Christmas Baking…mmmmmm

This past weekend I went home to PEI to help my mom do some of her Christmas baking. It turned into doing all of her Christmas baking! What a wonderful time we had!

I arrived on Friday afternoon and went into her shop (she has a fabric store/sewing business) and hung out there before we headed home to start our baking extravaganza!

We started out with shortbread cookies. I brought little tiny cookie cutters and we made a million (ok maybe not a million but hundreds) of shortbread cookies! Then we moved on to bird nest cookies. It was getting late but mom whipped up the dough for the doughnuts so it could rise overnight. Then we were finished for the evening.

We got up early (for a Saturday) and we started baking at 9am sharp! We took one break at lunch time and headed out to Kensington for a few extra supplies and I went to a scrapbooking store to check it out as it just opened. Then we headed back home and baked for another few hours before we stopped for the evening and went out for supper…I think we deserved it!

On Saturday we made, homemade doughnuts, peanut butter balls, coconut balls, cherry balls, lemon squares, rocky road squares, fudge, sweet marie squares, score bar, and peanut brittle. MmMmMmMmM

On Sunday we got up and made homemade egg rolls! They are one of my favorite things that mom makes! I did the wrapping and mom did the cooking. We work very well as a team!

We had planned on only making egg rolls, shortbreads and doughnuts but we got a lot more done!! It was super fun to spend the weekend with my mom in the kitchen! I believe this will be a Christmas tradition from now on!!