Articles in christmas
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!