Menu Monday, Something Sweet!

(Oops, I started this as a Christmas baking post back in December, saved it as a draft, changed it up a bunch a couple of days ago, and when I "published" it, it published on the original december date... anyway, it only took me a couple of days to notice, I am so observant these days :)
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This is my third or fourth attempt to get this blog post up, so I'm going to try my hardest to be brief...

Back in December, I enlisted the help of my cousins, Ashley & Makenzie, and my friend Lindsey for Christmas baking. With my full-time little helper, Miss Georgiana, baking alone would have been quite the task! My cousins arrived for the baking day like so:

Oh how I love them sooooo much! It delighted me to no end to see them dressed up with such Christmas cheer! Ha :)

We baked a ton of goodies, chocolate crinkles, oreo balls, pretzel rods, gingerbread stars, maybe even other things I'm forgetting... It was a lot!

And, We made these/this:

It was a new recipe (link below) none of us had ever tried, I've been craving it since December, I loved it! We followed the recipe to a "t," only adjustment was we made one batch with salt and one batch without. I liked them equally. And, I especially enjoyed snacking on this treat frozen, that's right, pop these in the freezer, yummmmm!

Turtle Graham Bars/Bark

Lastly, Kelly did not realize the girls were dressed up!?! Oh my word, it was funny. I can assure you, Makenzie does not normally wear banister bows and Ashley does not typically wear bells and puffy paint on her sweatshirt. Thanks ladies for all of your help!!!