Holiday Baking

I had such a good time baking the cookies for the cookie exchange this year, so I decided to do some more baking with Nikolas over his school break. I picked up a Land O' Lakes cookie magazine at work that had several promising recipes inside.

We started last Friday, since school was called because of the icy road conditions. First batch: Anise cookies, one of my favorites.

On Sunday, we made a batch of Holiday S'mores.

Today (Monday), we did a couple of batches of Christmas Noodle Trees made with Chow Mein noodles. The first batch was really sticky and I had a hard time molding them into trees. The second batch had too many noodles mixed in and aren't sticking together well. This tree is from the first batch.