Baking and more baking

Yesterday was a baking, relaxing day. Only Dennis left the house to go to work, the rest of us stayed home ALL DAY! But we were productive!

I did two batches of my Swedish Christmas bread. Instead of making them in wreathes this year, I braided them and just put in cardamom, cinnamon and brown sugar. The second batch I drizzled icing and added red cherries to the top after baking.

Then we had a hot chocolate break while Linnea began her recipe of Ginger cake with crystallized ginger.

Ooooo, it was yummy!

Happy Christmas! During all that baking, Andrew called. It was so nice to talk to him. We really miss him, and he said he misses just sitting on the couch in sweats with freezing temps outside and a cozy house inside!