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These are my Mom’s recipes for the baked gifts she would always make our friends and nighbors at Christmas. We defiantly were’t a family who bought a million presents so these were the treats she would make once a year to take to people we cared about and I know we all looked forward to them. I have been making them for gifts myself for the past 10 years at this point I’d say and they are just scribbled on snaps of paper in my recipe box so I figured they deserved to be shared. The great thing about these three recipes is they sort of go together for a savory sweet treat. They also all involve rolling things into little balls so you can just make one huge mess in the kitchen and then clean it all up and be done. You also kind of just get on a “roll” with it. Also kids seem to love the part where you get to roll things in sugar so it’s pretty easy to out source some of the rolling while you pick up.