Christmas celebrations need not be very expensive. You don’t really have to spend thousands of dollars just to be able to make your family happy during this holiday season. In fact, you can spend a cozy white Christmas with the whole family at home without spending a small fortune. Nobody has to go broke right after Christmas so keep your spending spree down and concentrate on having quality time with your family.

Getting Your Home Ready For A White Christmas Celebration

2 cups packed brown sugar
2/3 cup white sugar
1 cup butter, softened
4 eggs
2/3 cup milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped walnuts
6 straight-sided wide-mouth pint canning jars with lids

Directions:
1) Sterilize 6 (1 pint) straight sided wide mouth canning jars, lids and rings by boiling for 10 minutes.
Keep the lids and rings in the hot water until needed.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
Dry jars and let them come to room temperature.
Grease insides of jar well.

That you may thoroughly comprehend how it happened that on last Christmas Day Thaddeus meted out gifts of value so unprecedented to the domestics of what he has come to call his “menagerie”–the term menage having seemed to him totally inadequate to express the state of affairs in his household–I must go back to the beginning of last autumn, and narrate a few of the incidents that took place between that period and the season of Peace on Earth and Good-will to Men. Should I not do so there would be many, I doubt not, who would deem Thaddeus’s course unjustifiable, especially when we are all agreed that Christmas Day should be for all sorts and conditions of men the gladdest, happiest day of all the year.

2/3 cup Butter Flavor or Golden Crisco
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
48 maraschino cherries, well drained on paper towels

White dipping chocolate:
1 cup white melting chocolate, cut in small pieces
2 tablespoons Butter flavor or Golden Crisco

Dark dipping chocolate:
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2 tablespoons Butter flavor or Golden Crisco
finely chopped pecans
slivered white chocolate