No. We do cookie swaps and gingerbread houses. *edit*
Avendesora Send a noteboard - 05/12/2011 05:18:31 PM
Typical "sweets" gift to bring to a Christmas celebration in the US would be plate of cookies or other home-made sweets. My favorite are bourbon balls, peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate (AKA Buck eye balls), iced sugar cookies, shortbread thumbprints with raspberry jam filling, and gingerbread men. Some people go crazy making gingerbread houses with their kids, or give them as gifts. I'm not sure, but I think that this may be old-fashioned. I live in a rural area where lots of people still so this sort of thing, but increasingly in recent years, a lot of people buy the horrid overly-sweet iced cardboard-tasting shit that they made in bakery sections at grocery stores. However, some people I know who rarely bake cookies the rest of the year will whip up some family cookie recipe at christmas time.
There is a cookie that my mother-in-law makes that reminds me of fruit cake with maraschino cherries, whatever spices are in it, and other fruit bits that are quite tasty. She calls them "Lizzies".
Also- that link is hilarious.
There is a cookie that my mother-in-law makes that reminds me of fruit cake with maraschino cherries, whatever spices are in it, and other fruit bits that are quite tasty. She calls them "Lizzies".
Also- that link is hilarious.
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This message last edited by Avendesora on 05/12/2011 at 05:28:09 PM
I am confused. Do Americans not do cake at Christmas?
04/12/2011 10:59:04 AM
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chrimbo cake is the BEST!
04/12/2011 11:41:28 AM
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My family's Christmas is Second Thansgiving, but with bonus desserts. Mostly pie, cookies, and candy *NM*
04/12/2011 03:00:51 PM
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Or rather... Fifth Thanksgiving. Thanksgivings 2, 3, and 4 are all about Thanksgiving 1 leftovers. *NM*
04/12/2011 03:02:42 PM
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Cake?
04/12/2011 05:03:02 PM
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We don't have a sheet of icing?
04/12/2011 05:08:00 PM
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We have different icing. It is not typically a very dense, flat sheet of solid icing. Like fondant.
04/12/2011 07:46:41 PM
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No. (with other responses)
04/12/2011 05:03:51 PM
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its a fruit cake with a layer of marzipan and a layer of icing on top
04/12/2011 08:32:55 PM
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Plus with loads of brandy used to "feed" the cake over the month before you ice it.
04/12/2011 08:45:28 PM
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Christmas cake is horrid.
04/12/2011 07:25:59 PM
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There are other birds which it's "acceptable" to eat at Christmas, other than turkey.
05/12/2011 10:02:20 AM
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We do ham a lot Christmas
05/12/2011 01:01:03 PM
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Fruitcake, I guess. But we don't coat it with disgusting icing. And it's not really cake. *NM*
04/12/2011 10:12:21 PM
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I assume your Christmas cake is our Fruit Cake.
05/12/2011 01:25:07 AM
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No. We do cookie swaps and gingerbread houses. *edit*
05/12/2011 05:18:31 PM
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Christmas Cake = yum yum ppig's bum. As are Fruit Mince Pies. And boiled pudding... and roast potato *NM*
07/12/2011 01:50:28 AM
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