On Sunday I hosted a little Christmas cookie baking fest. I feel like it's not the Christmas season unless I do some Christmas baking, so I set out to remedy that situation. I had a few co-workers over, and we made 7 different kinds of cookies between us!
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| Rebekka and Lilli hard at work. |
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| Using every bit of counter space. |
We had a fun afternoon, drinking mulled wine, listening to Christmas music and playing with little baby Jake in between all of the serious baking that was happening.
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| Paul playing with Jake in the turkey box. |
In the end, I would say that it was quite a success. We had Russian Teacakes, fudge, peanut butter cups, peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, Mailänderli (with almonds, with lemon and with orange), Spitzbuben and Brunsli. I think that all of us were pretty surprised by the amount of cookies that we ended up with, but I'm sure that my flatmates won't mind.
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| Mailänderli (orange and lemon) and Spitzbuben. |
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| Rebekka with peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, Mailänderli (almond), Spitzbuben and Russian teacakes. |
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| Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, Mailänderli (almond), Spitzbuben and Russian teacakes |
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| **Photo from Lilli. From top, clockwise: peanut butter cup, Spitzbuben, Mailänderli (citrus), Russian teacakes, fudge, Brunsli, Mailänderli (almond) and peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. Wow. |
I can't wait to bake at home with my mom and sisters! Less than two weeks and I'll be home for Christmas!
