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I love this time of year. When fall rolls around I get even more excited about baking than I do any other time of the year. Summer ends and the real baking begins. The last months of the year are full of special reasons to spend time with family, share smiles, and bake sweet memories.
One of my favorite baking memories is making pecan pies with my uncle. We make them every year around Christmas but I thought I’d share the recipe with you again a little early this year. It’s too good to wait until December.
My grandmother used to make these pecan pies. Her recipe made three perfect pies at a time. She made them every year for family and friends. She loved it. And when she became less able to keep up with the same quantity of pies she liked to make, my uncle Ronnie became the official pie maker. He doesn’t bake and he’s not really a dessert guy but he makes a mean pecan pie. He’s been making them now for well over a decade since my grandmother passed away. He’s continued making them every year for friends and family to carry on his Mama’s tradition. And now I bake with him every year I can and if not I make sure to bake them in my own kitchen. It’s our family’s way of keeping her with us during the holidays.
And the pies are delicious too, so that’s awesome.
Of course, I had to put my touch on them and make them mini. Major cute. But I still wrap them just like she did. Simple and sweet. I love these refrigerated and I eat them like a giant pecan pie cookie.
Here’s the recipe how my grandmother made it and here’s a link to the original post with step-by-step photos demonstrated by my uncle and a little more about my grandmother.
And keep scrolling for a fun giveaway below…
Mama's Pecan Pies
In a separate bowl, crack open six eggs. Remove the “roosters” and loosely beat the eggs with your spoon.
And now, I’d love for you to share your favorite baking memory.
Holiday or any day.
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My favorite memory is when I started making a “Happy Birthday” cake for baby Jesus with my grandbabies. We bake it and then decorate it together. Such a sweet time! Even sweeter is when we sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. My sweet little granddaughter closed her eyes and folded her hands as if she was praying. Still makes me smile!
When my mom comes to visit me, we usually bake up some croissants. Now I usually teach her baking tips instead of the other way around!
I spent the night with my grandmother every Saturday night, and we spent all day Sunday baking.
Getting up early to help my family cook Thanksgiving dinner. There’s nothing like stuffing a bird in your pj’s and robe while listening to Christmas music and having the Macy’s Day Parade on in the background!
When I was maybe 5, I decided to make some cookies all by myself, with things that I loved. My grandmother came into the kitchen as I was about to put a cookie sheet with dollops of peanut butter with a carrot stick stuck in the top of each one in the oven. She stopped me and that was when I learned about essesntial ingredients in cookies, and following recipes and modifying them. :)
Baking holiday cookies with my mother and aunt. We used to bake nonstop the first few weeks of december and then give out all the cookies. Such delicious cookiesn and fun memories. .
Making Halloween sugar cookies with my best friend in high school. We made black bats that turned everybody’s mouth black when they ate them.
Much like you, Bakerella, I have wonderful memories of baking with family members. My grandmother, who was a baker professionally, was never too tired for rambunctious little kids, and always had a place for me at her kitchen table, to help with her latest work. She instilled a love of baking and creating memories in me that has only gotten stronger with time, and with her loss. I can’t make much of anything in my kitchen, using her heirloom tools, that doesn’t make me think of my Nanny. I know everything she made tasted even better because of the love she put in, and I only hope I can be half as good as she was. That would still be fabulous!!
When I was younger, my mom would always bake bread with us in the summer. I loved doing that, and now baking bread is one of my favorite things to do!
Baking with my grandmother in her kitchen. She’d give me pie crust dough remnants to make jam tarts. Such a vivid, sweet memory.
My mom teaching my sister and I how to make chocolate chip cookies. We didn’t have a ton of food in the house but we always had everything to make a batch of cookies. Sunday afternoons……ahhh memories.
I love your website! My favorite baking experience will always be Christmas cookies at Christmas!!
Baking an apple pie with my mother. She used to let me cut the apples and I just couldn’t believe that we could make something so good together. The pie was amazing but so was the time we spent making it.
My favorite baking memory is going to spend an entire day with my grandmother to learn and record her recipes. Many are just passed down from generations, but are just stored in her head and would be lost someday. It was a really fun day, one of my favorite memories, and now I have the recipes to keep forever!
My favorite memories are baking Christmas cookies with my Mom and little brother … I am looking forward to baking this year with our 4 year old son … he will be super excited to help decorate the cookies.
My favorite baking memories are baking chocolate chip chip cookies with my parents and brother in my childhood home. Dad helped us mix the batter, mom helped us scoop the batter, while we sat on the counter and enjoyed measuring out the packed brown sugar in measuring spoons that looked like eggs! Can’t wait to do the same with my future kiddos some day!
My favorite baking memory is baking with my daughter. Now that she is getting married, her soon-to-be husband enjoys our baked goods. Thanks !!!!!
Looking back on old recipe cards and finding ones handwriten by my mother and grandmother. And then baking with those same recipe cards!
My grandmother is who I think of when I bake during the holidays. We would make pretty pizzelle cookies every year and more. Now I make tons of sugar cookies every Christmas and invite my family and friend’s kids over for a huge cookie decorating party – I’ve been doing it about 12 years now and its gotten really big – but its my favorite thing to do every year!
Baking with my parents in their in-home bakery. I thought it was a pain at the time, but now as an adult, its a useful skill and something I can share with my kids!
My grandmother on my mom’s side was always baking something. I can’t even count the number of times I stood next to her KitchenAid mixer waiting to add the next ingredient.! My favorite recipe to make was her Chocolate Picnic Cake, now a favorite in my house!
Making yeast rolls with my Grandma and my kids at Christmas. Grandma has passed on now, but I was smart enough to take pictures.
My favorite memory is when I made my first carved cake for my son. That thing took two whole days to finish and it wasnt even huge. I had green frosting from one side of the kitchen to the other it definately looked like a tornado went thru but in the end everyone loved it and that begun my love of cake baking and decorating. This prize would definately make things easier.
I love to bake and making treats for family and friends is so much fun! My husband’s Grandma Doodlebug makes the best mini whoopie pies every year at Christmas and they are sooo good! So many wonderful traditions that include baking :)
Baking Christmas cookies with my kids when they were little. They had so much fun!
My favorite memories are baking and decorating Christmas cookies and then, of course, eating said Christmas cookies.
I remember baking and decorating Christmas cookies with my mom, sister, and grandma. It was a tradition we did every year. My mom and grandma would frost them and my sister and I would decorate them.
Making all of our family recipes for the holidays, makes me think of my Grandmother and Mom.
My favorite baking memory is with my grandma. She made the best Coconut Cakes! People actually paid her to make them a cake. When I got older she let me help her on occasion. I would use a old heavy spoon and scrape the coconut out of it’s shell. She never used store bought coconut, always a real, break it open with a hammer coconut. She loved to bake other goodies too. Sour Cream Pound Cake, Pinwheel candies, a Crazy Cake. Oh I miss her so much!
My favorite memory is one I hope I’m also passing onto my daughter’s, helping my mom bake in the kitchen. It was always such a fun time.
I learned to bake from my Great Grandma, she was so patient, gentle and kind. . .I remeber we were making something that needed to be rolled out with a rolling pin. Well I was about 8 and all of a sudden my rolling pin DIDN’T have a handle. We spend what seemed like an hour looking for that silly thing and ended up using the pin with out one of the handles and laughed the whole time. When we were done and hung our aprons mine was a little heavier and the handle had fallen into a smaller side pocket we hadn’t checked or felt.
My grandmother’s Christmas cookies are the best and I always loved decorating them with her. After she passed, my aunt continued the tradition. Now I get to take my son over to sit around with the family and decorate “Grandma’s cookies” every year. :)
I love making amos and andy candy with my paw paw each year.
My favorite baking memory is making Christmas cookies with my mom who isn’t so great at cooking but likes to sit around and eat the cookie dough with me :)
Baking Christmas cookies of course!
Me and my best friend have a long standing tradition of making chocolate tarts together. It’s our thing :)
My favorite baking memory is when I was a kid making fudge & Rice Krispie treats with my grandmother in her kitchen after school right during the holidays. I’d pull up the footstool to the counter and dump & mix all of the ingredients. She really made me feel a part of the baking, even though I really wasn’t doing much. It has become a tradition that I continue with my nephew now and hope to share with my kids when I have them.
One of my earliest memories is making cookies with my Gram and cousins, we would usually make p.b. cookies and we would take turns criss crossing them with the fork, now when I make p.b. cookies with my kids that is their favorite part.
Baking Christmas cookies with my girls when they were little.
I actually have a lot of wonderful baking memories. But, one of my favorites happened every fall. My family and I would go peach and apple picking and then head home to make peach and apple pies for the High Holidays. Of course we’d also put a peach pie in the oven right away to make sure the peaches were good that year (that is of course after we’d eaten a few while we picked – quality control was very important ;)).
My favorite baking memory is baking and decorating sugar cookies with my sister.
I make a chocolate pie every thanksgiving and Christmas for my daughters. They spend the rest of the year trying to make up reasons for me to make It again. Last year I taught my oldest and she was so excited. They look forward to those holidays just for chocolate pie!
My favorite baking memory is making cut-out cookies and then having my girls decorate them. The counters would be covered with cookies, colored frosting, decorating bags, spreaders, and every sprinkle sprinkle in the house! Many happy hours passed while decorating their masterpieces!
We always baked on or around my November birthday – trying to get a jump on the holidays! My 9th birthday we baked all day long since we had a snowday. My mom ended up droppinga pile cookies into the oven and setting them ablaze … Sending all the kids onto the front porch while she panicked inside! Hilarious. She let us eat as many cookies as we wanted if we kept her secret from Dad.
My favorite is baking pumpkin log rolls with just about anybody! I have made them with so many friends and family members, it is always a great time.
My favorite memory was when my sister and I each got to invite a friend over and spend the Saturday baking Christmas shaped sugar cookies. We got to decorate and eat them, then sent some home with our friends.
My favorite baking memory is last year…supervising my (at the time) 4th grade daughter and her science experiment on cupcakes…don’t forget, you have to repeat the procedure 5 times!!!! We had a TON of cupcakes left over…so we helped a friend’s homeless ministry by serving her delicious cupcakes! I think that’s a moment she will never forget!
One of my favorite baking memories was when my 9 year old daughter decided to surprise us with muffins. We awoke to a wonderful smell and they looked absolutely beautiful. When I took that first bite, however, it had that baking powder taste. I thought I may have just gotten a piece of baking powder that didn’t get mixed in. The second bite had that same strange taste to it. When I asked her how much baking powder she had used, she showed me the recipe said 3 teaspoons. Then I asked her what teaspoon she had used. She pulled one out of the silverware drawer. We compared measurements and I showed her how the eating teaspoon equals 1 1/2 measuring teaspoons. A good lesson learned that still brings a smile to my face 20+ years later.
My favorite baking memory is my grandmother teaching my sister and I how to make pies from scratch for a Girl Scout badge. We had so much fun and made such a great memory.
The first time I tried making cake pops were for my friend’s bridal shower. I was afraid of how things would turn out, but I followed bakerella’s recipe and tips to a T and they were a hit! :)
Baking with my preschoolers – so fun to see how much they enjoyed measuring, pouring, and watching the mixer stir up their favorite cookies!
My favorite baking memory is baking Christmas cookies with my daughter cookie exchange parties & to give to all her wonderful friends & teachers.
We work together in our matching Santa aprons with Christmas music in the background and completely trash the kitchen. But it’s all worth it for that special time with my daughter & all the yummy treats.
I think we might even attempt baking our own Ginger bread house & gingerbread man cookies this year.
Would love a great gingerbread recipe if anyone has one to share.
My favorite baking memory is standing on a chair in my little apron “helping” her make cinnamon rolls.
My mom, grandma, and aunt used to make so many different kinds of cookies and sweets every Christmas. I learned to make so many different yummy things! My favorites are peanut butter balls, spritz, and of course, cut-out cookies. I can’t wait for Christmas now!
My sister and I started baking Christmas cookies together every year several years ago. Sadly, my husband and I moved away last year.
My worst moment in baking turned into my best memory. I was making a pony shaped cake for a coworker’s child’s birthday. When trying to ice the carved cake, it ripped chunks out of the cake because I had not learned to crumb coat yet! I started bawling in frustration, but my dear husband came in, and using his engineering skills, pasted my poor broken cake together and helped me finish!
I first got really into baking a few years ago when I was trying to get my friend to watch an episode of a show with me, and we decided to bake a snack to go along with it. Never ended up watching the show, but we made an absurd cake (chocolate cake, chocolate butter cream, chocolate ganache, and graham crack just stabbed all over the outside), that started off the Summer Time Cake Series, a few years of making cakes weekly for our friends. It was fabulous!
When my parents had their kitchen redone, the few days after it was finished my mom and I had a non-stop baking marathon. We basically made anything and everything we could think of, it was glorious.
Every year at Thanksgiving I make pumpkin cupcakes and apple pie for my family.
Baking Christmas cookies with my mom. Picking out the recipes we would make, going shopping for ingredients and spending time together baking and delivering our delicious creations.
I remember the first time my brother and I wanted to surprise my family with bread. We put so much yeast and used so much flour we ended up with a huge huge mess.
Our families are originally from Canada, and as such, Christmas is just not the same without Nanaimo bars. We usually have to import one of the main ingredients…Bird’s custard powder, as it isn’t readily available at any grocery store I have been to. I generally find myself baking two large pans of bars in one day…one for us to eat from or freeze and one for adding pieces to gift trays.
My first and favorite baking memory was with my grandmother. She was a wonderful cook and baker. She never measured anything and it always came out right. her apple pie was wonderful. To get her recipes my mother would have to measure every ingredient as my grandmother put it into the bowl. It was fun and it is one of my favorite memories of baking
My favorite baking memory is when I was little my Mom and Dad worked late so my sister and I would bake Christmas cookies together and decorate them to have as a nice suprise for them! I was always in charge of selecting the shapes and cutting them out and my brother would tint the icing! My sister was the only one alowed to put them in the oven, now every winter I make a huge batch and take them to my sister’s house and some to my brother!
It’s holiday baking with my mom for me as we’ll. all kinds of delicious treats from her childhood in Greece. Kouriambiethes, melomakarouna, mmmm ….
I always love baking apple and peach pies with my mom. We would make batches of them to freeze so that no matter when we wanted pies, they would be ready. Now that I have children of my own, we have continued this tradition with their help.
making and decorating gingerbread houses with my two girls – we’ve done it several times and it’s always a good time!
One of my favorites is when my daughter made brownies all by herself. I taught her well.
One of my favorites is when my daughter made brownies all by herself. I taught her well.
during the holiday’s my mom and I would bake cookies for friends and family.I think it was about 20 or more kinds. It would take us weeks to finishe all the diffrent kinds of cookies but it was awesome to see the table filled with all the cookies and all the kinds. it was alot of fun. Something I hope to do with my two kids I have all her stained recipie cards. It’s wonderful!!
I learned to bake at school in Scotland when I was 12. I still have wonderful memories of that school kitchen and can still recall how it smelled.
I love baking, especially with the opportunity to make memories. A couple years ago my dad asked me to come over just before Christmas. When I got there he asked me if I would make Christmas cut-outs with him. I spent the whole day, enjoying my dad’s company and making delicious cookies. It was a very special day for me.
You fondest baking memory is the first year I baked Christmas cookies with my Godchildren. Seeing their faces light up with joy at what they had just accomplished. Wonderful memories that I will cherish.
My Mom has one old cookbook from her mother with an illustrated step-by-step cartoon demonstration of how to make gingerbread boys. Nothing says holiday baking to me quite like those images of their raisin eyes and white icing outlines. Love to bake and decorate gingerbread boys with my own children now!
My fav baking memory was watching my mom and my then 5-year-old daughter making my great-grandma’s crackle-top molasses cookies. Usually I do most of the baking, but it was great to see my mother and my daughter making an old family recipe. I felt pride in knowing that the tradition lives on…as an added bonus, the crackle-top molasses cookies now happen to be my daughter’s favorite cookie (and mine as well)! The imaging of the 2 of them baking those cookies will be with me forever.
Watching my grandmother bake pies with my son, definately the best baking memory ever.
I’m currently making tons of favorite baking memories. My daughter is five and for over a year now her dream has been to own her own bakery. She and I spend a lot of time in the kitchen baking and experimenting. She finds new recipes or sees pictures and we try to recreate them. I’m trying to teach her all I know. It’s just a really fun and special time.
My favorite baking memory is also one made during the holidays. I always thought my mom’s cut out sugar cookies with the different colored frostings were the coolest thing. And of course, getting to decorate then eat them. As an adult I’ve learned they were Pillsbury sugar cookies with just powdered sugar and food coloring…but they are still the best! (but only when mom makes them.)
One of my favorite baking memories is not mine, but rather my daughter’s. When she was about 9 years old, she thought she would surprise us by baking muffins (all by herself). We awoke to the smell of them. They looked beautiful! When we bit into them, however, there was a taste of baking powder. I thought maybe I had just gotten a little pocket of powder that hadn’t gotten stirred in. But, sure enough, the second bite also had that same strange sensation. When I asked her how much baking powder she had used, she said she had put in what the recipe called for (3 teaspoons). When I asked her what teaspoon she had used, she pulled one of the teaspoons from the silverware drawer. I then showed her the comparison measurements of both teaspoons and the teaspoon used for eating equals about 1 1/2 measuring teaspoons. We had a good laugh, and she learned a great lesson in baking. It still brings a smile to my face when I think about it 20+ years later.
My favorite baking memory began about 7 years ago. Around the time my daughter turned 1, she began helping with our Christmas cutouts. My six year old son also joins in the fun. Baking is just better when it’s done with the ones you love!
My favorite baking memory is when my mom and I would bake for hours and listen to christmas,music. Especially johnny mathis, dolly parton and kenny rogers. And to this day we still listen to them.
When I was a child, any time my mom was baking pies, I would get a ball of pie crust to work with, too. I would roll it out, just like she did, but then cut the dough into shapes, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, and put on a cookie sheet to bake. Once baked, we all enjoyed “scraps”. To this day, any leftover pie crust gets made into scraps and is enjoyed just as much as the pie itself.
Every year I would help my grandmother and mom bake cookies for Christmas. My grandma never had recipes written down. Everything was in her head and somehow them always came out great!
Now I bake with my kids. They are always eager to help. My recipes are written down. Lol
Those pecan pies look delicious!! I have to try making them. My favourite baking memories are making simple cakes with my mom. Licking the bowl was the part that keeps that memory alive! My most recent memories are making cake pops with my own children. They are fascinated at the whole process. They always have smiles on their faces when we bake and make diffrent things. These memories will live on for all of us for a long time!! You’re a great inspiration Bakerella!!
Neither of parents or any of my grandparents baked…but we did make my late grandma’s anise seed Christmas cookies every year and that is a fond memory.
I tried my hand at baking cake pops for the first time last Christmas. I didn’t realize the time it would take to make a batch and was up all night. But not alone! My sisters stayed up with me, making them looks pretty assembly-line style. It was great to be up, chatting, and sharing the moment while putting our creativity to use!
My favorite baking memories revolve around baking my children, then my grandchildren. The tug of war over who gets to lick the spoon and the flour on the floor. Sweet memories.
I treasure memories of time spent baking and decorating July 4th cookies – sometimes it’s just my three girls and sometimes the project includes nieces and nephews that are visiting. Just thinking about it brings a smile to my face!!
I have so many amazing baking memories, but I have to say that the year our whole extended family made gingerbread houses together was the most fun. Everyone had such a great time that afternoon. At one point my nephew added something silly to his house and he started giggling. Well, that laughter was so contagious that before long everyone was in on it. Tears were streaming down faces and bathroom breaks were necessary. His house looked silly, but that’s what made it so delightful.
My favorite baking memory is my first baking session with my little daughter. She was standing on the stool and helping me dump and mix. Precious moments together.
My favorite baking memory was last year. My fiance and I decided to give out cookies as gifts but somehow he convinced me to bake EVERYTHING the night before. We started at 6 pm and baked almost 400 cookies (6 different kinds), we finished at 2 am.It was such a dumb idea to wait, but thankfully they were all delicious.
Making cookies at Christmas.
One Christmas i baked cupcakes and distributed them around town to the homeless children. their joy and smiles are forever etched into my memory :)
My almost 2-year old daughter now loves to help me bake, so every time we make something together, it’s extra special.
Several years ago, I heard of Cookie Swaps for the first time and immediately planned my first annual Christmas Cookie Swap for friends and neighbors. Great fun!
One Christmas, my parents were visiting from out of state, and I brought out the cookies from the swap to show my mom. She looked at the plate for a moment and said, “I bet you those two are the ones you made.” She was right! How in the world did she know?? I had not used any of her old recipes, and she had not been there when I baked them. My mom was awesome!!!
I loved making pralines at Christmas time using the pecans that I had picked from our trees.
I remember making pitzelles with my grandma, aunt and cousins. It always made us feel special to be able to help them and even today baking with family is one of my favorite things. I can’t wait to be able to pass that tradition on to my children!
My favorite baking memory was when my mother was visiting my family before the Christmas holidays about 5 years ago. She was baking a tray of her world-famous baklava (which she learned how to make from my father’s mother). She had great disdain for my electric oven, which just wasn’t the same as her gas oven at home. The pastry wasn’t browning properly on the top so she decided to briefly put the broiler on. Let’s just say, phyllo dough and lots of melted butter are highly combustible. Within about 30 seconds, we had a tray of baklava flambe!
My favorite holiday baking memory is making chocolate peanut butter fudge with my grandfather. It was his special holiday treat. I never saw him cook any other time of the year but at Christmas time he would take out the candy thermometer and all the pots and pans and he would cook like a well seasoned chef. He has long since passed away but his fudge lives on in my heart and my tummy as truely the best holiday treat. it’s a tradition I will share with my kids and hopefully my grand kids one day!
My favorite baking memory doesn’t have me baking at all but my mom! She used to bake all of the bread we ate, and I mean from scratch- mixing, rising, kneading, rolling and baking. And we went through a lot of bread being a family of seven. It was a labor of love and she has forever ruined me because I have the hardest time with store-bought bread!
My great Grandma Keller made the most delicious raisin filled cookies. Unfortunately, I didn’t really appreciate the grown up flavor as a small child. I ate all the filling out of the cookie and then I threw the rest in the bushes near the kitchen door. Recently I found a hand written copy of her cookie recipe, a real treasure.
So many memories! I love to bake. Seeing people’s faces light up when I give them a Christmas plate full of wonderful baked goodies.
That is so adorable. We were a little more simple, but we could make some delicious chocolate chip cookies.
It’s tradition in my family to bake a special kind of cookie. The dough mixed with some spices, shaped like a doughnut, and filled with dates.. It’s so yummy and part of my culture too :)
My favorite baking memory is making chocolate chip cookies with my gram. She was so patient with me and allowed me to participate fully every time. She’s still alive but suffers from dementia now that has really changed her personality. I do miss my old gram very much.
My mother used to bake us brownies once a week for an after school treat. She would always use the Jiffy Brownie Mix and would frost them with the Jiffy Chocolate Frosting mix. I don’t think they make either of those any more. I just remember those were the best brownies. My Mom is no longer with us. I miss her and those brownies. Thank you for the nice memory!
Baking many different kinds of Christmas cookies with my Mom and sister in advance of my 3 brothers coming home for Christmas.
Every year right before Christmas my mom & I would spend a whole day baking different types of Christmas cookies. I would always eat so much raw sugar cookie dough that I would get a tummyache, but it was always worth it! We have continued this tradition now (minus the tummyache), just switching back and forth between our houses.
Christmas cookies with the kiddos. So much fun!
My favorite memory was when I was about 16 or so when I fell in love with baking. My mom didn’t bake and I was learning how to cook. I decided I wanted to make some chocolate and raspberry eclairs…pretty ambitious…but I used a recipe I found in my betty Crocker cookbook and used berries from our garden….it came out great and all my family and friends just raved. I became the family dessert maker for all functions after that. Now I’m passing that love on to my 8yr old son, who loves to help me bake :-)
my favorite baking memories is with my mom and my sister every december making cookies for my friends and family.
my favorite baking memory is making breakfast cookies with my mother. there was something magical about cookies for breakfast and spending that rare time with my mom, just her and me
My favorite baking memory is every Thanksgiving all the women in my family compete in pie making to see who can make the best pie. This brings all of us together & is something we have done for years. I look forward to it every Fall! :)
I loved the older ladies at church during the Christmas season because they would bake hundreds of cookies each for the cookie bizarre. All the almond flavoring and sprinkles I could eat!! Yummm :)
My favourite baking memory is when I used to make “Plätzchen” (Christmas biscuits) with my nan when I was a child! Always used to decorate them with a million sugarsprinkles :)
Every year, growing up, my mom and I would bake and decorate sugar cookies using my great grandmother’s recipe. We’d make them pretty with icing and colored sugars. They never lasted long, though! Our house full of boys ate them as fast as we could decorate them … but it was fun to spend that time together. And its a tradition that I plan to pass on to my daughter this year, now that she’s old enough to help out in the kitchen [she’s three!]
My favorite baking memory is when my Mama would bake her cakes, she’d let me bake along with her. I would make itty bitty cakes and then “decorate” them along side her. Ironically, baking a cake is my least favorite item to bake now.
I remember the first time my mom ever let my sister and me make cookies all by ourselves (in *her* KitchenAid stand-mixer, no less!). We were making chocolate chip cookies, and when we added the dry ingredients- POOF! There was flour everywhere! Our hair, the cabinets, the outside of the mixer, the FLOOR! What a mess! She was mad at first, but we all laughed and cleaned it up together. Surprisingly, Mom still let us bake after that, and her confidence in us has translated into a love of baking. I still love me some chocolate chip cookies, but I love making candies, flourless chocolate tortes, puddings (from scratch!); I’ll try almost anything at least once! I only hope I can be as gracious with my daughter when she starts experimenting in the kitchen. (She’s 4 now, so I’m sure it won’t be long, LOL!) Thank you so much for this opportunity, and for letting us all share our fun memories!
We would make 3 or 4 kinds of cookies each Christmas. Every Geary we had to come up with 1 variation on 1 of he recipes then make it also.
I always loved her chocolate cake with the thick chocolate frosting layer she had on top, my sisters and I would fight over who gets to lick the bowl, it was so good.
my mother used to make homemade pretzels on Saturday nights for me and my sisters
Favorite memories are the goodies my Mom baked and still creates today…I learned to make wonderful homemade cinnamon rolls from her. Now my daughter has started making them too. The generations of baking continues!
I have just began a baking tradition with my nice who lost her mother 4 years ago. Whenever I tell her that I’m baking cupcakes, she’s my handy assistant right there in the kitchen. The time we spend creating “handheld joy” are the most precious moments.
My mother made plain biscotti called mandelbroit every time we went to visit my grandmother, and I remember begging her for some before we went but she would only let us eat the corners and they were DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!
My Mom would make the best elephant ears at Christmas time. They were crispy and buttery. I make them but of course they don’t taste as good as Mom’s.
Every Thanksgiving and Christmas, my mom and I get up early to cook a ridiculously large meal for family. Inevitably, there are at least three pies, homemade rolls, one or more cakes…did I mention there are only four of us? We enjoy each other’s company, take our time, drink mimosas, and each put a lot of love into each dish.
I always loved baking challah bread with my mother
I always remember my mom, aunt, and grandmother (Nanny) coming together with cookie sheets, chocolate chips, and bags of sugar to bake Christmas cookies in Nanny’s kitchen. This was an annual tradition that everyone in the family looked forward to.
I loved baking with my mom when I was little. It was always fun to have your own little pretzel or cookie to make.
My sister is twelve years older than me, and every year when I was young we’d spend the day together making batches and batches of Christmas cookies. It wasn’t like we didn’t see each other often anyway, but there was something very special and lovely about baking hundreds of Christmas cookies for friends and family!
On Christmas Eve, we would always go to my grandparents’ house for dinner. Grandma would have spent weeks baking different desserts, but I remember she made a shortbread bar with chocolate and nuts. Delicious!
I just started this baking tradition within the last four years….I bake homemade gingerbread house for my kids and nieces to decorate in Nov. The smell throughout the house is amazing! I have enjoyed seeing their creativity blossom from year to year. They have so much fun eating candy and decorating the houses. I love the laughter that fills the house. Priceless moments.
I remember my papa was the baker in the family growing up. He made the most amazing pies and mousse. The family pie favorite was apple pie. Since I was always eager to help, my papa bought an apple peeler so that my job was to peel and core apples for the pies. I was a happy little girl watching my papa work his magic on the pies and I had a very important job. I loved that he allowed me to work with him and to watch him do what he loved to do best. My papa has been gone for a decade now, but the one thing I’ll always remember about him are his pies and me being the apple peeler.
One of my favorite memories is icing Christmas cutout cookies with my mom and older sister. My mom made all kinds of cookies, but my perennial favorite is her cutouts.
We call it Plum Pudding but it is actually called Thanksgiving pudding. It is a real old recipe from my husband’s grandmother. Very traditional to have every Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Maybe this isn’t my favorite memory but when I was about 14, I made a pound cake and walked into the living room to present it to my mother and brothers. I tripped and the loaf went flying. Everyone laughed and said it must weigh wayyyyyy more than a pound.
What a beautiful story….My favorite baking memories happen every tiime I am in the kitchen with my mom
My favorite is finally getting a grandson that loves to bake. I had visions of baking with my granddaughters but I only got grandsons. The first 1 had no interest at all in baking. The second one would have but he lived over a thousand miles away. But the third one came to us with the love of baking. We baked and baked. I even made him a ‘cooking’ stool. So he could reach the cabinet. He loves gadgets and has to try out all of mine.
When my kids were in school, we would bake Lemon Poppyseed Bread for their teachers Christmas gifts. I started out with lots of help, but they always seemed to find something more fun to do and I would end up finishing by myself. But, I enjoyed every minute!
My favorite memory is helping my Dad bake Snickerdoodle cookies. I loved rolling the dough in cinnamon & sugar!
Hands down, me and my mother making sugar cookies for Christmas. I can still smell them baking, the rush of sweet sugar and vanilla slowly attacking my sense of smell with each breathe I would take. But not only the aroma of mom’s cookies, the happiness she gave me just being with her and learning how to bake. My mom was a wonderful baker and now she is in a nursing home, oh how I wish I could just be back in her kitchen with her just one more time. That favorite memory is the one I cherish the most. Paulette
My favorite memory would most likely be making Christmas cookies with my grandmother. My sister and I would help her make the sugar cookie dough, roll it out, and cut it. I’ll never forget all the icing and sprinkles!! I think that is one of the things that helped my love for baking grow. <3
My grandmother, mother, sister, and I would all make lady locks (otherwise known as lady fingers) every year. Obviously, we couldnt just make the regular ones. We had a relative forge us some metal tubes for MINI ones. It took the entire day, but we always made enough to last for a year and to give away.
My parents didn’t cook or bake but my grandma sure did. I’d go stay with her during the summer and we would bake a cake every week.
I loved how she taught me the basics of taking the cake out of the pan and spreading the icing so that each part gets some.
Naturally my favorite part was eating the cake. ;)
One of my favorite baking memories would include making the Chocolate Crackle Cookies from this website! As an attempt to help cheer her up, I made these cookies for the first time with my friend Gina who was going through a rough break up. I think we accidentally used a lot more sugar than intended (both in the cookie mix AND rolling the balls in a crap-ton of the powdered & regular sugar… hahaha). Having the ultra sweet tooth, I did not have any trouble devouring these chocolately cookies. Not being as an extreme sweets-lover, Gina took exactly half an hour to finish one cookie. :-D
Christmas cookies. I have a large family and my daughters and I make cookies. But when it comes time to wrap the plates, the boys pitch in. We make set up tables to walk around and fill the plates. The plates last year came from Goodwill and Habitat. We spent the fall searching for Christmas theme china. Finally when it is all together, Dad and the kids deliver the cookies over a few nights. It is a happy, happy time!
My favorite baking memories are baking Christmas cookies with my mom and then with my own children.
A favorite baking memory of mine resulted in black biscuits. My grandmother wasn’t a huge baker but she would make biscuits–canned–for every family dinner to go with the Kraft Mac and cheese baked with slices of American cheese on top. But EVERY SINGLE TIME, she’d char the bottom of the biscuits until they were black. There was never a meal where you didn’t have to pull the top off the biscuits and leave the bottom! Luckily since they were canned the flaky layers helped separate edible from non edible!
At Christmas every year I make batch after batch of cookies,candy,and cakes. I start making cookies in October . When my children were young we would make the cookies together. Now they are grow andI have four grandsons. My oldest ,Christopher has helped me make cookies. last year I made 38 different kinds of cookies and I send baskets full of cookies to my family and friends.I love making my holiday treats.It makes me feel so good to make them happy.
Now that I have my own family, my favorite memories are with them. Both my 3.5 and 1.5 year old love to get in the kitchen with me. They have their little steps stools and must have their own aprons. I love having them in there with me.
Baking Christmas Cookies with my mom, who at 81 is still baking cookies and cakes. Her baking collection is massive :) She is an awesome woman!
For my birthday this summer, my son and I made a cake that looked like a giant peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He’s left for college now, but we’re still talking about that cake!!
Making Christmas cookies with my mom was my favorite baking time. She still makes them every year!!
My favorite baking memory is experimenting with pie crust techniques every year! I don’t bake pies often (only around thanksgiving) so when I do I like to try new methods for getting the perfect crust. I’ll never forget some of the “flops” which turned into great memories!
My favorite baking memories have been made as an adult. I love baking Christmas cookies with my daughter every year. She has been decorating them since she was a one-year-old and we both look forward to this every year.
I have alwyas made my daughter unusal birthday cakes and now I am just loving ceating birthday memeories for my grandchilren now too.
I have so many favorites but I think I really started enjoying baking more when my kids started wanting to be involved in making their birthday cakes. The first time my daughter made her own birthday cake all by herself was awesome!
Every fall I would make Derby pies and bourbon balls ith my mother. We would give them to all the nieghbors.
i grew up with a jewish father and christmas celebrating mother. over the years, good old jewish dad became the best christmas cookie baker in town! i relish getting the e-mail for the year asking what cookies we want this year and any new recipes that he has found.
One of my favorite baking memories was when I had my daughters help me make cakepops for the first time. It was a bit messy but the smiles on their face made up for all the cleanin up afterwards. I hope it’s something theyt oo cherish as a childhood memory. Thank you.
My favorite baking memory was when me and my two year old daughter made owl cake pops and cookies for her second birthday. It was so much fun doing it that i plan on doing it every year. It was wonderful to see my baby enjoy baking and making a mess she was so proud of what we made. Thanks for giving us such wonderful ideas that we can share and make great memories of.
My mom was a great cook, but never really enjoyed it. I’m guessing that was probably our fault – 5 kids and I’m sure we were all picky about something! But when the holiday season rolled around, she would bake cookies like there was no tomorrow!
I spent many afternoons with my Grandmother and learned a great appreciation for Southern cooking and baking from her. When she died in 1989, I inherited her big cake mixing bowl and her hand-cranked flower sifter — white with tiny blue flowers. Both are still going strong today and I think of her every single time I used them.
My favorite baking memory was with my 5 year old grandson making peanut butter cookies with Hersey’s Kisses. I left the room for a few minutes and came back to the kitchen to findquite a few cookies missing their ‘kisses’ and my grandson covered in chocolate. He so enjoyed those cookies!
I always make frosted sugar cookies for Christmas-and the best was Martha Stewart inspired! VERY pretty cookies I must say!
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Making christmas cookies, shortbreads and decorating them with tonnes of sprinkles. I also remember baking cakes with my mom and being able to lick the batter from the spatula.
Those are great memories!!
My favorite baking memory hasn’t happened yet lol, but it will on Oct 6th of this year! My niece is getting married & is having a pie bar instead of a wedding cake and your grandmothers pecan pie recipe will be a big part of her celebration! I started baking this recipe last year & it has become my family’s favorite! Thank you for sharing it, it is truly the BEST PECAN PIE!
My favorite baking memory involves my dad who worked in a Kimberly CLark plant for many years and did shift work BUT he always made time to make these little cookies each topped with a pecan and for the life of him he cannot remember the recipe :( I loved them & would help him bake them but Im 40 and that was 30 years ago so I dont remember either but it was a fave memory of me and Daddy
One of my favorite baking memories is watching my grandmother decorate her famous wedding cakes. She’d make all of her roses on waxed paper and Id be in charge of separating them for her. Of course I’d get to eat the ones that broke. When I as married she made my wedding cake…no frosting flowers, only fresh, but just as special!
My favorite baking memory would be making gingerbread cookies and gingerbread houses with my family. Decorating then with mini M&M’s! Love mini M&M’s!
Myfavorite memory is making cookies with my Dad. We would watvh college or pro football on the weekends. He would have his stainless steel bowl in his lap with the big wood spoon beating the butter and sugar. On commercials he would go out, add the eggs, come in for the next series of downs and beat the eggs in. It would continue until half time.
I have never been able to recreate his cookies. He use the traditional Toll House recipe. I swear it’s the hand beating in his bowl with his cookie spoon and his cookie sheets. He still has those utensils and I know they will be mine eventually but those cookies will never be the same.
My favorite baking memories are seeing the joy on my daughter’s face when I hand her the beater to lick. We sure have fun baking together!
After completing three Wilton classes, surprising my daughter with cow print cake made from fondant for her 13th birthday. She loved it and was surprised.
I learned a love for baking at a young age. The memory that sticks out the most is baking sugar cookies at Halloween.
My favorite baking memory is my family’s wish cake. For 14 years, my daughters and I have baked a cake on January 1st and everyone gets to blow out a candle while making a wish for the new year. It started out as an impromptu activity on a day off but now is a much-anticipated holiday tradition.
My favourite baking memory was decorating cakes at my grandma’s for my family birthday parties. Ever since I was 12 she would give me free reign and all the ingredients I needed to make and decorate the cakes. Then we would carefully drive them over to my house to be devoured by my large family.
My favorite baking experience has been making cookies with my son! He’s 5 now and we’ve done it for a few years now. He loves decorating and eats more sprinkles than he puts on the cookies!
My mom doesn’t bake much during the year, but at Christmas, look out. She bakes several types of cookies and bars. Each of my siblings (4 of us) and my dad have a favorite and my mom made sure the favorites were baked first. My sister and I would be in the kitchen helping and sampling. Now there are spouses and 7 grandchildren, each with a favorite, and my mom makes sure to bake all the favorites. Starting in October, my kids start talking about the holidays and constantly say “I can’t wait for Grammy’s cookie tray”. Homemade cookies, baked with love by the best mom in the world, are the absolute best!
I would definitely have to say my favorite baking memories are from when I was a child, I loved baking cookies with my mom and I remember most of them were filled with some sort of jelly or jam, I loved them. I guess now that I am older I think alot about those times since I have not seen my mom in years, but having my own son now I am definitely going to spend baking time with him, he’s one year old now but as soon as he’s old enough we will be baking those jelly cookies, for sure.
Fighting over who licks the bowl with my sister.
my favorite had to be the first year my son was old enough to “crack the eggs” for fall baking, and the younger girls were old enough to mess around with powdered sugar and rolling brownie balls – the looks on their faces was “oh my gosh we are SO important to have SUCH big jobs”! precious :)
My favorite baking memory would probably be when I earned to make bread with my uncleI was twelve but the aroma that filled the air that day is one I will never forget especially because he passed away soon after and now I wish I would have written down all the things he shared with me about baking it’s so important to lear from those that have experienc because they can also get passed down fron person to person, miss him butb ow baking is even more treasured and I can show my son how I do it.
I grew up in a big Italian family and every year my grandparents would make homemade ravioli, chicken cutlets, marinara, antipasto, and Italian bread for Christmas dinner followed by a chocolate yule log cake for dessert. As we all got a bit older and my grandfather passed away some of those traditions were harder to maintain but one year my mom and I decided to try the yule log recipe. It was a bit of a disaster and didn’t much resemble the one my grammy used to make but we had a lot of good laughs making it together and reminiscing about my grandpa singing “I’ve God A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts” to us while he cooked. :-)
One of my favorite baking memories is from last summer. Every week I was giving my boys a little baking class for fun. One week my mom joined in and we all baked challah together.
I loved baking Christmas cookies with my mom when I was little. She passed away, but I still make our favorite Russian teacakes in her memory.
The first time my sisters and I tried baking around the age of 10 as a surprise. We filled the cupcake tin too full and opened the oven to a tray of cupcake-cake.good times.
My favorite baking memory is baking something special to send with my children on the first day of school.
Has to be baking with my G-Mom-B! Especially a jelly roll, she’d trim all 4 of the outer edges and they became the baker’s treats. A sweet memory indeed:@)
Every year my grandma used to make a particular kind of fudge. It’s a chocolate fudge but has peanutbutter in it too. There’s nothing that tastes like it. As she got older she passed the recipe/method down to my dad. Some of my favorite memories are of us in the kitchen. I loved watching dad put the pre-fudge goodness in the bowl of water to see if it formed a ball. It was like this magic thing. One second batter, the next FUDGE! Of course being in the kitchen gave me the right to lick the beaters. We even had this one pot we used for fudge and no others. It was more chemistry than baking but it gave me some great times with my dad
My favorite baking memory is making Christmas cookies with my mom when I was little
My favorite baking memory is spending time with my mom, baking everything from cookies and cakes to caramel corn and cookies. Lots and lots of cookies! Good times!
When my children were small, they helped me eveerytime I baked. Christmas was special because we did so many cookies. They are grown now and each enjoy baking and cooking because of special times spent together.
When i was young every year when my mum made birthday cakes for myself and my 2 brothers, each of us would be holding her arm which was on the hand beater, just so we could each say we baked the cake. And trully being so young, each of us really believed we made the cake, our hands would be holding her arm down from cracking the eggs, sifting the flour, to holding the beater. And voillla we were master cake chefs from the age of 4.
My grandmother made pumpkin pie every Thanksgiving and Christmas. I convinced her to measure everything before she mixed it, so I could recreate the recipe. It took more than one try since she would just pour milk in until it was the color she liked, and she added the spices until it tasted right.
My favorite baking is the week before Xmas! A group of 6-10 of us ladies get together and bake cookies from sun up to sun down. Then we decorate and package and divide the cookie platters to give out as gifts… It’s girl time and so much fun… We made over 3,000 cookies one year!!!
Making cookies with my granddaughters is so much fun. They all sit around my table and roll out the dough. Great experience
I started a tradition with a couple girlfriends to do a cookie exchange. Each of us supplied a couple doz cookies/bar cookies baked ahead of time, a new recipe and a bottle of wine. We gathered at my home and began making each of the recipes one at a time. It has grown into 6 more girlfriends and we end up with a lot of cookies, a few bottles of wine, a lot of laughs and a lot of diff cookies to share! A tradition we now look forward to each year.
My favorite memory has turned into a fabulous tradition. The day my mother and I realized just how much easier trying a new recipe is when someone reads the instructions to you. I will read the recipe step by step to my mom who will follow my instructions. It is so much easier to bake a ‘never tried’ recipe when you aren’t laboring over the cookbook.
Baking cookies with my daughter Sarah for cookie trays I was making to sell to get extra Christmas money. We would bake into the night and have the very best talks.
Last year she couldn’t help me because she had just had baby Braxton but we both missed it so much. It didn’t seem like the holidays with the tradition we didn’t know we had started
I don’t have any baking memories, but would like to make some with a KitchenAid and gift card!

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The Ken Rae and Krystal Williams-Tuhoro stable enjoyed another successful day out on their home patch at Ruakaka when they picked up a winning double including the Noel Reed Memorial (1400m) with Zelenski.
Having started the day well with a win by maiden galloper Vegas Strip, the father and daughter combination had high hopes for speedy three-year-old filly Deploy in the Group 3 Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders' Stakes (1200m).
The filly had to settle for fourth after suffering interference from eventual runner-up Pacific Dragon in the closing stages.
But the stable soon bounced back, saddling three runners in the open 1400m contest and went within half a length of the trifecta as Zelenski produced a bullocking finish to topple stablemate Follow Your Dreams, with Irish Girl not far away in fifth behind the fast-finishing Mark Walker-trained pair of Prise De Fer and Markus Aurelius.
After regularly playing bridesmaid early in his career, the 17-time placed Zelenski has now found the winning formula, with the six-year-old having saluted in three of his past seven outings.
“He has been placed all his life but has been a little disappointing, although the rating system stuffed him up as he got plenty of points for running third to Catalyst in the Northland Breeders' Stakes (Group 3, 1200m) as a three-year-old and was out of his grade after that,” Rae said.
“We may have paid the price for being too ambitious with him but just lately he seems to have come of age and is really impressing.
“I do think today that race fitness and the 4kg claim that Ace Lawson-Carroll could utilise made a big difference to him.
“Ace rides him really well and it was another good effort as he held him up at just the right time and came with one run which suits him perfectly.”
Rae is likely to put all three of his runners from the race aside for a break now as they build up to an assault on the New Zealand Cup Carnival at Riccarton in November.
“None of my three like racing in the mud so we need to be a little patient with them,” he said.
“There are some nice races during Cup Week and the stakes down there are good so it is the right thing to do.
“Follow Your Dreams could well be a Coupland's Mile (Group 2, 1600m) candidate while Zelenksi can have a look at some of the supporting races and Irish Girl the fillies and mares events.
Rae was philosophical about the buffeting that Deploy took in the Northland Breeders' Stakes (1200m) and is keen to see her travel to Riccarton as well.
“She (Deploy) got smacked over the head by a whip and was interfered with as well so you just have to take that on the chin and move on,” he said.
“She might have a little break now as well but I would love to get her to Christchurch as that straight 1000m and 1200m would be just perfect for her.”

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Peter Andre was positively beaming on Thursday night as he stepped out after unearthed comments of him comparing his manhood to a ‘remote control’ were revealed.
The Mysterious Girl hitmaker, 49, looked in good spirits while leaving London’s Dominion Theatre following his performance in Grease: The Musical amid the furore surrounding the size of his manhood after Rebekah Vardy compared it to a ‘chipolata’ during her Wagatha Christie trial.
Peter cut a casual figure in a white Hoodrich hoodie and white sports cap, with the star careful to don loose-fitting joggers so as to not draw more attention to his downstairs area.
Going home to watch the telly? Peter Andre was positively beaming on Thursday night as he stepped out after unearthed comments of him comparing his manhood to a ‘remote control’ were revealed
The hunk teamed his low-key ensemble with a pair of dazzling white trainers, while he stored his essentials in a black rucksack slung over his shoulder.
Peter carried his phone in his hand – no doubt checking on what more Rebekah had to say about him – as he headed to his car and drove home.
Meanwhile, in unearthed quotes, Peter insisted his manhood is a full eight inches in size – in fact, the same as his Sky+ remote.
Keep smiling: The Mysterious Girl hitmaker, 49, looked in good spirits while leaving London’s Dominion Theatre following his performance in Grease: The Musical amid the furore surrounding the size of his manhood
Interesting: The star made a cheeky revelation about his manhood size (stock image of Sky remote)
Talking to OK! magazine back in 2007, while still married to Katie Price – who famously once referred to it as an ‘acorn,’ he said: I’m proud of it! It’s the size of the Sky remote control – I’ve measured it.’
Katie added: ‘It’s the size of the Sky+ one – the one with the grey bits on – that’s bigger than the normal remote.’
Peter also took to Instagram on Tuesday night to once again defend the size of his manhood – not that anyone asked him to.
He wrote: ‘Do you know how hard it is to keep biting my lip on situations?
‘But the way I look at it, most people saw in the jungle how an acorn turned into an oak so I think I’m ok.’
And referring to Vardy’s claim that she was forced to make the slur, he said: ‘At least she has now admitted it wasn’t true and was forced to say it.’
Peter had taken to social media to hit back at Vardy’s comments, after she told London’s High Court that she regretted comparing his private member to a ‘chipolata’ in a kiss-and-tell newspaper interview.
Vardy said she had been ‘forced’ to take part in the 2004 News Of The World article by her ex-husband.
Vardy was being cross examined by Mrs Rooney’s lawyer David Sherborne, when he asked her if she respected people’s privacy, to which she replied: ‘Yes, I do.’
Defending herself: Rebekah Vardy told London’s High Court that she regretted comparing his private member to a ‘chipolata’ in a kiss-and-tell newspaper interview – pictured on Tuesday
Outfit: Peter cut a casual figure in a white Hoodrich hoodie and white sports cap, with the star careful to don loose-fitting joggers so as to not draw more attention to his downstairs area
Style: The hunk teamed his low-key ensemble with a pair of dazzling white trainers, while he stored his essentials in a black rucksack slung over his shoulder
What drama? Peter brushed aside the furore surrounding Rebekah’s comments about his member amid her ongoing trial against Coleen
He then asked her questions about an interview she gave to the News Of The World about her claimed sexual encounter with singer Peter Andre.
Sherborne showed what appeared to an A3 print out of the article to Rebekah in the witness box before reading the headline: ‘Peter’s hung like a small chipolata, shaved, slobbery, lasts five minutes’.
The barrister read excerpts from the article, in which it was claimed Andre had managed ‘just five minutes of sex with Rebekah’ and in which she said he had ‘the smallest trouser equipment I’ve ever seen’ that was like a ‘miniature chipolata’.
Sherborne suggested to Rebekah that the News Of The World was the ‘highest circulating newspaper at the time’, read by some four million people, and asked her whether it was ‘respectful’ of Peter’s ‘right not to share this information’.
Time to go: Peter carried his phone in his hand – no doubt checking on what more Rebekah had to say about him – as he headed to his car and drove home
Low-key: The star kept things casual as he headed home from the theatre after hitting back at Vardy’s comments
‘My manhood is the size of a remote control’: Peter insisted his ‘acorn’ is actually eight inches in size in unearthed quotes after Rebekah Vardy branded it a ‘chipolata’ – pictured on I’m A Celeb with ex wife Katie Price – who branded it an ‘acorn’ (pictured in 2004)
She replied: ‘I was forced into a situation by my ex-husband to do this. It is something that I deeply regret… It is not nice to read and I understand why this is being used and to me this is mudslinging and I was also threatened with mudslinging by Rooney’s team.’
Asked the question again by Coleen Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne, Vardy said: ‘The circumstances around it were completely different.’
She later said she did not ask Andre for his permission or tell him it was going to happen in advance.
Peter wrote on Instagram: ‘Do you know how hard it is to keep biting my lip on situations? ‘But the way I look at it, most people saw in the jungle how an acorn turned into an oak so I think I’m ok’
Sherborne asked: ‘Did you feel particularly strongly about the size of his manhood that it should be made public?’
Vardy replied: ‘It was something that I was forced to say.’
At the start of proceedings, Rebekah, the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy walked across the courtroom and passed within inches of Coleen, 36, and her Derby County manager Wayne, who both glanced in her direction for the first time all day.
Rebekah then took to the stand and swore on the Bible before being quizzed by Coleen’s barrister Mr Sherborne.
The WAGs have been at war since October 2019 after Coleen accused Rebekah of leaking ‘false stories’ about her private life, before claiming she had uncovered the culprit after carrying out a social media ‘sting operation’.
At odds: The highly-anticipated libel trial between Coleen Rooney (pictured leaving court with her husband Wayne) and Vardy began in London’s High Court on Tuesday
Coleen publicly claimed three fake stories she had posted on her personal Instagram which ended up in The Sun had come from Rebekah’s own account, a claim Rebekah vehemently denied – leading her to launch the costly libel action which finally reached trial today.
On Tuesday, Rebekah repeatedly denied leaking information to newspapers in the first few minutes of her cross-examination by Mrs Rooney’s barrister.
Rebekah told how she was on holiday in Dubai on October 9, 2019 when she saw Coleen’s post accusing her of leaking stories from a private Instagram.
In a written statement, she said: ‘I felt extremely paranoid and like everyone in the beach club was looking at me. I thought I was going to pass out and Jamie decided we needed to leave straight away.
‘I do not fully remember the journey back to the hotel because I was almost hyperventilating. I knew that I had not done anything wrong.
‘I had not leaked those stories and I did not even know what posts I was supposed to have leaked.’
Rebekah, who was seven months pregnant at the time, continued: ‘I started getting really bad pains in my stomach when we got back to the hotel.
‘They were contraction type pains and I panicked that the baby was in danger. I made myself calm down and tried to think clearly. The first thing I did was ring my eldest daughter’s school.’
‘She was 13 years old then and children that age can be really cruel to each other. I needed to make the school aware of the situation so that they could try to protect her from bullying by the other children.’
‘All I cared about at that point was protecting my children. I knew that there must have been a mistake.’
She added: ‘I could not believe that Coleen had not called me before posting this accusation to the world.’


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Choosing is not only used for cool, it is also used for decorating to your house. However, choosing a ceiling fan for your house is not easy. In addition, you should pay attention to some features when deciding to buy. And in this article, I will help you the way to buy the top rated ceiling fans to reduce the heat of summer, helping all the member of the family have comfortably feelings. Continue reading
When I am talking with technical personnel who have seniority of some knitting machine manufacturer, many people said that the selection of oils for knitting machine is influential significantly to the longevity of metal, alloy wheels and the quality of the finished fabric. So in order that the weaving machine operates smoothly and have the high quality products, we need to master an important information about knitting oil follow suggestions. Let click to the link http://beginnersewingmachinehq.com/best-embroidery-machine-reviews-2015/ to get more reference.
There are some basic requirements for knitting oil:
+ Lubrication, cooling fast moving metal frame round of the textile materials, ensure that there is no metal stuck.
+ Rescue heat generated during weaving
+ Make no stain on metal surface. You should choose oil with excellent thermal stability, high stability and resistance to oxidation. Continue reading
Compressors are one of the most valuable tools for active equipment power tools. They are better in terms of efficient and easier for you. The type you need depends on the tools and methods used to make the best choice. This article will give readers more information about how to buy a best air compressor, and you also visit our website airtoolresource.com to refer best air compressor reviews.
- Factors to consider in a compressor
Considering how often you will use air compressors and how it will be used are very important. What tools will be used and how much energy will be needed to operate them are also needed to consider. Some tools such as drills or sanders do not need large numbers because they require steady air flow. Continue reading
Name and function of device has been called with some names by the users and producers such as the device of reading the mistakes of operating box or the equipment of checking the opertaing box of car (ECU Reader). The equipment of scanning mistakes from black box of car (ECU scanner). The scanner sensor of checking mistakes or equipment of checking for car ((ECU and Sensor Scanner).The equipement of diagnosing OBDII (OBDII Diagnosis) orr checking OBDII (OBDII Scanner). Auto Diagnosis Tester. This equipment has been used for pluging into the entrance of obdôt take information of the car. The scale of application: Scanner the operation box as well as the faradaic changes on the small car, tourist car,modern bus, and trucks. Even such a modern car like innova 3100 also can be applied by this device to check the mistakes of car.
- Functions and features of obd2 scanner:
You only need to Use a smartphone android or IOS to set up a software,then you can see information of the car as well as diagnose the multifunction. You can also apply that in scanning and deleting the mistake for car, especially when you are having a long trip far from garage as well as your house. Simply, you just need to plug it into an entrance of obd2 of the car, connect the bluetooth with iphone or android. Continue reading
Using shredder effectively or for best results is not easy at all, so you need to equip yourself with the basics knowledge of the product to get good performance and a long service life for the machine. Here are some useful tips for you to need to remember when buying and using the shredder. Besides, you also can visit shredderselect.com to know more information.
- Note before buying shredder
Before using the shredder, the first thing you need to remember is to read the manuals of the manufacturer or salesperson by consulting the features and how to use the machine. At the same time, you should also check the whole shredder whether it is from foreign objects or dust from getting into the blade. Besides disease, you should note shredder placed approximately 15 cm from the wall, and should avoid areas where the rugged, wet areas and not to close the flammable and explosive substances. Here are some notes while we are using it. You should classify staples and paper. Continue reading
Today, the miter saw is becoming popular in houses with diversity types and designs. Before purchasing saw machine, you should read carefully some miter saw reviews which will help you to identify and choose a good machine for your family and avoid the low quality products. In this paper, we would like to introduce you a type of useful miter saw for houses with the brand Husqvarna and some ways to identify the genuine product.
Husqvarna miter saw is the product line serving for wood furniture fixing in house and also used to prune small tress. With the light weight, easy manipulation for users and convenience for work at any location, the saw line is much preferred in the market now. The machine itself is produced by the X-Torq technology that can help to save the power and money. It also has the smart start – the high technology for the intelligent startup that can help you to save time when using. Continue reading
Painting is an indispensable job when repairing or building the house. It is a complex process with many stages such as choosing color of paint, mixing, choosing paint tools and painting. Many people usually want to self paint their house however not everyone also has enough experience in order to complete all above stages. In order to solve this problem, the producers in this field have created paint sprayer which is a helpful tool when painting.
According the wagner paint sprayer reviews, paint sprayer is an indispensable tool in box tool of user when implementing the related job to paint. Therefore, in this article, we will introduce the most basic information about paint sprayer.
Paint sprayer is manufactured by mechanical process having high accuracy therefore a paint sprayer with high quality will have expensive price. Paint sprayer is designed with many details (depending on each producers, number of details and shape is different) such as nozzle, needle, air valve and so on, however operating principle still based on one basic principle.
It is very essential to keep your house nice and clean because a cleaner environment will not only make you feel comfortable but also healthier. Why do I say so? You already know that a place can contain many bacteria, fungus and potential disease tract so cleaning is a great way to prevent these risk of letting those bacteria attack you. Besides, a clean house will normally help you rest better after a hard-working day at school or offices. My favorite way of making the most out of the night time at home is using the best essential oil diffuser and just totally relax in bed with the air filled with the smell of lavender which is a very useful way to bring calming and comfort to your body.
Today, I am so glad to introduce to you two of my favorite home appliances, one for efficient cleaning and one for effective home aromatherapy. The first thing is my vacuum cleaner which is the best companion with almost no disadvantages during using because it brings great benefits to me and make my housework a lot easier to do. The next thing I want to mention here is the essential oil diffuser. It is my must-have device in both home and workplace because of its capability in purifying and humidifying the air, boosting mood, reducing stress and enhancing immune system’s function. Continue reading
Nowadays, with the development of advanced technology people can create things that work more efficiently as well as cost less time and money. And the plasma cutting technology is one of the example for the above statement. Thanks to the evolution of plasma cutting, workers can get more advantages with faster cuts and higher quality of cuts. If you take a look at the best plasma cutter reviews, you will notice that this device can cut a variety of metal which includes even the painted metal and rusted metal.
This machine can deal with a wide range of metal thickness from 1-2 mm up to 35 mm, which will surely impress you. Have you ever grow tired of the old oxyfuel cutter that requires bottled gas in order to operate? Then worry no more because plasma cutter only use electricity source and compress air to do its work, which will cut down the cost of cylinder rental pick-up and drop-off. This machine will surely outweigh the traditional oxyfuel cutter in producing better cuts with lower cost. That is why plasma cutter is now widely used for cutting metal and in order to understand thoroughly the features and specifications that make it the best tool for cutting metal, let’s take a glimpse at the five reasons as follow. Continue reading
Every electric appliance in the kitchen is created with the aim of making cooking easier and more convenient for us. It is hard to pick out which ones are the most useful appliances because people have different choices. Wine enthusiasts will pick the best wine coolers while people who love to bake may prefer the oven. Here is my pick of the three most essential electric appliances in no particular order:
- Wine cooler
You don’t have to be a true wine enthusiast to own this appliance in the kitchen. Probably you don’t even drink wine often. At least you know the importance of serving good wine and the comfort and joy it brings. Many think a wine cooler is an expensive item that only rich people should buy: I really have to disagree with that. Of course, there are models with advanced features that cost you quite a sum but you can easily get a wine cooler with less than a hundred bucks. What you get in return is a very effective method to preserve wine quality. Continue reading
Nowadays, the development of technology has integrated a lot of smart characteristics into only one product. For garage equipment, the garage door system is also a technological product that combines many functions in order to give more support for garage controllers. Not only automatic opening and closing, there are now devices which can help you set time for both opening and closing. To illustrate, the Chamberlain WD832KEV review has proved its brilliant features in controlling the garage door. In this article today, we will introduce to you some kinds of equipment for the garage and some garage related knowledge.
- All the systems in the garage
This is the most important system in the garage. Needless to say, your cars will be protected by the garage. A good garage will be large enough for parking all the cars your family owns for arranging fixing tools and repairing machines and some other furniture. Besides, the garage has to be high enough in order that we can design exhaust fans for eliminating car fumes, a device for controlling the door and alarming. Both controlling and alarming are significant. Continue reading
Circular saws are saws that have circle blade type. They are bent, move on the 2 flywheels and run only one way. The market has two main kinds product lines which are vertical band saws and horizontal circular saw. In this paper, we would like to share you the band saw reviews and buyer’s guides for you more easily choosing the best type of saw for your family or your factory.
1.Vertical band saw
This type of saw is often used in the food and wood industry.
– This type of vertical bandsaw machines have the saw bow stationary, and workpiece cut will be moved to the blade during the cut, so it can only be applied to cut all kinds of materials that are light and can be used to cut the thin parasols details on wood or metal. Continue reading
When it comes to repairing houses, we need to use a number of tools such as impact drivers, hammers, saws and painting brushes. As we cannot hire mechanics to repair our houses all the time, we have to learn to use such tools so that sometimes, we can fix home machines or renew our houses in our spare time. Those tools play an important role in our repairing work. In terms of choosing mechanical tools, we always want to choose the best impact driver, most steady hammers, most durable saws and the best suitable painting brushes. And then we have to learn to use them. In this article, we will discuss the importance of those tools and give you some instructions for using them.
- The importance
Needless to say, the tools listed above are all vital. Here, we will provide you with more details about the functions of them. Continue reading
As a research result, we found that almost all guitar players like to learn to play acoustic guitar first as it is easier than learn other type of guitar. However, recently, there are more people, especially teenagers prefer to choose an electric guitar on the grounds that they seem to get used to the modern style, rock style of the West. They are always looking for the Best Electric Guitar to buy so that they can show all their talents and knacks.
When you start to seek an electric guitar, you will soon realize that there are a wide variety of models for you to choose at different prices, which will bewilder you, particularly beginners. In addition, the quality of an electric guitar does not depend on the wood material but the electric factors. Good and bad electric tools are much different from each other. To help you choose a good guitar, here we will provide you with some instructions.
- Is the price of an electric guitar higher than that of an acoustic and a classical guitar?
In reality, this is also a main reason that makes beginners not choose the electric guitar as their first instrument. The price of this guitar varies but in general it is higher than the value of any other type. If you want to buy a classical guitar, you only need to spend around 30 dollars or 50 dollars for an acoustic guitar or even lower. However, the cheapest electric guitar is 100 dollars. Furthermore, all of us do not want to buy a bad guitar. Here are some considerations for you when you have the intention to buy an electric guitar. Continue reading
The wood cabinet where you store food, material and anything in your kitchen needed to be cleaned-up regularly because it can stick with dust or mess in long time which is very difficult to remove. The cabinet must should be always kept in clean condition to assure not to smudge your food and another tools stored inside
With a metal cabinet, you just need to use dry paper to swept out all the mess on surface. But when a wood cabinet is equipped in your kitchen, it is more difficult to clean it up. Some people use natural material like baking soda to tidy the cabinets or polish the surface to renew them. Beside that, there are some main ways to clean the wood cabinet such as daily cleaning, deep cleaning and polishing. The specific description below of the different cleaning style will help you clean up your cabinet effective
1. Daily cleaning
- You can use vinegar to clean up the cabinet very well. This method is very simple to do, you need to mix a cup a water with a cup of vinegar, stir or shake until they are combined together to create mixed ingredient. It is a perfect way to clean up the wood cabinet because the vinegar will not curve the wood. Instead of using vinegar, you can also use soap to clean up your cabinet, mix a small spoon of soap with water that can clean the mess really quickly. But please remember, you should not use the different ingredient for cleaning on the wood surface at the same time ( such as combining vinegar an light soap ), they can damage the cabinet surface
Feng shui is an important element to decorate your house in Eastern culture. Most of people believe that goo feng shui will bring good luck, health and wealthy into life. And bad feng shui of course bring bad luck, sickness into life. So how to decorate your house with good feng shui? It depend on the furniture and verifying the main directions, places in your house.
The guide line below will help you to get basic knowledge of feng shui in your house. You can follow them to arrange the furniture inside space well to bring good air-flow into life
The front door can’t be put under a beam. It is also need to avoid the kitchen, bedroom and the mirror ( it can’t be opposite these things ). It should be at the position that you can see the ornaments or garden when open the door. You can also hang some red things above the door to attract more good luck such as red paper or red lantern. You should avoid the arch shape above the front door because it is not good Continue reading
Are you lovely gardener? You may love to enjoy the fresh atmosphere outside in your garden and have part-tea, read a book, relax after busy working day. So why don’t you bring unique and harmonious style to your dear garden? Garden decorating is an art and there are many ways to do it. You can place some ornaments, use rocks or colorful stone to make the garden with Mosaic style. Beside that, using recycled materials to decorate your garden is sound so great. You can do any things to satisfy your unique creation and express the owned character though every small corner. It is not only a nice way but also very cheap, fun and easy to do
These ways recommended below will give the garden lovers some interesting ideas and make your garden look so beautiful
You can built some lines of vegetable and flowers in the garden with pallets and pretty pots. The shape of lines depend on your hobby. You need to clean the pellets first, use a special manual sander to flatten the surface of each pots. You can also surround the small garden with wood fence that is really nice and make the garden look so unique Continue reading
With the heavy industries such as mechanic, manufacturing, occupational safety always have to be top priority before starting job. Welding workers in working process with welding machine always have to face with many dangerous risks unless knowing the basic knowledge about occupational safety. With welding process, welding worker has risk to face with many different risks from electric shock, injuries caused by molten metal and slag, welding dust or toxic gas. Therefore, owning the best welding helmet always is good choice for each welding worker. In this article, we will introduce some basic knowledge to help welding worker ensure safe during working process.
- Safety about electricity
In welding jobs, welding electrical source is used usually having voltage about 45 to 80 V with direct current and 55 to 75 V with alternating current. Especially, with plasma cutting, this voltage can be 180 to 200 V. Therefore, welding machine have to be designed with a part having function to turn off automatically welding electrical source during 0,5 seconds after turn off arc. Continue reading


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“This second of peril with the battle abroad and inflation surging all over the world, the very last thing we ought to be fascinated by is rewarding corporations for exploiting the scenario,” Biden stated.
The president blasted the GOP for proposals together with tax cuts for large firms and requiring packages like Social Safety, Medicare and Medicaid to be renewed by Congress each 5 years. Such a plan, Biden stated, would put these packages “on the chopping block each 5 years” and would enable Republicans to make use of them as negotiating items.
Scott, the chair of the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee for this election cycle, supplied his personal scathing critique of Biden as in a press release launched forward of the president’s remarks. The Florida Republican blamed the president for the nation’s inflation woes and went a step additional, suggesting that Biden, the oldest man ever elected to the White Home, shouldn’t be of sound thoughts and is mentally unfit for workplace.
“The simplest factor Joe Biden can do to resolve the inflation disaster he created is resign. He’s the issue. Getting him out of workplace is a fast and straightforward answer,” Scott stated. “He’s incapable of main and he’s incapable of finishing up his duties. Interval. Everybody is aware of it. Nobody is prepared to say it. However we’ve got to, for the sake of the nation. Joe Biden can’t do the job.”
Requested by a reporter to reply to Scott’s assertion about his psychological acuity, Biden smiled and stated “I believe the person has an issue.”
The president additionally sought to defuse the anxiousness he stated People are feeling about his administration’s efficiency, accusing Republicans of throwing up street blocks after which trying to stoke anger amongst voters towards the White Home.
“The actual fact is, congressional Republicans — not all of them, however the MAGA Republicans — are relying on you to be as annoyed by the tempo of progress, which they’ve accomplished all the pieces they will to decelerate, that you’ll hand energy over to them to allow them to enact their excessive agenda,” Biden stated.
However whereas Republicans have opposed a lot of the Biden administration agenda, the president’s social gathering holds the bulk in each homes of Congress and has nonetheless did not ship on a number of White Home priorities. An administration-backed social spending bundle that contained a bevvy of administration priorities — together with tax reforms, provisions to combat local weather change, a baby tax credit score and common pre-kindergarten — failed not simply due to common Republican opposition however as a result of the invoice did not earn the assist of all 50 Democratic senators with which it may have handed.
Biden’s speech additionally tried to show Democrats’ high ache level heading into the midterm elections — inflation — on its head. The president emphasised his administration’s efforts to deal with the current spike in inflation and cut back the federal deficit by means of actions equivalent to selling competitors and growing home manufacturing of oil.
The president referred to as inflation his “high home precedence” and recognized two main causes of the spike in inflation: the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s battle on Ukraine. Biden listed the methods his administration is addressing inflation, equivalent to “permitting the sale of gasoline utilizing home-grown biofuels” to drive down oil prices and dealing on reducing prices of prescribed drugs.
“We’d like a authorities targeted on what households really want. That’s why I urge all People to consider the trail I’ve laid ahead. We’re going to should do extra past what I laid ahead,” he stated.
He additionally outlined his administration’s efforts to scale back the federal deficit. He stated underneath his plan, “we’re on observe to chop the federal deficit by $1.5 trillion this yr,” which might be the most important one-year decline in historical past.
“In contrast to my predecessor, the deficit has gone down each years I’ve been right here,” he stated. “That isn’t an abstraction. It issues. It issues to households, as a result of lowering the deficit is without doubt one of the predominant methods we are able to ease inflationary pressures.”
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By Herbert C. Huser, National Defense University. Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
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74 It is open to the charge of economic reductionism. In the case of the most elaborate and rigorous example of this approach that addresses Argentina—the bureaucratic-authoritarianism theory, in which military intervention is tied to the phenomena of incomplete industrialization and class conflict in highly dependent countries—this may be plausible but not NATURE OF CIVIL–MILITARY RELATIONS 23 causal. 75 But the economic factors that inform the civil-military relationship in Argentina are important and play a part, in different ways, in discussion of both the Alfonsín and Menem administrations.
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At the same time, the previously underpopulated Argentine Republic experienced a tremendous surge of immigration, mostly from Southern Europe. Urban Argentina, especially Buenos Aires, took on a fin de siècle European air, with cultural artifacts and demographics to match. Laissez-faire capitalism on the British model flourished, largely with British money. The sense of aristocracy was palpable, and the new cultural colonization of the turn of the century reinforced the Hispanic tradition brought by the original colonizers 350 years earlier.

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Not all of the vintage postcards in my Great Uncle Fowler Beanland’s collection are pictures of northern towns, moors, and glens. Like all collectors, Fowler cast his net wide, and exchanged cards with fellow enthusiasts. This particular card came from Scotland and is one of several in the collection which depict the tartans of the various Scottish clans. Collectors always have a “this and that” category, so we can confidently file it away under that heading.
The message reads as follows:- “Thanks for P.C. I will send you down some of these tartan ones, I got this one in the shop, but they just had three in stock, but she promised to get me some, so I will send them down to you. I hope that you are keeping well and that you have plenty work. Give my best regards to the girls at Scaurbank, JWJ. Like most old postcards, the message poses more questions than it answers. Who was JWJ and what was his/her relationship with Fowler? Who were “the girls at Scaurbank”? It appears that Scaurbank was a house on the banks of the River Ask, just outside of Longtown. At the time it of the 1911 census it was occupied by a widow, Florence Graham, and her daughter Iris. Given the background of Fowler, it is likely that the “girls’ were the live-in servants at the house: the parlourmaid, Elizabeth Arnott; the cook, Ester Pearson; and the housemaid, Jeanie Kerr. For the moment, all we can do is make a mental note of all of these names and see if they crop up on some of the other cards in the collection.

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