Thursday, December 14, 2023

Thanksgiving or How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies

  Forget writing books just make good desserts! LOL   

     Oh My Goodness! I am in recovery mode! I guess most everyone else is also. LOL I hope everyone had a nice / blessed Thanksgiving this year. It has been a crazy stupid year in so many ways for our country but we can at least make things as good as we can for our immediate families and friends.
    It was a real challenge for me this year. I had a function of some kind every 2 days to bring desserts to! Wow! I have people tell me all the time I need to open or sell my baked goods but they haven't a clue what that involves. I thought I was doing good and getting ahead by making enough of some things I could take to each place. There is barely enough room with my counter space to get one thing done much less all I had to do this holiday. Then when I made things ahead and had all the "extra" stuff I had to find containers and counter space to store the goodies until it was time to take things. I have my own mini fridge now that was a absolute life saver! Made things so much easier but still it was all a organized puzzle to do. I was in panic mode after doing cookies I found only about 4 pounds of powdered sugar left for all the frostings I needed! Which reminds me I need to get at least 25#'s to have around here for the next round of treats.


I made turkey cut out cookies 40+
Chocolate covered mint oreos ( a huge hit! )
miniature chocolate cupcakes with vanilla and chocolate swirled frosting
Then separately made a 10" sour cream chocolate cheesecake (New York) with oreo crust, maraschino cherries on top with drizzled chocolate on top of that. I had so much filling I also made a smaller 8" cheesecake.
Another thing was a Red velvet cake with thick cream cheese filling frosted with toasted coconut on the side and red velvet cake crumbs on the top.
The last 2 were really pretty.  They tasted pretty good to. I am not a fan of the sour cream flavor in the cheese cake but everyone else loved it.
     I know I must be doing something right when at church I had several people come up and have special orders they had to fill. One had a boyfriend that said if Bonnie's coming BE SURE to bring something good home. Another lady said her husband and son told her to bring some goodies home also. Then one of the family functions I had a good laugh. A wife came up and said if Bonnie's (desserts) not coming he wasn't going!  One of the little kids wanted to know if the Sweets Lady was coming. LOL
   Nikki's mom had to cancel their turkey dinner because her and her husband both had covid. I told Nikki if she still wanted to do one I have a 24# Smoked ham I would donate and bring desserts. She said sure and so we had both sets of her husbands parents, me and my hubby and then her family of 4. She called and warned that her son had the sniffles and congestion if we wanted to avoid getting sick. I told her kids always have sniffles and yuck going on we would take the chance. One thing is for sure even though I went by what the internet said on how to warm a sliced smoked turkey it still came out dry with 4 cups of water and tightly sealed with foil. Meat is for sure not my forte LOL She had a nice cinnamony pumpkin pie and I had the cookies, chocolate covered oreos and mini cupcakes. We all had a good time visiting. 
    I am making a huge pot of pinto beans and going to put a bunch of ham in it because hubby likes lots of meat when you have beans on the plate. I am going to be making a load and a half of cornbread muffins to go with it. I asked Nikki if they wanted some but I think she had leftovers like everyone else and said no thanks. If I get really energetic I might package some up for the church group of just a few ladies to share with them. I don't know lets see how much this makes up I know at least a gallon of soaked beans so far. I did have enough to share with 5 church members after all and when hubby was tired of them put a bunch in the freezer!

Love

Ranchmama