Did you also know I just bought some personal training sessions and I am very much on the wagon? That's right...hopped on at the most difficult time to be "good". Christmas time. Oh, the horror. And considering my love of baking, it seems so much worse.
My solution has been to bake a number of Christmas goodies and give them away! Hubby is shocked and appalled but it's really the best fix, I think. So I made a few things this year (my mom's version of Oh Henry Bars - really nothing like the chocolate bar, Peppermint Macarons, my aunt T's Bailey's Fudge - crazy good, Coconut Chocolates, and Pecan Snowball Cookies) and most of them are packaged up to go! My mom gave me really cute Christmas treat boxes last year so I used those and bought these adorable little dishes from Michaels (pictured below). They were literally $2 each. AMAZING!
I just kept a few things so hubby can snack on them over the holidays. So I was able to bake, hubby gets a few treats, and treats for friends! I'm pretty happy about this (although don't get me wrong, I would way rather be eating those sweets)!
I used the Christmas gift tags I bought on Etsy, tissue paper, and ribbon to package up some of the sweets.
They look good, right? I tried one (really, only one) of the Coconut Chocolates because I had never made them before and they were so good!! The graham cracker square you're seeing is our version of the Oh Henry Bar. I'm really not sure why we call it that because there are no peanuts or caramel. They simply consist of graham wafers, chocolate, butter, brown sugar, and graham cracker crumbs. Really easy and hubby's favourite Christmas treat that my family makes.
Can I just say I'm really proud of this photo? I never feel like my photos are very good and this one with the tree in the background out of focus looking so amazing is such a happy accident. *Ahem* I mean photography skill... ;)
And aren't those little dishes from Michaels so great? Really - $2. I only bought two but I probably should have bought fifteen.
Merry Christmas! I just can't stop saying it.
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