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Sweets: Cookies & Bars

high-altitude turtle cookies

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Before you throw this one away because you live at sea level – I noted on the printable recipe below notes for either. :)

Half the fun of making these was just that they’re pretty. :)

This recipe is from as shared by , but I have adjusted it for high altitude. Remember I’m talking over 9,000 feet elevation, so this should work for most “high-altitude” dwellers!

I don’t really know why but these always scream “Christmas” to me. At least I’ve made them for a Christmas party before! Just a holly jolly cookie, I guess.  ;)

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Sweets: Cookies & Bars

white chocolate-dipped cranberry-oatmeal cookies

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Dec 23, 2010.

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Whew!  Long name.  But turns out not that difficult to make…plus they’re pretty!

It’s basically a normal cookie recipe made fancy by the dipped look. ;)

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Sweets: Cookies & Bars

white elephant fortune cookies

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Dec 18, 2010.

Mike and I have hosted some sort of Christmas party since the year we began dating [2007]. Last year was the smallest – a dinner with close friends – as I was over 8 months pregnant and not up to putting on a big one!

A couple of the parties stand out in my memory and 2010 is one of those. I went baking crazy!

These were my favorite things I made though. There was a White Elephant exchange and I tried to think up a new way of drawing numbers, something to change things up a bit.

Each person received a fortune cookie – they got a yummy treat AND their White Elephant turn number.

And just for fun, I put some Christmas jokes in about 10 of them so the recipient could read them aloud to the group before they took their turn.

It was great fun.

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Sweets: Desserts

butter nut truffles

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Dec 25, 2010.

These were a hit at a Christmas dinner party a few years ago. I recall that they were pretty rich for me, but I think they would be perfect with coffee!

Yet, others just scarfed them up like nobody’s business. :)

This was from Southern Living’s Ultimate Christmas Cookbook, one of my holiday favorites. I wish I had it in Ecuador!

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Drinks

instant spiced tea mix

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Oct 31, 2012.

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I don’t know what possessed me to try to be creative, but I think it turned out all right!  I signed up to be a vendor at a local Christmas Bazaar here and created these jars:

It was fun to shop for the pieces with my mom and also to have a mom that owned a glue gun.  Heh.

The bazaar is going on this weekend (starting tomorrow!) so if you’d like to stop by and see all the other awesome items being sold, you can find the details on .  You might have to scroll down a little. :)

 gives an amazing flavor of Christmas.  Find it  if you’d like to create it yourself!