Holiday Traditions – Xmas Cookie Baking Tradition

Christmas time is a fantastic time to make reminiscences with family traditions and a terrific custom is to host an once-a-year Xmas bake off.

At our property all people appears to be like forward to the initially week of Xmas family vacation, when we go into baking mode and invest 3-4 days baking our most loved Christmas cookies and candies! This tradition started for us back when I was 1st married and my father would invite all of us in excess of to the residence for a weekend of marathon baking.

We used hrs conversing and laughing as we baked and decorated dozens of different varieties of Christmas cookies even though Dad designed loaves of his famous vacation fruitcake. Dad’s fruitcake was unlike any fruitcake you experienced at any time eaten and anyone favored it. Not only was Dad’s fruitcake completely various from others the solution to its good results was that Father soaked it in rum. There was a myriad of jokes about Dad’s fruitcake and how well our pastor relished it.

Moreover cookies and fruitcake anyone would consider their hand at earning sweets, caramel and suckers. Homemade sweet is often a significant strike with anyone. I always keep out for someone to make chocolate lined peanut butter balls, one particular of my favorites.

When we ended up all done we might divide up the goodies and get them household to love or hand out as items.

Since these bygone times Father has handed absent and all of the kids have scattered to the 4 corners of the U.S. but the tradition he commenced is carried on by each of us in our have families each getaway season. It truly is a great time for us to have fun with each other and share Xmas memories.