Speaking from the Heart

Let the FUN begin!!!! The kids and I make goody cans for our friends and families. The can is filled with Nestle's Original Toll House Chocolate chip cookies, Oatmeal cookies and Chocolate covered pretzels. Every few years, we would make Zuchini Bread or Banana bread, in lieu of cookies.

Part A: Please share your Favorite Christmas/Holiday Cookie Recipe(s)!
Since the cookie recipes are printed on the packages, I am going to be different and post a Zuchini Bread recipe. This recipe has been in my husband's family for 3 generations. My mother-in-law gathered her mom's favorite recipes, put them in a book, and gave the book to me on our first anniversary, 15 years ago.


Zucchini Bread
-= Ingredients =-
3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup Walnuts/pecans ; finely chooped
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups Shredded zucchini
1 (8 oz) can crushed pineapple ; (drain the juice)
1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
2 teaspoon Baking soda
2 cups Sugar

-= Instructions =-
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, and chopped nuts. Set it aside. Beat eggs lightly in a large mixing bowl; add sugar, oil and vanilla. Beat until creamy. Stir in zucchini & pineapple. Add dry ingredients, stirring only until dry ingredients are moistened.
Spoon batter into well greased and floured 8x4x3 in loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until done- Cool 10 minutes in pan. Turn out on rack and cool completely.


Part B: Share a memory, story or tradition about baking any Christmas/Holiday goodies.
I would have to say making vanilla and chocolate almond covered pretzels is our Christmas tradition. We would start our Christmas baking around the second week of December. By that time we would have already put up the Christmas tree, mailed Christmas cards, and finished our first school semester.

After breakfast, The kids and I would start the production line: melting the barks, dipping the pretzels in the sauce, laid the covered prezels on the wax paper to be hardened, and finally, put them in the cans. We would go through 6 packages of almond barks and 4 bags of Publix mini pretzels.

Part C: Share a verse that is upon your heart this week.
For we cannot by speak the things we have seen and heard. Acts 4:20

P.s. I couldn't resist sharing this :

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.