One of my fondest Christmas memories is decorating Santa and Christmas tree-shaped sugar cookies with my mom when I was ten years old. They were supposed to be for a holiday bake sale, but they were so delicious that we ended up eating half of them before we were even finished frosting them. Consuming that much sugar in one sitting was amazing, of course, but it is the fun I had just spending time with my mom that really made that day so much fun. Christmas baking with your children is a great way to bond with them during the holiday season, and make memories that both of you will treasure for a long time.

Bonding Over Cookies

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Have you ever taken the results of your family’s Christmas cake recipe out of the oven and been disappointed? How can the same recipe created year after year always come out differently? “Why didn’t my cake BAKE correctly?”

I’m here to tell you that the problem with most home baking mistakes isn’t in the BAKING, it’s in the MIXING of your cakes that most mistakes are made.

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