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The holidays are such a fun time of year. The decorations, the music, the gifts and of course the FOOD!
You can’t turn around without finding some kind of tasty treat nearby! The holidays give us a great excuse to whip up all kinds of festive treats and sweets. I usually attend at least one cookie swap each year…often I try to hit a couple. C’mon, how can you pass up the opportunity to hang out with a bunch of your buddies while sampling dozens of goodies?
Can you just imagine the sweet smells that come from the kitchen when I am getting ready for a cookie swap. It’s almost too much for my crew to take. They will constantly come beg me for a sample of all of the different sweet treats!
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- Share some of your favorite holiday foods and treats.
My favorite holiday food is a smoked spiral cut ham with sweet potatoes and english pea salad……then a Texas pecan pie for desert!
My favorite foods is Chicken & dressing…
Our holidays..depending on the holidays has its own traditions with food and treats..each different.
I.E. Thanksgiving turkey and rainbow trout..like ng story, funny too how that started.
Easter ham
Christmas prime rib
New Years Florida lobster and gulf shrimp.
Being southern..treats are numerous..generally two tables full.
Again, different for each holiday..
Sugar cookies, sweet potato casserole, molasses cookies, cranberry sauce, and leftover turkey sandwiches! Yum!
This year we are doing steaks with lots of side dishes. Changes every year. But the family never changes. Good times
I love fudge, the smell of ham baking, apple pie. Thanks!
I love the smell of brownies baking in the oven
Eggnog and Gingerbread Cookies.
All of my favorites are from my holidays spent with my family in Massachusetts, everything is my mom’s cooking: sausage stuffing, yellow cake bread, daddy’s sugar cookies, New York style cheesecake, the list is endless! We were always baking with my mom creating priceless memories that will last forever.
Every Christmas, we love making spritz cookies and adding some raspberry preserves and sprinkles to the center of the star shaped cookie. It looks so festive and tastes so yummy. They melt in your mouth. Yum!
I love dried peach stack cake butterscotch oatmeal cookies, apple & pumpkin pie!
Ham or turkey with just about any kind of potatoes are fine with me.
Nothing like homemade yeast rolls hot out of the oven with lots of butter!
Christmas cookies
pumpkin spice everything
Baking cookies with my daughter is the best. It reminds me of my childhood and also builds new memories.
I also love turkey and stuffing! And the feast of the 7 fishes -a Christmas Eve tradition (Italian) that I grew up with.
White chocolate Christmas mix! Delish and addicting!
I just can’t wait for my Best Friend to bring over her home made cookies. It’s a tradition we started many many years ago. The cookies are great but our friendship mean the world to me.
cabbage rolls, Baba’s veal and cornflake stuffing, heavy walnut cake with chocolate glaze my grandmother used to make – haven’t had one for 30 years!!
Merry Christmas everyone!
I love all the cookies we make around Christmas time -Mexican wedding cookies, Peanut butter Blossoms, spritz and some little cookies, I can’t remember the name now, but we make them with dates and other candied fruit and nuts, they have a pecan on top and taste just like little fruitcakes. I love fruitcake, btw.
My dad’s green bean casserole is my favorite holiday food by far!
I love my mother in law’s cornbread dressing! It is one of my favorite foods in the world! I also love brown sugar honey baked ham.
I love the smell of cinnamon and sweets coming from the kitchen.
Romanian cozonac is a slightly sweet yeast-raised egg bread, similar to houska, that is traditionally eaten for Easter, Christmas and New Years. Bulgarians call this bread kozunak. It’s considered the Italian panettone of the Romanians. When the cozonac dough is filled with farmer’s cheese, it becomes a pasca, similar to a Polish kołacz.
This recipe calls for egg yolks only so freeze the leftover egg whites and save them for a recipe like this meringue torte.
What You’ll Need
2 1/4 cup milk
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (plus 2 1/2 tablespoons, separated)
1 (1/4 ounce) package active dry yeast
4 egg yolks (room-temperature)
3/4 cup sugar (superfine)
4 ounces raisins (light or dark)
1 lemon (zest only)
4 ounces butter (melted)
1 tablespoon dark rum
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon vegetable (or canola oil)
1 large room-temperature egg yolk mixed with 1 tablespoon water
Optional: 1 ounce walnuts
Optional: 1 tablespoon raisins
Optional: 1/2 cup sugar (confectioners)
How to Make It
Scald 1/2 cup milk and stir in 2 1/2 tablespoons flour until smooth. Let cool 10 minutes.
Heat another 1/2 cup milk just until lukewarm. Do not scald. Place yeast in a small bowl and pour lukewarm milk over, stirring until dissolved. Add yeast mixture to the milk-flour paste and beat until large air bubbles appear. Cover and let rise at least 15 minutes.
Heat the remaining 1/4 cup milk to lukewarm. Do not overheat. Pour into a warmed large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer. Add the egg yolks, sugar, raisins, zest, yeast mixture, and 3 1/2 cups flour, stirring after each addition.
Knead about 10 minutes by machine or 15 to 20 minutes with buttered hands while still in the bowl, adding melted butter as necessary to achieve a nonsticky, pliable, moist ball of dough. It will probably take about 3 ounces of the melted butter. Save the rest.
Add rum, vanilla, and oil and knead another 2 to 3 minutes. Cover bowl with greased plastic wrap and let rise until doubled. Punch down and with hands dipped in some of the reserved melted butter, knead another 5 to 10 minutes.
Heat oven to 350 F. Coat a 10- to 12-inch round pan that is at least 3 inches deep or a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan with cooking spray. Using buttered hands, twist the dough and place in the pan. Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise until dough reaches the top of the pan.
Brush top of dough with egg wash (1 large egg yolk mixed with 1 tablespoon water). Sprinkle with optional walnuts and raisins, if desired. Bake 1 hour or until toothpick tests clean or an instant-read thermometer registers 190 F.
Remove from pan and cool on wire rack. If you wish, while the cake is still hot, sprinkle with optional confectioners’ sugar.
I like gingerbread cookies & chocolate covered cherries.
My friend and I make the best cookies together along with delicious Almond Brittle – it’s sooo good!
I love spiral cut ham, banana nut bread, pecan pie, dressing, mashed potatoes.
Sugar cookies, italian pastries. spinach dip with hawaiian bread.
I love pumpkin pie with marshmallows, cornbread dressing cranberry jello salad with nuts, pork chops
I make sauerkraut and mushroom pierogis for Christmas Eve! Takes me whole day to make like 300 🙂
Cannolis & sweet potato pie.
Cinnamon rolls, frosted sugar cookies and divinity.
My favorite holiday food is definitely my moms cheesy potatoes that thankfully we eat once a year or I’d be in trouble!
I would say the abundance of homemade Italian sweets, cookies, and pastries my husband’s mother, her sister, and other Italian relatives and friends use to make by hand. What Holiday memories of those beautiful, delicate desserts, I have right now. I probably will never taste them again, all these years later. :(.
Seafood! Always have different types of seafood on Christmas eve! And the special decadent desserts complete the meal!
I love sugar and spice nuts at Christmas
Lots of cookies, breads, ham, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and 7-8 different pies.
Egg Nog, Stuffed mushrooms, lasagna, cheesecake
My favorite holiday treats are all the different kinds of Christmas Cookies! Especially the Peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate!
Lots of things but my once a year favorite is a good Whiskey Cake.
I love the Gingerbread Cookies.
I love the spiral cut ham, cookies
My favorite holiday food is a nice juicy Standing Rib Roast and my favorite treats are Panettone and Tiramisu’!
Peppermint Stick ice cream with hot fudge!
Food is a huge part of Christmas…Sweedish meatballs, orange cinnamon rolls and Gloog make the day!
Our holiday tradition is for my Dad to make a prime rib for Christmas Eve dinner after Sunset service at church! My Mom makes all of the desserts and all of the kids make the salad and all of the sides like potatoes au gratin, brussel sprouts, and corn casserole! It is my favorite meal of the entire year!
Sweet potatoes
I like ham, baked potatoes, green bean casserole, and pecan pie!
Gingerbread cookies are my favorite holiday treat!
Ginger cookies, eggnog, and Waldorf salad.
Gingerbread cookies!
I really love the ham, holiday cookies and walnut fudge!
Cookies,cookies, and more cookies! I love baking this time of year.
I like cranberry orange relish, red velvet cake, Christmas cookies, eggnog and pumpkin anything!
I really love my husband’s poached salmon, pimento cheese spread, and olive spread!
My family loves the Stuffed Cabbage that Grandma makes every year, along with her Homemade Fresh Apple Pie !!
Pumpkins Pie and peanut butter fudge!
I love turkey, mashed potatoes, cherry cheesecake, chocolate covered cherries. and peppermint bark.
I love, love love turkey and dressing.
I like to make homemade cinnamon rolls this time of year with cream cheese frosting.
My favorite holiday foods and treats are eggnog, mince meat pie, fruitcake, orange slice cookies, peanut brittle and frosted sugar cookies.
Tollhouse cookies
Love, love, love dressing… 🙁
Cranberry White Chocolate Cake made with fresh cranberries.
Pecan pie , double baked potatoes and ham
I love making cookies for Santa!!
I love my Mom’s deviled eggs.
Pumpkin rolls
My mom’s congo bars. yummy
Pumpkin roll, pumpkin & pecan pies
Cookies for sure
Cookies!
I really like turkey with sweet potatoes, roasted brussels sprouts & dried cranberries
and a holiday treat I like is peppermint bark, especially peppermint bark ice cream.
I love dressing. My mom’s was wonderful.
My favorite thing to eat is Christmas breakfast with my family.
My grandmother’s fudge!
Dressing!!! love me some dressing.
Cookies, rich desserts, flavored coffee creamers ( and even fruitcake)!!!
I love homemade chocolate chip cookies and pumpkin pie.
It’s gotta be Snickerdoodle cookies.
Homemade cookies!
I make my grandmother’s Almond Crescents every year, her old handwritten recipe card gets a new splatter every time I pull it out.
My daughter makes the best red velvet cake ever.
Carrot, Apple and Raisin salad!
I love marshmallow covered yam casserole. I love the smell of fresh baked bread.
Pecan rolls , stained glass candy, and pumpkin pie!
Cookies and chocolate cake.
Sugar cookies and thumbprint cookies with raspberry jelly.
I love fudge!
Pecan pie, red velvet cake, pumpkin pie, gingerbread cookies, chocolate pie…I love desserts.
I love sugar cookies using the recipe from my great-great grandmother who made them using her wood stove. It’s a family tradition to make them every Christmas!
My favorite holiday food is German Chocolate Cake and Red Velvet is a close second.
I love eggnog, pumpkin flavored goodies, and of course Christmas cookies!!
My moms deviled aggs and my husbands mac & Cheese!
Desserts!! Sweet treats like Apple pie, peach cobbler and cookies.
I like sugar cookies and pumpkin pie.
My favorite holiday food is the strouffla my grandma used to make.
Pecan Pie Squares!
I love making Gingerbread men….or families 🙂
Fruitcake & Egg Nog.
We enjoy turkey, dressing and eggnog.
We all love cookies!
Sweet potatoes and honey ham with veggies for main course. Cookies and brownies for snack.
Homemade desserts and cookies.
My absolute favorite holiday treat is Peppermint Bark. I look forward to it every Christmas because the taste of it is amazing!
One of my favorite holiday treats is Alton Brown’s Egg Nog recipe (online). Once you taste it it’s hard to drink the store bought stuff again.
My homemade raviolis for Christmas dinner and my 30 different homemade cookies!!!
Pecan pie, peanut butter balls, peppermint bark, ham, hot cocoa. I could go on and on.
I love making fudge and cookies.
Decorated Christmas cookies are the best!
Hermit cookies and zucchini bread
Magic cookie bars
I love my mother sweet potato pies and her potato salad she make for the holidays.
My favorite is my sister’s Pumpkin Cake. It’s like pumpkin pie with a cake crust and it’s so good!
i love ham and deep fried turkey
Chex Mix
Ham, Standing Rib Roast, Peppermint Bark, Struffoli!!
Pecan pie
I love french silk pie and pumpkin pie with whipped cream.
The ever-reliable Christmas ham and pineapple souffle. Then for New Years a traditional German kielbasa and sauerkraut with dumplings
I love holiday cookies, cakes and pies.
I enjoy white chocolate covered Oreo cookies, wedding cookies and mixed nuts. I can only get these cookies this time of year.
Turkey and dressing, green bean casserole, deviled eggs, macaroni and cheese, pecan pie and sweet potato pie
My favorite holiday foods are smoked turkey and stuffing, pumpkin pie and Christmas cookies.
Baked sweet potatoes, turkey, collard greens..yum.
I love homemade chocolate fudge!
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Homemade cookies and cakes.
Low carb pecan pie will be on the menu again this year!
Russian tea cakes, dark chocolate peppermint mocha and seafood gumbo
I love mashed potatoes, sugar cookies and homemade pie.
Turkey and dressing with cranberry sauce.
Roasted Brussels sprouts and pecan pie
Swedish Spritz cookies!
My mom’s pecan cresent cookies.
Christmas cookies, Ferrero Rocher chocolates, chocolate covered cherries and cheese balls.
My favorite holiday foods are anything made with SUGAR!! I love the smell of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon in the air so those are a constant.
I like to make gingerbread men, muddy buddies and salted caramel fudge!
Christmas cookies and sweet potato casserole
Fruit Cake
Ginger bread cookies
Some of my favorite goodies during the holiday season include Cherry Cordials, homemade chocolate chip cookies, Hot chocolate, and Peppermint tea. And it always tastes better when hiding in your pantry from your children so that you do not have to share. Haha! (Of course I share – but this momma needs a bit extra sometimes).
egg nog,chocolate cherries, stuffing,
I love turkey.
fudge and peppermint ice cream
Cornbread dressing and gravy.
Our favorite holiday foods and treats include my homemade goodies like Bourbon Cremes and Kentucky Jam Cake.
We love magic marshmallow rolls that grandma makes along with cinnamon squash, pheasant, stuffed mushrooms and wild rice hotdish.
pumpkin pie
I do a mean Spiced Carrot Cake & my mom makes Hard tack candy.
I love chocolated covered cherries, fudge and fruitcake.