I don’t really have any bandwidth for holiday baking this year; I have baked zero in the way of cookies or other gifts, and I think my efforts may be limited to desserts for Hanukkah and Christmas dinners and breakfast for Christmas morning, the latter probably involving the sheet of puff pastry lurking in my freezer rather than homemade pastry.
For Hanukkah, I made an applesauce ginger cake from the NY Times (gift link at that post) with maple brown butter cream cheese frosting.
