The 6th Day of Christmas with Ruth Schwenk {The Better Mom}
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Welcome to the 6th Day of Christmas with my guest Ruth Schwenk from The Better Mom. Ruth is the wife of a pastor, who is her best friend and the love of her life. She is a blessed mother to her four beautiful children, and she eagerly awaits meeting her five others in heaven. Ruth is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She has a passion for following God, leading worship, rescuing orphans, and inspiring others to create a God honoring family.
Now, here is Ruth!
Holiday Fun for Kids {Mini Apple Pies}
Mini Apple Pies3/4 Cup of Sugar
2 Pillsbury Pie Crusts (1 box)
Preheat oven to 400 Degrees F. Cut 4 cups of apples and combine/stir with all ingredients except butter. Spray muffin pan. Unroll your first pie crust and cut several circles out. (I used the top of a glass) Continue this until you have enough crusts. Line each cup of your muffin tin with a tiny pie crust.
Gently fill the crusts with your apple mixture and put an equal portion of the chilled butter on each pie. Cover as desired with left over dough. Brush with melted butter and bake at 400 for 20-25 minutes. Be sure to serve with Vanilla Ice Cream! Recipe makes 12 mini pies.
Enjoy!
TODAY’S GIVEAWAY:
Leave a comment telling us your favorite holiday baking item and you might win a $20 gift card to Target to buy some baking supplies!
I’ll go first. Fruitcake. Seriously. I have a FABULOUS recipe from the 1960’s.
And you?
A gingerbread recipe from my great grandmother’s 1970’s Betty Crocker cookbook.
Christmas cookies :)
Mini Pecan Pie Muffins! I could use the GC to purchase new gadgets for my kitchen.
I’d say cookies are my favorite. My family also like eclair cake. thx
honestly, I like wrapping our homemade treats the best, so I would say my baking item would be cute saran wrap and ribbon to make the treats look as cute as they taste yummy!
Oh so easy. Cookies…pretty much any christmasy kind
Homemade Pumpkin Bread. It is easy to make, makes two loaves so I can give one away and it is super moist and delicious!!
Cranberry bliss bars…..yum!,,
Cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning
Gingerbread…or anything pumpkin! I love the spices and the smell of the kitchen while it’s baking :-)
Iced Sugar Cookies are part of our tradition. Baking, decorating and then sharing. fun times three!!
Baking item? Rolling pin! Baked good? Coffee cake or orange rolls! :)
My favorite baking item isn’t so much a food as a tool – parchment paper. I ABSOLUTELY love how easy and quick baking, cooling, and cleanup of cookies is with this stuff!!!! Woot woot!!! I use it everytime I bake cookies now.
To this day, I remember making fudge, divinity, & peppernuts w my mom (whom I have a rocky relationship with at best :O. ) and my late grandma. Bittersweet.
Homemade fudge.
Cookies from my MIL!
sugar cookies
Mine are buckeyes. My Aunt makes these every year and they are so delicious!!!
Russian Hot Tea
Lebkuchen. Too awesome for words.
Oreo truffles and fudge.
My favorite baking item is my rolling pin for making sugar cookies and pies.
I love making pretzel hugs. It’s a pretzel with a melted Hershey hug and an m&m!
I love to bake and eat all kinds of cookies for Christmas. Peanut butter, and chocolate chip and also, lemon snowflake cookies. Very good!
Cinnamon Rolls for Christmas brunch
and granola to give away