check, check AND check

 ✔ - Christmas wrapping is done

✔ - Christmas cards are done

✔ - Christmas letters are done

✔ - Online greetings are done

✔ - Baking is done (except for some butter tarts happening on Friday)

✔ - Preserves are done

✔ - Parcels on track for mailing on Monday

And, here's your final recipe we did...

CHOCOLATE SWIRLED PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Peanut butter dough:
3/4 c. creamy peanut butter
1/2 c. EACH softened butter, white sugar & brown sugar
1 large egg, room temperature
1 1/4 c. all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. EACH baking powder & baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt

Chocolate dough:
1/2 c. EACH softened butter; white sugar & brown sugar
1 large egg, room temperature
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/4 c. all purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 tsp EACH baking powder & baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt

Cream peanut butter, butter & sugars until light & fluffy.  Beat in egg.  Combine dry ingredients and gradually add to creamed mixture.

For chocolate dough:  cream butter & sugars til light & fluffy.  Beat in egg and vanilla.  Combine dry ingredients and gradually add to creamed mixture.

Divide each portion in half.  Knead 1 peanut butter and 1 chocolate portion together 5-10 times or til it begins to swirl.  Shape into 10" log.  Wrap in waxed paper.  Repeat with remaining dough.  Refrigerate 3-4 hours or until firm.  

Cut dough into 1/4" slices.  Place 2" apart on lightly greased baking sheets.  Bake at 350 6-8 mins or until bottoms are lightly browned.  Cool 2 mins before removing from pans to wire racks.

(original recipe found HERE)

And, before I go any further, I hope all my American friends had a happy Thanksgiving yesterday.  

- THESE are really pretty!

- If you have a dog in your life, perhaps they would like some of THESE for Christmas.

- THESE would have lots of uses this time of year.

- THIS would make a cute little gift, particularly if it were accompanied with a little cash.

- Sometimes it's the simplest things that are the most fun to create as THIS will attest.

Today's quote is from Bob Marley...."You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules"