Saturday, December 22, 2012

Homemade Christmas Treats

We had a lot of reasons to bake this Christmas season.  I like to give gifts of sweets to teachers and neighbors.  Everyone likes baked goods and I like having a reason to do some mass baking.  This is the only time of year that I get to use butter and sugar by the pound!  We have dance teachers, a piano teachers, several teachers for Boothe's BSF class, several teachers for Magnolia's preschool, some neighbors and we had a cookie exchange at our church's annual Christmas brunch.

Here are the wonderful goodies that came out of my kitchen this year.

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Peanut Butter Cups
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Fannie Mae Fudge (My mom's recipe)

4 cups of Sugar
1 cup of Butter
1 teaspoon of Vanilla
1 cup of Milk
12 ounces of Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips
12 ounces Milk Chocolate Chips
25 large Marshmallows
1/4 cup of Cocoa
1/2 cup of Walnuts (optional)

Bring sugar, butter, vanilla and milk to a slow boil.  Continue to boil for 2 minutes.  Remove from heat and add chocolate chips, marshmallows, cocoa and walnuts.  Stir until creamy and pour on a large cookie sheet.


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