festive – Long Distance Baking

It’s hard to believe that Halloween is tomorrow. I feel like I’m just now getting used to it being 2015 and we only have two months left in the year! I love Halloween! And although I can’t remember the last time I actually dressed up for Halloween (my favorite costume was the year my elementary bff Lauren and I dressed up as a bunch of grapes in 6th grade by blowing up purple balloons and pinning them to our black leggings and turtlenecks and added an actual grapevine to our ponytails), I love … [Read more…]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! The holidays are always my favorite time of year! Here at Long Distance Baking, we love Christmas. We love it so much in fact, that we’ve been known to listen to Christmas music a couple times throughout the year. Every summer vacation needs at least one listen of Little Dummer Boy and Do You Hear What I Hear. Am I right?? My cousin is a 1st grade teacher and she asked me if we had any kid friendly holiday treats- holiday yummies that are cute … [Read more…]

Believe it or not but I have never made homemade sugar cookies before. I’ve decorated homemade sugar cookies as a kid and I’ve eaten a ton around the holidays, but I have never made them myself. This past weekend I decided it was time to change that. And what better way to frost homemade sugar cookies than with royal icing?? I used Steph’s Sugar Cookie recipe and it is seriously the best!! When I visited Steph in Boise for New Year’s two years ago, she made these cookies and I ate one with … [Read more…]