Happy New Year, my blogger peeps! Before moving on into a fresh new year, I’m sharing one last post about holiday celebrations. A few weeks before Christmas, the gals in my husband’s family get together with all the kids and have “Barnett Bake Day.” It’s started about 12 years ago and has become a tradition for us and our kids.
| It requires a few days of pre-planning and pre-cooking, and it culminates in a Saturday of baking and decorating cut-out butter cookies. Hundreds of them. |  |
The kids LOVE painting and decorating the cookies.
So do the adults!
Colorful royal icing – yum.
Our families eat a lot of the butter cookies, peanut butter brittle, ginger snaps, snickerdoodles, fudge, and rock candy – but we try to give a lot of it away as gifts, as well! If you’d like the recipe for the best butter cookies EVER, I’ve posted it here.
| What are your special holiday traditions? |  |
Hi Kristie, Barnett bake day looks like fun (and delicious)! I made Christmas cookies with my kids this year (first time) and hope to make it a tradition, too. Helps when you have relatives to help with the clean-up!
Happy New Year to you and your family, Naomi xx
I have written down your recipe for butter cookies and will try it next time I need to cook them. We make a rum fudge slice every Christmas, this year my daughter made one and my son made a variation with real rum (we usually just put orange juice in it, specially when the kids were younger!) and orange rind…very yum!
Just a little post script…love your pictures of baking day…looks great fun!
Yum! Makes me wish I were a Barnett girl! Ha! Thanks for the wonderful blog posts in 2010. Can’t wait to see what you have in store for the new year.
Warmly, Michelle
I’D LIKE THE GINGERBREAD MEN & SNOWFLAKES, PLEASE!
I read your cookie recipe – is that correct – 3 tablespoons of vanilla? that’s nearly a 1/4 cup. sounds like a lot but I’ll trust you if you say that it’s right. Is it easy to roll and cut out? I’m always looking for good cookie recipes and I like one that uses so much butter. 😉
Yes, Lee – 3 tablespoons! Maybe that’s why they are SO GOOD!!!!
Oh, and it is pretty easy to roll and cut out – roll out to about 1/4 inch. I often use cookie cutters with detailed impressions, because this recipe turns out well with those. I do a watered-down royal icing glaze on them. My other famous cookie recipe is more of a shortbread and is stickier – you have to use simple cookie cutters with that one, but you don’t need glaze for those. You can find that recipe on one of my birthday party posts. Let me know what you think if you make them 🙂