Christmas Baking

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Since Friday I've been doing holiday baking.

For the first time in years (That's another story all together šŸ™„). We went over to my parents house for an early Christmas get together on Saturday.

I made a pecan pie, carrot cake and chocolate oatmeal cookies.

I've made pies a lot over the last few years. Blueberry, apple, pecan & pumpkin mostly. This my second year making pecan pies for the holiday. We are going to my wife's family tomorrow. My mother-in-law would always bring a carrot cake to family get togethers. But we hadn't had a carrot cake at an family event since she passed away a few years ago. So this year decided that I was going to try and make her carrot cake recipe.

Friday night made my trail carrot cake. Which I took over to my parents house along with the pecan pie and oatmeal cookies. The carrot cake & cookies was a huge hit. My Dad loves my pies I make and hid it as soon as I handed to it to him šŸ˜

I made my second carrot cake tonight. I was making the icing and realized I was out of powdered sugar šŸ˜¶ thankfully I found a tutorial on line of how to your own powdered sugar with a blender/food processor.

How has everyone's holidays been so far?

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gadget:
Have you ever made a Hummingbird cake? I've been itching to for the last year but haven't gotten around to it yet. I like to do vetebrod on Christmas - it's like a Scandinavian Christmas cinnamon roll. Typically baked in loaf form, and while I have done it that way many times, I find it's better to slice the loaf and bake them as traditional cinnamon rolls. They are much more moist that way. The only difference between them really is the addition of cardamom to the dough.
voiddragon:
@gadget I've never tried to make a hummingbird cake. I'll have to look up the recipe and give it a try.

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