It’s the week of Christmas and this morning, still the snow falls. I have always loved how quiet the world is when it is snowing. It is suddenly starting to feel like Christmas. With work being so busy recently, I have to admit that it hasn’t felt like Christmas but after the baking yesterday and celebrating my sister’s birthday, I am catching the Christmas spirit.
Talking about baking, I have a shopping list as long as my arm today to replenish the cupboards. Off to the grocery store on my way home from work today to pick up more marshmallows, corn syrup, icing sugar, rice krispies, chocolate, cherries. Tonight on the docket is chocolate drops and I think I will make the pan of cherry nut bars. Cherry nuts bars are a tradition in my family, my mother and aunts always made them this time of year, a gooey, coconut, nuts, cherries and sugary delicious centre between graham cracker crusts, iced with pink icing coloured with a little cherry juice. I love them and so does the whole family so I have to make a pan. And easy too, make the mixture in a pot on the stove and then cool till hard in the fridge. Tonight while you are enjoying dinner, think of me, my sleeves rolled up, flour on my face, counters covered, dropping delicious chocolate drops on waxed paper, singing along to Christmas music! And if that image doesn’t frighten you, then you too have caught the Christmas spirit!
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