My Christmas 2012: Baking and Family Christmas Dinner

Sunday, December 30, 2012

My Christmas 2012: Baking Gingerbread Men Cookies for my friend and Friends' (second family) Christmas Dinner

I am finally succumbing to my repressed need to bake and also have satisfied my dessert craving. I cannot look at icing sugar any more, I cannot hold another spatula, I cannot knead any more dough. Well until next year at least.
I spent my Christmas day baking Gingerbread Men Cookies and personalising it with Writing Icing. Me and my sister found we had more than enough to do trial and error, so we experimented with skeleton shapes, 'Cabramatta' logos and bikinis on our cookies (my friend loved them).
At night I then headed off to my friends house for a (Second) Family Christmas Dinner. Every year me and my closest friends gather around the table with our eggnog, plate full of ham and chicken and bon bons. We laugh, drink and reminisce. 
Of course the highlight is always my friend's hand-made desserts. Usually creamy Tiramisu and Triple chocolate macedamia nut brownies are on offer but my friend added a delicious Pumpkin pie to the menu this year (with my cookies too) and I quickly surrendered to my annual Christmas Sugar Coma and soon-to-come Christmas Hangover.

16 comments :

  1. The food looks delicious! The biscuits look really fun too.

    Glad you had a lovely Christmas :)

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  2. awww! those gingerbread look awesome... :)

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  3. i love baking. happy new year babe!

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  4. I love how you turned that cookie into a skeleton ;)! Looks like a fun Christmas :).

    xx
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  5. Looks lovely :)

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  6. lovely pics! those gingerbread look fun and delicious!
    i follow you, kisses

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  7. Cute pics, looks like you had a great time :)
    xx
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  8. those cookies are the cutest! all the food looks so yum yum!!!
    happy new year!!!

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  9. Happy new year! There is a giveaway on my blog and I would love it if you took part!

    xoxo
    Out Of The Box

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  10. Happy New Year, Natalie!

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    xx
    Pauline

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  11. Happy new year. I always love baking, I must make your recipes..:)

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  12. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
    I love baking! but I was quite busy last December so I couldn't bake Christmas cookies :(
    the cookies look so delicious!

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  13. oh lovely u baked!!nfollowed u on google plus do follow back...wld love it if u drop by my blog :)
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  14. Everything looks delicious! Good job on the cookies too. Happy New Year, xoxo.

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