I love feeding people.
Maybe it’s the Chinese mother in me but I often express my affections through food. So if you’re in my good books, I’m going to want to feed you.
So every year when Christmas rolls around, my daughter and I make an edible Christmas present for our special friends.
Last year we made this Sweet & Salty Chocolate Bark and the two years before that we made snickerdoodles, those sugar and cinnamon-crusted biscuits. She was only three years old the first time so she just dipped the cookie dough into the sugar and cinnamon mixture and then licked her fingers all over.
This year we haven’t decided what to cook yet. I have a gorgeous new KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer thanks to the lovely people at Filtered Media and KitchenAid so I’m definitely going to be making something with it.
Maybe we should make a few different batches of home-made ice cream and serve it like this delightful dish at Press Food & Wine that I enjoyed a little while ago. Christmas Day is bound to be hot here in Australia so ice cream could be just the thing.
Alternatively, I have some cute Christmas-themed cookie cutters so we could make festive biscuits with a marshmallow fondant. My daughter and my toddler son should be able to manage helping with the cut outs and pressing on the fondant. They’ll be extremely good at helping to eat them, too.
There’s also Christmas Day lunch to consider, and this year I think I’m going to make some kind of show-stopping cake. Christmas is a great excuse to whip up something rather special, isn’t it?
So why all this talk about Christmas, I hear you ask?
Well, this month it’s my honour to be hosting Sweet Adventures’ Sweets for Santa Blog Hop.
For those new readers, Sweet Adventures is a group of Aussie foodbloggers – 84th & 3rd, The Capers of the Kitchen Crusader, Delicieux, Dining With a Stud, and I, The Hungry Australian, who host a monthly, dessert-themed blog hop.
Previously, we have hosted:
- Cake and Three Veg (November 2012)
- High Tea (October 2012)
- Feeling Saucy (September 2012)
- Berry Nice to Meet You! (August 2012)
- Nuts About Sweets (July 2012)
- Sweet as Pie (June 2012)
- Tea (May 2012)
- Lemons (April 2012)
- Layer upon Layer (March 2012)
- Love at First Bite (February 2012)
- Death by Chocolate (January 2012)
- Festive Favourites (December 2011)
- Australian Pavlova (November 2011)
So what is a blog hop? Basically, it’s an event that takes place simultaneously on multiple blogs. In this case, everyone joining the fun will post a festive dessert on their blog and link up to each other so people can hop from blog to blog to check out all the recipes in the event.
So if you’re a foodblogger we would love to have you join us for Sweets for Santa. You can make a gingerbread house, a festive bombe alaksa, a Christmas trifle, a steamed pudding, Father Christmas cake pops, Santa biscuits or a festive ice cream. We encourage you to be as creative as you like – the only rule is that your recipe must be something in keeping with the festive theme.
Sweets for Santa will open here for posts and link-up on 9am Monday 17 December 2012 – Australian Eastern Standard Time [AEST: Sydney] and will remain open for a week and a day until 11:59pm Monday 24 December 2012 AEST. So check back to this blog then. You can link up at any time during this week but remember, only new posts which go live after Monday 17 December 2012 can be linked up.
So will you be joining us for Sweets for Santa? Do say you will!
Christina xx
