide for ideas and also my post, Challenges of Being Dairy Free is a great one with tips for what to do where! These posts and a few more can always been found at the top of my blog under Dairy Free Resources.
Moving on – I have been terrible at taking food photos – so bear with me. I wanted to compile a list of all the things that I baked this Christmas!!
Ready?
- Mama Pea’s No Bake Snowball Cookies – easy, fast and gooey! I love them, the hubby thought they were too oatmeal.
- Dandelions on the Wall’s – Allergy Free Fudge. (OMG). So good! Made two batches – one I melted some peanut butter and swirled in and the second I added super finely ground espresso beans! SOOOOOOOOo good!!
- Made a double batch of the Chocolate Love Affair Cookies!
- Oh She Glow’s Egg Nog Biscotti’s – which have become a favourite around here!
- Haven’t’ made these yet, but I may!! Of course sub the butter for either DF butter or coconut oil! Low Fat Gingerbread Cookies.
- I also made Caramel Chocolate Goodies. Super easy caramel recipe – I have used it for a few things including – turtles (caramel and chocolate covered pecans) and caramel popcorn with peanuts and peanut clusters!! Best Caramel Recipe I’ve found!
- Still on the list to make – probably for Christmas dinner - Sinless Sticky Toffee Pecan Pudding!! Droooooooooooool. Funny story – before becoming dairy free and when I lived in Calgary, I often went for “dinner” at Earls, and actually only would eat a sticky toffee pudding… It was warm and drippy and had a caramel lattice on top that was crunchy and sticky – such a great combo!!
- Peanut Butter Cups – of course!! I had one of my Special Olympics girls say they were the best peanut butter cups EVERRRRRRR!! hehe
I baked 2 other kinds of cookies – a gingersnap and a banana snicker doodle - they were just ok though and I want to only give you the best of the best!!
What are you/did you bake this Christmas?
those all sound delicious - i started making these figgy pudding cookies which have been a real hit everywhere i bring them:
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Also... I made chocolate peanut butter cups last week (diff recipe than yours) and although Mr. T can't keep his hands off them in the freezer, their not quite what I was looking for (not sweet enough :p). Your's sound much better! I'm going to make them this morning :D:D I'm excited.
Alsoooo lol... you mentioned OhSheGlows Biscotti... have you tried her Ginger Cookies?! O..m..g.. SO GOOD.
Off to make chocolates now! hehe. I love the idea of this post too.. we're baking so many things I can't possibly do a post for each one. Merry Christmas!
i love the recipe round ups. now if only someone would come make them all for me.
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Mmmmm it all sounds so good! I love Christmas baking :D
ReplyDeleteI did a lot of baking this Christmas, but I didn't really eat any of it ... I always do that!
ReplyDeletePEANUT BUTTER CUPS!!! I need about a thousand in my life asap. How do I keep forgetting to make these?
ReplyDeleteOooo!! You own my heart right now with all these goodies!! I'm going to check out this fudge!! YUM!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love christmas!!
xxoo
Those recipes all sound so good! Hope you're having a wonderful time/holidays with friends and family! All the best!
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