"White Christmas Fudge"

Freda, I'm loving you more and more, the more you post these!!!

Holiday baking and candy making I have always given as gidts, so I hav ade tons over the years. You have got to make some, and help needed let me know. I'll try. . . Thanks so much. your comments are special.

WOW Freda; this sounds not only very good but relatively easy. Are the candied cherries dry? Are they in the baking section?

No, Stephanie, they are not dry. "They are candied", kinda sticky, They are usually located where the fruit cake & baking supplies are located in your grocers. Check there, or just ask your grocer, they can help you find these. They come in red and green. LOL.

Gotcha; I know now where they are. YUMMO!! Thanks

Good girl, Stephanie, you'll be so proud of yourself making this, its so simple. hope you and yours really enjoy.

Freda, I can almost smell this candy. I am going to add this candy to the candy I make. Window pain, Hay stacks, Chocolate covered rice krispie treats, ON AND ON Thanks Freda!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh My eddie, that is quite a list already. . . Wait till you see mine. longer than my arm, but I give away most to friends and shut ins. . . they so much enjoy as they have no one who thinks of them or no family at all. I make little boxes of goodies an take to them, personally. They really enjoy the Homemade goodies, even small jars of my homemade jams are added to them.

Freda, I do similar things, but I usually add in a loaf of friendship bread, soups in a jar, and make several cookie, brownie, fudge, and candy recipes that get put in the mix as well. It's typically a very long and fun holiday season, and the friends and neighbors love me for it lol

Jennifer, Great jestures we have in us to do these kinds of things for others, If we can make another smile for a while, it warms our hearts as well, and gives us so much joy. Good for You, so nice to hear!!!

Freda,

Growing up my family was extremely poor, and I remember church members, friends, neighbors, and even the school faculty showing up at our doorstep every Christmas season with treats, goodies, and gift baskets. Our house burnt down when I was 7 or 8, not too long before Christmas, and the entire town pitched in to buy my family not only what we needed that we had lost, but provided us with what is to this day, still the best Christmas I remember.

I started doing my gift baskets a few years ago, after spending a week non-stop in my kitchen baking (I bake and cook when I'm depressed. Bad for me, great for the neighbors and friends!), and since I can't eat most of what I make for health reasons, I started giving it away, and packaging it up for others. Last Christmas I actually cooked an entire Christmas dinner for a mother and daughter who suffer from Dwarfism, and got donations from stores and even a fashion seamstress, to help out the daughter, as she was being teased horribly in school because of the clothes she had to wear (her mother bought 2nd hand clothes and altered them herself, though they never did look right). The Seamstress who donated her time actually created an entire wardrobe of new clothes for Amanda (the daughter), using her sizes and such. We now do something like this every year, pick one case around the area to help, and give them the best holiday we can. I love doing things like this, seeing someone else smile because you've made their day a little better is such an awesome feeling!

Paying it forward; God bless you for doing this!!