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Filed under: Recipes, Candy, Sugar, Holidays, ChristmasFor the next two weeks I'm in Portland, Oregon, hanging out with my parents for the holidays. One of the first things I did when I got here was pull down my mom's old recipe notebook and start flipping through. She's had this collection of recipes since before I was born, although she ...

Filed under: Chocolate, Recipes, Baking, Christmas Believe me, they taste a lot better than they look. I started out this day with a simple plan: make some Ghirardelli White Chocolate and Macadamia Cookies for my Cookie-A-Day post. Three hours and one trip to the store later, I came out with Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies. It's a long ...

Filed under: Recipes, Baking, On the Blogs, Holidays, Christmas Is there any other cookie that symbolizes the holiday season, in shape and look, than a cookie shaped like a star? It has that Christmas look, and it's a cookie you'd want to hang on your tree as much as eat it. I scoured the web and found a punch of different star cookie recipes ...

Filed under: Dessert, Dairy, Chocolate, Recipes, Fruit, Candy, Baking, How To, Eggs, America, Sugar, Christmas At this point in the grand game we call ''The Race to Finish Holiday Baking,'' we're looking at cookies and confections that are easy, fast, but still have that ''ooooh''-inducing factor. Perhaps the easiest thing I've ever come across in ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, Sugar, Christmas Here's another recipe from that 1984 Woman's Day Holiday Cookie pull out. They are a Dutch bar cookie served around the holidays and are fairly easy to pull together. I think they are my favorite of all the cookies I've baked so far this season as they come out light, crispy and buttery. ...

Filed under: Recipes, Candy, Baking, On the Blogs, Sugar, ChristmasI've been wrapped up in finishing my masters thesis this last week (thankfully it's finally all done) so I haven't done much in the way of holiday baking. So today, instead of offering you a recipe that I've tried and can vouch for, I'm pointing you in the direction of a recipe for ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, Spices, Sugar, Holidays, Christmas My search for good holiday cookie recipes has taken me far and wide. I've flipped through my file folders, scanned indexes of cookbooks, searched the internet and called my mom, all in the pursuit of tasty cookie recipes. Today's recipe comes from the Woman's Day 1984 ...

Filed under: Coffee, Recipes, Holidays, Christmas There are approximately 76 gazillion recipes for coffee drinks (I just Googled, trust me), and I'm sure all of us (all of us that drink coffee anyway, I like tea) have our favorite concoctions that we make, stuff we add to coffee to give it that added zip. RecipeZaar has this recipe for Spiced ...

Filed under: Dairy, Recipes, On the Blogs, Eggs, ChristmasI have a bad habit of not thinking about holiday baking and other prep until Hanukkah and Christmas are on top of me (with a Jewish mother and a Unitarian father, I get the privilege of the holiday double-dip). Hanukkah is nearly over and while I did manage to make latkes (however well ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Holidays, Christmas This stands to reason, right? It's Christmastime, so it's natural that December should be National Fruitcake Month. There's an old joke that says there's only one fruitcake, and it has been passed along to everyone around the world for the past 40 years. I admit I've never had a good fruitcake, ...