This year we varied our neighborhood Christmas treats to include brownies and peanut butter blossoms in addition to some traditional iced Christmas cookies. Everything turned out great.

Whew… what a gloomy Christmas Day in North Bend.  Blowing rain with temp at 38 degrees.  But that didn’t stop us from our regular holiday delivery of Christmas cookies for our neighbors.  In addition to the traditional iced sugar cookies I tried out five other recipes, all of which yielded acceptable results.  The real surprise was the oatmeal cocoa bars (the Saran-wrapped chunks in the middle here).  They turned out like a very light brownie and I suspect they would be especially tasty with a lump of vanilla ice cream.

Cookies being prepared for dlivery