Here are just a handful of our family’s favorite Christmas treats. I can’t wait to see this section grow as we add our favorite Christmas dinners and other traditional foods we enjoy during the season. What are your favorite eats at Christmas-time? Email me!
Festive Holiday Pretzels
For many years our annual family Christmas cookie baking day was interjected with great drama regarding these holiday pretzels. First, the original recipe used small round pretzels, which were only available at one store on the other side of town. In order to add the...
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Grandmommie’s Cherry Chocolate Cream
Nabisco introduced their Famous Chocolate Wafers in 1924 and, not long after, the original "Icebox Cake" recipe appeared on the back of the Famous box. This "cake" became popular during the World War 2 era because of its use of premade ingredients and its simplicity....
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Inside Out Cookies
Sporting a chocolate cookie and white chocolate chips, we've always called these "Inside Out Cookies." We enjoy them throughout the year, but also always have them on the Christmas cookie tray to satisfy the many chocoholics we know and love! Ingredients for Inside...
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Snowball Cookies
Snowballs, Sandies, Italian Wedding Cookies...the list can go on and on. This popular cookie comes with many names and in many shapes. We like making small balls that you can pop in your mouth in one bite. Grandmommie used to use the same recipe, but shaped them into...
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Holiday Holly Treats
Every holiday cookie plate needs these festive holly treats. They are simple to make and so yummy – but not too many, kids. If your tongue starts to look green, it is said you may be turning into The Grinch! Ingredients for Holiday Holly Treats 1/2 C. butter 30 - 35...
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Grandma’s Cranberry Bread
This delicious cranberry bread was adapted from one of our favorite Thanksgiving storybooks, Cranberrry Thanksgiving. We continue to make it throughout the holiday season and are often nibbling a slice as we open our Christmas gifts. (And by the way, it also makes a...
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McGuire Cranberry Relish
This fresh cranberry relish is very easy and always on our Thanksgiving table. We like to make extra and can it for the rest of the season. Put a bow on a jar of cranberry relish for a nice holiday party hostess gift. Ingredients for McGuire Cranberry Relish 1 quart...
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Dinner Rolls
Only second to eating them, Madeline loves to make these traditional dinner rolls with me. When I was learning to make them with Grandma Izzy, she would recite a story about my uncle as a boy snatching a roll to eat while they were still proofing. Every time, she'd...
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