Eggnog Cut Outs

Cut outs are like the quintessential Christmas cookies. I have so many different recipes for cut outs from my Grandma’s White Cookies which produce a puffy light cookie to Gingerbread cut outs that are crisp and fragrant. We all have different things we look for in cut outs. When I first thought about making these…

Toffee Butter Cookies

Yes, I am still feeding my family something other than cookies and candy during the holidays. Tuesday was Day of Giving. Chivos, a local pizza place, was offering large cheese, pepperoni or sausage pizzas for a minimum donation of $10 each for the first one hundred customers and all the donations went directly to The…

Salted Almond Toffee Brownies

What are the holidays without chocolate? Boring! I have always loved chocolate. Chocolate cake, chocolate cream pie, chocolates…. It never mattered to me if it was cheap chocolate or expensive chocolate as long as it was chocolate! Now that I am, shall we say, getting a bit older my tastes are changing a bit. I…

Homemade Almond Joys/Mounds

I am kicking off the Christmas season with some of our favorite cookie and candy recipes. These recipes over the next few weeks are mostly simple cookies and candy that freeze well and can be made in large batches to share with friends and family or at parties. I grew up baking our own cakes…

Hershey Kiss Chocolate Snowballs

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Hershey Kiss Christmas Cookies

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Chocolate Meatball Cookies

This is a recipe that came from my grandmother.  I remember these cookies from when we were little going to her house for the family Christmas Eve party.  I LOVED them then and still do today.  I hope someday that my children will be making these cookies with their children so the tradition will continue…

Peppermint Bark

Merry Christmas!  Are we supposed to eat real food on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?  I know in our house it is pretty much everything that I don’t make or have in the house the rest of the year suddenly has to be eaten over these two days.  Candy, fat and sugar are the foods…