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I’m so glad to hear that you all are excited about our “blog holiday recipe exchange!” For those of you that missed it yesterday, we are getting into the holiday spirit by sharing recipes! I am having people send me a recipe, anything they want to share about themselves and their blog and I will then feature the recipe and blog in a post. It will be a fun way to get some new recipes to try and discover some more wonderful blogs.

Our first recipe to share comes from the Introverted Wife. She has a great blog and you can go look at her wedding recap. She was married on Halloween and had a costume reception. It looks like they had a blast from the pictures. She also blogs at Elegant and Budget Friendly with 4 other ladies. I actually had never been to this blog before, but after browsing it has some great tips, ideas and deals.

Alright now on to her recipe and instructions she sent me. I love that the recipe is very entertaining to read as well. Enjoy!

Christmas Cookies-Lazy Style

I would like to introduce you all to the best cookie ever.

You don’t need to have any baking skills at all to make them. Hell you don’t even need an oven or pots or pans. Everyone loves them and they’re gone before you can even turn around.

I have no idea what their real name is but we call them “Elf Crap” and “Snowman Poop.” I’ve been making these bad boys since my Sophomore year in college when my best friend and I started a weird tradition of trying to make Christmas cookies in the dorms with no kitchen.

The first step, get yourself a huge bag of oreos and put them all in a zip lock bag (you may even want to double bag it).

Next pull out your beating utensil of choice. I’ve used everything from a hammer to a biochemistry textbook to a bottle of wine. This year I picked an ice cream scoop.
Then just start swinging:

While you’re working out the stress of the day (it really helps to imagine you’re punching that nosy relative who is sure to ask “Should you really be eating that?” in the face) have some almond bark melting in a crock pot. Or if you don’t have a crock pot a microwave works just as well (and if you are in the middle of the woods with neither just start sitting on the almond bark til your body heat melts it).

While all this was going on you should have had a package of cream cheese (8 ounces) warming on the counter. What do you mean you didn’t do that? Saying I didn’t tell you is no excuse.

Well when you do pull that out and your cookies are thoroughly pulverized dump them into a bowl. After the cream cheese has warmed add it to the cookies and mix, mix, mix!

This is the best part as you get to goo up your entire hand in chocolate cream cheese goodness (and of course you have to lick some off to test it):

Once you’re done mixing it all up together, and have finished cleaning up your hands (licking is perfect acceptable as I doubt any human being with taste buds could resist) it’s time to make the Snowman poop.

Just form the cookie cheese mixture into a small ball and dip it into the almond bark. Then let them set out on the counter for a half hour or so:

All that work will yield a wonderful crop of poop related treats in neat little rows:

We always make chocolate as well (my personal favorite).

Now just try to not eat them all up while they’re sitting there. One word of warning, make sure to only get the Oreos with white filling. The dyed ones (you know in Red & Green) do horrible unspeakable things to almond bark (that was a really fun year trying to fix that mess).

They may not be the prettiest cookie out there but I bet even Martha Stewart would gobble a few down when no one is looking.

Thanks to the Introverted Wife for sharing her delicious recipe and pictures with us! Go check out her blog if you haven’t already!! Let us know how the recipe works out when you try it!

I still need recipes and blogs to share, so please send me your tasty holiday treats soon!

Now that my semester is over I feel like I can focus on the holidays and getting ready for Christmas. Some of my favorite parts of the holidays are the delicious cookies, fudge and treats that seem to be abundant and irresistible. I was thinking that maybe we could do a fun thing on the blog in the next few weeks…

Send me your favorite holiday recipe and a picture if you have it. What I will do is create a post just for your recipe and share some fun snippets about your blog. Hopefully we can all get some yummy recipes and discover some new blogs to add to our daily reading lists.

If you can’t find a favorite holiday recipe, just find one online (Food Network, Martha Stewart, Country Living etc.) and share that.  I still would love to hear from you and give some holiday blog love.

You can send all the info by clicking here or going to the “Contact Me” in the tool bar above and writing in the message space.

Here is what I need to from you:

• Name and blog (if you don’t have a blog that is okay too!)
• Recipe (Picture if you have one or even one that looks like it could go with your recipe)
• Describe your blog and include any fun pictures you’d like me to post
• If you don’t know what to say you here are a few ideas (how long you have been blogging, wedding day, favorite holiday traditions, favorite place for inspiration, describe your holiday decoration style)

I have loved getting to know many of you through your blogs and sweet comments.  I think this will be a fun way to share some holiday cheer.  Feel free to invite readers on your blog to share recipes as well.

Photos from Country Living