As we had an entire „no snow“-Christmas, I wanted to take a „Happy New Year“ picture out in the sun. However, it was a little colder than I thought, so I quickly added a Pumpkin Spice latte to the scenario for a proper last day of Dec feeling. Happy New Year.
with Sticky Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls & Eggnog Frosting and Gingerbread Man Shaped Granola. After Christmas, I wanted to do some fun breakfast. Question #1 was: How to combine my favorite Christmas items pumpkin, cinnamon and eggnog to something yummy? I decided to slightly change the recipe for cinnamon rolls from my book. Instead of adding potatoes, I used pumpkin mash. For the filling, I added pumpkin spice and one cup of eggnog to the original cream cheese frosting.
As granola is always a good option for breakfast, I just added one egg white to the recipe to make sure that the mixture will really glue together and stay in shape. The little guys look so cute, that I nearly did not want to bite their head or arms off! I also wrapped some up to have additional gifts for friends and neighbors. Normally I use cinnamon and some nutmeg as spice for the granola, but to give it a more winter feeling, I put in ginger and cloves in there as well.
I have have spent the last two saturdays at the sewing machine. The idea was to make christmas stockings for a couple of friend’s pets. I am convinced that every cute furry creature needs it`s own stocking where all the christmas gifts are stored. The challenge was, that the stocking matches the style of the owner. So I made a glamorous ‚Flamant‘ colored stocking for Anna’s not yet existing but highly anticipated puppy ‚Caramel‘. Gropius and Jack, two cats, got fish shape stockings. Actually Gropius is a purely white cat living in a ‚Bauhaus‘ home, but the all over printed cats on the fabric where too cute to follow the rules. I hope that Gropius doesn’t mind.
I admit it, I just love this song. So we decided to re-record it in German for this year´s Christmas video from Cute Cottage Overload. Wishing you a very happy Christmas, Frohe Weihnachten and a great new year. I still have some ‚un-posted‘ Christmas pictures so they’ll be coming up over the next days.
This certainly does not score a lot of points in the real game of Scrabble, but I am sure Santa will appreciate it and bring lots of gifts this year. It´s the Santa points that count.
