I made 6 small pans of cranberry-orange bread to give as gifts this season. I used some of the orange peels I candied and chopped and fresh cranberies.

On Sunday, I baked my adaptation of Ellen's bus as 15 rolls for our trip home. I baked them on the small, heavy sheet pan that I brought as part of my cooking/baking gear.

I made a rum cake for my husband to take to a meeting tomorrow night. I still need to poke holes in the top with a toothpick and drizzle a glaze of butter, sugar, and rum over it. I also mixed molasses-ginger cookies for the Christmas Eve cookie tray. They have been chilling in the fridge, so tomorrow I will scoop and freeze the dough until that day.

I made a Sour cream Pound Cake for Poker ♦️ tomorrow night.

The sour cream cake looks amazing!

I took a class a the New Haven Pizza School this week. It was a birthday gift from Kate. Lots of fun and I learned some good stuff, especially their sauce. It was very simple - just canned tomatoes through the largest size grate in a food mill.

I made my mom's molasses cookies and it was a challah week as well. I always make extra challah and was meeting some college friends for lunch so I brought them each cookies and a loaf of bread. One of them texted me "keep your friends close and your bakers closer." I think I may make that a tee shirt.

I made a sour cream bundt cake to bring to my neighbor's house. I picked that cake because I wanted to use up all the eggs I got with my bonus points at Weiss. The cake called for 6 eggs. Btw the plastic sheet is gone from our kitchen. The refrigerator is still in the middle of our dining space ,we are missing some flooring and we can't use our dishwasher which is sitting where our fridge was. Some of our cabinets are gutted. I miss the lazy susan. Anyway I can still use most of our appliances.