Peppernuts

This past weekend the girls and Grandma and I made peppernuts.  My grandma used to make these tiny little cookies each Christmas, and now we like to make them in her memory.  Since the recipe calls for 10 cups of flour, we pulled out the humongous bag of flour from Costco and dipped straight out of that!

Creaming the shortening and sugar

Practicing songs for the EMES concert while baking

Keeping count of the number of cups of flour we'd added

A total of 555 peppernuts... yes, we counted!

Since Saturday was December 1, the girls also got the place the first ornaments on the advent calendar.  This year I printed jokes and stuck them inside the boxes too.  The girls have been enjoying reading them each day.

Sophie got to do the first day

She's holding the joke in her hand