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Fight holiday withdrawal! with gingerbread-champagne
sandwich cookies.
Rugelach – Made up of a wonderfully tender cream cheese dough and filled with dried
fruit, chocolate, or nuts or a combination of all three. Mine are filled with
raisins and figs.
Delicious Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Cookies…a
great use for all of those leftover candy canes
Christmas chocolate overload, with recipes for
saffron-honey dark chocolates and blackberry-cassis dark chocolates
White hot chocolate spiked with brandy, white creme de menthe,
and dark rum, then topped with chocolate whipped cream
and crushed minty Altoids.
Sumptuous Chocolate Chestnut Charlotte: swirls of
vanilla sponge cake and chocolate buttercream cradling a light, elegant chestnut
mousse filling.
An architecturally-correct rendering in gingerbread
form of a false-front gold rush era house. Utilizing five colors of royal icing,
bright pink sanding sugar, and pine trees shaped from Rice Krispies treats. Build a
gingerbread house was the Daring …
Mulled wine now made with rosé, for a more
transparent look, the perfect Christmas treat
A fruit cake that spells winter for us. Made from
scratch…and with a surprise ingredient – Garam Masala that ups it on taste!
My very first gingerbread house (from scratch) for
the December Daring Bakers Challenge!
Traditional French Canadian tortiere is a Christmas
classic. This time I made it in a log rather than a pie. Much easier for serving.
Merry Christmas! Christmas Ornament cookies
decorated with royal icing and gold sanding sugar…
A gingerbread house, complete with portico, chimney,
marshmallow smoke and snow, and gingerbread man.
Made my first ever gingerbread house for the Daring
Bakers December challenge. It was very challenging & a lot of fun.
Scandinavian gingerbread igloo with happy little
gingerbread penguins bring about holiday cheer!
A shortbread base topped with bittersweet chocolate,
crushed candy canes and drizzled with white chocolate!
Homemade peppermint flavored Oreo cookies, plus
several other cookies baked for this year’s holiday gifts!
These little peanut butter snowmen are almost too cute to eat.
Almost…but who can resist the combination of peanut butter and white chocolate?
You can put anything on a Christmas cake! We went
for pink plastic fir trees, edible glitter and Kewpie dolls. Merry Christmas!
Burnt Orange Caramels with Pecans are a nice way to
use the sugar syrup left from making your candied citrus peel and fruits.
Christmas cupcakes! Peppermint dark chocolate cake
with peppermint schnapps-infused buttercream.
English Gingerbread Cake – a moist, spice-laden
dessert that tastes great after dinner and the next morning with your coffee or tea
Gingerbread scones, flavored with molasses,
crystallized ginger, and gingerbread spices.
What’s better than butter? Add a little sugar and a
a little flour and call it a cookie. Eggnog Shortbread is the epitome of the season.
A delicate, moist yeast coffee cake ring filled with sweet apples
and tart cranberries. Head on over to Life’s a Feast for the recipe!
A fun and tasty project for the kids. Great for
them to give as gifts as well.
The espresso shortbread was flaky and light, and the
glaze was just amazing.
Christmas broccoli tree with carrot ornaments and
kiwi raspberry holly wreath in my son’s bento lunch.
White butter cream poinsettia adds a touch of
elegance to ordinary cupcakes.
A family tradition – soft almond cookies with a
colorful candied cherry in the center.
Butter cookies from Norway made a bit healthier with
whole wheat flour, melt in your mouth at every bite!
Chocolate Pepper Cookies: Chocolate cookies grown up! Add this fun
cookie recipe to your holiday tray. Find the recipe over at Serendipity!
Sprouted Grain Stuffing Balls Sausage. A healthy,
tasty recipe for holiday stuffing.
Dark, spicy, mysterious, oh, and chewy. All butter,
chewy gingerbread cookies to kick off my marathon Christmas baking.
Nutty crescents — a classic holiday cookie
comprising a sour cream dough rolled around a sweet walnut filling.
Ham in Coca Cola – Don’t just frown at the title of
this recipe. Try it and be amazed.
Almond, honey and orange shortbreads, dipped in dark
chocolate and inspired by Christmas past
Some pesky little mince pies got in on the action
too. But they were scrumptious, so please forgive them. They didn’t mean it.
Bring the holidays in your lunch with wreath shaped
salad along with veggie linguine.
No anise in this dunking cookie. Chocolate Almond
Biscotti is made with almond extract, and a nice coat of chocolate.
Festive Christmas Cookie Wrapping Idea sparked by
Polvorones from Elizondo’s Pasteleria in Mexico City.
Molten peppermint chocolate cakes and dark chocolate peppermint candies.
If you love a good holiday cookie, but are trying to
eat healthier this season, then this German Thumbprint Cookie is the cookie for you!
Snowman marshmallow and hot cocoa mason jar gifts – easy and fun!
The Decorate Cookie has the details plus a lot more on their fun site!
Pumpkin Spice Cake Truffles. Making your holiday season just a
bit yummier. Brought to you by the fabulous Daydreamer Desserts.
The texture of Medieval Gynger Brede is nothing like
modern gingerbread, and it has a very spicy bite.
Strawberry and Raspberry Pate de Fruit: Deck your
holiday tables with this pretty dessert.
Sweet! Cupcakes is Orlando, FL’s premier gourmet
cupcake shop and they are offering a bevy of holiday looks and flavors.
Pork Tenderloin with Cranberry Sauce – perfect for
Christmas Dinner.
Buttery, crumbly pastry, made with plain and granary flour for extra flavour and texture. The
filling’s been given a little kick with the addition of rum! Check it out at Food For Friends Yeah!
Ginger carrot dark chocolate candies: a perfect Christmas gift treat with
an unexpected, crunchy twist.
Overnight Eggnog French Toast Casserole.
What to eat on Christmas morning!
This video shows you how to carve a turkey (or any poultry) so it looks as good as it tastes.
Hazelnuts in a browned butter shortbread dipped in
bittersweet chocolate and sprinkled with fleur de sel.
Perfect butter cookies layered with lemon mascarpone
cream to create a pretty, festive Christmas tree treat.
A Medieval recipe for spiced white wine, clarrey is
mentioned by Chaucer in th Canterbury Tales
Delicious Spiced Cranberry Relish made to the recipe
of Uma Wylde. Really easy to make and tastes divine.
Soft, delicious, festive cranberry bar cookies.
Perfect for this holiday season!!
Just like the cookies you see at the story bakery,
just made at home!
Spiced Espresso Meltaways…a deliciously different cookie for your holiday tray this year.
A buttery, shortbread dough with ground nuts baked and rolled in powdered sugar. A
perfect cookie to fill your holiday tins!
Spiral sliced ham is coated in a sweet and spicy
cranberry chipotle glazed! Perfect for the holidays!
Sumptious Chestnut Cake layered with Chocolate
Chestnut Cognac Cream Filling and frosted with Chocolate Butterceam Frosting.
peanut butter blossoms…a classic Hershey’s cookie
to benefit Share Our Strength.
Gluten free gingerbread cookies make a fun-filled
holiday weekend building a gingerbread house
These sables appear to be unassuming little wallflowers of a cookie. Yet, one
buttery, lemony and crunchy bite is all it takes to realize that they are quite special.
No- Bake Peppermint or Spearmint Pie with Graham
Cracker Crust, Whipped Cream and Marshmallows
My contribution to the 12 Days of Sharing (benefiting Share Our Strength)… Caramel Nutella Crisps!
Easy, fast and oh-so-delicious, these “cookies” are sure to become a fast favorite!
White and semi-sweet chocolate is swirled then topped with bright
green pistachios and dried cranberries for a festive holiday treat.
Decadent chocolate cookie layer covered with a creamy minty topping,
laced with a smooth dark chocolate icing! Find the recipe at CookWomanFood.
Cranberry, almond and white chocolate chip biscotti!
Baked brie with cranberries and pears is the perfect addition to any holiday party
A favorite cookie of mine that tastes even better at
this time of year.
Bittersweet chocolate, candied orange peel, slivered almond and a buttery shortbread
crust – guaranteed to be your new favorite holiday cookie. Get the recipe at Food.People.Want.
With their complex flavor, chocolate butter cookies are a must this holiday season!
Make this sweet smelling homemade sugar scrub for your friends and family this Christmas!
Savory southwest cheesecake full of cheese, chilies, spices and yummyness!
Rum soaked ladyfingers/savoiardi, coated with dark
chocolate and sprinkled with lightly toasted pistachios.
Peppermint shortbread cookies drizzled with a
peppermint frosting topped with candy cane
Chocolate cupcakes topped with a decorative, silver painted fondant.
Check out Baked by Joanna for these goodies and more!
Recipe based on my Grandmother’s favourite fruit
cake recipe – tweaked to get around my aversion to mixed peel.
Coffee Liqueur using local coffee beans, local
vodka, brandy, and fresh Tahitian vanilla beans. Great for a Christmas present!
A delicious sweet Christmas bread…a quark stollen
made with home made quark. It stole my heart!
These beautiful cookies are the perfect addition to
your holiday treat table!
Spiced Cranberry Raisin Bundt Cake – the perfect centerpiece for your
holiday table! Pop on over to eCurry for the delicious recipe!
Chocolate-Orange Peanut Bark – the perfect treat for the holiday season.
Pomegranates and apples – it doesn’t get much more
fall like than that. Combining them to create the Adam and Eve makes a delicious
liquid interpretation of fall.
Looking for a delicious Thanksgiving appetizer or
side dish? Try this deconstructed version of a holiday classic.
An easy delicious toffee recipe using roasted
almonds (and sometimes toasted coconut). Makes a great gift.
Forget the heavy casseroles and give these roasted
Brussels sprouts a try this Thanksgiving!
A simple way to roast chestnuts and make your
kitchen smell great, and a little story as a bonus.
Simple but delicious roast beef.
Get the juicy recipe at Our Life in The Kitchen.
Mascarpone mini-cheesecakes with a cranberry balsamic glaze and white chocolate snowflakes.
This healthier version will allow you to have an
occasional treat without demolishing your diet.
…with Spiced Pecans. A great fall side dish that
would be right at home on the holiday table.
Fall comfort food – roasted yams smashed with apple
cider and brown sugar. Perfect for Thanksgiving!
