Christmas Baking.. 1

Saturday was the first day of the Christmas bake off and we started with making Gingerbread. We kinda cheated a little and purchased the dough from the bakery.. coz well we didn't fancy spending a day actually making the dough and having to leave it overnight.. impatient or what? I should have been named impatient really.. I was poorly named when I was named Darling.. oh I mean Jo! haha

Anyways it was kinda fun making them.. and best of all Emma did most of the hard work with all the rolling and cutting out.. I was in charge of putting them in the oven.. setting the timer.. taking them out and putting them on the cooling rack.. then transferring them from the cooling rack to the container.. oh and I was in charge of putting them into position on the tray! How awesome am I? lol I think we did about half a dozen trays.. of many different shapes.. Bitten Gingerbread Mens, Stars of two different sizes, Christmas Trees, Angels, Pigs.. ummm I think thats about it..

Below you will see a pic of the Uncooked Bitten Gingerbread Mens! Sunday was the day that we made something that I personally do not eat.. We made 'Lussekatter'! They are bascially sweet saffron buns.. saffron and I totally don't play well together.. but Emma loves them so Emma shall have them and we only make them once a year so why not.. but it sure is torture to spend some time baking to not have something at the ned of the day fresh to eat.. or well for me anyways.. Emma got to eat some and she ate so many that she got heartburn.. silly lass!

We usually bake them without the raisins.. coz Emma isn't much for the raisins and we call them Blind Cats.. which makes it more fun for me to say "We are baking Blind Cats today!" but yeah we added the raisins.. for some reason.. to them all so we made 3 dozen Not So Blind Cats! lol

Below you will a pic of the Not So Blind Cats.. freshly baked!