Holiday baking and cooking. It takes a long time and it makes a person's feet and back ache! But, I love it. And, Ramsey loves [some of] it too.
Day 1: Butter braids, homemade caramel and Cinnabon-esque frosted rolls, English toffee.
Plus, a big pot of gumbo, rice, a pork roast, mashed potatoes (to live off for a few days!).
Ramsey was nuts about the cream cheese frosting for the rolls.
Day 2 (after church/weekend errands): Dozens of sugar cookies with royal icing and chocolate-covered honeycomb candy. ...not gonna lie, piping/frosting the cookies took a lot longer than I'd thought!
Ramsey is starting to get more creative and he wanted to dig into the frosting part. He liked back-filling/flooding the piped parts.
And, he liked the ol "schmear technique" as well. ...just slather it on there, buddy!
I even let him loose with the piping bag!!
He basically made a mound of squiggles. I had to cut him off; it was getting to be a mountain!
At one point, I was so tired of standing and meticulously piping/frosting, that I basically "gave up" and just piped squiggles (left side cookies). They're going to taste fine, so who cares what they look like?!?!?
The toffee (yum!):
Eric "called me out" for going a little more bananas than usual; he said he knew I was doing it so I could break in my new KitchenAid mixer! He caught me (I needed to test out the dough hook!)
The honeycomb candy (made specifically for my mother-in-law!), pre-chocolate dip:
And, post-dip:
Yet to make: Mini cheesecakes with lemon curd topping and raspberry coulee (for Eric's police department potluck and awards ceremony), homemade caramels, and maybe some ooey gooey caramel corn (with pecans?!).
Then... pants.... I may need to buy larger pants. :-/
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