http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/ Telling it like it is... Mon, 13 Jun 2016 03:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/#comment-118861 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:07:58 +0000 http://allmumsaid.com.au/?p=5751#comment-118861 Getting together to decorate the Christmas tree and my little girl putting the angel on the top 😀 ]]> http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/#comment-118795 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:54:26 +0000 http://allmumsaid.com.au/?p=5751#comment-118795 We have so many Christmas kitchen traditions I’m having trouble choosing only one. Years ago I made our daughters piano teacher a Christmas cake, and she loved it . That’s when I realised my children hate any food with dried fruit in it, it wasn’t that my fruit cakes were awful. So that’s where the tradition of giving Christmas cakes as gifts started. As the years have passed the people I give cakes to has grown, and grown. Think and hope the last cakes for 2014 have been baked, and my husband says we have made 35 kilos of cakes this year, a record for us. The hardest thing about making the cakes is lining the tins, it takes such a lot of fussing. My children are all grown up now, and they still hate fruit cake. ]]> http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/#comment-118627 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 07:09:44 +0000 http://allmumsaid.com.au/?p=5751#comment-118627 The whole family congregates in the kitchen on Christmas Eve – we bake biscuits in Christmas shapes and mix up a whole rainbow of icing colours, then sit round the table decorating, laughing and making memories! It’s not about the perfect biscuit but who can ice the most creative, funniest or weirdest design… it’s great fun! ]]> http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/#comment-118514 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:59:17 +0000 http://allmumsaid.com.au/?p=5751#comment-118514 We have an ‘almond present’, a Danish tradition; whoever gets the almond hidden in the home made dessert get’s a a little gift :-). ]]> http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/#comment-118423 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 02:54:21 +0000 http://allmumsaid.com.au/?p=5751#comment-118423 Our christmas kitchen tradition has just started this year actually. My daughter came home from school and said “Mum, we learn’t that advent calendars from all over the world, that if you leave a carrot in your shoe, santa will come for a visit and leave lollies”. So my daughter decided to put this theory to the test, and put a carrot in her school shoes, she checked every day and after a few days some lollies appeared, she was so happy to think that Santa had come and made her day, and said I am doing this christmas tradition every year:) ]]> http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/#comment-118091 Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:46:03 +0000 http://allmumsaid.com.au/?p=5751#comment-118091 The Christmas meats, Turkey and Ham, cooking and glazing is the job Im always left with but I enjoy it and watching the eyes when they are resented ]]> http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/#comment-116979 Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:48:10 +0000 http://allmumsaid.com.au/?p=5751#comment-116979 I’m not a very coordinated Baker and my goods are never the prettiest however they are incredibly Delicious! ]]> http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/#comment-115918 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:55:06 +0000 http://allmumsaid.com.au/?p=5751#comment-115918 My tradition is that dad cooks all the food and I clean. I am the worlds worst cook. No one would eat anything I prepare. ]]> http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/#comment-115910 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:44:04 +0000 http://allmumsaid.com.au/?p=5751#comment-115910 I love baking, especially to give as gifts at this time of year. Much more appreciated than store-bought gifts. ]]> http://allmumsaid.com.au/festive-christmas-cookies-giveaway/#comment-115903 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:37:39 +0000 http://allmumsaid.com.au/?p=5751#comment-115903 Gathering up the ham bones to freze for yummy winter pea and ham soups ]]>