It is a known fact that holidays mean spending fun time with family and friends, as well as enjoying lots of delicious food and drinks.

As our family tradition, and to alternate with our married children in-laws, we celebrate Christmas Eve on December 24th, by the  Gregorian calendar , and then again the Traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve, per Julian calendar, on January 6th.

I am still making all the traditional foods and baked goods for both dates, but have more time for shopping, as this year’s  gift exchange will take place in January.

Since I will be doing most of my baking later on this month, I will share links to my past year’s baked goods recipes, for your convenience and baking pleasure.

Cream Wafers

Miniature Nut Cups – Tea Tassies

Sugar Cut- Out Cookies

Sugar Wafers

Pecan Butterballs

Dycio Crescents

Frosted Lemon Cookies

Chocolate No-Bake Cookies

Chocolate Scotcheroos

Ginger Chocolate Truffles

This should give you a good start for early holiday baking.

I know some of you started baking your Christmas cookies  a while back, and are all done by now, but I just started this weekend, and if it wasn’t for the huge snow fall, and all the shoveling we had to do, I would have been done baking and posting my recipes, and pictures, for you to enjoy.

Today I am just giving you a preview of most of the cookies I baked, but will post the recipes and pictures in future posts.  You can try some of my recipes next year, or next time you feel like baking.

Then again, there are some of you who have not even started baking, since your Christmas is not until January 6th and 7th.  Lots of my family and friends also celebrate at that time.  Wish you all a very Merry Christmas, no matter when you celebrate.

This year my married children are traveling to spend Christmas with their in-laws, so we will celebrate Christmas twice, once on the 24th with some of our family and friends, and then on the 6th with all our children.  I can’t wait, this will be so much fun!!!

Ok.  Back to cookies.  This year I made some Ginger Chocolate Truffles,  Frosted Lemon Cookies, Pecan Butter Balls, Cream Wafers, Dycio Crescents, and still need to finish my Sugar Cookies.

If you would like to see the recipes and the final product, please stay tuned, as I am hoping to complete posting them all by January 6th.