HOLLY BLOGGY CHRISTMAS-GIFT(COOKIE)EXCHANGE-DAY1

There's nothing as heart warming as Home-made or hand made Christams gifts this season!!!!
I love Diy's so handmade or rather here ,home baked cookies are no exception.....

TO begin with ,begining today ,we are having 5days of pure fun & good cheer at SIMPLY SWEET HOME, and today,14th is the day of handmade gifts.
Honestly its the best to begin with-i have always loved indulging & my shopping to resource stuff-all from scratch begins way ahead to the last min....
Whether its give aways for all or take aways for all that stop by at our home on Christmas ,its all so exciting for me to do it myself!!!!
I love putting up my tree and all red,green and god hued linen by mid -nov latest & belive it stays put till feb,around valentines,jus the red remains and then i love to plunge in to the summery hues of yellow,green & creamy tones....
This time its a wee bit different coz our homes are under remodelation ,we have moved (temprly),and are finalizing on another place too....
so till then ,most of our linen has been ,laundered pressed and packed in(a lot given away=more shopping but later)with sandalwood sticks & some with napthelene balls and sheets to keep 'em safe.....
Most of our cutlery,crockery and home stuff has been cleant,polished ,wrapped individually and packed up too.....
Plus we as a family are going to be admist beautiful nature ,far away from the hustling ,bustling life for a few days ....am i making a excuse for the lack of putting in my best....no no...jus the whole situation and i still haven gone down to the city shopping for colored papers et all ,so this post is jus with what i have in at home which me picked up awhile back.....
I did so try 12 cookies @ christmas and by 24th belive i should complete 'em all....and have a few bigger hampers....
Ok so lets begin today by working on a few hampers and build it up step by step....instead of a goody basket filled with local goan portuguese sweets i tweaked it to cookies this time round and boy ,was it fun....
Read on ......

SNICKERDOODLES
My most fav sugar rolled cookie with a good sprinkle of cinnamon

GET THE RECIPE HERE FOR THESE SWEETY CUTEY COOKIES

CURLING RIBBONS IS SO MUCH FUN & LOOKS SO FESTIVE IN THE HAMPER TOO!!!!

AND GOLD WRITTEN ,ON BUTTER PAPER IS WHAT EXACTLY EACH COOKIE IS ABOUT....

OH THESE SNOW FLECKED BROWNIES ARE THE MOST GORGEOUS ,GOOEY,FUDGY CHOCOLATELY BROWNIES EVER......

PLAYED WITH THE TOPPING ET ALL AND U HAVE AN ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFULL BROWNIE HERE...MUST ADD IN UR CHRISTMAS HAMPER...

LOVE YA HAZLENUT TRUFFLES!!! -these easy peasy truffles are great-u'll be loved more for 'em!!!

A GORGEOUSLY CHOCOLATEY PINEAPPLE CASHEWNUT COOKIE ADDS TO THE FESTIVITY WITH THE GREEN SPRINKLES

THUMBALINA GOES TO A CHRISTMAS PARTY...

WHILE I SHOW U HOW TO MAKE THESE TO ADD TO UR LOVE FILLED GOODIE HAMPER.....

OH A RED AND GREEN CHRISTMAS COOKIE,AND SOME EXPERIMENTS AND RIBBONS LATER....

I HAVE ONE FOR EACH HAMPER......

OH CANT FORGET A BON-BON EACH TOO

AND this time w real chocolate!!!

these INTENSELY CHOCOLATE CHOCO CHIP COOKIES(recipe here) are so so good that u'll need to bake quite a few batches of these...

They have a snappy welcome crunch and are crumbly and melt in ur mouth.....dont miss on these

A repeat of my intensely gorgeous brownies but with twist-they are now CHIPSTER BROWNIES,

ie with a topping of choco-chip cookie...a brownie and cookie ,in one....yummy yummy yum...these rock and i baked a really small batch jus for these hampers and will bake a bigggg batch in a few days...

Oh yeah ,these cookies are absolutely special,

my first cookie with reall good chocoate(callebaut),and they are truly the best chocolate cookies..imiss 'em as i write this...

RECIPE FOR WHITE CHOCOLATE COOKIES..

And these are the white chocolate cookies with a twist yeah...they rock too with loads of chocolatey goodness....

RECIPE FOR DOUBLE ZESTY,TRIPLE CHOCO COOKIES..

Now individually wrap each one in cling wrap and let ur creative juices flow-i have detailed pics on each link with their respective recipes....i love a variety....and then all these with some britely hued confetti go into local wicker baskets(picked 'em from our darling local folk fro a weekly market...red celephane paper,fabric..some more ribbon and ur done...

OK SO HERE ARE A FEW HAMPERS READY TO MAKE MANY SMILE.....

USING FABRICS AND RIBBONS IN SATIN AND LACE....

AND CANDLES AND TEA LITE'S GALORE I HAVE A FESTIVE LOOKING SANTA LAND....

A FEW GARDEN FLOWERS FOR AN ELDERLY,LONELY LADY.......

GOT A FEW SMALL JARS OF HOME BREWED SWEET WINE TO GO WITH THE HAMPERS....

AND USED HOLIDAY PRINT TISSUES AND RIBBONS TO PACK A FEW JARS OF HOME-MADE MANGO JAM & BALCHAO DE CAMARAO....

OR A JAR OF LEMON CURD...that everybody will welcome after an overdose(in a good way yeah!)of chocolatey goodies!!!

SANTA CLAUS CANDLES ALL WRAPPED UP TO BE GIVEN TO SPREAD THE LOVE & CHEER!

Now i really wanted to make one of those 'MUGGY HAMPERS', with a hot chocolate mix(minus the marshmellows),christams candy & holly leaf but havent found cute enuf christmas mugs yet & if i do will add them on later.....

NOW http://tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com/ IS HOLDING TODAYS LINKY PARTY AND HAS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING GIFTING IDEAS GALORE SO DO DO ,STOP BY AND U'LL BE AWED AT THE GORGEOUS & SUPER IDEAS THE REST OF THE GANG HAS!!!