Baking the Pants in our Family for the Holiday

I am getting ready to sing in the church holiday Choral Society. I find it gets me into the Christmas spirit and a great excuse to wear those cute light bulb necklaces and red slacks! This year we are going to have a “bake” sale to raise money for the Society. My husband has been begging me to make him his favorite chocolate chip brownies topped with brandy cherries for the Sale. I will make a double batch so there will be enough for him and our son Jon. But then Jon probably wants me to make his favorite, which are butterscotch brownies with vanilla icing. Yummy!

Then there is baking of the holiday sugar cookies to take to our in-laws. I have been making these cookies since Jon was 3 years old. When he was 6, I made sugar cookies shaped like circus animals. But I think my favorite shapes and cookie decorations were the “family” pants. We made bell-bottoms, shorts, bikinis and straight pants. Jon and I decorated them with funny color icing and sprinkles. They were really cute. Jon copied his PJ pants and soccer shorts. I made Dad’s hippie stained jean pants. The best ones were the Bermuda shorts. We made big hibiscus flowers.

I was thinking maybe Jon and I would make shirts and tanks to go with last year’s bottoms!