Have you heard of these chicks before? I hadn’t until a few weeks ago. It was really kind of a weird little coincidence. I was in the bookstore picking up Pioneer Woman Cookbooks for a recent giveaway and my eyes locked in on a book called The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen. Loved the title and the design, but because I was over my limit on books for the day, make that month, all I did was thumb through the pages really quickly before I made myself leave.
But then, just two days later I received an email from none other than Serena, one of THE Farm Chicks. Seriously. Out of the blue. Two days later. Does stuff like that happen to you, too? Strange coincidences? It does to me all the time.
(Hmmm… The Pioneer Woman and The Farm Chicks. That’s kinda weird, too. Okay, I’m moving to the country.)
Anyway, it was a really short email message that said she wanted to send me something.
Curious, I said, ok. (I like surprises.)
And boy was I surprised when several days later I received a package full of all of these sweet, sweet gift tags.
Some with little cakes.
And others with sweet messages.
Plus there were all these fun recipe cards. (Forgive me for the extra blurriness. I was playing with different settings on my camera.)
Some even had Christmas themes.
I had no idea they had all these cute products plus a cookbook. Impressive.
Speaking of their book, I had to run out to the bookstore and get it right away.
Wish I had seen this before trying to make a pie last week. Could have come in handy.
The Farm Chicks love some pie. And the book has several yummy ones like this.
Plus, it has fun, do-it-yourself projects throughout. I’ve never made scones, but if I do, I want a scone cozy to go with them. Cozy scones. Yes. I want my scones to be cozy. Adorableness. Cuteness doesn’t quite cut it here.
Hi Serena. Thanks for sending me all the fun stuff. I love it.
Especially the necklace.
Oh, I forgot to tell you guys about the necklace. Well, it has a cake on the front of it and it’s just darling.
See.
And, since Serena sent me two of them… well…
Would you like one? Then, we can both look super cute, adorned in cake.
I’ll even throw in some of my gift tags and recipe cards, too. I’m a sharer.
(necklace, recipe cards and gift tags)
Just leave a comment on this post and let me know:
- What’s your favorite sweet or dessert at Christmas?
- Leave your comment with a way for me to contact you if you win.
- Deadline to enter is
Monday, November 30th at 7 p.m. ET - One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Monday evening on this post.
TIME’S UP!
Good luck! Now, I’m off to read up about Farms and Chicks. If I’m not back soon, look for me in the country. I’ll be the one lost with lollipop sticks.
And, here’s the winner…
Wow, wow, wow, I am going to need the rest of the year to go through all of your favorites. So many things I like, too… especially fudge and so many that I have never even heard of. You guys should take a look through them if you get a chance and want some ideas for something new. Thank you for sharing. And the winner is… #2670… That’s you Heather. All you have to do to get your prize is send me some of your dad’s Keeflies. Just kidding. But really, I just looked those up and they sound great.
My favorite Christmas sweets are Pecan tassies… They are amazing… and just the perfect size.
My favorite Christmas dessert is peppermint candy cane cookies. They are white(plain) and red (peppermint flavored) sugar cookie ropes twisted together into a cane shape that my mother used to make when I was a child. I remember thinking what a special and talented person she was, being able to make these beautiful and delicious cookies by the dozens!
I’ve two favorites Christmas treats : Sugar Cookies and ‘Pompe à l’Huile d’Olive’ (it’s one of the 13 Provençal desserts).
This year i’d like to try Red Velvet Cupcakes.
This is a toughie… Anything with sugar, butter and cream I love. But I’ll say… the extra spicy gingerbread cake I bake.
Here in the UK (yes that’s where I hail from, and in fact where I live)… it’s customary to homebake mince pies during the Festive season.
They are not very well known over in the U.S of A, so I tend to offer them to any American guests who happen to be visiting these shores during Nov or Dec. They always go down well!
FYI: Mince in this context is not a shredded meat product!!
Mince = a delicious mix of apples, vine fruits, mixed peel, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Half the fun of sharing mince pies with American (or indeed any non-British based) friends is the ‘amusing’ exchange regarding the key ingredient. Oh what fun we have….
Well, it must be the Swedish classic christmas candy called “Knäck”. (It translates into “crack” which is both the sound your fillings might make when you eat these, and how addictive it is). It’s a sort of hard, chewy caramel – you boil equal parts of cream, sugar and golden syrup, the add chopped almonds. Yum!
Perfecting a new kind of pie suggested by my sister-in-law this Thanksgiving….hmmm had never considered it and a search on Food TV yields nothing like it!
why? why don’t I live in the US????? You have so many creative things and shop/persons to get staff from!!!
well.. my favorite cake is the chocolate Christmas “tronchetto” of my mother.. is a tradition… it is like a log cake.. with mascarpone cream inside and chocolate all over it.. with all the decoration.. it is not Christmas if I don’t get a slice of it :-)
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My favourite is the Swedish traditional chistmasdessert
Ris a la malta. You can also find it in Denmark and France.
It´s a sort of ricepudding with cream, vanilla and oranges.
Recepie (I used google translate so sorry if the translation isn´t very good)
1 1 / 4 round grains
8 dl water
0.5 tsp salt
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
2 oranges for garnish
Rinse the rice a few minutes in the colander.
Boil water with salt and pour in the rice.
Let the rice cook with lid for 20 minutes.
Let cool. Spread the rice on a tray so it cools faster.
Whip the cream and flavoring it with granulated sugar and vanilla sugar.
Mix the rice and cream in a bowl and cool way.
When rice à la maltan is cold, it can be served. You can garnish it with pieces of orange items. apelsinféer. Cut away the rind of the orange with a knife, start with the bottom and then go around and cut the edges and the white with a knife. Cut in along with the white in each gap so that you get the file.
Really? I have to pick just one?!
Well, I love my dad’s homemade cherry cheesecake. It not only is delicious, but it reminds me of the holidays and spending time with family.
Pizzelles are the one true thing that remind me of Christmas. You spend all day making them (especially if you have a machine that only cooks 2 at a time) but there’s nothing like the smell of fresh anise in the house.
My grandma always made a huge array of delicious cookies like potato chip cookies that people just don’t make anymore, but I was and still am a sucker for her booze balls. She used whiskey (the good stuff, and she sampled to make sure :) they are fudgey and nutty, but the alcohol is not baked out so I was always limited, but I snuck a few here and there. :)
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Brownie Balls! My new favorite! Saw Bakerella’s cake balls, and modified with brownies because I love brownies :)
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Nothing beats the vast assortment of cookies from our “Cookie Exchange” with friends. Always new and exciting offerings every year.
Fudge! or peanut brittle…its a tough decision.
My newest favorite Holiday tradition has become baking holiday cookies with my hubby and a few friends… For the last 5 of 6 years we have set aside an evening and closed down our friends bagel shop on a Sunday evening. Once that has been completed it becomes “cookie central.”
We make about a hundred dozen cookies, (industrial mixers, baking racks and ovens rock) place them on trays and make them for friends and family. We have such a great time doing this and our friends and family have really enjoyed them and always look forward to what recipes we decide throw in to mix things up.
I can’t live without at least one box of frango mints at christmas time! To bake; I have to have the original peanut butter blossoms…heaven.
It’s hard for me to pick a favorite sweet. My late mother started our family tradition of baking goodies for Christmas that we don’t make any other time of year, so they seem extra special. I guess I’ll have to say homemade cream puffs. I also love mince meat pie. And ……….on & on & on. :) This is very sweet of you to share. Thanks for a chance at the giveaway. Dani {d.h127@yahoo.com}
Hmmmm favorite Christmas treat, I would have to say its our family recipe for Wreath Cookies…. I am not so much sure that its the cookie itself that is what I am so fond of, it is definately yummy, but I think it is influenced by the memory of going over to my Grandma’s and baking them with her… rolling out the dough and baking them and then getting to play with the green frosting that I would get to adorn with the “little red balls” (ie non perils) that are supposed to be holly… it was a special treat for me because I was the only grandchild that got to come over and help bake the wreath cookies. For me this whole thing has become such a part of my holiday tradition that even after her passing all I wanted was her rolling pin and the dough mat, and now every year I pull out her rolling pin and cookie cutter and make wreath cookies and remember fondly the time in the kitchen with my Grandma! :)
~Jennifer
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Oh, these are so delightful!
My absolute favorite Christmas dessert – mind you, I am in Australia so we usually celebrate Christmas outside with a delicious barbie (australian slang for barbecue) – would be my pistachio-raspberry semifreddo, based on a recipe by Bill Granger. To die for! :)
Do let me know if you would like me to share. I like sharing too, just like you… you are still the best sharer of them all though, thank you again for the opportunity to win!
Oh… and… I take my hat off for you, Miss Bakerella. Truly I do.
Though it’s the stuff of holiday jeers, my fruitcake is to die for. I make it in July, then baste it with brandy/rum until November. That’s when it’s enrobed in marzipan. Once the Marzipan is semi-dried it’s coated with royal icing. The icing is allowed to dry till firm (about 1 week) and then the figurines are added to the top. Typically a winter scene of ice skaters, with trees and deer. A wide red ribbon is tied round the middle (remember the cake and icing are firm) and it’s displayed on a cake stand in all its glory. The inside is a golden brown, rich spicy cake studded with almonds, dried apricot, cranberries, sweet cherries, plums, currents etc. One taste and everyone agrees this is the most flavorful, moist and textured cake ever! We call it Christmas cake, (not fruitcake) to help avoid any preconceived notions!
My daughter lives in Spokane Wa. and she has gone to see the farm chicks and loved their aprons! At christmas last year I baked 14,000 yes thats right 14,000 cookies so I ‘m sure that cookies are my favorite christmas treats! I love giving them for gifts to family and friends!!!
My favorite holiday dessert is candy cane cookies, and growing up my mom always makes some yummy cookies called “Chinese Chews”(don’t ask me why they call them that). It was a recipe that was handed down from my great grandma. I also love snickerdoodles!
It’s hard to narrow it down but my favorite cookie to make is Cinnamon Bun Cookies. So yummy and just the right amount of sweetness.
i am a Muslim i don’t do Christmas.. however in our Muslims Eids we eat a lot of traditional Emaratie food…
if u ever wanted 2 come to UAE/ Dubai i would love 2 show u around…
Although I have enjoyed getting my Russian husband hooked on Pecan Pie, I have to say our favorite dessert during the holidays is the Yule Log cake from Nigella Lawson’s Feast. There have been triumphs and disasters over the years – but what else is baking really about? When it works well its magnificent and its always fun trying to decorate it in a proper ‘woodsy’ fashion.
I love when you get platters of christmas cookies from friends because you always get to try different versions of your favorites!
My sister-in-law makes a Swedish coffee ring with white almond icing that I fantasize about all year long! Warm with butter on it. WOW…I can’t wait!
My special cutout sugar cookies with buttercream frosting…mmm
I LOVE Divinity! My grandma makes the best. I tried but it was really sad.
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My favorite is homemade caramels. mmm, it makes my mouth water just thinking about them!
Pecan Pie! Mmmmm! I guess I could use their book for my next pecan pie! Cute stuff!
I love chocolate and peppermint together at Christmastime – peppermint hot cocoa, peppermint pinwheel cookies, even peppermint bark – I can’t get enough!
What’s your favorite sweet or dessert at Christmas?
Oooh, tough choice. It’s gotta be my neighbors’ chocolate cake. She makes them all by herself and it is super good. Not too sweet, but not too plain, and 100% chocolicious….
She has yet to give me the recipe, but I’m working on it :)
my favourite Christmas dessert would have to be the classic pumpkin pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side. beautiful.
All of these things are just so cute. I love to make a ‘rocky road’ cheesecake for a Christmas dessert – yum!!
LOVE your blog, lady. Been a visitor for quite some time now. Always inspiring.
Fave holiday treat… *the good milk*. My grandma called it that and what she was referred to was eggnog (yum!!), served with a bit of cinnamon. At age 12 she spiked it for the first time with a splash of brandy. Miss her.
Favorite Christmas sweet… would have to be sand tarts made from the recipe my great aunt used to use – or her springerle, or liebkucken – any of the cookies my great aunt made and kept in the large tins in her root celler. My parents would bundle us up and take us to her house to watch Rudolph on her color TV and she would set out plates of cookies and glasses of cold milk and we would have a little Christmas party there in her living room.
The last few years I just love to have pumpkin roll from my friend Jeanette, but this year I’m baking sugar cookies. Of course we always seem to have fruit salad, good old favorite that I just love.
It’s taken a few years, but I’ve discovered a fantastic gingerbread cookie recipe that has them come out soft, but not too soft, and I love making those for the holiday season.
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I think my favorite holiday sweet is definitely shortbread. The kind that just melts when it hits your tongue.
One of my favorite things that my mom always makes are honey pecan cookies. They are so soft and chewy and sooo good!
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my favorite holiday dessert is mexican wedding cookies along with hot chocolate, delicious!!!
Christmas cookies. The kind with the tinted drizzled icing and sprinkles all over. Can’t get enough!
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My fave Christmas cookies have got to be Pecan Snowball cookies. The taste of them takes me way back to when I was a kid opening presents on Christmas morning.
-kris
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My great grandmothers cinnamon candy. It is a gooey sweet confection. I miss her and remember her fondly every time I make it.
My favorite dessert are the mince pies
would love to make a gingerbread house for this xmas! yes, and some choc sugar cookies please :)
Definitely the Christmas pudding- the steamed type made by my wonderful mum!
Christmas desserts made with love are always winners :)
Ladybird x
I love my Mamaws yuletide drop cookies, I look forward to them all year!
I love my steamed fruit puddings. they just smell like christmas and then you add custard….mmmmmmm heaven. YUM!
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i love homemade chocolate truffles, too rich to make all year so make some for gifts and some for us yum yum
My favorite sweet is the Holiday Biscotti that I make. It’s filled with cranberries and pistachios with a hint of lemon and topped with melted white chocolate. Mmmm
Every year my girlfriends and I pick a night and get together to decorate sugar cookies! Its so great to catch up with everyone who lives out of town, not to mention we usually eat half the batch before the decorating’s done! Perfect Holiday treat! : D
I love spritz cookies and hot cocoa!
yellow butter cake with chocolate frosting!!!!!!!! =) =) =)
simple and AMAZING.
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thank you!!
I love peppermint bark :) I wait around all year for it but I just realized that I can make my own. I can’t wait to try it out!
There are two things I love around Christmas in my desserts: cranberries or peppermint. I LOVE cranberry bliss bars and also dark chocolate peppermint bark. Yummy!!!
Thanks so much for sharing the Farm Chicks with us. Can’t wait to check out their book.
Hello there! My favorite holiday treat is Buttermilk Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting….YUM!!!
My favorite hiliday treat is ginger snap cookies add them to a steaming hot cup of apple cider that you are enjoying in front of the fire and I think you have my favorite holiday afternoon.
Fave Christmas sweet… Chocolate Cherry Cookies (recipe originally from Cooking Light). But, if it snows… Snow Cream is the best!
I just love cinnamon rolls! They are so warm and gooey! Thanks for the giveaways!
My favorite holiday sweet is pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks. Because they are seasonal, I find a way to make an excuse to buy one.
I make English Toffee Crunch for Christmas presents and for ourselves, of course! :)
I make them for my dh’s coworkers and pack a priority box full to send to my sister and her family. My sister has to hide the candy from her husband cause he’ll eat it all up in one sitting! :)
Buckeyes! They were only at a few random Christmases at my aunt’s house but I still associate them with the holiday. I miss them with all their peanut-butter-and-chocolatety goodness, mmm.
Every year we have fudge at Christmastime. I am in love with all things chocolate so fudge is the best! However I hate dealing with the candy thermometer and the possibility of burning the chocolate so I make microwave marshmallow fudge :-)
I love Spritz cookies. Buttery, almondy, yummy…..
My favorite sweet during Christmas time is a… Pumpkin Cheesecake!
Well being that I just made like 19 dozen cookies today.. I’m gonna have to say my FAVORITE xmas cookie recipe is Chewy Cherry Bars. Hands down!
I love pumpkin bread or cookies any time of the year, but especially during the holidays. I love how baking with pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg makes your house smell so yummy!
I cant pinpoint a dessert!
I a few years ago discovered candycane bark.
But if I had to pick, probably something along the lines of gingerbread! Especially if you get to make it, decorate it, then eat it!
My favorite holiday treat is homemade sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles. The cookies are made from scratch and always turn out so moist. Plus, it’s fun to cut out the shapes I want and decorate them to my heart’s desire.
Hmmm…I’d have to say real AUTHENTIC homemade gingerbread with real whipped cream. I’m an old school kinda girl.
my favorite dessert is those green rice krispy treat wreaths with the red hots. :-)
I love, love, love Gumdrop Cookies. It’s a family tradition that my Mom and I always baked together.
Peppermint bark! Nom!
Christmas pudding with homemade custard. Not something that’s easy to get in the US, so I have to make my own, or beg my mum to send me one from Australia :)
My favorite thing to eat at christmas is fudge. I have a major sweet tooth and nothing is too sweet for me.
wow… not sure what is my favorite, probably sugar cookies with yummy frosting, for both the taste and the tradition.
I also remember making candy with my friend’s mom for years for Christmas – peanut brittle, peanut clusters, rum balls, peanutbutter/cripsy candy.
I could go on…
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What a fun surprise to get in the mail!
My favorite Christmas cookie (and holiday dessert) is the decorated sugar cookie. But not the ones that are hard and taste like cardboard. The ones that have a good cookie and an icing you can taste!
Favorite Christmas treat would have to be my Mom’s sugar cookies, with or without icing. They are made with my Great Grandmother’s recipe and they are VERY thick and chewy and oh so delicious…making myself hungry, why does my Mom have to live thousands of miles away????
Love t he cute Farm Girls stuff, I’ll have to check out their book! Happy Holidays!
My favorite Christmas treat has got to be good old fashioned oatmeal and raisin cookies. I make them every year and my daughter likes to leave them out for Santa!
Awesome cookbook, cards and necklace.
I love chocolate chip walnut merangue cookies. My mom used to make them every Christmas. I have never made them but want to try this year.
Every year I make a Red Velvet cake. It’s tradition, and I love it. I usually do it in a bunt pan with cream cheese frosting drizzled all over it. This year, Im adding peppermint ice cream. YUM!
Krumkake. With a Czech mama and a Norwegian father — we had lots of fun things growing up. I make it for my daughter now and she loooves it — which makes it all the better in my book. :)
Gingerbread cookies (iced, of course!)
OMG they are adorable. I definitely want one!
My mom’s sweet potato pie!! It is so delicious :)
I love red velvet cupcakes and sugar cookies !!
Thumbprint cookies… With raspberry jam!
Sugar cookies!
Our family has a traditional holiday cookie called Peppernuts. They are best if they have sat for awhile so the flavors can meld…and since a batch makes about 300 cookies it isn’t hard to have them around for a while.
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Green Jello Salad…lime jello, Cool Whip, pecans, shredded cheddar, crushed pineapple…OH! My fav!
My favorite sweet during the christmas season would have to be peppermint bark! It totally puts me in the Christmas mood when I have it! It’s really yummy in my tummy :)
Chocolate Creme Pie is by far my favorite holiday sweet!
I LUV the brownies with the mint in the middle and hard chocolate on the top! Oh and lemon bars!
My favorite sweet thing to eat at Christmas is definitely Cracker Candy. I’ve made 2 batches this week and it’s not even December yet!
My favorite dessert at Christmas is a family tradition that my mom and I used to make. Maid- of – honors… basically a little peice of heaven cake and pie with jam!
Nothing better than a good ole southern pecan pie, my absolute favorite holiday dessert!
We love gingerbread cookies @ Christmas. We usually have to buy two gingerbread house kits – one to build and one to eat!
I have two fav desserts that we usually have at Christmas time … pavlova and hot plum pudding with brandy sauce (its the Aussie in me showing! lol) :-))))
Oh fun stuff!
Thanks for the info! :)
My favorite christmas treat?
Gingerbread Man Ice Cream!! mmmmm
Buckeyes that my mom makes. Peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate. HEAVEN
Homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. It’s more of a tradition than a holiday sweet though.
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We have a big family bake day, we each make a couple of reciepe’s to share. My speacialty are spritz cookies… yum!
Oh those are just adorable! Perfect for the holidays! I can imagine all of these tags on the baked goods I plan to hand out to friends!
Warm apple pie with a piece of cheese. YUMM!
Oh my favorite is little snowball cookies. So simple yet so yummy!
I also love making chocolate cupcakes with peppermint icing. Yummy!
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I’ll admit it. I’m a sucker for the simple things in life… like peppermint bark (!!!) and love that it’s readily available during the holiday season… i’d eat it all year-round, really! And I know it’s easy to make but sometimes, it’s just nice to get something delicious and already made for you. :)
I made a peppermint oreo cheesecake. That’s my favorite.
My grandma carolines cathedral windows. Its a sliced log of fudge with colored mini marshmallow and its rolled in coconut. AMAZING
Rice pudding! Really Christmasy over here in PR :)
Its a toss up between marshmallow stuffed double chocolate chip cookies and pumpkin cheesecake.
I think I’d have to say cheesecake.
my favourtie christmas treat would have to be eggnog chai tea lattes. Sooo rich and creamy and tasty! YUM!
or anything made with chocolate (umm pionner womens chocolate sheet cake is to die for!)…but thats all year not just christmas!
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ps. bakerella! scones are SO easy! I have been making them for ever…i usually add a lot more sugar then most recipies have…just because I think they should be sweet not just bready. I usually brush them with milk and sprinkly with lots of sugar before baking too, it gives them a nice crunch and sweet crust to them. I use a plain scone recipie in a old muffins and more cookbook from companys coming. (its brown)
German spitzbuben cookies are the best at Christmas time!!
I love any sort of fudge- it’s my vice. MMMmmmm.
I LOVE toffee or peanut brittle!!
Mint M&M’s. I know they are totally silly but I get excited every October when they get put out on the shelves.
eggnog spritz cookies
One of my all-time favorite sweets from Christmas time is a hot cup of wassail.
Well, I guess it’s not really a sweet, but it makes for a good after dinner light dessert. :)
my favorite christmas sweet is pipin’ hot cinnamon rolls. mom and i make them every christmas morning, and i think thus far tradition has made them taste so good. this year i’m using pioneer woman’s recipe and they will taste even better!!
Every Christmas I always make a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting…yum!
I LOVE me some cookies! every year 6 members of my family get together and have a cookie exchange! It’s heavenly! SOO many cookies! And they are ALL so deelish! Yummy COOOOKIES!
some good apple pie! thx
Ohhh, I LOVE Springerle cookies at Christmas, especially the anise and almond ones!
Eggnog pound cake!
So delish! Rich and eggnogg-y!
My mums food.
My favorite Christmas dessert is my mommys fudge!
Cookies. Easily. Chocolate chip, gingerbread, sugar, I’m not picky.
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There are so many wonderful choices to choose from! To narrow it down I’d have to go with gingerbread or spice cake. Something about the spices involved just feel like the holidays to me.
I really like iced almonds and peppermint buttons.
i have to pick one?! ….. I love me some homemade caramels…or carmel covered anything :)
It’s not Christmas time at our house unless we are busy making some sort of Greek pastry…Mostly baklava!
My favorite is pumpkin pie! I wait all year for the holiday season to have pumpkin pie.
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Definitely key lime pie with torched meringue !!!!1
Christmas sugar cookies for sure. I love decorating them with friends and family.
I love these! My favorite treat is not just a Christmas thing…..Snickerdoodles. I just love those and only make them at Christmas so they are a special treat for us!
Favorite Christmas Sweet? – Rum Cake & sugar cookies
I like Starbucks’ Cranberry Bliss Bar. Thanks to a great friend, I can make a gazillion batches to share! (And about half a gazillion for hubby!)
Spritz cookies are a Christmas must-have! I love collecting the vintage cookie presses from thrift stores and using them with my daughter. My father-in-law (R.I.P.) would spend every Christmas eve making a whole array of spritz cookies of all varieties and colors to send home with us on Christmas day.
It’s my memories with him that stir my heart whenever I see those darling cookies.
My favorite Christmas sweet is peppermint bark! It’s one of those treats that I only have at this time of year, which I think makes it taste extra good!
my mom’s awesome cookies…there is literally everything but the kitchen sink in them… chocolate chips, dyed coconut, and oatmeal. yum.
crushed candycanes sprinkled over warm brownies
I’m a sucker for sugar cookies. Or anything my mom, grandma or aunts make. :-)
My favorite dessert at Christmas has to be traditional homemade plum pudding with a LOT of brandy. The heady smell of sweet dried fruit and alcohol just sets my taste buds on gush overload.
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My fav: Buche De Noel, Croquembouche, Russian Tea Cakes, Apple Plum Dumplings…ha, the list is long BUT distinguished!!!
That’s a toughie, since I love desserts! But nothing beats curling up on the sofa with a mug of hot peppermint hot chocolate with marshmallows…tons of marshmallows.
My favourite of all time is my Mum’s 3 peanut cookies with chocolate!
My mom and grandma have always made “chocolate cookies with white frosting”- that’s what we call them, and they are a Holiday staple!!
My favorite HAS to be peppermint ice cream! One year I was 8 months pregnant with my oldest and I went to Baskin Robbins every day to get a scoup! The girl behind the counter knew my name and what I wanted (yikes)!!!!
BTW – I LOVE that cookbook, I have had it for about a year now and I have made several things – try the apple cake, you won’t regret it!
The holidays aren’t complete without Pumpkin Roll! And I started a new tradition last year with PW’s rum cake, so that’s up there too. Truth be told, my mom is such a baker that a picture of a platter of 20 kinds of goodies comes to mind with this question. . .
My mother’s secret 7-layer bars have to be one of my favorites – right along side my very own pumpkin bread (made from Pumpkins I grew, of course!)…Christmas just wouldn’t be complete with out it. As far as farm chicks go? I just became one 2 years ago. Yep. From Hollywood Nanny to Oregon Country girl. I LOVE other Country Girls! Come join the ranks!
My favorite Christmas dessert is braid. It’s a family tradition to make it every year and it is SO delicious :)
My husband’s grandmother makes some killer sweet ‘tater pie! Delish!!! :)
Love your blog. My favorite holiday sweet is soft, chewy molasses cookies, rolled in sugar, and baked with plenty of ginger. The bigger the better. Thanks!
I love cookies – all kinds of cookies and Christmas is the best time to eat cookies cause that is when they do not have any calories. Thanks for the chance!
mmmmmm, pumpkin pie, just give me the whole thing, and nobody gets hurt!!! ha!
peppermint hot chocolate with red sugar sprinkles.
My favorite is my grandparents’ homemade caramels. They are outstanding!
Pumpkin chocolate chip cheesecake… and also the red velvet cake that my grandma makes every Christmas Eve. Yummy!
My absolute favorite Christmas sweet is flavored hot chocolate! I love hazelnut, vanilla, peppermint, etc… Nothing is better than that to me!
Wow…all these comments are getting me excited to bake for Christmas and making me think of all the treats I love as well…I wish we could have a treat exchange day where we could try EVERYONE’S favorites…because I am ALL about having recipes that REALLY are theeee best!
Sooooo….my favorite is Double Chocolate Cherry Dessert Pizza…it has a chocolate chip cookie crust (with melted unsweetened choc mixed in to make the crust dark) and then a layer of cream cheese, almond extract, powd sugar, etc and then topped off with cherry pie filling…sounds okay but tastes AMAZING! My overnight guests always ask for it for breakfast if there is any left over!!! And I just got a friend’s SECRET recipe for Peanut Butter Fudge…I have begged 5 years for it and finally was given it….there is none other like it! I;ve searched for recipes that come close, but none teste like this one or are as creamy. Mmmmm…can’t wait to make it…..and all the other goodies for the plates we ding dong ditch on peoples’ doors at Christmas!! I love this time of year!
My mother-in-law’s recipe for peanut butter balls has gotten me rave reviews from my husband, women friends, and men friends who shake their head and cluck how lucky my husband is. Of course… he has both his mom AND me to make these simple and delicious treats!
How adorable!
I actually really love cake. Vanilla cake to be exact. I also love donuts and hot chocolate for Christmas eve. It’s a Swiss tradition.
What an awesome giveaway! My christmas favorite is my mom’s cherry-filled cookies. The dough is made with vanilla ice cream – I’m sure cream cheese or sour cream would work, but the idea of getting even more ice cream in my diet pushes it straight up to favorite.
My favorite part is mint everything! Everything front mint hershey kiss truffles to peppermint bark and peppermint hot chocolate! What could be better. :)
I love the Farm Chicks cookbook, and what a great giveaway! Picking one favourite is so hard, but I really do love fudge.
I would have to say my favorite Christmas goodie would have to be Tamales Dulces. Im Mexican and my family is very traditional so We make these every year and they come out so YUMMY! =) Another one would have to be Arroz con Leche. Which is Spanish Rice Pudding. YUM YUM YUM!
anything chocolate…
My favorite desset is peanut brittle and fudge for Christmas…delicious!
My favorite dessert for the holidays are the cookies that my mom and I spend days baking for Christmas! It’s a tradition we’ve done since I was 4 and now I’m 23 and they’re the best tasting cookies ever!
My momma’s pumpkin cheesecake!! Yum!!
Chocolate ‘n Caramel Pecan Bars all the way!!! I’m drooling right now just thinking about them. :)
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My favorite is swedish pancakes on christmas morning. I’m edging up on 30, and my mom still makes them for me…lol =oP
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I love rum balls and eggnog during the holidays. Definitely not something you can have year round, but it makes it all the sweeter during the season :)
I love making my mom’s snickerdoodle, especially since it is her favorite! Now I have a daughter and can’t wait for her to get big so that I can teach her too!!
My moms fudge definitely!
i lovelove spanish turron. it’s hard to come by in the states (though i’ll sometimes find it at tj max!! out of all places!) but it reminds me a lot of my childhood (it’s kind of like a nougat with almonds in it)….
Candy canes, marshmallows, and hot chocolate on Christmas morning. Best breakfast all year.
My grandma’s cream cheese swirl brownies topped with chocolate chips. Yummy!
I love sugar cookies at Christmas. Not just for eating but the decorating is my favorite part.
my favorite christmas dessert is my mom’s peanut brittle. yum, yum, yum… can’t wait for her to make the first batch. :)
My favorite Christmas sweet treat has to be peanut butter balls! My mom has made these little treats for many years and my brother and I would fight over every last one! To this day…we request these little deadly sweets and count down the days until my mom makes them. And yes…my brother who is 38 and myself who is ummm…30ish fights over ever last one!!
My favorite is swedish pancakes on christmas morning. I’m edging up on 30, and my mom still makes them for me…lol =oP
I love a good cheese cream pumpkin roll and mexican wedding cookies at Christmas! DH loves my chocolate mint covered cookies that I make.
We always have a Jell-O Royal Crown Dessert made with ladyfingers. It’s beautiful and light after a gigantic dinner!
English toffee my mom would make every year,dipped in chocolate….. Yummy!
My favorite Christmas sweet/tradition is a Buche de Noel. My mother grew up in Quebec, and while we lived in Ontario, it was our favorite treat for the holidays. Unfortunately they’re pretty hard to find out of Canada, so I’m going to have to try to make my own this year. GULP!
I love caramel dipped pretzels drizziled with chocolate. When I was in college my friends mom would send them every year before the christmas break mmmm
My favorite Christmas sweet is Puppy Chow (not the dog food -lol) but the kind with Chex cereal, chocolate :), peanut butter nad powdered sugar! I tasted this in Texas for the first time and it was soooooo good!!!!!
p.s. I’m a Farm Chick wanna be in Virginia – they are an inspiration for us newbie farm girls!!!!
Fudge. Simple, fattening and oh so yummy!
My favorite dessert at Christmas is pumpkin cheesecake
I love pumpkin roll with cream cheese frosting! Yummy!
Ooh, that’s a tough one. Can’t go wrong with peppermint bark. That or my mom’s biscotti. :)
Chocolate bark all the way!! Dark chocolate plus white chocolate plus crushed candy canes.. mmmmm what’s not to love?
candy cane cookies, peppermint stick ice cream, thick chunks of fudge with walnuts, sugared peanuts…..
I love pecan pie or anything with pumpkin in it.
anything peppermint! and throw in some chocolate and i’m in hog heaven :)