My Daughter Alexis Bakes Holiday Gifts!

My Daughter Alexis has been so busy baking her holiday gifts.
As you can see she is a wonderful baker and packages everything so beautifully.

I just wanted to share her blog with all of you.
For more, please go to Whateverradio.com 

The following is from my daughter's blog:

I also made creamy maple fudge this weekend for xmas gifts...turned out perfectly (made a double batch) recipe.  (yes, the syrups are corn and maple)

not going to cut it till i am ready to send it out...

And peanut butter cookies: used the recipe from Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook, but changed the shape...look kinda like graham crackers (will fill them in a day or two with peanut butter filling and some with milk chocolate filling- will use the filling recipe from epicurious 
before baking:

Also made "regular" pb cookies from saveur magazine:
oh, crap...cant find the recipe on line...but it's from Alice Medrich's Cookies and Brownies book...

Comments

[Kathy]

Dear Martha,
Thanks for sharing the baking of your Daughter Alexis. Just after the tribute program to your Mom, it shows the continuity of family tradition as well as individual touches of inspiration. Is it possible to show the tribute to your Mother again during the holiday season? I could not watch it--or tape it--yesterday due to an unexpected family emergency. I had looked forward to watching it.
Thanks again.
Kathy

[Finbar]

Martha
I also enjoyed the tribute to your mother, to that end you should have some baking segments with your daughter on the show.
Thanks for the great blog.

[Margie]

Alexis,
A person I can relate with, I try, I succeed, I swear--sometimes under by breath, I get it done and sometimes it is pretty darn nice.

Thanks I enjoyed the blog.

[VeggieGirl]

Alexis' fudge recipe sounds lovely, as do all of the other recipes!! perfect for holiday gifts, indeed - and I'd easily be able to "veganize" them as well :0)

[Carol]

Dear Alexis,
Your idea of graham cracker shaped cookies is wonderful. Sure they will be delicious, and surprisingly not graham to whoever gets them. I have not had a peanut butter cookie in a year or so. Not because of a diet, just cause. You look thoroughly happy baking, but you do not look like you eat much of your baking :) I just taste my cooking and there is weight gain :( Merry Christmas!

[Claudine]

I love the "girls" as I call them, the Whatever show is one of my favorites. Alexis does so some beautiful baking and wrapping. She is totally her mother's daughter....
Merry Christmas
Claudine

[Catherine Kurczynski]

The oodles of goodies on Alexis' blog on Whatever website has been my downfall. But it has also saved me from nightly forays into my kitchen cupboards in search of cookies. I now wander to the computer and click on to see what Alexis has been whipping up in her kitchen. Better than milk and cookies before bedtime. Trust me what you've shown is just a very small sample of the challenging projects she has posted for her blog readers. Thanks for sharing ladies!

[Jan Erickson]

Hi Martha, This fantastic blog reminds me of my baking activities many years ago when I was a grade school teacher. I used to bake sugar cookies (my grandmother's recipe) and take them to school before Christmas and let the kids decorate them. It was always a wonderful activity for all of us. Thanks for sharing. Jan

[JC]

Thanks for everything,

You are my idol. I put in 6 years of active duty military service and I've had two boys and a husband in between that time. I went from fixing airplanes to baking cookies, which is a hard transition. I finally broke down and purchased your homekeeking handbook that I had been eyeing in Barnes in Nobel(my favorite study spot). That book has made life less overwhelming for me and it helps me organize more effectively and I could not be more relieved with the amount of help you've given me and my family. I'm out of the military now and I am in school full time, I plan on starting dental school next summer. I just wanted you to know that you do contribute greatly to the public. I only wish that I had known about this book six years ago when I got married. There is so much that I could have avoided.

Your #1 fan
JC

[Trish]

I don't know why there isn't a little Alexis Stewart Bake shop somewhere besides her residence! She makes such beautiful looking sweets and from what I've read, they taste divine! I love plain old PB cookies myself but that maple fudge looks mighty good too! Of course Alexis is thin; when would she have time to even taste with all the baking she does. Amazing! Trish

[Hardboiledegg]

Hello has anyone forgotten Alexis is a vegetarian and vegetarians for the most part appear underfed but so often is the case they are filled with tofu or raw carrots and a bite of cookie were they so inclined would make them burst-- but those feasting on cookies could very well afford to hibernate during the winter to deplete the reserves they have stored up.

[Steve & Brenda Shelton]

If someone made those indredible edibles for me, I would be speechless. It is time for Alexis to show her incredible baking talent on your show.

[Kelly]

So wonderful to see you've been able to pass down your skills to your talented daughter!! Happy Holidays!!

[Andrew Ritchie]

Alexis needs a magazine. Now. It would be dark and glamorous, lean and incisive: in-depth fashion and design components, self-deprecating anecdotes about the clenching pain of existence. I'd subscribe!

-Andrew

[grandmajo]

Alexis really does beautiful work. So organized, too. So what's all of Alexis' baking building up to? Whatever it
is, I'm looking forward to it. Grandmajo

[Susy]

I love listening to whatever radio and love to read Alexi's blog.. she has inspired me to go back to baking.. She is awesome.

[Jamie]

Hi Martha -
I am a stay at home mom and I make sure to watch your show everyday. I enjoy nothing more than having my afternoon cup of coffee and watching your show. Have a very Merry Christmas.
Jamie in Aberdeen, SD

[miriam]

Dear Martha,
I enjoyed your mom, her savvy and wit, and bless her for sharing her recipes with you. And now Alexis continues the tradition.
Please tell her she needs to eat more of her cookies....LOL!!!Your tribute to your mom was great, and very moving. Thanks for sharing her with us!
Have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year! Miriam, Fairhope, AL

[Carla]

Hello!
I love that you shared your home decorations with us! A good thing someone shared with me last year..was to take a picture of each ornament and scrapbook it as to where or who it came from. Great idea ..to pass down in your family..do you do this?
Carla

[susan]

Martha's television show is fabulous, she is fabulous. I must ask where she got that lovely black dolman sleeved sweater. Martha, you are truly an inspiration...

[Desiree']

I really enjoy Alexis' blog and seeing her baking skills! She is just like her mother, very inspirational!

[Deborah Dowd]

What an array of goodies! I can't imagine the pressure of being Martha Stewart's daughter, but she seems to be handling it well!

[Karen]

I only make decorated cookies. I really must try cookies like this. It sounds very yammy !