Of course way back in the day it was simple things like she'd make and roll out sugar cookie cutout dough and I would get to cut out and frost/decorate the cookies and maybe get to roll other doughs into balls to go onto baking sheets.
When I was probably 11 or 12 I finally got to really get into the thick of things and mom would have me mixing things and baking some of the recipes on my own but it was still simpler things we didn't do much in the way of out of the ordinary recipes. Typically we'd make cut-out, a recipe called church windows ( melted chocolate, powdered sugar,egg and colored marshmallows mixed together and rolled in shredded coconut), Magic Bars (aka hello dollies in my family) and maybe some peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies. No real complicated things at all.
About the time I turned 15 we tried our hand at some candy making along with baking , mainly melting candy melts and molding them, but we did do cherry cordials and peanut butter cups at least once if I am remembering correctly.
A few years later in my later teens/ early 20s mom and my step-dad started dating and his younger daughter (who was 13/14 at the time) got involved in helping us bake for a couple of years. Mom at this point discovered the little cookbooks at the grocery store checkout and started picked them up from time to time. So we started branching out and trying new recipes.
So over 10 plus years mom has probably amassed about 70 or so of those little checkout cookbooks and probably 2/3's of them are Christmas cookie books.
Over the years we have also upgraded kitchen equipment. It used to be a hand mixer and wooden spoons were used to mix our doughs. Now we each have a Kitchen-Aid, silpats for our baking sheets and lots of patience for trying new recipes.
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