What Sweets Should I Make-updated

At first, I was thinking, all white??? Then I thought, Hmmm, all white! What about divinity???? Easy to do if you have a Kitchenaid type mixer.

I kind of like the all white idea!!! Especially with some red paper and a gold tin???

I'm getting ready to do the same thing on Monday. Lot of different items. My list is:

Chocolate fudge, peanut butter fudge, divinity, sugar cookies, and oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies. Maybe some puppy chow - but I'd eat all of that. :)

T., I like all your ideas and think they will look pretty together. Of course, I am a sweets-a-holic, so of course they all sound great to me! :) But really, they do sound more appetizing than frosted Christmas cookies.

The white chocolate pretzels sounds awsome!

Here's what I'm making this year: cranberry-pecan rugalach, thumbprints with FROG jam (fig, raspberry, orange & ginger), Russian tea cakes, sea salt caramels, peppermint bark, chocolate peppermint pinwheels, Italian Christmas cookies (with ricotta in the dough) & cream cheese cookies. A lot of them are all or mostly white, but different sizes/shapes/textures like you said.

I don't do frosted cut out sugar cookies, ever. My husband & kids make gingerbread men (a tradition that started one year I needed them all occupied for the day so that I could stay in my room wrapping ALL day long with little to no interuption & has been carried on the past 5 years).

Let me know if you are interested in any recipes!

Oh my, I would be thrilled with what you've already listed.
Awesome!
I'd go with that! :)

Can you make caramel?? My friend's mom used to make it every year and gift it for Christmas. YUMMMMMMMM!

two words: Peppermint Biscotti

I am making multiple batches this year, its actually the only cookie I'm baking (and I usually make about 7 different kinds each year). Its so good and its drizzled with milk chocolate (that hardens obviously) and sprinkled with crushed candy canes.

Merry Christmas!

The only thing I can think of that you don't list that I would LOVE to see is gingerbread men!

I'd like to see something with chocolate, but nothing overwhelmingly rich (I like fudge, but not a tin-full!) I'd like to see (and eat of course) something a little more unique perhaps - not the same ol sugar cookie or something I could easily make at home. If it's a gift/treat then I think I'd appreciate it more if it were something you don't see every day, or can't go to the store to buy from the bakery or cookie aisle.

Added after you post your cravings: I LOVE puppy chow, and have never made it myself. YES good idea. Not sure wha Reindeer Munch is. I love white chocolate covered pretzels. YES do that. Not sure what the sugar snowballs are. They sound great. Toffee - yum! Peppermint bark I've never had. So sounds good. I say you could do a trio of treats in each tin - a red tissue paper with puppy chow, a white tissue paper with those Hershy Kiss hug treats, and a green tissue paper with peppermint bark or something like that. And speaking of those Hershey's things: I have made these in the past with Rolo's. The Hershy's Hugs looks cuter, but the Rolos are so yummy and they melt very quickly, therefore saving some time. To do it, I think we layed the "haystack" type pretzels on a pan, put a rolo on each one, stuck in the oven at 350 for 2-3 minutes, then pulled them out and squished an M&M on top. They take about 30 mins or longer to completely cool to where you can handle them and not get chocolate on your fingers. Again - they aren't as cute as the Hugs one, but they melt quickly and they taste GREAT with the chewiness of the Rolo and the crunchiness of the pretzel.

I like your white idea-- if my Great Grandma was around to add some of her Divinity it would be PERFECT (I think, what's Reindeer Munch?)