Merry Christmas « Life Behind the Scenes

Merry Christmas

It’s that warm and fuzzy time of year again, a time for giving and sharing. To get into the spirit of Christmas, I baked an assortment of goodies to spread the festive joy.

One week earlier, I started off with the traditional Christmas sweet, the Old Fashioned Gingerbread. Brought this to office and it was gone within 15 minutes.

Old Fashioned Gingerbread. Dusted with icing sugar

Encouraged by the response, Santa’s little elf got busy over the weekend, and a little ambitious too. Made an assortment of Christmas goodies, starting off easy with the Cinnamon Sugar Biscotti.

Looking delectable in a colorful mug

Then the sugar cookies, shaped like Christmas trees and decorated with sugar glaze. Spent quite some time decorating these, but I think it’s not bad for a first time.

Nothing like Christmas trees to get you in the festive mood

Plenty people thought these at least were store bought, so I guess I did a pretty good job. Steve said these in particular looked very professional, while Shuh Jiuan said it looked “commercialized” (I think I’ll take that as a compliment too).

And finally, the highlight of the season, Gingerbread Men. Baked a whole army of these, and went wild decorating them now that I had discovered sugar icing.

Personalized gingerbread men for everyone. Note the earring on Dhinesh's gingerbread man, the orange hair on Shen Shen's, and the glasses+goatee on Bala's

All lined up for the camera

I got a little carried away after that…

Attack of the Gingerclones

Even the broken ones were not spared

Fallen soldier...

Finally, bundled them up into little gift sets. The little cards were handmade from scratch too, no less, with green cardboard and recycled gift wrap. (Merry Christmas to Mother Nature!)

A personalized gift set

All packed and ready to go. Sure is a pretty sight

All packed and ready to go. Ain't that a pretty sight?

Everyone’s asking if I plan on starting a business. So I guess that means I did a pretty good job making these

But I still consider this a hobby. Still, Steve thought it was only appropriate that he be the first to come up with a logo for my potential future business: