Guys, we need a lighter on the mind, not on the waistline thread today on CC. 
Tell me what you’re baking this holiday season. Something new or something tried and true? Have you started baking or…no?
Nothing for me yet. Maybe this weekend. Cookies need to be baked!
@sabaray OMG I totally did not see your Say It comment before posting!!! 
I have not yet started baking but Sunday afternoon I am going to kick it into high gear. On the list for this year:
Peanut blossoms
NYT Rum-Buttered Almond Cookies (new)
Pecan crescents
Candy cane cookies
Mary’s Sugar Cookies (cutouts)
Gingerbread (Claudia Fleming’s Stout Gingerbread, a tried and true favorite, it uses rye flour)
Buche de Noel for Christmas Day
Life is short! Eat dessert!
I saw @sabaray say that and thought paging @abasket!
You must have read our minds!
No baking here. It’s a game time decision for me. We don’t need any cookies so I’m always hesitant
I try not to bake until there’s a crowd around to eat it. My DIL makes these incredible pecan bourbon balls so I can’t wait for her to get here and do her thing!
We also do a Buche de Noel, with meringue mushrooms, and bark made of melted chocolate spread on wax paper, rolled up, re-hardened, and unrolled. Bark and mushrooms look super realistic!
I’m craving the comfort of holiday baking, the familiar taste and platefuls. The satisfaction of creating simple but beautiful things.
I don’t bake a lot, but I will do a batch of Black and Whites as well as sugar cookie cutouts. This year I plan to enlist 2 1/2 yo GD to put the sprinkles on the cookies.
I thought of you and your black and white cookies when I saw red and white peppermint ones for the holidays!
VERY important job those sprinkles! 
Highlights:
Overnight Cinnamon rolls (for Christmas morning)
Loads of cookies: red velvet crinkle, chocolate chip, lemon crinkle
Tiramisu (Christmas dinner dessert)
Stracciatella Gelato (that italian ice cream maker will do me in one day)
Conchas (family recipe)
For 9 years, a friend and I have baked cookies the first weekend of December. This year we baked:
Chocolate crinkles
Ginger crinkles
Peppermint Blossoms
Cherry Blossoms
Chocolate Ginger Truffles
Buckeyes
Russian Tea Cakes
Coconut Meringues
Pistachio Cranberry bar cookies
Spritz
Anise cookies (like Italian wedding cookies)
And that layered cookie that has Graham cracker crumbs, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips and coconut
We have a very varied and colorful selection…and a LOT of cookies each.
And we really enjoy doing this. We each baked two cookies by ourselves, and the other 8 we made together. We did a half day Friday and a half day Sunday!
What are concha’s? Everything else sounds 
!
I’ve never had a homemade concha. That’s probably a good thing!
A Mexican sweet bread.
Macarons. It takes every brain cell
I usually make the same things.
Thanksgiving Day: traditionally make peanut butter balls.
So far, I’ve made ginger cookies and sugar cookie rollouts. Still to go, Spritz, fudge, red velvet crinkles, Aunt Virginia’s shortbread.
Marzipan fruits
Bouche de Noel
Chocolate and berry “wreath”
I’m going over to my mom’s on Tuesday to spend the day helping her make her annual fruitcakes (a divisive topic if there ever was one), but hers have so much rum (or brandy) they are super moist and out of this world. She’s making 20 this round, but she used to make more. We get two each year and save them to enjoy in the summer when they have “ripened” perfectly.
I will make my annual chocolate biscotti gift boxes sometime next week, but no baking for us as we’d just eat it, and we won’t have our son or any company for Christmas this year.
@momofboiler1 - I’m impressed, They all sound delicious but way above my baking skills.