{"id":11315,"date":"2017-01-05T09:35:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=11315"},"modified":"2017-01-05T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T15:36:23","slug":"december-flashback-baking-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=11315","title":{"rendered":"December Flashback: Baking Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It has slowly become a Christmas tradition to get together with a few of my friends and doing a “Christmas Baking Day Extravaganza!” \u00a0We started 4 years ago with just 3 of us and have since bounced from house to house and have added a couple people. \u00a0So this year we had it here (putting that 2nd kitchen to good use!) and there were 5 of us. \u00a0It was crazy fun. \u00a0Emphasis on the crazy part. \u00a0With 5 people mixing and baking and timing and laughing and snacking it’s a lot of noise and chaos. \u00a0But so. much. fun.<\/p>\n

And the best part is at the end we divide up the goodies, so everyone gets to take home a really wonderful smattering of Christmas goodies. \u00a0 This year I think we counted 25 \u00a0items. \u00a0Although, there are a couple not pictured below… one of those was homemade egg nog that we drank there and another was Asian chicken dip that we also ate there and finally there was a M&M bar thing that didn’t get cooked enough so it was mushy in the middle.<\/p>\n

\"baking-day-up-close-r\"<\/a>My contributions this year were: \u00a0Candy cane cookies, Short bread cookies (with the sprinkles in it), white chocolate cranberry fudge, plain chocolate fudge with pecans in it, chocolate toffee with nuts and white chocolate cranberry muffins. \u00a0 I didn’t like the cranberry fudge, so I won’t be making that again but the toffee was delicious and the muffins usually turn out better than they did. \u00a0I made them near the end of the evening and the oven had been on for too long (we baking for about 7 hours) so it sort of scorched them. \u00a0Sad day.<\/p>\n

Here are a few more random pictures from the afternoon\/evening:<\/p>\n

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The calm before the storm…<\/p><\/div>\n

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Everyone hard at work.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Making cream cheese mints<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tara making peanut butter cookies<\/p><\/div>\n

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Goodies on every possible surface!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Starting to divvy up the bounty!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stephanie took most of the picture that night, so I found a selfie when I took the pictures off of my camera. Ha!!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Evidence that there was Asian chicken dip! It was sooo yummy<\/p><\/div>\n

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Up to our elbows in chocolate!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Crunching the toffee<\/p><\/div>\n

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It has slowly become a Christmas tradition to get together with a few of my friends and doing a “Christmas Baking Day Extravaganza!” \u00a0We started 4 years ago with just 3 of us and have since bounced from house to house and have added a couple people. \u00a0So this year we had it here (putting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11328,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions\/11328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}