Weather: 30 degrees, a light dusting of fresh snow After Christmas, my sister, Nadia, began posting lovely photos on Facebook of some mouth-watering cranberry orange artisan loaves she was making…
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Posts by tag: Christmas
Sparkling Red Velvet Bundt Cake
Weather: -26 What I’m listening to: Hot Chocolate, Tom Hanks For our Christmas Dinner Party, I wanted to offer a classic cake option for any of my guests who weren’t fans of…
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Peppermint Cheesecake with Oreo Crust
This morning is the first day of Christmas break at our house and my daughter got me out of bed earlier than normal before the coffee had brewed (on automatic…
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Soft Almond Sugar Cookies
Weather: 18 degrees What I’m listening to: A Laurie Berkner Christmas With all the cookie recipes swirling around at Christmastime, it’s sometimes difficult to find a cookie that stands out among…
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Salted Dark Chocolate Caramel Pecan Turtles
Weather: -27 degrees What I’m listening to: Handel’s Messiah First things first, don’t miss our Cuisinart 12-Cup Programmable Coffee Maker with Hot Water System Christmas Giveaway. You have until Wednesday, December 19 to…
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Eggnog Coffee Creamer
Winter isn’t winter without hot beverages. I couldn’t make Peppermint Mocha Coffee Creamer and Pumpkin Spice Coffee Creamer without giving you an Eggnog version. Eggnog is one of my absolute…
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Spiced Gingerbread Cut-Out Cookies
Holiday season is bittersweet sometimes. I was just wrapping Christmas presents for my three children on the dining room table and all the while thinking about the school shooting this…
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Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs
Weather: 21 degrees, several inches of snow expected overnight What I’m listening to: A Pandora holiday station (at the moment it’s playing Nat King Cole) This last weekend, Pastor Alaska…
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Peppermint Mocha Coffee Creamer
Weather: 28 degrees, steady snowfall What I’m listening to: December, George Winston After posting a well-loved homemade version of Pumpkin Spice Coffee Creamer in the fall, I received requests for homemade…
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Cranberry Orange Cookies
I’ve been making this particular cookie recipe for years at Christmastime, all the way back to before we had kids (which means at least a decade). It’s one of those…
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