12 Bakes of Christmas

12 vintage recipes leading up to the holidays!

12 Bakes of Christmas! This year, I am doing the 12 Bakes of Christmas! Every day leading up to Christmas I will be sharing a new recipe that I inherited from my Grandma! Some are new, some are old, but all are delicious! Tune in every day at 5 pm to see the 12 Bakes of Christmas!

I knew I had to begin the 12 bakes of Christmas with my grandma’s recipe for Chocolate Mint Sandwich Cookies. These were a STAPLE in all of our Holiday gatherings, and there were never leftovers. They are the perfect combination of a soft chocolate cookie, with thick, creamy peppermint frosting!

Peanut Brittle is a staple during Christmas time! It adds a nice crispy change up to all the soft cookies of Christmas time! It also happens to be one of my dad’s favorite desserts! This is my grandma’s recipe for peanut brittle, before today, I actually have never made it before! I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it is!

Day 3 of the 12 bakes of Christmas is Spritz Cookies! This is my great-grandma’s cookie recipe. They are traditional Scandinavian Christmas Cookies, but that didn’t stop her from making them year-round because we loved them so much! There are many ways to make them, from a piping bag, cookie press, or even a cookie scoop! They can also be decorated and customized, and no chilling time, making them a great cookie to make with kids!

Day 4 is one of my favorite cookies! Ginger Molasses! While there is ginger, it is not overpowering. It simply adds a magical amount of spice to enhance these chewy cookies! They are delicious, and even better warm out of the oven!

Day 5 of the 12 Bakes of Christmas🎄This is one of my most-looked-forward too recipes when December comes around! It is the best fudge recipe, so much so that I won’t eat any other fudge because it just doesn’t compare! I promise that this will be the richest, creamiest, chocolaty-ist, the best fudge you ever had!

Day 6 of the 12 bakes of
Christmas! My grandma’s Perfect Pecan Pie is the
recipe for the day! This recipe is an old favorite, and
was in the family cookbook I created last year! It is
super simple to make, you can practically do it in one
bowl

Day 7 of the 12 Bakes of
Christmas! Bird’s Nest! This is the first recipe I ever memorized
when I was a kid, they are so easy to make! I love the
chocolate-butterscotch combo. You can’t go wrong
with these no-bake treats! Bird’s Nest are simple to
make, crunchy, chocolaty, and delicious! 

Day 8 is my grandma’s cream cheese pound cake recipe. It has lots of flavor and is incredibly moist. The cream cheese gives perfect not-too-sweet, goes great with berries and ice cream, flavor! It can also be baked as a bundt cake instead of a traditional pound cake loaf. 

Day 9 is cinnamon rolls! There is something special about cinnamon rolls during the Christmas season, it’s like the Christmas Spirit makes them taste better?! I love adding fun sprinkles to be ✨extra✨festive

Day 10 of the 12 Bakes of Christmas! Today is a special day because it’s my
husband’s birthday! So I am sharing one of his favorite
recipes, a birthday Carrot Cake! This is my grandma’s
recipe, and I love how simple it is! It is a one-bowl
cake recipe, yet making a perfectly spiced, homemade
carrot cake!

Day 11 of the 12 Bakes of Christmas, today’s recipe is sourdough rolls! Sourdough rolls are easy and fast to make, light and fluffy, and the sourdough adds such a lovely flavor! They make the perfect addition to bring to Christmas Dinner!

Day 12 of the 12 Bakes of Christmas. As this baking series comes to a close, I am sharing my grandma’s recipe for Sour Cream Out-Out Cookies. These are the perfect cookies to decorate, light, fluffy, and full of flavor. We would decorate them with cream cheese frosting, and would leave them out for Santa on Christmas Eve!