Baking Day

Yall, I am not a baker.  like for real.  my sister, Mary Helen, is the baker.  I am not.  but every year during the holidays I like to pretend I do have that baking skill, and make some homemade goodies for our friends + neighbors!  Just a little something to let them know we love them and are thinking about them!  It’s also become a really fun tradition for Stephen + I over the years.  We combine delivering the goodies with looking at Christmas lights, and it is always a fun night during the Christmas season.

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To make this tradition even MORE fun, I made these goodies with my girls Jenna + Alison!  We got together one morning at Jenna’s after the kids were dropped off at Parents Day Out, and made a day of it!  We drank coffee [ maybe more than 2 pots…], we laughed, we told stories, we baked.  I loved how much more fun it was to bake with friends.  Instead of it being maybe a stressful task, or something just to “cross off the list” it was truly fun.  To take a break from the “lists” and “to dos” and spend the morning dreaming and baking with good friends!  I think this part of the tradition will have to continue each year!

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On the menu for my treat this year was: Poppyseed Bread from the Not so desperate housewives [no I did not make that up, thank you Pinterest]

the recipe was so easy to follow [even for me] and with a little help from my friends, I finished it!  I doubled the recipe thinking I would get 12 loaves…but I only got 8.

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I used foil baking pans, way easier!  and who has 8 real baking pans??  I ended up afterwards, taking them out of the baking pans and putting them into this super cute “bread” paper Jenna gave me.  So in the end, I probably could have made more and just made them smaller….for next year.

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and there she is!  after the yummy glaze was put on her!

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all I did, was take them out of the foil pan + put them in the cute baking paper.  I went to Target and bought a 8 pack of cute glass ornaments and used some twine I had lying around the tie it all together!  I had high hopes of ordering cute little tags, but time did not permit and this worked just fine!  All of our neighbors + friends loved the bread….success!!

Be sure to check out Jenna + Alison’s posts today and read more about this yummy goodness they made…

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Jenna made this yummy “buck eyes” treat! 

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Alison made this…

Until next year friends!  Do you have any “go to” baked goods you made during the holiday season?  We’d love to hear them! 

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