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2013 Holiday Bake-Palooza

December 9, 2013 by Amy 2 Comments

2013 Bake-Palooza

This past weekend was a busy one in our kitchen. We had our annual holiday bake-palooza for coworker/neighbor gifts! I think after doing this for 4 years, we have figured out a good system for doing this. We were done much earlier than I anticipated, which is awesome. 🙂

2013 Bake-Palooza

At the end of the weekend, this was what we ended up with. The packaging this year was a mish-mash of items from Wal-Mart, Target, Hobby Lobby, Pick Your Plum, TJMaxx & World Market. This year was a year to use up leftover packaging from previous years, so nothing is really uniform. However, it doesn’t really matter to me, because I think it looks really fun sitting together.

The recipes that we decided on this year were:

  • pumpkin snickerdoodles
  • molasses spice cookies
  • perfect chocolate chip cookies w/ holiday M&Ms (recipe coming soon)
  • Mom’s fudge
  • eggnog cranberry bread
  • elf’s mix
  • homemade caramels (recipe coming soon)
  • chocolate bark (recipe coming soon)

To divide things up, about a month ago, I made all of the cookie dough and froze it using this method in the post. Then on Friday, we made all of the candy (2 batches of fudge, caramel, elf’s mix & bark)., and on Saturday, we baked up all of the cookies and made the bread. It really wasn’t bad at all, compared to previous years. The biggest time saver is making all of the cookie dough in advance, especially when you’re making 3-4 batches of each cookie dough.

2013 Bake-Palooza

These are trays that I made for each of our offices. I purchased these at Wal-Mart for $3, and they come with a lid and a handle. They hold a ton, which is perfect since we wanted to give our coworkers a nice variety of things to enjoy.

2013 Bake-Palooza

This is the inside of the tin in the first picture. We gave these gifts to neighbors, and they were the perfect size. We squeezed in some fudge, homemade caramels, as well as cookies.

2013 Bake-Palooza

Since I work on a very small team, I wanted to give little bags of treats to them as well. Sure, they could pull from the large break room tray that I made, but since my office is pretty large, I wanted to make sure they had their share of the goodies too. 🙂

Have you done any holiday baking yet? When do you plan on baking for holiday gifting?

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  1. Kate says

    December 9, 2013 at 10:03 am

    Yummmmm! Can you come be my coworker?

    Reply
  2. Books 'n Cooks says

    December 9, 2013 at 10:34 am

    Sounds like a great weekend! Wish I worked with you 🙂

    Reply

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