
It’s probably a good thing that I don’t have a cat that’s interested in my baking. Oh there is just so much to do yet!
Today I have got to get things done. Baking. Making. Wrapping. As it is I am terribly guilty of crimes against house maintenance. On top of that we are currently in the the throes of post holiday mess. Only it’s not the holiday yet. So not only do we have that, we have the pre holiday mess AND the post holiday mess.
Confused?
We did my side of the family’s Christmas early this past weekend due to another family gathering the same weekend. It just made sense. So now the kids have all of their presents from one end of the house to other, I have bags yet to unpack, laundry trying to overtake us, and my own holiday-type things that I still need to get done before this next weekend.
AND there’s the threat that we’ve been hearing all month, that my in laws may come. We’ve heard this before. Somehow it never happens. We came to the conclusion that they only come for two things: when we have a baby and when someone graduates. I’m no planning on having any more kids, and unless I get very lucky by finding an anonymous donor to send me back to school, no one is graduating in this house for many years. So maybe I’m safe. Though this year is a little unique due to the fact that we didn’t go to their house for any sort of Christmas thing. We were planning on it, then us terrible people had to go and get sick. Germs are not allowed in their house, so the kids and I went to my parents and Evil Genius stayed home and prayed to either get better or die. He got better, thank goodness.
I ended up with nothing but holiday chocolate chip cookies from all of that baking that I had planned to do last week. Princess Christmas helped, and the cookies looked and tasted pretty good. The red and green chocolate chips were a nice touch. I used the Nestle Tollhouse recipe on the back of the bag.

Princess Christmas takes great care to add chocolate chips to the cookies.

What was taking her so long? She was trying to make a face on every single cookie.
There are other things I wanted to make, but as of yet I haven’t gotten back to them. The pretzels still don’t have any chocolate on them, though last night Evil Genius showed me how to make a double boiler. I had read about it, but just couldn’t picture it in my head. I’m going to have to get on it, because all of the cookies in the pictures were eaten while we were gone. Yes, he ate two dozen cookies. I hid the last four that were left.
The PMS that plagued me during Thanksgiving is back for this holiday as well, so naturally I’m eating everything in sight and feeling very badly about it. Not getting much opportunity to exercise the last few days has me saying in my best King Julian voice “I have the flabby flab.” The night we returned from my parents I ate an entire baggie of my cousin’s homemade peppermint bark. This morning I had the breakfast of champions-turtles. I had no little eyes to witness it, therefore I could get away with it. Now the bark and the turtles are gone, I’m safe, right?
Nooooo. He had to do it. He just had to. He has been threatening me with an evil and heinous act for a couple of weeks now, and finally followed through. He even had two little minions to help him carry his plan out. Yes, there is delicious and festive looking evil in my basement freezer. A double batch.

Evil Peanut Butter Bars! At least they look festive.
If it weren’t for these, I sometimes wonder if he would ever speak to his family. I swear he only speaks to his Mom sometimes to get this recipe. And her noodle recipe. And her striped delight recipe. While he was making these, I typed up the recipe so he wouldn’t have to call next time.

As you can see, my scanning skills are only subpar.
RECIPE UPDATE: I was asked to add the steps on how actually to bake these. Mix all ingredients together except chocolate. Press into 13 x 9 baking dish. Melt chocolate in double boiler. Put chocolate on top of ingredients in pan. Add sprinkles to make festive if desired. Refrigerate or freeze. Now you try resisting them!
So today I have cleaning to do, laundry to do, baking to do, and on top of all that I must resist the call from the basement. At least I would have to walk down stairs to get to them. Thank goodness the upstairs freezer was full!
That damn cat!!! Love the post. Evil Peanut butter bars sound SO delicious. My grandmother used to always make lemon bars. I should do some for her this week…
I just tell Hubbs that it IS for better OR worse… even if the worse is a paisley covered moo-moo… now pass me the cookies!
Never feel guilty for eating anything delicious!
Definitely don’t forget the crack in the cookies….lol. It’s so true though!!
LOVE the post! And those peanut butter bars – dangerous. Those would be gone in a hot minute at my house. No self restraint here! 😉
I haven’t ventured down there yet, but there are a lot of hours left in the day.
That’s just mean to post the pictures, tell us all the amazing ingredients and then not give us the recipe! When do I mix in the crack??
I don’t know what the recipe actually is because I’ve never made it. However, I can have him tell me how he puts everything together. I’m usually hiding when he makes it! HA HA! I will post the actual recipe after I get him to tell me. The only thing I know that he does is melting the chocolate, because I wanted to know how to do the double boiler!
I’m coming over to raid your freezer!! You call it Flabby Flab? My adult daughters and I jokingly call each other “Fatty Mcfatty” when we binge on chocolate stuff. I have not even started the baking process or even the wrapping. I’m too busy eating the eggnog toffee bars I got from Karen’s blog a few weeks ago!
Yummmm! So you’re saying I’m not the only one? Hey come on over, he brought the extra bars BACK from work, we have one and a half pans of them!
YUMO-O-RAMA! I have nominated you for a Liebster Award. Check out my blog tomorrow for more details. Thanks for the laughs.
Karina
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At least you got to the baking. Can’t say the same here. Everything looks amazing!
I did NOT need to know that peanut butter bars are that easy to make! YOU’RE evil!
BWAH HA HA!
SO cute!!!! I think I would eat them in ONE day, not two… and where do I buy the crack for these? 😉 I asked the grocery store manager and he seemed scared…
HA HA! My husband wouldn’t hesitate to ask that to unsuspecting people.
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This is why I have to stay far, far away from Pinterest during *that* time of the month. I will bake up all kinds of wonderous evil.
Ah yes, another evil=PINTEREST… Evil yummy baked goods!
Thank God i only fail when I enter kitchens. I’m fat enough.
I’m not a real enthusiastic cook. I try to avoid the kitchen because bad things happen in there…
nummers! When are you sending me my free samples? 😀
When I can deliver them in person.
4 cups crack? Flour? Just a joke? I MUST know. I have a habit of making Christmas cookies for family and EVIL peanut butter bars sound like the perfect thing this Holiday season…
Not real crack…
Dude, I am so with you! Do you know how many times I have eaten a bag of Oreos just to get them out of my house??? Forget the fact that it makes no sense. I feel safe until the cool whip is talking to me from the freezer, “Put some Hershey’s syrup on me, you won’t be sorry…”
Did you know that they make chocolate cool whip? Mmmm…
Great post. That ‘evil’ recipe sounds delicious but I think my cat will be acting like the one in your photo 🙂
My cat isn’t very interested in cookies, but open anything in a can and she is right there!
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You just outlined all the reasons my husband and I bail on Christmas and go to Mexico for the holidays. It’s perfection.
Oh, and I know you posted the receipe for those bars, but I’m sure they’re better when you make them. Feel free to make them and send them to me. 🙂
You know I don’t live THAT far from you. I could probably deliver them in person.