Italian Chifferi Cookies with Espresso and Cinnamon-Sugar are a sophisticated and delicious twist on crescent cookies. They are perfect for Christmas cookie exchanges and Holiday cookie tins! The minute I saw these Italian Chifferi Cookies I knew I was making them. Actually, if I am honest, I felt that way about these cookies and another one in…
Cranberry Stuffing with Apples, Mushrooms and Wild Rice
Cranberry Stuffing with Apples, Mushrooms and Wild Rice will be the vegetarian hit of your holiday meal! The fresh cranberries really elevate this casserole into something special. This post was sponsored by Hurst’s Berry Farm, who sent me some fabulous Pacific Northwest cranberries to create a recipe with, and all opinions are my own. I…
Polish Vanilla Hazelnut Crescent Cookies (Ciasteczka Waniliowe); #CreativeCookieExchange
These Ciasteczka Waniliowe, or Polish Vanilla Hazelnut Crescent Cookies, are traditional at Christmastime and therefore perfect for this month’s Creative Cookie Exchange, which is celebrating the traditional cookies served during the various holidays occurring around the Winter Solstice all over the world. Affiliate links were used in this post to link to items I am discussing. So many cookies…
Cocoa Peppermint Cookie Bark: Creative Cookie Exchange
Cocoa Peppermint Cookie Bark is a play on traditional chocolate bark, but make with crispy cocoa cookies instead. Perfect for the holidays and your Christmas cookie tray! Keep reading to check out everyone else’s fabulous peppermint cookie creations from Creative Cookie Exchange. Affiliate links have been used in this post to link to items I…
Double Chocolate Glazed Peppermint Bundt Cake: #Bundtamonth
Double Chocolate Glazed Peppermint Bundt Cake is a mint chocolate lover’s dream come true–and the perfect bundt cake for the holidays! Keep reading below to see what other holiday bundt cakes Bundtamonth bakers came up with. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing. I have a baking public service announcement:…
Chocolate Butter Balls AKA Lump of Coal Cookies
Chocolate Butter Balls are a fantastic and chocolatey twist on wedding cookies, which makes them perfect for the holidays, when I love to refer to them as Lump of Coal Cookies. My kids love them, so when Sammy made them for the holidays in 2020 I updated my pictures. Original photos are still included because…
Spice Crusted Beef Tenderloin: How to Slide a Non-Conventional Holiday Meal past Your Conventional Family
Spice Crusted Beef Tenderloin is the perfect way to jazz up a traditional holiday meal–or any formal dinner. And if you can afford beef tenderloin for an informal meal, more power to you! I updated the photos for the Spiced Crusted Beef Tenderloin in January 2017. Affiliate links have been used to link to items…
Peppermint Chocolate Biscotti for the Holidays
These Peppermint Chocolate Biscotti are my favorite Christmas cookie, and a holiday family favorite as well! I make these every year, so I have updated the photos more than once. However, since my original post bemoans the fact that they are tricky to take pictures of, I have left some of the originals. And yes…
"Hawaiian" Wedding Cookies
Growing up, wedding cookies were always present in our Christmas cookie tins. I did not like them–I wonder if they are a taste you need to mature into, because I adore them now, while my kids in turn do not care for them. Karma–what are you going to do? Anyway, my mom uses Rose Levy…