Christmas Cookies

Ingredients
1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of brown sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila

Steps
Sample the Cuervo to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.

Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add one peastoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the Cuervo is still ok, try another cup just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy.

Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick the fruit off the floor.

Mix on the turner.

If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters just pry it loose with a drewscriver..

Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who cares. Check the Jose Cuervo . Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

Add one table.

Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.

Greash the oven..

Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Don't forget to beat off the turner.

Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the wishdasher.

Cherry Mistmas !

Macadamia Nut and Almond CuppyCakes

The recipe:

Macadamia Nut and Almond CuppyCake batter point your web browser here.

I would make one change to the recipe: use 1/4 cup almonds and a 1/4 cup macadamia nuts or hazelnuts. (I choose not to do the hazelnuts since the ones I picked up smelled musty.) I feel using less nuts will lighten up the batter and cupcakes won't feel so "bottom heavy".

Caramel Buttercream Frosting with Maple Sugar

Recipe 1 - here. It's a bit technical, maybe too involved, I doubt I'll use it again. Use maple sugar with the egg whites. This recipe provides instruction on how to make caramel.

Recipe 2. This recipe comes from one of my classes. It's much easier to do. I've made some changes to it and this is what I'll do the next time I want to make this type of flavoring.