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The countdown until Christmas is always the same at our home :
At the end of November, we send our greeting cards to our friends overseas, Claire makes the Advent wreath, and she bakes small Christmas Cake to offer.
At the beginning of December, we send our greeting cards to our family in France and in Italy and to our European friends, we decorate our Christmas tree, and Claire and Momo install the bright decorations outside.
In the middle of December, we send our greeting cards to our family and to our friends in Switzerland.
And one week before Christmas, Claire bakes the Christmas biscuits.
She even made biscuits shaped like cats !
These delicious candies taste as is proper with a nice cup of tea.
Courtesy of www.makinbiscuitsbook.com
Talking about biscuits, the last book of our talented friend Deb Barnes « Makin’ biscuits » features many of our friends ; that book is about « weird cat habits and even weirder habits of the humans who love them », and it’s a great gift idea. Our friends Caren and Cody wrote a wonderful review, check it out !
Those rituals are very clarifying, Zorro and Pixie. Granny has to do that too instead walking like a chick without a head and still hasn’t made the most impawtant card at all…mine 😀 Pawkisses for a wonderful day…do you mind if I take a cookie…or two, they look adorably delicious 😉 <3
Your human is very busy, and organized, for the holidays! My human… she never does anything. She’s lazy!
We like that Claire is so organized.
Our mum is not :/
The baking looks yummy!
Purrs Georgia,Julie and JJ
I love your Christmas traditions! My youngest son and step-daughter arrive from up north on Wednesday and that’s when I’ll be making cookies! It’s my favorite part of Christmas – turning on the Christmas music and making cookies with them!
Have a lovely holiday to you and yours and thank you so much for sharing my book, Makin’ Biscuits, and the great review that Caren of Cat Chat with Caren and Cody did!
oh I love the cat biscuits… your christmas biscuits are so much better than mine… I made swans what ended as ravens :o)
btw: we saw a documentary yesterday about canton glarus, they had a special bread named “schuettelbrot”. it looked very tasty… do you know it or do you know where I can find a recipe?
Schüttelbrot is typical from Südtirol but you find it in other areas like Glarus 😉 in different tastes (caraways, fennel seeds, aniseed, Schabzigerklee or coriander) and shapes. You eat it with cheese and bacon. I found a recipe in German (I know it’s not a problem for you). https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kochbuch/_Schüttelbrot
You have such pretty tins for keeping your biscuits in. Makes it all most festive.
I love the little cats! Those are super cute. I feel like a grinch … or maybe I’m just lazy, because I do none of that!
Those look delicious and I really must get a copy of that book 🙂
Purrs xx
Athena and Marie
MeOW, Dat’s a lot of card sendin’ to ‘member. We don’t think mommy would be able to do dat. MOL She can’t even ‘member who we sent cards too, 5 minutes after we send ’em. MOL Those biscuits do look tasty tho’. Do ya’ll get a bite or do you leave them out fur da Santa Paws guy? Just a few more days and he’ll be here. Big hugs
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
If Santa comes quickly, he will be able to taste one or two biscuits ! Purrs
Claire and Momo are really on schedule. I wish I was that organized. The cookies look good. I am getting that book for Christmas 🙂
Those cat shaped biscuits are super cool and you are so organizd!
Merry Christmas to you all from frigid NE Ohio ! But compared to Switzerland we are probably sissies abiut the cold !
Those biscuits look so yummy. Good for that Mommy to do all those good things.
Claire has many wonderful Christmas traditions and they must keep her very busy. The kitty shaped cookies are adorable.
Hi guys! Sorry we haven’t been around as much as we would like! Something about work obligations and a young dog taking up lots of our Mama’s time these days! We hope you are well and we wish you the best on Christmas and during the holidays 🙂
the critters in the cottage xo
P.S. Our Mama will be over to taste test those yummy cookies as soon as is possible 🙂
Everything looks delicious! The cat cookies are adorable. ♥
Oh my those biscuits look AMAZING! I almost jumped through the computer to eat them!!!! And…THANK YOU! I was stunned to see our name here, thank you so much for your kind words! Thank you! xoxo
Those look good. I think we need to come there next Christmas. 🙂
Claire is very well organized! We love those cat-shaped biscuits! Yum!
I wish someone would send me biscuits shaped like cats! Amazing!
So much festive fun! And those cookies look delicious!
Claire is very organised! The biscuits all look delicious, and the kitty ones are very cute.
Wowwzers! Mes wishes my Mommy was that organized!!
And those cookies look tasty!!!
Kisses
Nellie
Your mom is such a talented baker. Those biscuits shaped like cats look really yummy!
I adore your tins and cat cookies!!!
Wow Claire is very organized, that’s awesome! Love the special tins and the cat-shaped biscuits, those are amazing!