My Christmas Goodies

I don't know about you, but are you still recovering from Christmas like me??

I have spent lots of time catching up with friends and family and truly enjoying it!
I've worked out quite a bit this week and
am excited to try IM =X Pilates {whatever-the-heck that is?!} today.

I wanted so share a few more gifts I receive/gave.

I guess I really do love my wine!
I got a bottle of my favorite Pinot Grigio from my mother-in-law.

An adorable shoe/wine bottle holder and a fabulous red I cannot wait to try!

A silly cork from my MIL {love the fishnets!}

And a silly Santa costumey thing that goes on a wine bottle from my step-brother.

I also got some beautiful wine charms from Kristin, but that's for another post!

Got Wine?

And one of my favorite gifts I gave to my hubs was a frame with a bunch of photos

that we took on our honeymoon.

I put them all in sepia tone and blew up one of us in Rome.

We had such a magical time!

I can't wait to get it on a wall!

If you want some fabulous baking ideas,
link up over with Michelle at
 

She is quite the baker!

I made a few goodies this year.
If you missed my cookie party post, go check that out!

 I need to start earlier next year!

My favorite goodie I made:
Chocolate Cake Truffles

You can use any boxed cake you want, 

I wanted to do gingerbread, but Sadie {my dog}

licked the cooling gingerbread.

So, chocolate cake it was!

Ingredients:
1 box cake & follow its directions (water/oil/eggs) & bake--let cool

1 tub of frosting (I used vanilla)

Chocolate candy coating or bark (white or regular)

The key with these is COOLING!
They can be icky sticky tricky if you don't!

After you bake the cake, I even let it cool overnight.

Crumble cake into a bowl and stir in frosting.

COOL in fridge or it will be sticky!

Roll into balls.

I put them into the freezer for 20 minutes

Melt the bark and grab some toothpicks and wax paper.

Put the wax paper down on a counter to ensure an easy clean up.

If you have cutsie little truffle cups, use those!

Take each cake ball and with a toothpick, dunk the ball into coating.

If using sprinkles, put them on right away, otherwise they won't stick.

I then put them in the garage on cookie sheets to cool before placing them into 

adorable bags with ribbons.

They make perfect little gifts.
Leftover melted bark?

Those are pretty yummy too!
What goodies did you make this year?