Picture & Recipe courtesy of Melanie N.
One of my favorite things about this time of the year is baking cookies. I love baking cookies to give away to friends and family. There was one year when money was so tight that the only gift we gave to friends and family was cookie trays. (I made 18 different types of cookies that year!) To me, sometimes homemade gifts like this are treasured more than gifts you buy and wrap. Typically, what I do is bake lots of cookies over one or two days. I then freeze them until we get closer to Christmas. I then thaw all the cookies and make cookie trays to give away once the week of Christmas is upon us.
Every day between 11/30/11 and Christmas Eve, I will post 25 Days of Christmas Cookies. I would love your help! If you have a favorite cookie/bar to make this time of year, I would love for you to email me a picture of the finished product as well as a step by step recipe for it. I will then post your recipe and thousands of Addicted to Saving readers will get the chance to try out your recipe! Email me at addictedtosaving at hotmail dot com (all one word).
Day 13 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookes: Reindeer Cupcakes
Melanie N emailed me this adorable Reindeer Cupcakes recipe. I know that this isn’t a cookie recipe, but it is adorable and perfectly appropriate for this time of year! It is a very simple recipe to make which I know all of us appreciate! This will be a winner for the kids in your life as well as the adults!
Ingredients
Cake Mix (flavor of your choice)
Chocolate Frosting
Mini Marshmallows
Pretzel Sticks
M&M’s
Tootsie rolls
Mini Vanilla Wafers
Chocolate Chips
Directions
1) Bake cupcakes according to package and frost with chocolate frosting.
2) For eyes, flatten mini marshmallows to make the “white” of the eye. Place on cupcake. Dot with a small amount of frosting to serve as “glue” and place a chocolate chip in the center of each marshmallow. Place a mini vanilla wafer for the reindeers “snout”. Again use a small dab of frosting to glue on an M&M for his nose. Stick in two pretzel sticks for his antlers. Break a tootsie roll in half and shape each half into ears, place on either side of the antlers to complete your reindeer.
Christmas Cookies Recap:
Day 1 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Recipe: Peanut Butter Blossoms
Day 2 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Rainbow Cookies
Day 3 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Monster Cookies
Day 4 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Hot Cocoa Cookies
Day 5 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Jam Thumbprints
Day 6 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Cinnamon Roll Cookies
Day 7 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Lemon Sugar Cookies
Day 8 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Easy as Fudge
Day 9 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Chocolate Mint Brownies
Day 10 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Snowball Cookies
Day 11 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars
Day 12 of 25 Days of Christmas Cookie Recipe: Rich Dark Chocolate Tiger Cookies
Thanks for coming to Addicted to Saving! Here’s a little bit about me so you can know who’s behind all these posts!
My name is Liza and I began my money-saving journey in the Spring of 2009 as a way to stretch a limited household income. I had lost my job and my hubby was self-employed. I launched Addicted to Saving in November of 2009 and it has grown by leaps and bounds. Since then, my hubby and I have struggled with the ups and downs of two failed adoptions and are now LOVING being parents to our little man Asher who we brought home from Ethiopia in August of 2013. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to help you save money. My goal is that you will have FUN and become empowered to save more and more money each week..