My family always gets together on Christmas Eve, exchanging gifts, and celebrating the season.  There is always a scheduling problem with grown children, so we have an open house that day and serve an unending plethora of appetizers.

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  We had a dessert contest featuring mini desserts a few years ago.  We have a theme each year, and this year it was ‘holly’.  With my son’s help, I created a scoring paper for all of the desserts.  Each dessert is given a number, and each dessert is judged on a scale from 1 – 10.  Everyone is a judge, tastes the desserts, and scores each one.

 It is really all for fun and the grandkids sometimes give a score of 10,000 or more to their favorite.  I give prizes to the top three.  The prizes are usually mini dessert dishes, cookie cutters, rolling pins, etc.