December Baking 2020 A calendar of baking hospitality and hacks.

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Individual Holiday Fruit Cobblers

Simple to complex, shape and share the beauty in baking forothers.

Baking Hack: See CranberryRaspberry Star Bread shapedstep-by-step.

December Baking 2020Join Kimberly’s Cookie Countdown December 1 to 24! Don’t miss a day!

HomeBaking.orgSouthern cookie

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Baking Hack: Access dozens of Cookie Dough Tips and Tricks from test kitchen pros.

Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookie

Almond Crescents

Coconut White Chocolate Chip Blondies

December Baking 2020

her All-Purpose Sugar Cookie Dough.

Back-to-School for Cookie Decorating!

• Find frostings, icings and glazes galore.

Baking Hack: There’s wisdom to be found in the 2020 Guide to Holiday Baking and no-repeats with these test-kitchen cookie exchange recipes .

Chef Gemma’s Gingerbread Men

December Baking 2020So many pears, so little time!

Savor these Mini Pear Bacon and Blue Cheese Quiches

Baking Hack: No puff pastry shells on hand? Press mini tart pastry dough into small muffin cups or tart cups and go! Pear Bran Bread is a gift you give yourself!

December Baking 2020Plan to register your support for Dine IN! Day, December 3rd.

• Join a ZOOM celebration, Cakes and Quilts, rich in history and cultural connections. Register at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpfu6qqzIsHdVCjZz_Fn1hl-GS0WUZ5FLX

• Bring Your Own Cake to share… Imagine what cake you WOULD serve Ellen Swallow Richards, first woman admitted to M.I.T. and the founder of home economics and today’s Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) profession.

Baking Hack:Find great tips to make dining in, even in a pandemic, a “new” experience with The Family Dinner Project.

Sticky Date Pudding CakeWith Caramel Sauce2020 Event

December Baking 2020Celebrate and protect the children of the world.

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund = UNICEFCreated in 1946, after WWII, UNICEF has• Treated 4 million children in 73 countries for malnutrition• Provided 18.6 million people with clean and safe drinking water• Responded to violence against children in 154 countries

Bake for Funds!Celebrate UNICEF’s birthday and bake a cake! Donate a “slice” of donations. Ardent Mills makes it easy with Goodness It's Wholegrain! Recipe book.

Baking Hack: Frosting can be made 1-2 days ahead, covered tightly, and refrigerated until ready to use. Set out at room temp for 15 minutes before using so it's spreadable.

Cranberry and Pecan Muffins

December Baking 2020‘Twas the week before Christmas…no gluten was stirring…

Aunt Sue’s No Bake Black Walnut Cookies

Gluten Free Sugar Cookie

December Baking 2020Bake to build traditions…Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas, or a YOUnique holiday.

Dr. Anne Fishel’s on creating traditions

food

• Record what you choose and do each year– photos, journal, video interviews. These become your traditions!

Baking Hack: Use those “wrinkled” apples that are not likely to be eaten raw. They have a deeper flavor. If there are more than one variety, all the better! Peel, grate or chop and don’t forget a sprinkle of fresh grated nutmeg.

Spiced Apple Bundt Cake

December Baking 2020Day of Good will is December 26.

Cake4KidsBaking Hack: How to start baking cakes? Go tothe pros.

December Baking 2020Not your grandma’s fruitcake…

Quick and Easy Fruit Cake

…Your fruit cake is likely to • Have real fruit, dried, not

candied• Have the shape of something

new!Fruit Cake Monkey Bread

• Be quick Fresh Fruit Biscuit• And might even be a Multi-

grain Molasses Bread.

Baking Hack: Pre-condition dried fruit by covering it 5 minutes with tap water, drain, and refrigerate until use.

Multi-grain Molasses Bread

December Baking 2020Bake to gnosh on New Year’s Eve

• Small rounds or large, Focaccia is a New Year’s Eve essential

• Bread bowls for dips, or hearty soups

• Game’s on foundational food…a savory pull-apart Seeded Corn & Onion BubbleLoaf provides video steps.

• Some like it hot…Mini Ancho Muffins with Green Chili Gravy

Baking Hack: Everything spice is easy to prepare ahead…and is great on party favorite Pigs in a Blanket.

January Baking 2021 A Sneak Peak! Start the year right with oatmeal and HomeBaking.org

Oatmeal bread…oatmeal muffins…scones…oatmeal pancakes… oatmeal cake…oatmeal cookies…oatmeal bars…granola…only 31 days in January?!

Banana Orange Muffins