oooh, snickerdoodles!   

Dave's Wife: I've lost my NY chzcake recipe, I used to love it. It called for a crust made from zwieback.
On the cranberry front, I am told a brisket, a can of berry sauce, and a can of tomato paste will cook up amazingly well, haven't tried it yet.

But as for holiday baking: 'twas not fated to be a baking year after all. Shopping ate my day. Spouse ate my bananas. We did bake a ham, and made up the strudel dough for tomorrow morning, it has to ripen overnight. That'll be the sole output. Drat.

I had hoped to at least get in some simple macaroons with little red candied cherries stuck on top, thought I could handle something that simple. Stopped for the cherries on the way home, found them, yada yada. Only to find two count'em two absolutely empty bottles of almond extract at home. Evidently it volatilized itself over the summer. I give up. We'll take our strudel and our Jamesons and head to the relatives looking for Nog.

Happy Christmas eve, bakers!