I had a feeling that if I hung around long enough and didn’t really get down to Christmas baking, then someone else might just take the lead. I mean, there has to be some payback for having teenage daughters! It wasn’t that I don’t like baking, or that I didn’t want to do it, but I just wasn’t really burning with desire. I’d made my mind up that today I would make a gentle start on a couple of different sorts. Enough that I would still enjoy it, but low-key enough that it wouldn’t feel like an industrial-scale production line!

And guess what? It worked. My elder daughter and her friend had apparently (unbeknown to me) planned a baking day for today, the first day of the school Christmas holidays. So I am banished from my own kitchen and they have recruited a very willing Granny as scullery maid number 3 (which mainly involves washing up, which she enjoys doing!). Mince pies are in the works. Chocolate brownie cup cakes are done – and everyone agreed turned out a little strangely, but I have no doubt they will get eaten as they are extremely chocolately. After the mince pies they are planning to head into the realms of Swiss Guetzli – Mailänderli (again), Brunsli and Zimtsterne  if they don’t get bored by then. Then I think we will be well-set for Christmas!

I suspect there may be a devil of a mess when they are through, but what the heck, it’s worth it!

I do like all this sharing the load.

I’m off to collect my turkey and then I think I’ll work on my socks….

Helen

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