Man. It's 10:30 and after twelve hours of work, I'm finally done with Christmas Baking:
- A Quadruple batch of pretzels
- Peanut butter Rice Krispies Treats with dark chocolate on top
- Altoids brownies
- Butterscotch brownies
- Oatmeal raisin cookies
For some reason, this year's baking didn't turn out all that great. I mean, it'll all taste okay, but cosmetically it was kind of a disaster. The butterscotch brownies had this huge bubble in them and when I cut into them, the "roof" shattered, leaving this kind of pecan-pie sticky interior with nothing on top. Fortunately I was able to find a bit of topping that almost fit on each piece and kind of stuck them together.
The Altoids brownies came out okay, but the oatmeal raisins spread so much they're like lace. Again, tasty and crispy, but not very good-looking. The one good note was the pretzels... they came out as good as always, though I used up the last of the lye and am going to have to scramble to find some for this year's soapmaking.
Now I'm going to wind down for the evening and watch some movies and drink some port; I'm too exhausted to plate them up for folks tonight. Happy winter holiday of choice!
Sounds delicious! Happy holidays to you and Paul!
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