Sugar plums and sparkles and sprinkles and everything else fabulous...

So remember how I told you I was going to bake and take pictures of it all and even mail you some of my goodies (okay I never said that) and it was going to be amazing? I know I failed at all that the first go-round, but hark. the. heralds. I proved you all wrong and baked the first of my Christmas goodies last night. Booyah.

Of course, this was after I spent $85 on baking goods, paper towels which were supposed to be on sale but weren't (haaate), a roast for beef stew tonight and moooore baking goods.

This is how all that turned out.

Santa came early and dropped off all this stuff because clearly he's evil and doesn't want me to fit into

any of my pants. Even sweatpants. Misery loves company, is what he told me. Jerkface.

So, anyways, my friend MR gave me this awesome recipe that she made for our ornament exchange last year. She was also nice enough to come chaperone me while I made it last night. It went a little something lik this:

Me: Is this good?

MR: Ummmm, not even a little bit. You have to crush them into tiny pieces.

Me: But my hand hurts...can I just let Sam chew them up and regurgitate them so they'll be small enough? I mean, if that's too gross, I guess I can chew it up myself.

MR: Let me do the rest. Get out of the kitchen.

Just kidding mostly, but she really was a great help, and gave me some awesome tips to make my sweet treat the best it could be. Thanks, friend!

This is what I sent the boy last night with an uber-cheesy "sweets for my sweet!!" type message. I swear, the later it gets at night, the more I lose my mind. I'm serious. That, my friends, was a corny message. And probably also why he didn't even bother to respond.

Still yummy, though.

After a lot of crushing and pretending to be the Hulk or a construction girl with a hammer (I smashed my peppermints with a hammer, yes), and me stressing out a little bit because chocolate is so testy when it's being melted over a burner, and the whole waiting game for the stuff to freeze, I finally came out with my finished product.

(A picture will go here eventually when I get on the ball and take one)

And yes, it is delicious. Especially since it has mine and Sam's slobber all in it.

Here is the recipe, lucky dogs:

PEPPERMINT ICE CREAM SURPRISE

20 chocolate wafer cookies, crushed1/2 stick softened butter
1/2 gal. peppermint ice cream*** (see below)
1 c. confectioners' sugar
5 oz. evaporated milk
6 oz. chocolate chips
9 oz. Cool Whip
1/2 stick butter
Mix cookies and softened butter and press into 13 x 9 x 2 inch pan. Spread ice cream over cookies and freeze 2-3 hours. In saucepan mix: 10X sugar, chocolate chips, milk, 1/2 stick butter. Boil until chips melt - cool. Pour and spread over frozen layers. Freeze 3 hours. Top with 9 ounce Cool Whip. Freeze.
Defrost 10-20 minutes before serving. Serve with chocolate sauce drizzled over the top. Makes 15 servings.
***you can either buy peppermint ice cream in the store or you can make your own. what i did was buy vanilla ice cream and crush up peppermint candies and mix it in and add some peppermint extract and just kinda add it in small amounts and keep tasting until its to your liking.