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? |  |
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