Christmas Baking Shannielle Style!

Ha!  Guess what we did this weekend?  If you guessed we made a huge mess then you are right!!  If you also guessed that I had a PINTREST fail, you are also right!! But, we had two kids that ended up in sugar coma's that said they had an awesome night!!!

Christmas baking was a success! Danielle and I planned what we were going to bake a head of time to ensure that we had all required ingredients.  We decided on easy recipes and also stuff we already had in our cupboards. 
So without further ado here is how our night went:
We started out with the most time consuming but funniest recipe to keep the kids involved:  No Chill Sugar Cookies.

Yes, Benny is baking in his underwear!

Arleigh hard at work

Before heading to the oven

In the meantime while the cookies were baking and cooling we started on a few other recipes.  Crock pot bits & bites and peanut butter rice crisp balls (this was my PINTREST FAIL).  After we had started the other two and put aside we had the kids start to decorate their sugar cookies.  For anyone who knows Danielle's son Bentley his middle name is Willy Wonka so he was in heaven with all the Cake Mate Scribblers icing!

After we cleaned the sticky mess we finished off the other treats we had on the go

Okay now for all of you who are interested in the first official Pin Fail here it is:  Mine is on the right and what it is suppose to look like in on the left.

 Anyways it may not have looked great but they tasted awesome!  And for our final recipe we decided on a Canadian favorite: Butter Tarts.

Once all the baking was done, cleaned up and the kids were in bed Danielle and I had a chance to decorate our own sugar cookies.

Danielle's

Shannon's

**If you would like to have the recipies that we used please leave a comment below