Festive Christmas Shortbreads
How wonderfully civil; melt in the mouth butter shortbreads waiting to be eaten 'neath the Christmas tree.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 30th of December is "festive food", so what better festive food to share than some of my own home made offerings. I make butter shortbreads each year for family and friends for Christmas as a gift. What started as a small offering has now become almost too much for me as word spread, and requests came in. Now that I work part-time, it makes it a little easier. I have to set aside a whole weekend at least which I devote just to the baking of Christmas fare in my little kitchen. So as my oven temperature increases, so does the volume on my stereo as I play a selection of my Christmas albums whilst I bake.
This year I made thirteen trays of shortbread biscuits, so around two hundred shortbread biscuits, made with a recipe almost one hundred years old, each injected with just a bit of love to the recipients.
I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, that it makes you smile... oh and bon appétit!
As this is the last “Looking Close on Friday” of the year, I should just like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in the group a very happy New Year. May it be filled with happiness and joy for you all.
Festive Christmas Shortbreads
How wonderfully civil; melt in the mouth butter shortbreads waiting to be eaten 'neath the Christmas tree.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 30th of December is "festive food", so what better festive food to share than some of my own home made offerings. I make butter shortbreads each year for family and friends for Christmas as a gift. What started as a small offering has now become almost too much for me as word spread, and requests came in. Now that I work part-time, it makes it a little easier. I have to set aside a whole weekend at least which I devote just to the baking of Christmas fare in my little kitchen. So as my oven temperature increases, so does the volume on my stereo as I play a selection of my Christmas albums whilst I bake.
This year I made thirteen trays of shortbread biscuits, so around two hundred shortbread biscuits, made with a recipe almost one hundred years old, each injected with just a bit of love to the recipients.
I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, that it makes you smile... oh and bon appétit!
As this is the last “Looking Close on Friday” of the year, I should just like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in the group a very happy New Year. May it be filled with happiness and joy for you all.