Holiday cooking

I'm sitting for the first time in hours. I did a lot of holiday cooking today. First, nutmeg maple butter cookies. I didn't have any cute acorn cookie cutters - so I did stars. I think they will be yummy with tea.
Then I did chicken tamales. I adapted a recipe from this book, it called for turkey legs, but I used chicken quarters. They were delicious and cute!  We have tamales every year around the holidays. We have them at other times also, but always during Christmas break.

Last dish, pretzel bark. So bad and so good. I found that recipe at halloween, but its easy to adapt for Christmas. I used toffee bits and M & M's for toppings.
Cookie exchange tomorrow!