Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Day 18 - 2008 Blog Advent Tour



I'm so happy of being part of the Blog Advent Tour, which is being hosted by Marg and Kailana.

I love Christmas! I love buying presents, and wrapping them up... I don't even mind the craziness of the holidays. But if you were to ask me what is my favourite part of Christmas I would I have to say it's Christmas goodies, music and movies. And I want to share my favourites with you.

Favourite Christmas cookie:

Surprise Snow Kisses

1 cup butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup finely chopped hazelnuts, toasted
60 milk chocolate kisses, unwrapped
3/4 cup icing sugar

In a bowl, beat together butter, sugar and vanilla until fluffy. In a separate bowl, whisk the flour with the hazelnuts. Stir into the butter mixture.

Shape a rounded teaspoonful of the dough into a ball around each chocolate to cover completely. Place balls 1 inch apart on parchment paper lined rimless cookie sheets.

Bake in centre of 350F (180C) oven until firm but not browned, about 10 minutes. Let cool on pans on racks; roll in icing sugar.

Enjoy!

Favourite Christmas Songs:

As a child I loved these two:





And as an adult these are my most cherished:





Favourite movies:

I just couldn't choose one.





Merry Christmas!

10 comments:

Marg said...

Oh Holy Night is one of my favourite, favourite Christmas carols!

Thanks so much for a fun post,and for participating in the tour this year!

Michelle Fluttering Butterflies said...

I recorded Elf to watch for the first time this Christmas. I haven't gotten around to it yet!

Krissi said...

I agree with everything! Except for the cookies I haven't had those but they sound very good. Music choices and the movies. Christmas Requirements. Merry Christmas.

Kailana said...

Great post! Thanks for joining in! I have a lot of recipes to try out for these holidays!

Melissa said...

I love Elf. So cute. And I'll have to try out the cookies. They look yummy!

Anonymous said...

O Holy Night is my favorite Christmas song as well. I love it so much.

Louise said...

Merry Christmas to you and thanks for a great post. And the cookies really sound like a very yummy xmas-thing to make. Have a wonderful day :-)

Kerrie said...

I think many of us have had a great time scouring YouTube. It is a great resource isn't it?

Julia Phillips Smith said...

'Elf' - love it! ("SANTA!!!!")

Also love 'O Holy Night' - makes me shivery and emotional every time.

Vickie said...

Running behind on the Advent Tour. Catch up!

The cookies are yummy. Thanks for the recepie.

I have not seen all of "Elf". But I plan to, I love Will Farrel. Sorry, If I am spelling your name wrong, Will:)