October ended with a weekend of friends, pizza, and pumpkin carving and last minute costumes for a Halloween party. November then rolled in and weekends were full of being at work or being out of town on the occasion that there was no work. We went to Woods Hole in Cape Cod fin early November and virtually had the whole place to ourselves. We took a long, dark drive there on a Friday night where we found ourselves situated in a corner room with a king sized bed. We awoke to sunshine and views of the ocean and spent the next two days bundling up, exploring, drinking margaritas, relaxing and ending it all with a 16 mile winding bike ride along the southern part of Cape Cod.
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Thanksgiving came and went and was full of family and delicious food and now we are officially in the second week of December and we still don't have a Christmas tree but it's on the agenda for this weekend (hopefully!)
In the meantime, to get in the spirit of Christmas without having the time to fully decorate I've made these snowball cookies. The cookies have just a few ingredients and they are perfect to make them in to whatever you'd like based on preferences or simply whatever's in your pantry. I used these cookies as an opportunity to clean out the last of a few baking odds and ends. Whatever add ins you choose to use, these cookies turn out as festive little bites.
Cinnamon Chip Snowballs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon warm water
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 1/2 cup flour, spooned and leveled
- 1 cup nuts (I used 1/2 cup walnuts and 1/2 cup slivered almonds)
- 1 cup chips (I used 1/2 cup cinnamon chips and 1/2 cup dark chocolate chunks)
- Beat together vanilla, water, sugar, and butter. Once well combined add in the flour.
- Fold in nuts and chips
- Form in to 1 inch balls and bake at 350 degrees for approximately 15-20 minutes, or until lightly browned.
These look amazing!
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