Christmas Baking Party
Entertaining pre Christmas activities serves as a constant reminder of the imminent festival. There are various ways to start the festive season and people invent new ideas and fun for a fresh look. Throwing a Christmas baking party is a common pre Christmas activity but, this baking extravaganza is a great opportunity for family and friends to get together.
How to organize a Christmas Baking party
While organizing a Christmas baking party you need to keep the following things in mind:
- Choose a date, time and place that is suitable for you and for your friends.
- Distribute personalized cookie theme invitation to your friends.
- Plan the type of cookies you want to make or experiment.
- List out the ingredients that you will need to make the cookies and then assign the baking supplies to your friends.
- On the baking day, include some entertainment like playing the Christmas carol. This will keep the festive mood alive as you and your friends indulge in various baking fun.
Christmas Baking Party Ideas
- Split up your friends in various cooking groups.
- A good idea is to include children in the baking party. They would love to help you in decorating the various cookies.
- On your Christmas baking party you can think of preparing; Santa Cookies, Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Rice Krispies, Snowdrift Bars, Peanut Butter Cups, Peppermint Bark, Cookies and Cream Fudge, Santa’s whiskers, Pumpkin Pie Crunch and others.
Santa Cookies:
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine,
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon red cinnamon candies
- 1/2 cup vanilla frosting,
- 1/4 cup flaked coconut or edible glitter
- 1 fruit leather
Directions:
- Take a large bowl and beat sugar and butter until it is well mixed. Beat the vanilla and egg as well. Slowly beat the flour, baking soda and salt in the mixture. Shape the dough into balls and flattened it on cookie sheets.
- Press chocolate chips into the dough so that it looks like eyes. Bake the dough for 9 to 11 minutes. Press one cinnamon on each cookie to make it look like a nose. Remove it from the sheets and allow it to cool for 15 minutes.
- Make a cone with the frosting inside it and squeeze out the frosting to make beard and moustache. Sprinkle coconut flakes over the frosting.
- Cut the fruit snack and make triangular shaped hat for the cookies.
