Hey y’all! It’s getting towards the end of Advent. Or rather, it is getting toward the middle of the third week of Advent. Unfortunately, due to the vagaries of the calendar, we don’t get a fourth week of Advent this year. We basically get 24 hours, from sundown next Saturday until sundown on Sunday. This, combined with a busy harvest season, and our recent travel, means that all of our annual Christmas cookie baking has gotten compressed into about three days.
There are perks to being an early riser. For one thing, you get to help make Uncle Adam’s favorite eggnog cookies.
For another, you get to lick the paddle.
Not to be outdone, Evie got up early the next day to make the next batch. Daddy maintains that it just isn’t Christmas without Chip-chocolate-oatmeal-raisin cookies.
These require maple syrup, which thise year was supplied by our friends Mason and Alexis, from their family farm.
This little midget is starting to get into all sorts of mischief.
But not as much as the two middle siblings. Apparently a bowl of molasses and backing soda left on the counter to bubble is not safe from little fingers…
And they wonder how I know what they’ve been up to. It couldn’t be the brown faces and fingers, and the drips of molasses across the tile.
Putting them in tins to store on the back porch until the day of. We now have Basler Lackerli, Mailanderli, Eggnog Cookies, Chip-Chocolate-Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies, and Joe Froggers. If we were good bloggers we would do a recipe blog about each one. But we are not, and we don’t have the time. You will have to use your imagination.
Can you say, mischief!?
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