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.
truth is ….. fruitcake. i really do love it
My favorite treat at Christmas would have to be the Peppermint Stick Icecream. When is finally shows up in the grocery store I buy LOTS of it. I think it takes me back to my happy place when I was a child! Thanks Bakerella for doing such fun giveaways! Love your site! ~ Julie
I love this!! I am running out to the bookstore right now…
Marzipan, if I can get it- is my favorite and I love chocolate covered cherries!
XMAS COOKIES!!! Love ’em ALL!!!
My Granny’s apple cake has to be the best thing since cake pops; it’s moist and crumbly, with walnuts giving it just a bit of crunch when you bite in. Mmm, mmm, mmm.
cookies. my mom bakes a ton for my uncle and i get to do “quality control” yum
My mom’s muddy buddys are so good. I request them every year and there’s always a big tin of them waiting when I get to my parents house.
At Christmas my favorite treats are cookies. My best friend and I have a tradition (8 years) that we get together for a day and bake as many cookies and we can and make trays for all of our friends and family.
My favorite indulgence for this time of year would be the cheapest box of Queen Anne’s chocolate covered cherries…pretty simple to please :0)
Hershey’s fudge. Nothing like it in the world!
Chocolate covered pretzels- so easy and so good. Even better (but more work) sugar cookies- home made! I’m going to have to have that cookbook. Maybe I’ll fill my own stocking!
My favorite Christmas dessert is warm Cinnamon Pudding with a dollop of whipped cream on top. Scrumptious!!
My fav Christmas dessert has to be all the cookies and sweets – divinity fudge, iced sugar cookies, date roll, etc. When dessert is bite-sized, you can ‘sample’ more of it!
Fudge!!
Peanut Brittle. . . my grandmother would spend weeks in her kitchen baking up this sugary/buttery delight and then another week delivering it to all her friends, right before Christmas. Just the smell of it brings back lovely memories of my favorite lady.
My fav Christmas dessert is home made red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. I hate red velvet from a box…ok I’ll eat it but won’t love it and it’s not Christmas unless all the wet ingredients were mixed in one bowl and the dry in a seperate bowl before they were combined LOL!
My favorite Christmas dessert/sweet has to be red velvet cake balls! I made them last year and everyone went NUTS over them! My favorite Christmas traditional food, though, is the knokebrod (Norwegian flatbread) that my husband’s grandmother made when he was a kid. I have carried on the tradition now, and love it because not only is it fun to make, but it’s very tasty to eat!
I love iced sugar cookies with all of the fun holiday decorations. :) I know that is not original, but yum!
I have a sweet tooth, so it’s hard for me to pick, but I love spitzbuben, a German butter cookie sandwich.
Sugar cookies and cherry pie!!!!
I love this layered dessert I make each Christmas…a chocolate/almond cookie base, layered with a chocolate whipped cream, and topped with a mint cream cheese icing. You actually shape the bottom layer like clay–I make mine into a Christmas tree then decorate the top layer to be like a tree. SO GOOD.
My favorite Christmas sweet is simply peppermint candy canes…don’t know why they are so much more tastier around Christmas, but they are!
Chocolate fondue – we usually have it on Christmas Eve.
My favorite Christmas dessert is Red Velvet Cake. My mom has made this every year since I can remember. She is very ill now and has passed this 4th generation “secret” recipe to me now. What an honor! This recipe brings me such wonderful memories of my childhood, teen years, and now my adult hood. Our Christmas dinner is not complete without this dessert and everyone looks forward to it and even calls ahead to ask if I made it for the dinner. So hands down, for me anyway, is the Red Velvet Cake!!
I love shortbread. oh my God I am salivating just thinking about them. yum. I might just have to get out the butter today and make some now.
Peanut Butter Blossom cookies! I don’t know why…but, we only make them at christmas time.
Snikerdoodles! Growing up, we only made them around the holidays.
My favorite winter treat is def. snickerdoodles made my my grandmother every year. I have no idea how she does it, but they are so good and really make me feel like its the most wonderful time of the year.
I love the smell of cinnamon at Christmas… my favorite treat would be a shortbread cookie, with some mulled apple cider. Mmmmm. Coziness.
Oh I love my mom’s Red Velvet Cake. She has been very ill so I was put in charge of perfecting this 4th generation “secret” recipe. It is such a pleasure to make because it holds wonderful memories of my childhood and now my grown up days.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful Farm Chick goodies! I put the Pioneer Woman book on my Christmas list and just added the Farm Chicks too!
Love you & you blog! I love cookies… Any kind really but nicely decorated sugar cookies are a weakness!
Thank you for being such a dear and sharing these wonderful goodies. It is no wonder the Farm Chicks e-mailed you…your work and your blog are delightful. My most favorite holiday treats is my Aunt Bee’s (not kidding here) fudge. She passed away years ago, but my mother carries on the tradition. I also loved my mother’s divinity, but she has not made that since I was a child – something about the humidity. Thank you, again. ~Kelly
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My favorite dessert would be a pie brulee. We use any custard type pie (favorite is chocolate pumpkin pie), seperate the crust from the pie, push the crust into the bottom of a ramekin and top with the pie filling. Then you sprinkle with sugar and either broil for a couple of minutes or torch with a brulee torch until the sugar melts and slightly browns. With this we never have leftover pies!!!
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My favorite Christmastime treat is Gingerbread Pudding Cake. I’ve been making it for a few years now, since I found the recipe in Bon Appetit and I LOVE IT. It’s such a weird little recipe, but it makes this ridiculously good gingerbread cake that somehow through the cooking process ends up with a layer of gingerbread flavored pudding beneath it. Yummmmmmy.
My favorite is Pecan pie with real whipped cream . Sweet site !!!
Mexican Wedding Balls…in addition to being the yummiest….the memories connect me to my own mother baking these only at Christmas…..
I always make chocolate crinkles since they’ve been a favorite since I was a kid and I make brown-eyed Susans (I call them brown-eyed Ashlyns because of my daughter, though) since they were always my mom’s favorite.
sugar cookies with icing and wedding cookies
My favorite Christmas sweet would have to be my Nana’s “snowball cookies”. They are my favorite to eat. They also hold a place in my soul as a favorite childhood memory. They were a staple at all holiday gatherings until my Nana passed away in ’06.
sugar cookies with frosting!
Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies! Mom and I make them every year. We just pray for low humidity in south Louisiana when I visit them so we can make them.
Date Rolls!!! I have them every year!
Mom’s Raspberry Cheesecake. It made repeated debuts at my birthday celebrations over the years. I have many photos perched over a candle-filled cheesecake covered in plump, fresh raspberries and shiny raspberry glaze. It doubles as the Christmas Eve finale and sends the family off to bed on just the right note of anticipation and enjoyment. Tart, sweet berries interrupt delicious creaminess. Sheer pleasure.
I wanted to be extra creative, but hands down…cut out sugar cookies are my favorite holiday treat. I love to bake them, frost them, and most of all…eat them! Happy Holidays!
My family has made springerles for as long as I can remember. Generally, I tend to like rich treats, but even though this isn’t overly sweet, I love the flavor and all the memories it holds!
Hi Bakerella!
My favorite Christmas treat is stollen…yummy fruit bread dredged in butter and sugar, what could be wrong with that?!? It makes fruit cake jealous. : )
Our baking rotation changes slightly each year, but I always come back to BROWNIES! It’s like cookie and cake in one.
Happy Holidays! :)
Love peanut butter balls!! Such CUTE stuff!
THANKS!
Shannon
We always have cheesecake at Christmas, my momther-in-law’s recipe. It’s SOOOoooo yummy!
Shortbread cookies decorated with buttercream icing and lots of sprinkles – a classic in our family!
We LOVE to make snowball cookies with fresh pecans form our trees!!! Yum!!!
Happy Baking!
Half of my family is Italian, and that’s the half I always spend Christmas with. We always have panettone. Hey, it sure beats an old fruitcake, by a long shot. At our Christmas parties it is THE dessert to have. Always baked fresh by me or my grandmother, never store bought.
My favorite Christmas treat are Strawberry and Lime Jell-O Cookies. They are so festive with the red and green colors and people are surprised by how good they taste. They stay moist a long time.
spritz – yummy!
Every year I make spiced frosted pecans for friends and family. I probably eat a pound just testing them when they come out of the oven. Mmmmmmm.
definitely the rum balls my grandmother makes…they’re so boozy I’m not sure how they stay ball-shaped!
My moms date nut pudding. She always made it for Christmas. Very rich, you have to add whip cream or ice cream.
Don’t celebrate Christmas, but for Chanukah I love to make strudel and rugelach. I make both from homemade dough and fill them with lots of different stuff! My family loves it filled with mini choc chips, raspberry jam and coconut. I love the apricot jam, golden raisins, chopped walnuts and coconut! YUM!
Pear pie with a gruyere crust. Got the idea from Pushing Daisies :)
cute giveaway! i’ll have to check them out!
my fav is making cookies-usually the jam filled butter cookies, or italian wedding cookies! this year my husband and i are hosting christmas eve and i’m really excited about it! found a yummy looking recipe for white chocolate cranberry cake that i can’t wait to try!
Santa’s Whiskers is by far my favorite. This is a tradition for our family every year. Its a shortbread cookie with red and green cherries rolled over coconut (the whiskers). Then sliced to bake. YUMMO! Love these farm chicks stuff. So cute!
My favorite Christmas dessert is Sticky Toffee Pudding! Mmm
My favorite sweet during the holidays are those peanut butter blossom clookies with the hershey kisses. When I was a kid my mom would always make them at Christmas. I especially love them frozen. Is there anything better than peanut butter & chocolate??
Decorated home-made sugar cookies. Love decorating them and eating them!
Ohhhh what a fun giveaway!!
I really love making (and eating) fudge at Christmas. I made different kinds…the one on the marshmallow creme package….one that a friend gave me a recipe for…and another – Kahlua fudge – that a friend gave me a recipe for. It’s not Christmas to my kids until mom has the pretty vintage tins in the kitchen all filled up with fudge…fudge…and more fudge!
I think my favorite changes every year…this year it’s pecan bark made with graham crackers. It’s addictive.
Cookies…we make lots, sugar with icing, spritz, gingerbread, and my personal favorite…Snickerdoodles. Yummy!
My favorite Christmas dessert is strawberry cheese cake!!!!! ummm umm good!!!!
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Christmas and the flat, thin Italian cookies called pizzelli just go together! The chocolate version is wonderful, but the traditional vanilla look like snowflakes. Pizzelli are both elegant and whimsical.
Oh, and yummy!
My new favorite dessert~ as of last week~ is bourbon chocolate pecan pie.
Red Velvet cupcakes (or cake) with crushed up candy canes sprinkled on top. It was a tradition in our family and I LOVE it! My Aunt used to make them every year until she passed a couple years ago. I tried to make them last year myself but something about hers was special…and a lot more yummy!
So cute! My favorite Christmas treat is seriously fruit cake! My grandma and I head straight for the fruit cake, I could each glace cherries by the container….so delicious!!!
Gingerbread Yummmmmmmmmmmmz <3
& christmas spices cupcakes =$ with Hot chocolate .. <3
best treat evaaaaaaaa .. .
Biscotti!
I love old fashioned sugar cookies, my favs from when I was a little girl. They are melt in your mouth delicious and light.
I’d have to say that my favorite things are something I call “Fruit and Nut Bites”. They’re basically just maraschino cherries, walnuts, dates, brown sugar and butter (and a couple other things :) ) warmed together so it gets so sticky that you can roll them into balls. Then you roll them in coconut :) Yum!
My favourites are chocolate balls rolled in coconut. Yummy!! I also can’t pass up pavlova at Christmas time :)
My favourite Christmas treat is something my Grandmother used to make – We call them Bumblebees, and they are the most divine mixture of dried fruit, preserved ginger, cherries, coconut, and sweetened condensed milk. I now make them every year for my own family.
i absolutely love yule logs! so delicious!!
Very cool! I love peanut butter blossoms. Yum!
I love these Greek CRESCENT MOON cookies that my mom makes and of course I make them now too..they are a butter cookie shaped into a crescent moon..with a little walnut pressed into the middle of the cookie..and they are rolled around in confectioner sugar.. SO YUMMY!!!
AND CARMELITA’S!!! A yummy oatmeal bar with carmenl, chocolate chips and nuts inside.. oh how yummy with a cup of tea and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top!!
My favorite sweet at Christmas, hmmm , that’s a tough one. I do enjoy many of the sweets, but I usually always go for the Christmas sticky pudding for dessert, so let’s go with that one.
starlight mint surprise cookies!!!! oh YUM!
My favourite sweet is gingerbread, I like to make it super strong with freshly grated ginger! I make some every year to give to my friends.
My favourite dessert is pumpkin pie! It’s not big here in Australia, but I made a few last year and have been crazy about them ever since! :D
I love my mom’s cut-out cookies– they’re from a recipe from her grandmother. They’re so delicious. The frosting is a Betty Crocker frosting from my mom’s ’70’s cookbook.
Yum!!
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Really love the Christmas cookies the best, but fudge is a close second. There is something about the pretty sprinkles and the enticing variety of shapes that I love!
I’m always a sucker for pumpkin cheesecake…although my family has a tradition of baking a red velvet cake every year…Jesus’ birthday cake. This year…I want to try a red velvet cheesecake!!! YUM!
Chocolate covered pretzels!
My favorite christmas dessert is my Aunt’s Leche Flan. It’s very rich and creamy. Every year on our family reunions she always bring tons and tons of leche flan to eat and for each family to take home.
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Gingerbread men with frosting! It’s the only time all year that I get them so I look forward to them.
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Whatever my sister and I make together to give away as gifts. We used to do this every year, but since I’ve moved away, we haven’t been able to keep our tradition. It’s made me really miss the fun times we had spending an entire day baking for people we love.
Absolutely adorable! My fave Christmas dessert is my mom’s Puddin’ Head Gingerbread Men. Soft, gingerbread cookies with red hots on top. What is yours Bakerella?
My favorite holiday dessert is homemade chocolate fugde… it’s so rich that you don’t have to eat much, but it’s soooo yummy!
Pumpkin pie. Like Maria said, I know it’s mainly a Thanksgiving staple…but we always make it for Christmas too.
Actually, if I’m being truthful, my favorite favorite is the ramekin full of leftover pumpkin filling that my mom cooks with the pie and then gives to me…pure pumpkin goodness! :-)
Christmas sugar cookies w/lemon!
My favorite dessert at Christmas is the same one it is at Thanksgiving: pecan pie! I love pecan pie the best and have enough between Thanksgiving and Christmas to last me until the next year. :-)
I loveee sugar and pacans pie! Molases cookies is a classic at Christmas too hehe
I guess it’s not really dessert, but it IS sweet! Every Christmas morning we make French Toast. And we use egg nog! We can then choose to load up our nommy Egg Nog French Toast with butter and real maple syrup, sifted powdered sugar, AND/or this crumbly, spicy nut-crumble-stuff by mom makes. I go for the whole gambit. Totally. That’s how you do dessert; first thing in the morning before piles of presents! :D
My favorite is Pecan Butter Balls. They are light and not too sweet!!
Adorable stuff from the Farm Chicks! My dad’s family is Italian so my favorite desserts during the holidays are cannolis – YUM!!!
Every Christmas morning, two puff pastries are served at breakfast. As children, we called it “Jesus cake.” Simple to make and oh, so delicious!
I love mincemeat pie… I only think of it during this holiday season but it is the one thing I love indulging in! Or, believe it or not, fruitcake. My uncle makes a mean one!
Hmmm… my favorite Christmas sweet would probably be shortbread cookies!
I love the necklace and the tags look super cute too.
It is hard to narrow it down to only one. I would have to say cut out gingerbread cookies since I only make them at Christmas.
I love the Farm Chicks! My favourite Christmas dessert is pavlova (a type of meringue from Australia/NZ) with fresh cream and fruit on top (strawberries, kiwi fruit and passionfruit pulp for the festive look).
ice cream cake!
Filhoses!
(wheat bread dough, deep fried and covered in cinnamon and sugar, so simple but so yummmm!)
My mom and I make a red velvet cake every Christmas with boiled frosting. It takes patience and a lot of stirring to make that frosting, so once a year is it for us! But it’s so good!
Homemade fig cookies that my dad makes each Christmas.
Ohh I love Peanut Butter Kiss cookies, Not exactly Christmas per say but when I see them on the christmas cookie tray I go right for them :)
Mom’s gooey shortbread … yummy!
Carmel Pecan Pie!!! It is a little peice of heaven disguised in a pie! liv@khouryklan2.com
Brandy sauce! It should really go with Christmas pudding, but I like it by itself best :)
French Silk Pie is my favorite! I have the Pioneer Woman cookbook, I think Farm Chicks might be my next cookbook purchase. Thanks for sharing!
It is our tradition to have date pudding every year at Christmas, and then to eat the leftovers for breakfast the next morning-ha!
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I look forward every year at Christmas to my mom’s fudge. It’s so delicious.
Coconut cake. Only make it around Christmas with fresh coconut and 7 minute frosting.
My favourite Christmas treat is definitely Nanaimo Bars. Thanks for the giveaway!
pretty much ANY kind of pie is my favorite for Christmas! I made an applebutter pie for Thxgiving last week and it was delicious… maybe it’s my new favorite.
Love chocolate peanute butter fudge!
My favorite sweet during Christmas is my husband’s “s” cookie recipe. When he was a boy he asked his neighbor for the recipe and she wrote it on a card. He made it every year and gave it as gifts. He would always give the recipe to anyone who would ask for it. He has passed away not to long ago and when someone makes a batch of them they send them to me so I can have that great memory…I think it was his sharing spirit that makes people think to make them and share them with me now. They are almond cookies rolled in superfine sugar.
My favorite Christmas dessert – cookies! Any kind of cookies! I’m getting ready to start baking (and freezing) them now!
Oh my, how cute! Pies and candied nuts are my favorite!
Mmm, Christmas pudding with brandy butter!
I would have to say that I love painted sugar cookies. It’s a tradition to make every year for the holidays. I just love when little ones can be creative and then eat their creation. So Sugar cookies all the way. Thanks for sharing the info. on the Farm Chicks I can’t wait to order some of their super cute products.
Each Christmas I love to make Pecan Tassies. My mother-in-law use to make these every year. So now I carry on the tradition. Love them..
Christmas time it’s cookies
Which one do I like the best?
The choice is just so confusing
To put my taste buds to this test.
Peanut butter, chocolate chips
Sugar cookies, are just a few
But I guess if I have to make a choice
Brownies will have to do. : >)
j
My favorite treat is chocolate/peppermint ganache sandwiched between two sugar cookies.
Although Crate & Barrel’s Java Bark (I don’t think they even make it anymore) is a close second.
I have a new favorite this year… SUGARED CRANBERRIES! They look so sparkley and pretty, they’re super easy to make, and the sweet-tart “pop” you experience when eating them is amazing! I’ve posted the recipe here: http://winged-pigs.blogspot.com/2009/11/sparkley-sugared-cranberries.html
Happy Holidays!
Mmm, my favorite Christmas sweet are Grandma Lucia’s Ginger Cookies…they’re so soft & tender and dusted with sugar.
sugar cookies ofcourse!!!
A Homemade Gingerbread House decorated with a plethora of candy by my darling children and this year I am making a mangomisu…….yumm!!!!!!!!!!
My Christmas treat I make every year is chocolate pistachio fudge, it’s very rich, chocolatey but smooth and a little salty from the pistachio’s.
Even though we make amazing pastries and cookies and fudge at Christmas, all I want is homemade baklava. There is not a more delightful way to start a busy day than with a mug of hot tea and a little piece of baklava.
Crossing my fingers for a win, Bakerella!
My favorite Christmas treat would have to be Mexican wedding coookies! They are the best!
a simple mix of sponge cake and dried fruit and prunes, coated in orange juice icing and dusted with cinnamon. with a glass of my mom’s bay leaf wine…
I like yule logs. I’m pagan, so celebrate christmas as a secular holiday, and I don’t like dried fruit in most things, so it’s the chocolate yule log all the way!
I make deadly rum balls, with cherries in the centre, squishy choc filling around them,a yummy ganache on the outside and a rumsoaked layer of crushed coconut macaroons under the ganache. They never last long!
My favorite holiday treats are my mom’s teacake sandwich cookies!! They melt in your mouth!!!
Gingerbread cookies! They remind me of when I was little and used to bake and decorate them with my sister and mom for Santa;)
My favourite sweets are traditional greek treats!!!
They are some kind of biscuits covered with powdered sugar.
They are really delicious!!!!!
I LOVE to make sugar cookies with my nieces and deocrate them sometimes we even flavor the dough with peppermint…SO MUCH FUN !!! : )
I’m in love with pumpkin pie!! :) Best. Dessert. Ever!
I love desserts so it is hard to pick one. But for christmas, i definately have to say that a chocolate self sauce pudding would be at the top of my list!!!!!!
Gingerbread cookies, beyond a doubt! But not just any old gingerbread cookies, the really hard kind that are super spicy and that you NEED milk with to be able to handle. You know the kind, with their super-sweet icing and little candy-dot eyes. MMMMMMMMMM
First of all, I love the Farm Chicks!
Have you ever tried Swedish “pepparkakor” – there is no Christmas without them. It is the spicy flavor in the dough, a combination of ground cinnamon, cloves, ginger and cardamom that make them so special and tasty.
We use cutouts in the shape of pigs, hearts, stars, people and sometimes we decorate the cookies with white icing.
Sometimes we eat them with a thin slice of soft blue cheese and a drizzle of honey on top. Perfect snack for a holiday gathering.
http://www.recepten.se/recept/pepparkakor.html
Home made sugar cookies of course!!!!
Also we have a “Roscon de Reyes”, but we make it on January when the “Reyes Magos” (like Santa…) come with presents the morning of 6th January.
I can’t choose just one treat I like best…
Sugar Cookies, Fudge, and “Muddy Snowballs,” a cookie from my childhood. I can’t wait to start my baking this year!
gingerbread man! i tend to do gingerbread families for my entire family tree every year!
MMM you can’t go past good old fashioned home made plum pudding and it has to be home made by nana!!!! Oh i almost forgot the custard.
I always make Paula Dean’s Pumpkin gooey cake, and it’s always the hit of the party!
For the dessert, I love some cinnamon spiced ice cream – would be delicous all over the year, but we only eat it at Christmas.
Out of the Christmas Cookie-Business, I love jam-filled cookies (raspberry jam is the best, I guess) and all the new stuff I try out everey year, of course. :-)
Well….if I had to choose ONE favourite…it would have to be Rum Balls… my nonna and I used to make a whole heap of them, and it was the one time I was allowed alcohol when I was a kid! Sadly, my nonna has passed away since then, but making Rum Balls still brings back the memories :)
my favorite Christmas treat is fudge! My grandma made it from a “secret recipe” when I was a kid, and then I discovered it was just the recipe on the back of Marshmellow fluff. Still my fave tho. :)
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Gingerbread! :o
I told my boyfriend (who is british) that it’s my favourite christmas sweet, and he told me that I could come to him, and eat it all year ’round ( I live in Sweden).
Noo! You only eat gingerbread for christmas D: Why does he ruin this for me? ;<
I love my mother’s cookies, not because of their taste but because of the tradtidion that every year, no matter that me and my sister moved aout a long time ago, she bakes the same amount and recipe. love it ;)
Orange Moon Rocks…ground nuts, flour, sugar and a hint of fresh orange juice – delicious cookie coated in confectioner sugar! Similar to Mexican Wedding Cookies but with essence of orange flavor. A Christmas treat indeed.
Anything with saffron in it. I’m such a sucker for saffron, and especially for christmas. <3
My favorite dessert is apple or berry crisp served warm with vanilla ice cream on the side. Yum!
my favorite holiday dessert is pavalova covered in fresh cream with fresh strawberries and kiwi fruit mmmm . Christmas in NZ is summer and pav is allways a big fav .
For sentimental reasons, my favorite Christmas dessert has to be iced sugar cookies in Christmas shapes. It’s a family tradition to make them on Christmas Eve, my brothers and I decorate them at the table together, then we used to write our letters to Santa and leave some of the cookies out with milk for him, before rushing off to bed to await his arrival.
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My favourite christmas dessert is gingerbread cookies that i make with the girls and decorate them together. What fun we have in having them in different colored icing and designs. We make this only once a year- at Christmas!
Snickerdoodles…mmmm, pretty damm good
I really really love sugar cookies; Thank you!!
WOO HOO !
What a great gift…. Winning this would really be a dream !
When I spend Xmas in my family, I’m usually in charge of the dessert and I prepare “Profiteroles” myself…. It’s not as beautiful as your sweets for any occasion, but well, it has become our tradition !
My favourite Christmas dessert is PANDORO a typical italian one… cannot wait to eat that big slice :)
I love pavlova, being Australian. It looks very Christmassy too…the white pav topped with red berries and green kiwis.
My favorite Christmas treat, would be the chocolate swiss logs my mother makes, dusted in frosting sugar!
completely forgot – the VERY VERY best christmas dessert – cranberry orange bread pudding – to DIE for! perhaps you need that recipe?
My favorite has to be Red Velvet Cake! MmMmMm!! So good =)
wow super duper cuteness! you crack me up BTW! do you really read ALL these comments????? i think maybe i should make you a gift dripping in cuteness……..hmmm maybe after Christmas tho – i am SWAMPED hee heeeee! i so love your blog!
7 layer bars also known as Magic bars, my mom used to make them just for me at Christmas time.
peanut butter brownies…love them
I HAVE to have mincemeat pie at Christmas. Few in our family actually like mincemeat but it has to make an appearance or it Christmas just isn’t complete. I learned a couple of years ago that marzipan cut-outs on the top make it a bit nicer.
Caramel apples, with extra caramel.
mince pie ice cream definitely !! its twist on the classic mince pie its great to have with family and friends when youre all cozy and snugly :))
My favorite sweet for Christmas is Eggnog!! I cant get enough of this stuff. I also love making hundreds of sugar cookies to pass around at work.
I love my MIL Christmas cake with marzipan icing! Yummy!
I also love having a go at making croissants, but I’m not always successful…but they are lovely to have on Christmas morning.
I love my mom’s pumpkin pie, but, my nana makes the most wonderful marble cake. My sister and I would get to help her make it for special occasions, she would always make a marble cake for Christmas, just for us. My sister and I would stand next to her at the counter; she would measuring off a cup of better and we got to stir cocoa into it, in our own little bowl. Then we would dollop our chocolate mixture in the middle of the white batter before she poured the rest on top. Next, she would hand us a little knife to swirl around in the batter and after it was baked we got to help her make her famous chocolate icing to ice it. We were so proud of our cake standing on the dessert table. Anytime I am home at my nana’s I always ask her to make it and lucky for me she does!
I love Egg Nog, so sweet and delicious. And mince pies are soooo yummy. x
My favourite christmas treat is pavlova with lots of whipped cream and fresh picked berries! divine!! Russian fudge also goes down well, and coconut ice!!!
My favorite dessert is homade cherry delight. I would love to share the recipie with you so you can jt it down on those breautiful cards;) I love your blog and can’t wait till your next post to see what you will put up next!!! i really hope to win:) looking forward to speaking with you about my prize :-p!!! LOL
Little gingerbread men! They’re almost to cute to eat, but I always do. (:
I love making ginger bread man cookies , i give each one its own personality!
My very favorite Christmas treat is the chocolate you get from a cheap advent calender. I hate branded ones as the chocolate jut doesn’t have that christmasy taste :(
Katie xox
I must say being an Aussie I am a sucker for a pavlova covered in cream and fresh berries and passion fruit for Christmas.
Pretty much all the Christmas treats are my favs, but 7 layer cookie bars and anything made with peppermint are my must haves!!
I made Nigella’s margerita ice cream a couple of times and it’s dillicious! And my mother-in-law makes a great appertiser, advocado filled with cocktail suase and salmon. Mmmm! But my favourite sweet is the chocolat cruchie fondant-filled round thing we hang in the tree. They’re very nice… http://www.zoete-lekkernij.nl/argeweb/downloads/kerst%20chocolade%20kerstkransjes.jpg
I would love to have a cake necklace. You’re so sweet you give it away! love your site btw.
Living in Australia means it is a HOT christmas – so I love christmas pudding ice cream. You make it by stirring all the great christmas pudding ingredients (glace fruit or dried fruit soaked in brandy, nuts and you should definitely add chocolate chips!) into softened vanilla ice cream (down under we have a brand called blue ribbon which is the best vanilla ice cream in the world).
Mix together, freeze and then eat – but entirely understandable if you can’t wait for it to totally freeze!
Spice cookies, hands-down. :) Crispy, sweet, spicy, and delicious!
My favorite holiday treats are frosted sugar cookies and peppermint chocolate brownies!
Hi bakerella! My grandmas fruit pizza..yummy cookie crust with a sugary cream cheese base..then she adds all kinds of delish fruit.
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When I go to my aunts house, she would make the most amazing pear and cranberry pie. Mmm
Tiramisu! Or petit fours. Or brownies…. I can’t choose…
Apple pie would be my favorite dessert!
that and ginger cookies…
For some reason I look forward every year to enjoying the peppermint ice cream that comes out right before Thanksgiving. Oh, I love it so much! I’m also lactose intolerant, so I usually buy my lact-aid at the same time :)
thanks for including me in this fab giveaway!
i love my chocolate chip cookies loaded with colorful chocolate kisses that come out only@ holiday time.
I love plum pudding with hard sauce at Christmas time. My parents made it when they were still together; to have it now brings back the best memories.
My mama’s chocolate pie!
This is cute stuff! I’ll be sure to look for the book in the book store.
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