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@@rogersdrum1 Your TH-cam name reminds me of the Christmas song, "the Little Drummer Boy". My late Daddy's favorite song. Thank you for bringing such a sweet memory to mind. Merry Christmas!!! 🎄👏💙🎁✨ Christ is our gift!!!
My mom passed away on December 16th 2023. Just three months after my 30th birthday. My heart is broken but watching these videos of you with your daughters warms my heart. My mom loved baking. Thank you for always sharing your sweetness!
Yesterday my two little grandsons helped me decorate sugar cookies. So much fun seeing their messy sweet creations. In a few years you will have two new little helpers in the kitchen ❤
I want to thank you for so many charming recipes and To opening up that sweet home and telling us stories of family. You are a national treasure! Your Famiky is just such a blessing. I pray for continued years of happiness, wealth and health for every member of this amazing and loving Family. Respect just isn’t enough, but you have it! Again, Bless you all, and thanks. ♥️🎄🙏🕊♥️
How fun to bake Christmas treats with the girls. Won’t be long until the grands will be helping. 😍 when you were trying to decide what to do with the chocolate, I was thing. Dip half of a cookie in it. It not only tastes good but looks pretty as well. 😃
Tipper, I wanted to share this before I forgot, maybe you can add it to the list for the future episodes about Appalachian words... Dutton used as don't or does not. "He DUTTON need to be in there." I don't know why it never occurred to me until today, but I heard someone say it and I realized we say that a lot. Thank you for sharing these precious memories, moments and ideas with us to help make our Christmas more special. Merry Christmas
My Mother would make buckeyes and coconut balls every Christmas. She would put paraffin in the chocolate. She was a great candy maker and would also make fudge and peanut brittle and make up boxes to give out at Christmas time.
Enjoyed this evening's video... As I've been making Christmas cookies and treats with my granddaughters. I giggled with you on, 'why did I think this was a good idea?'😂 But we do it every year! Thank you for sharing as always. 🎄🤶🎄
Watching yall make Christmas cookies brought back childhood memories when I would 'help' my mom make sugar cookies. She would bake sugar cookies and make baskets w/ handles from aluminum foil. We would load the baskets w/freshly baked & decorated cookies and deliver them to our neighbors!
When I was a girl mom made sugar cookies like yours. She let us kids stir up the colored sugars and sprinkle them on. I did the same with my girls. Mom took a cake decorating class when I was ten and taught me, so we got a bit fancier with the cookies. My daughter makes the decorated cookies with the royal icing, outlining and then “flooding” the cookies. She gets very intricate with stencils and air brushing. The has a little cottage cookie business out of her home and has to turn business away. They truly are too pretty tty to eat.
Sounds real good my Momma was not a baker except cornbread and biscuits some times a plain cake we eat by putting homemade cow butter on it and she made tea cakes always on a wood stove which was hard to do merry Christmas
Everything looks delicious! I understood what you meant about the cookie making. I started a little over 30 years ago making & decorating gingerbread cookies. Then my girls wanted to do some and then I wanted my grandchildren to experience it. It can be stressful and messy but, it has become a family Christmas tradition that we all look forward to. I can see you one day teaching those little grandsons all about your sugar cookies and telling what their mommas did. Merry Christmas and God bless! 😀❤️
Mama used to make Christmas cookies while we were at school. She saved a few for each of us to decorate for ourselves. We took one cookie for each child and two for the teacher as gifts.
So blessed to have loving family for Christmas and to do baking. Living alone in a hotel until a week into January. Blessed to be safe, just lonely. Cherish your loved ones and traditions ❤
Labor of LOVE! This is so very special. I have the flu right now and I called moma last night to check in with her. She had made tater candy. She usually makes fudge and lots of other goodies. Katie’s baby bump is looking so cute. I love seeing you and your girls giggling and working together. The sideburn cookies had me giggling. Merry Christmas
This is my recipe three cup of sweetened coconut finely ground then add one can of sweetened condensed milk form in balls refrigerate melt chocolate chips and teaspoon of coconut oil it gives the chocolate a gloss dip coconut balls and enjoy 😊
Tipper in a few years you will have 2 more to bake cookies with. When my grandkids were little I let them help me with everything in the kitchen. One of my granddaughters thought we put paprika on potato salad because Papa liked it that way.
This is the first time I’ve noticed Corie’s little bump …. next Christmas will be a whole new world for all of you. I’m sure the bond between Katie & Corie will continue on through the boys. God Bless your family. Safe travels Austin & Corie and enjoy your family time. Merry Christmas to all !
Each year at Christmas I think of my mom and her stories of childhood. I also think of my own childhood memories. It wasn’t until after I was married that she made very many Christmas goodies. Looking back I know it was because money was so tight raising 4 kids. Her and dad barely kept us fed and housed. I’m thankful she was able to do and have more later in life. I miss her so much……
I can remember making sugar cookies at Christmas with my mom and brother. We always made a mess. But mom never said anything just letting us enjoy ourselves.. Thank you Tipper for making me remember the fun times while making cookies..❤
Thank you for letting us join your family while you are getting your Christmas foods ready. It brings back a lot of memories for me. I would sit and watch my aunt and cousin bake and make candies. A lot of my family is now gone to be with the Lord now. I'm going to try some of your recipes. Thank you for sharing them with us. I wish you and your family a joyous Christmas. God Bless you all.
Honest, wholesome, just plain genuine. That's what makes you successful. You deserve to be successful and I hope you are for a very long time. I'm very happy to watch your videos and have seen all of them. I wouldn't ask you to change a thing.
My granny always made tons of candy for Christmas..fudge, sea foam, buckeyes, the list goes on and on... It was fun to see you and the girls making the cookies and having fun going down memory lane, with the sideburn cookies! 😂
Oh making all those goodies, took me back when I made cookies and candy with my neighbor friends back in WV. We use to all get together after we each made several batches of our favorite cookies and candies, then we put them all out on the kitchen counters and kitchen table. We then filled up our Christmas tins lined with Christmas tissue paper to make them look pretty. We each had so many tins filled we all had gifts for all our kids teachers, families, church friends, co-workers and neighbor friends. Your video brought back that wonderful memory from all them many years ago. My granddaughter use to come up when she was in elementary school and I taught her how to make hard candy. We made so many flavors, it was fun. After breaking them we would shake them in powdered sugar so they wouldn’t stick together when we packed then in decorative jars. Her teachers loved them. Great memories!
I just love hanging out in the kitchen with you ladies! I miss living in North Carolina! Oh just you wait to join the grandma club! I’ve got 4! They are the best thing that’s happened to this old/young lady in years! They have brought back the magic of Christmas for our family! I’m so excited that the girls got to be pregnant together! My daughter has a set of twins but they are a boy and a girl! It bit of a different dynamic i think! Have a merry Christmas!🎁
My sister was the candy maker in our family. She made such fabulous fudge and yummy divinity of various flavors. Mom would also make popcorn balls, my favorite being strawberry marshmallow ones.
I use egg white to get the sugar to stick. The Aussies put some cherry flavouring just a smidge in the coconut balls, they sell them as cherry ripe and use dark chocolate. We have to have a pavlova complete with cream then crumbled peppermint crisp and strawberries sprinkled over the top
Years ago, my Mom, & some of the family, made cookies & sold them. The cutouts were decorated with icing, sugars, decorations, etc. We used paint brushes to get in the small places. Santa's always had a coconut beard. Each one of us had our own special touch on the cookie. That was special family time
Tipper, I don't know, but something tells me that sometimes, just maybe, you enjoy a sweet treat. (Can't blame you! Fabulous goodies come from your kitchen! Love to you and yours. Thank you for your lovely Christmas posts.
One of my girls live far away and the other lives a bit away but when we lived close we would cutout and bake the cookies and then make icing and spend several hours decorating them. Was great fun and great memories. I was a cake and cookie decorator so that was incorporated in.
Add a tablespoon of parafin wax shavings to your chocolate. It makes it shiny. Love watching your family have fun. Miss the days when my babies lived at home🙏🎄💕
Love your memories. I found in making sugar cookies that it's a lot easier if I roll the dough out between waxed paper & then chill the dough (leaving the flat rolled dough in between the waxed paper). After the dough is chilled enough, all I have to do is then peel off the waxed paper off the top of each rolled out piece & cut with the cookie cutters. It's just hard for me to try to roll out the chilled dough & this works fantastic for me. Corie & Katie have such fun together. Hugs!
I remember chocolate candy recipes from the 60s that called for a bar of Paraffin melted into the chocolate chips. We started leaving that out, and it was not missed. You are the first person I've heard in years talk about wax in dipping chocolate!
That all looks so good. I bet the orange in the cookies is really good. I have wanted to try that recipe. The coconut balls look professional. I remember my mom making haystacks but I do not remember her ever making any other candy very much, not even cookies. She made cakes and pies. When my daughter was a newborn a brand new Bi-Lo opened right down the road from us. Her first time going to the grocery store was to that Bi-Lo, set her up in her car seat on the top of the buggy. Sadly the Bi-Lo's have all closed down. There was one big store open in Gastonia until about 2020 and now they have closed too. Thanks for the video!
Great Recipes!!! I'm full just watching you make and try everything!!! Thank you for sharing all of them with us!!! Happy Holidays!!! God Bless Us All!!!
My mother did not make holiday cookies or candy but my Dad was the one who made peanut brittle , and popcorn balls, mom made fudge some ,it was always very good. Mom did teach me to make vinegar candy, it wasn’t really for holidays just for the fall .that is when we got to have homemade candy,we were too busy in the summer. Mom is gone now, step mom too, Dad still bakes but he doesn’t make much candy anymore. This year I have made some candy, plan on making cookies tomorrow. Christmas is about here and soon will be gone, New year is approaching and hope is fills the air
Now I would'nt do this for just anyone but here's my family secret to truly awesome cookies ! In every recipe that calls for vanilla ( which is pretty much all of them ) add half as much pure almond extract along with the vanilla. yum-yum !
I really enjoy watching you bake and cook your favorite dishes. I especially liked watching you try making your granny’s mint candy recipe and do your house decorating. Listening to you talk as you decide what you want to do made laugh. I am always talking to myself as I decorate or rearrange things in the house. When you were done everything looked so pretty. Have you heard of potato candy ? My son moved to Ms and someone told him about this candy. Told him it was made during the depression era. It was an inexpensive way to make sweet treats. Thinking is more southern than Appalachian. Keep entertaining us on you tube with your recipes and stories. They remind me so much of my childhood memories.
This is making me want more candy and remember fixing candy for my then little boys. I loved making boiled oatmeal cookies with maple flavoring, raisons, and sometimes coconut. I always used crunchy peanut butter. I am hoping to try sugar-free sugar so my son and I can enjoy them again. It's been years since I had them.
Sugar cookies are an OK cookie, not the best tasting of all the great Christmas baking. But oh, the memories of helping my mom, and then doing it all over again with my own kids.....can't be beat. Right up there among the best Christmas memories.
I used to make a real simple icing from icing sugar and a bit of milk, and divide it up into different bowls, different colours. The kids would use it to stick coloured sugar or sprinkles or chocolate chips or whatever they wanted onto the cookies after they were baked. Kids can get real creative - and real silly. Just thinking about it I can hear the giggles ....
That’s a good praline recipe. Growing up, my mom taught me to boil pralines, or fudge, until it reached the soft boil stage. It’s dropping a bit into cold water and feeling it. It’s an acquired thing, that I think you have to be taught. I’ve never used a candy thermometer. You always make me remember things, which are happy memories. 🎄😇
She always had a teacup with cold water.she would drop a few drops fro her spoon. If it fell apart, it wasn’t ther yet. . She would empty annd rinse cup and put fresh water. Repeat, until the soft little ball stayed together. That’s the best I can describe it. Shed then add the nuts st the end, and vanilla. She had to work quickly because it set up really fast. As all recipes go, you just have to do things according to what works for you. Yours looked delicious!
They did use to put wax in their chocolate for making the candy recipes you were talking about.tempering and all the terms we have now weren’t a thing. They didn’t have microwaves, etc. I think it was a sure fire way of using chocolate and wax to thicken and harden. Nobody ever thought another thing about the dietary stuff back then. Not that it hurt you any… I remember thst like it was yesterday. My aunt had the molds like you use and made chocolates and wax was a part of the process.
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There's a lady in our church makes a big bunch of cookies and fudge then gives every family a paper plate of goodies!!
That is so sweet 😀
Our Deacon's wife does it too and for the Bank Staff and some other folks around town, too.
@@CelebratingAppalachiaWe used to roll the sugar cookies with powdered sugar rather than flour.
You are awesome Tipper. Your'e family is so lucky to have you. I hope they realize that. You make some goodies!! Merry Christmas!!
@@rogersdrum1 Your TH-cam name reminds me of the Christmas song, "the Little Drummer Boy". My late Daddy's favorite song. Thank you for bringing such a sweet memory to mind. Merry Christmas!!! 🎄👏💙🎁✨ Christ is our gift!!!
Matt always makes me smile when he says! “Gosh that’s good!”
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Same! I love that! So endearing.
Matt is endearing & his wit & sense of self makes me smile. I older & love that he's soo much like my son.
I love that too! Such a joy to get a happy response when you cook something 😊
My mom passed away on December 16th 2023. Just three months after my 30th birthday. My heart is broken but watching these videos of you with your daughters warms my heart. My mom loved baking. Thank you for always sharing your sweetness!
I'm so very sorry you lost her.
I have my mom's recipe box.....most of them handwritten in her own writing. It's a treasure.
Thanks for inviting us to join in the Christmas baking and candy making. I enjoyed it so much and brought back lots of memories.
God bless you .
Thank you for past memories. My mama is in heaven now but I remember so well all the fun we had making all the Christmas goodies.
People used to put paraffin in their buckeye coating. Nowadays we would use something like coconut oil. Everything looks delicious!
Yesterday my two little grandsons helped me decorate sugar cookies. So much fun seeing their messy sweet creations. In a few years you will have two new little helpers in the kitchen ❤
I have to make those coconut bonbons for my dad. He love’s coconut.
I want to thank you for so many charming recipes and To opening up that sweet home and telling us stories of family.
You are a national treasure! Your Famiky is just such a blessing. I pray for continued years of happiness, wealth and health for every member of this amazing and loving Family. Respect just isn’t enough, but you have it! Again, Bless you all, and thanks. ♥️🎄🙏🕊♥️
Thank you 😊
How fun to bake Christmas treats with the girls. Won’t be long until the grands will be helping. 😍 when you were trying to decide what to do with the chocolate, I was thing. Dip half of a cookie in it. It not only tastes good but looks pretty as well. 😃
Tipper, I wanted to share this before I forgot, maybe you can add it to the list for the future episodes about Appalachian words...
Dutton used as don't or does not.
"He DUTTON need to be in there." I don't know why it never occurred to me until today, but I heard someone say it and I realized we say that a lot.
Thank you for sharing these precious memories, moments and ideas with us to help make our Christmas more special.
Merry Christmas
You know? I say that too! Southwestern Ohio here
We say it that way too 😀 Thank you!!
Thanks!
Thank you! We appreciate your support!!
Those all look so good. The girls looked like they had fun helping with the cookies.😊
My Mother would make buckeyes and coconut balls every Christmas. She would put paraffin in the chocolate. She was a great candy maker and would also make fudge and peanut brittle and make up boxes to give out at Christmas time.
Love that!
Won't be long and it will be memories with the grandbabies
Enjoyed this evening's video... As I've been making Christmas cookies and treats with my granddaughters. I giggled with you on, 'why did I think this was a good idea?'😂 But we do it every year! Thank you for sharing as always. 🎄🤶🎄
Watching yall make Christmas cookies brought back childhood memories when I would 'help' my mom make sugar cookies. She would bake sugar cookies and make baskets w/ handles from aluminum foil. We would load the baskets w/freshly baked & decorated cookies and deliver them to our neighbors!
What a wonderful tradition
Love that so much 😊
When I was a girl mom made sugar cookies like yours. She let us kids stir up the colored sugars and sprinkle them on. I did the same with my girls. Mom took a cake decorating class when I was ten and taught me, so we got a bit fancier with the cookies. My daughter makes the decorated cookies with the royal icing, outlining and then “flooding” the cookies. She gets very intricate with stencils and air brushing. The has a little cottage cookie business out of her home and has to turn business away. They truly are too pretty tty to eat.
Sounds real good my Momma was not a baker except cornbread and biscuits some times a plain cake we eat by putting homemade cow butter on it and she made tea cakes always on a wood stove which was hard to do merry Christmas
I'm just so happy for your family and the blessings of two baby boys!You will be the best Granny Jr!❤
Thank you!
To this day, my cousins and I think fondly back to cookie day my Mother had where all us kids made Christmas cookies. Great video, Merry Christmas!
It's fun watching y'all make holiday goodies. Your family is precious. But most of all, I love the way those girls love each other.❤❤
Everything looks delicious! I understood what you meant about the cookie making. I started a little over 30 years ago making & decorating gingerbread cookies. Then my girls wanted to do some and then I wanted my grandchildren to experience it. It can be stressful and messy but, it has become a family Christmas tradition that we all look forward to. I can see you one day teaching those little grandsons all about your sugar cookies and telling what their mommas did. Merry Christmas and God bless! 😀❤️
Mama used to make Christmas cookies while we were at school. She saved a few for each of us to decorate for ourselves. We took one cookie for each child and two for the teacher as gifts.
Thank you for sharing praline candy.
So blessed to have loving family for Christmas and to do baking. Living alone in a hotel until a week into January. Blessed to be safe, just lonely. Cherish your loved ones and traditions ❤
Thinking of you. Hope all goes well. Sending a little prayer.
❤bless you foryour kindness❤@@along5925
My friend from Illinois always made sugar cookies at Easter time. She had a cross cookie cutter and a bunny and a carrot for the kids.
That’s so sweet how you and your girls make cookies together 😊
Yes, Valentine Cookies or Easter Sugar Cookies...or just because we love these cookies!
Merry Christmas and many blessings to you and your family.
Thank you!!
Labor of LOVE! This is so very special. I have the flu right now and I called moma last night to check in with her. She had made tater candy. She usually makes fudge and lots of other goodies. Katie’s baby bump is looking so cute. I love seeing you and your girls giggling and working together. The sideburn cookies had me giggling. Merry Christmas
Hope you feel better soon!! Thank you!
This is my recipe three cup of sweetened coconut finely ground then add one can of sweetened condensed milk form in balls refrigerate melt chocolate chips and teaspoon of coconut oil it gives the chocolate a gloss dip coconut balls and enjoy 😊
Sounds so good!!
Tipper in a few years you will have 2 more to bake cookies with. When my grandkids were little I let them help me with everything in the kitchen. One of my granddaughters thought we put paprika on potato salad because Papa liked it that way.
I agree about watching the videos of the folks decorating the fancy cookies. I can watch those for hours ❤
This is the first time I’ve noticed Corie’s little bump …. next Christmas will be a whole new world for all of you. I’m sure the bond between Katie & Corie will continue on through the boys. God Bless your family. Safe travels Austin & Corie and enjoy your family time. Merry Christmas to all !
I Loved making Buckeyes, Peanut butter and Chocolate Fudge with my Mom. And Church Windows !!
🎶🔔Have A Blessed Christmas 🙏
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This was fun! Everything looked really good. The sideburn cookies were a hoot! God bless, and Merry Christmas!
My mom absolutely loved coconut and pralines❤🎉
Each year at Christmas I think of my mom and her stories of childhood. I also think of my own childhood memories. It wasn’t until after I was married that she made very many Christmas goodies. Looking back I know it was because money was so tight raising 4 kids. Her and dad barely kept us fed and housed. I’m thankful she was able to do and have more later in life. I miss her so much……
I can remember making sugar cookies at Christmas with my mom and brother. We always made a mess. But mom never said anything just letting us enjoy ourselves.. Thank you Tipper for making me remember the fun times while making cookies..❤
I made the sugar cookies this afternoon with my kids and hands down the BEST sugar cookie recipe I've ever tried! Thank you ❤
Great video, thank you for blessing us with these recipes and showing us your wonderful family.
Thank you for letting us join your family while you are getting your Christmas foods ready. It brings back a lot of memories for me. I would sit and watch my aunt and cousin bake and make candies. A lot of my family is now gone to be with the Lord now. I'm going to try some of your recipes. Thank you for sharing them with us. I wish you and your family a joyous Christmas. God Bless you all.
Honest, wholesome, just plain genuine. That's what makes you successful. You deserve to be successful and I hope you are for a very long time. I'm very happy to watch your videos and have seen all of them. I wouldn't ask you to change a thing.
I appreciate that! Thank you!!
Tipper, you're so lucky to have Matt there for quality control inspections. 😂
God bless Granny with s Merry Christmas
Thank you Norman!
@@CelebratingAppalachia I love you and your family, Merry Christmas Granny 🎄❤️🙏
My girlfriend loves coconut and chocolate! I’m refrigerating them now; she’s coming over tonight to exchange gifts. Wish me luck !!
Sugar pearls or dragées. Yes, Granny melted a little paraffin wax in her chocolate. It helps the chocolate set hard and be shiny.
My granny always made tons of candy for Christmas..fudge, sea foam, buckeyes, the list goes on and on... It was fun to see you and the girls making the cookies and having fun going down memory lane, with the sideburn cookies! 😂
Blessings always Merry Christmas everyone ☝🏼❤️ Happy Birthday JESUS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🎊👏👏👏🥰☝🏼🙏
Tipper you are a trooper!
😀 Thank you
On sugar cookies
Use powder sugar instead of flour for rolling.
Oh making all those goodies, took me back when I made cookies and candy with my neighbor friends back in WV. We use to all get together after we each made several batches of our favorite cookies and candies, then we put them all out on the kitchen counters and kitchen table. We then filled up our Christmas tins lined with Christmas tissue paper to make them look pretty. We each had so many tins filled we all had gifts for all our kids teachers, families, church friends, co-workers and neighbor friends. Your video brought back that wonderful memory from all them many years ago. My granddaughter use to come up when she was in elementary school and I taught her how to make hard candy. We made so many flavors, it was fun. After breaking them we would shake them in powdered sugar so they wouldn’t stick together when we packed then in decorative jars. Her teachers loved them. Great memories!
Love that 😊
I just love hanging out in the kitchen with you ladies! I miss living in North Carolina! Oh just you wait to join the grandma club! I’ve got 4! They are the best thing that’s happened to this old/young lady in years! They have brought back the magic of Christmas for our family! I’m so excited that the girls got to be pregnant together! My daughter has a set of twins but they are a boy and a girl! It bit of a different dynamic i think! Have a merry Christmas!🎁
Wax makes the chocolate shell shiny but also allows you to hold it without it melting so quick.
Sure enjoyed the cookie and candy making with you and the Girls. God Bless. 💕&🙏🙏'ers. Jean
Making precious memories.
My sister was the candy maker in our family. She made such fabulous fudge and yummy divinity of various flavors. Mom would also make popcorn balls, my favorite being strawberry marshmallow ones.
I use egg white to get the sugar to stick. The Aussies put some cherry flavouring just a smidge in the coconut balls, they sell them as cherry ripe and use dark chocolate. We have to have a pavlova complete with cream then crumbled peppermint crisp and strawberries sprinkled over the top
Years ago, my Mom, & some of the family, made cookies & sold them. The cutouts were decorated with icing, sugars, decorations, etc. We used paint brushes to get in the small places. Santa's always had a coconut beard. Each one of us had our own special touch on the cookie. That was special family time
Love that!
Looks so delicious thanks Tipper Katie and Corey
WooHoo!! All those Christmas goodies! Y’all got it right. Thanks for sharing!! God bless and much love! 💕🙏🏻🤗🎄🎅🏼
Thanks so much 😀
Merry Christmas to you and your sweet family - Thank you for your wonderful videos, I have enjoyed each one!
You are so kind Thank you!
❤🎉ha! I cant wait to see those 2 baby boys helping 💙 with cookies next christmas!!!❤❤😊❤❤
Thank you Debbie! We were just talking about you at supper 😀 about how nice you are to us all 😀
So Happy for Matt with the Precious Grandsons on the Way those Guys will have lots of Fun together ❤❤
Awww thanks. You all inspire me!!!
Now I have the munchies... enjoyed the cooking fun! 🎄🎄❤️
I have been making Christmas cookies for over 50 years and give them as gifts.
Love that 😊
I love Coconut BonBons!!!
when it matters; i have always thrown myself into the storm (fools rush in where angels fear to tread) ...but; those are always my best moments
Tipper, I don't know, but something tells me that sometimes, just maybe, you enjoy a sweet treat. (Can't blame you! Fabulous goodies come from your kitchen! Love to you and yours. Thank you for your lovely Christmas posts.
😀 Thank you!
One of my girls live far away and the other lives a bit away but when we lived close we would cutout and bake the cookies and then make icing and spend several hours decorating them. Was great fun and great memories. I was a cake and cookie decorator so that was incorporated in.
Oh I know those were beautiful 😊
Merry Christmas and continued success in 2024💕
I just love your cooking videos. Thank you for this wonderful channel.❤
Add a tablespoon of parafin wax shavings to your chocolate. It makes it shiny. Love watching your family have fun. Miss the days when my babies lived at home🙏🎄💕
Love your memories. I found in making sugar cookies that it's a lot easier if I roll the dough out between waxed paper & then chill the dough (leaving the flat rolled dough in between the waxed paper). After the dough is chilled enough, all I have to do is then peel off the waxed paper off the top of each rolled out piece & cut with the cookie cutters. It's just hard for me to try to roll out the chilled dough & this works fantastic for me. Corie & Katie have such fun together. Hugs!
Mmm mm mmmm! I bet your house smells so amazing right now! This puts me in the mood to bake!
Bless your dear mother,she helps you girls so much
I remember chocolate candy recipes from the 60s that called for a bar of Paraffin melted into the chocolate chips. We started leaving that out, and it was not missed. You are the first person I've heard in years talk about wax in dipping chocolate!
You have such a nice, loving family!!
Thank you so much!
That all looks so good. I bet the orange in the cookies is really good. I have wanted to try that recipe. The coconut balls look professional. I remember my mom making haystacks but I do not remember her ever making any other candy very much, not even cookies. She made cakes and pies. When my daughter was a newborn a brand new Bi-Lo opened right down the road from us. Her first time going to the grocery store was to that Bi-Lo, set her up in her car seat on the top of the buggy. Sadly the Bi-Lo's have all closed down. There was one big store open in Gastonia until about 2020 and now they have closed too. Thanks for the video!
Great Recipes!!! I'm full just watching you make and try everything!!! Thank you for sharing all of them with us!!! Happy Holidays!!! God Bless Us All!!!
YUM. The coconut balls would be my favorite.❤
My mother did not make holiday cookies or candy but my Dad was the one who made peanut brittle , and popcorn balls, mom made fudge some ,it was always very good. Mom did teach me to make vinegar candy, it wasn’t really for holidays just for the fall .that is when we got to have homemade candy,we were too busy in the summer. Mom is gone now, step mom too, Dad still bakes but he doesn’t make much candy anymore. This year I have made some candy, plan on making cookies tomorrow. Christmas is about here and soon will be gone, New year is approaching and hope is fills the air
Loved watching this. Thank you for sharing.
I got hungry just watching You Cook, Bake and All. 😋
I enjoyed watching your Girls as Well. They are Adorable. 😊
Now I would'nt do this for just anyone but here's my family secret to truly awesome cookies ! In every recipe that calls for vanilla ( which is pretty much all of them ) add half as much pure almond extract along with the vanilla. yum-yum !
Great tip!
Candies look so Beautiful I know they are Delicious ❤🎄🎁
Thank you 😋
I love that y'all compared hands❤
Thank all the cookies look so good . Thank you for sharing Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year stay safe.
I really enjoy watching you bake and cook your favorite dishes. I especially liked watching you try making your granny’s mint candy recipe and do your house decorating. Listening to you talk as you decide what you want to do made laugh. I am always talking to myself as I decorate or rearrange things in the house. When you were done everything looked so pretty.
Have you heard of potato candy ? My son moved to Ms and someone told him about this candy. Told him it was made during the depression era. It was an inexpensive way to make sweet treats. Thinking is more southern than Appalachian.
Keep entertaining us on you tube with your recipes and stories. They remind me so much of my childhood memories.
So glad you enjoy our videos!! I love potato candy 😊
I really enjoyed this video. I couldn't wait to watch it. I have to try some of the goodies. Tell Granny i love her & Merry Christmas!!!!
This is making me want more candy and remember fixing candy for my then little boys. I loved making boiled oatmeal cookies with maple flavoring, raisons, and sometimes coconut. I always used crunchy peanut butter. I am hoping to try sugar-free sugar so my son and I can enjoy them again. It's been years since I had them.
Love coconut!
My Mother-in-law from Texas sprinkled a light shake of salt over her wax paper and put her Pralines on the sheet. The sweet and salty was really good.
Yum!
Sugar cookies are an OK cookie, not the best tasting of all the great Christmas baking. But oh, the memories of helping my mom, and then doing it all over again with my own kids.....can't be beat. Right up there among the best Christmas memories.
I used to make a real simple icing from icing sugar and a bit of milk, and divide it up into different bowls, different colours. The kids would use it to stick coloured sugar or sprinkles or chocolate chips or whatever they wanted onto the cookies after they were baked. Kids can get real creative - and real silly. Just thinking about it I can hear the giggles ....
Everything looks delicious. ❤
Thank you 😋
All of the cookies and candy looked delicious!
Love the recipes. Looks delicious. 😊🎉
Thanks as njs for these great recipes!
My brother in law can make Fudge and just walk away and it turns out excellent 👌
That’s a good praline recipe. Growing up, my mom taught me to boil pralines, or fudge, until it reached the soft boil stage. It’s dropping a bit into cold water and feeling it. It’s an acquired thing, that I think you have to be taught. I’ve never used a candy thermometer. You always make me remember things, which are happy memories. 🎄😇
She always had a teacup with cold water.she would drop a few drops fro her spoon. If it fell apart, it wasn’t ther yet. . She would empty annd rinse cup and put fresh water. Repeat, until the soft little ball stayed together.
That’s the best I can describe it. Shed then add the nuts st the end, and vanilla. She had to work quickly because it set up really fast. As all recipes go, you just have to do things according to what works for you. Yours looked delicious!
They did use to put wax in their chocolate for making the candy recipes you were talking about.tempering and all the terms we have now weren’t a thing. They didn’t have microwaves, etc. I think it was a sure fire way of using chocolate and wax to thicken and harden. Nobody ever thought another thing about the dietary stuff back then. Not that it hurt you any… I remember thst like it was yesterday. My aunt had the molds like you use and made chocolates and wax was a part of the process.
Love those memories! Granny used cold water like that too 😀