Abby's Adventures: December 2011

Friday, December 23, 2011

Christmas Break

I LOVE Christmas break! I have had a wonderful Christmas break thus far. I spent the day baking on Saturday and Monday. I even made my own royal icing! I piped the cookie with thick royal icing and then flooded the piping with a thinner royal icing. I only had 5 cookies like that though because it took forever! I then went to the store and bought already made icing to ice and decorate the rest of the cookies. I was proud of myself for making my own icing though! On Sunday I had a cookie exchange with some friends and got some wonderful cookies. We made a craft from Pintrest- I ran out of buttons so I will finish the project later and post pictures of my first Pintrest craft! on Tuesday night David and I went to the UK game with some friends and had a great time! It is always fun going to a game at Rupp! I have had a chance to sleep in, read, and scrapbook. The house is clean, laundry is caught up, and life is good!!! I really love my job but I really love the break!

Monday, December 5, 2011

Candy Making

This past weekend my mom and I went to my aunts house to make cookies and candy. It is a family tradition and 4 generations have participated in this tradition. My grandma passed the recipes to my aunts and they are passing them to us( first cousins) and the 2nd cousins. We melt the chocolate and then put it in a mold, adding different things for fillings, freeze it, remove it, and then put it in wrappers. My cousins and I decorate the mint chocolate candy using green and milk chocolate creating bows and ribbon. This year we made: peanut butter cups, chocolate cream, opera cream( this one takes forever but we perfected the process), chocolate raisins, chocolate nuts, chocolate with cherries, mint chocolate, white chocolate crunch with mint, suckers, and chocolate covered pretzels. It was so much fun making all this candy! It is a great way to start to Christmas season!