Thinking about some homemade gifts. My son is concocting all kinds of gifts at school that he can't help but tell me about each afternoon when I pick him up. His excitement is contagious! He is also planning on making a homemade joke book for Santa to leave with Santa's usual cookies on Christmas Eve. I guess something to "lighten up" his sugar cookies. (ha ha ha)
Thus far, I have mostly bought my gifts but I do try to make something each year to give. And this year (drumroll, please) I decided on chocolate bark! Mmmm.... I have never made it and I have been searching for recipes and seeing what sounds good to the little people in my life. They both seem semi-excited about the bark notion but I am going with it anyway! Chocolate bark with pistachios, apricots, and cranberries! Peppermint chocolate bark! Here are some of the delicious ingredients:
"Chocolate is no ordinary food. It is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You don't like chocolate. You don't even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with." -Geneen Roth
This winter I do not have any coworkers (unless you count Ruby or Mr. Joe Orangey)...so I am thinking teachers, friends and family will receive this chocolate yumminess. My plan is to involve the kiddos in the making process and then have them hand it out to their teachers on their last day of school. (I did also get gift cards, if the bark is not so delish!) So. Stay tuned for photos of that process.
The other night while we were baking these:
We saw this amazing sunset...
Right outside our front door! Isn't it amazing?! It made me want to run back inside and eat those cookies (which were pretty good) and I did! Strange but true. Then I had to pack 'em up and bring them over to a dinner party, which I was grateful for.
So much homemade goodness goes on this time of year! And not just food...but cards and photos and, even, joke books for Santa.
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