My Sweet and Miraculous December

Happy Holidays Everyone. Let me start with the Sweet part of my December.  As an Allrecipes Allstar, December was a month for our World’s Biggest Cookie Swap board" on Pinterest and a month for Cookies. Yum! My "World’s Biggest Cookie Swap board" has a variety of cookies to try. Please check it out  http://pinterest.com/janh1012/worlds-biggest-cookie-swap/  sponsored by Allrecipes.

Thanks to our sponsors Nestlé and Ladies Home Journal. They had lots of good tips and recipes to help me make my cookies and sweets for this Holiday season.

White Chip Orange Cookies    These cookies were amazing and my favorite! Great combination with just the right amount of butter, white chocolate and orange.  Everyone that tried them loved them and asked me for the recipe.

 Dark Chocolate Cherry Fudge   This is an easy recipe for some tasty fudge. I loved the Cherries in it. I also added a few marshmallows to the top for decoration and for the kids.

 Jumbo Dark Chocolate Cookies  These were like an explosion of Chocolatey goodness. Easy to make, too.

Sweet and Salty Toll House Cookies  If you are craving Sweet and Salty this the perfect cookie for you. The flavors of Chocolate with the salty pretzels and chips work real good in this cookie.



         Butterscotch Haystacks  

Crunchy and sweet stacks made with peanut butter, marshmallows and chowmein noodles. Easy to put together.

Now the miraculous part of my story that I just had to share with you. As some of you know that I was adopted and I have always wanted to know about my birth family. Well, I found my older sister in October, 2012. We were separated by adoption 47 years ago when I was 2 1/2 years old. Well my sister (Lillie) came for a visit for a whole week, a few weeks ago. We spent that time getting to know each other and having some girl time. We went to the beach a few times, shopping, cooked some good food and we had some long talks.  As we got to know each other better we found out how much we have in common and we developed a very special bond. It was a time that I will always treasure. It was hard to let her get on that plane to go home. It was a miracle that we found eachother and it made my Holidays even sweeter.

  

My sister Lillie

 I hope you are enjoying the holidays and  that you will try a few of the cookies I have mentioned. They will make your holidays a bit sweeter. Happy New Year!



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