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Yum! I have yet to host a holiday, so I don't have any of my mom's recipes yet. But seeing this, I'll be sure to get them this year!
Chocolate Snowballs
8 oz of unsweetened or semi sweet chocolate
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 c chopped nuts
cook all together till sticky like cookie dough on the stove on med or low
roll in coconut
refrigerate
pretend you worked really hard
I don't really have a particular recipe, but we have a tradition of making RIDICULOUS amounts of cookies a week or so before Christmas...we then eat (almost) all of them over the course of the holidays with all of the family in town and everything! I don't have any of the particular recipes with me, or I'd post some!
warning- the cookie dough stuff is good but really hot. my fi burns himself trying to eat it every year!
MMMM sounds yummy!
i love so many holiday treats but a favorite is Mexican Wedding Cakes (or Russian Tea Cakes)
http://www.christmas-cookies.com/recipes/recipe104.mexican-wedding-cakes.html
that recipe is really good :)
Shortbread Cookies
Shopping List:
All you do:
1. Preheat oven to 350? F
2. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Stir in vanilla; add flour and mix well.
3. Roll out dough and form cookies with cookie cutters and put onto baking sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes
4. Sprinkle with christmas sprinkles or icing sugar
This is my true scottish shortbread recipe - so simple and soooo good!
I make them every christmas and give them to my neighbours - oh how domesticated I am ;-)
mmm this post is making me super hungry.
I have to say, my fave holiday recipe is Peppermint Bark! Easy to make and super nice as gifts.
I'm in big trouble. I don't have any dessert in the house and this thread is making me have cravings.
another cheater one- Palmiers
Puff pastry dough- thawed
sugar
unfold the dough to make a rectangle and rub sugar all over it.
fold it in to the middle like the first step of a paper airplane, then fold again hotdog style.
slice in to .5 inch slices and place on a cookie sheet on edge, so when they bake you can see the folds like the rings on a tree
they bake into little hearts. and are awesome dipped in any kind of chocolate.
Christmas Cookies!
I don't have the recipes (Its at my mom's), but here is a list of them.
Nutmeg logs
Rum balls
Pinwheels (using dates)
Chocolate Crinkles
I made this last Christmas for the first time and it was a huge hit.
Chocolate Peppermint Cream Cheese Ball
1 (12oz) pkg chocolate chips
1 cup peppermint disks (about 36-40)
2 c pecans
8oz cream cheese, softened
Combine the chocolate chips, peppermint candy, pecans in a food processor or blender. In a large bowl, add mixture to cream cheese. Shape into 3-4 balls. Cover in Saran Wrap and refrigerate until an hour before you are ready to serve and let it thaw for an hour so it is easy to spread. Serve with graham crackers. Have a knife available to spread with.
I dont really have any recipes for desserts, but I do have an awesome way to make the juiciest turkey ever. I have the smallest kitchen in the world and last year my whole family came in for Christmas. I needed to make a turkey but my oven in TINY, so I decided to grill it. So the turkey didnt dry out I soaked it in a brine over night, and put it on the grill in a disposable aluminum pan, with some apple juice in the botton, over medium heat for about 3 hours. It was the best turkey ever! My mom was so mad because she said it was better then any turkey she ever made, haha.
For the brine, I mixed some warm water with about half a cup of salt and half a cup of sugar, I also added some rosemary, alittle bit of garlic, and some pepper. The brine is not an exact recipe, you can really do anything you want.
I love to bake and have tons of dessert/cookie recipes - but at the holidays we go to a lot of cocktail parties where everyone brings an appetizer. These are the two I always bring - and they are always a hit!
Cheese en Croute:
one package crescent roll
on block cream cheese
Dill
egg
Directions: Spread out crescent roll pinching all seams together to create one full sheet. Soften cream cheese in microwave. Sprinkle dill on the crescent roll sheet. Place cream cheese in center and sprinkle more dill on top of cheese (to taste). Then pull edges of crescent roll up around the cheese. Pinch the seams together to create an enclosed pocket around the cheese. Brush one beaten egg over the top of the crescent dough. Sprinkle more dill. Bake for approx. 20 min. at 350. It comes out golden brown. Serve on Cheese board with small cheese knife and crackers. So yummy and so easy!
French Tenderloin Bites:
French Baguette
Beef Tenderloin
Horseradish sauce
Cook off Beef Tenderloin in oven (slow cook for best results). Cook to Medium temperature. Cut French baguette in to small bite-size slices. Spread horseradish sauce onto baguette slices. Cut tenderloin into small bite-size slices. Top horseradish sauce with a slice of tenderloin. They are simple but delicious! And also easy to reheat!
I do this turkey recipe by Rachael Ray and its AMAZING ... even FI said it was the best boneless he has ever had. and it is super simple. http://www.rachaelraymag.com/recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipe-index/dinner-recipes/Early-Bird-Turkey
This year I'm making sweet potato muffins.
Sweet Potato Muffins
Preheat over to 400°
½ cup butter
1 ¼ cup sugar
2 eggs
1 ½ cup canned sweet potatoes mashed
2 tea spoon baking powder
¼ tea spoon salt
1 tea spoon cinnamon
1/3 tea spoon nutmeg
1 cup milk
1 ½ cup flour
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time. Blend in potatoes and milk. Fluff in with fork, flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and baking powder.
Place in greased muffin pans and bake for 25 minutes. Enjoy!
Also going to try this brie stuffed mushrooms this weekend for Sunday dinner! I love Pioneer Woman! http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/11/mushrooms-stuffed-with-brie/
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I'm starting this thread after my thread about Holiday Traditions produced so many traditions based upon food. Please post your favorite recipes for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or NYE. I'll start with this one I got from allrecipes.com a few years back. Everyone loves it so much that now it's a standard at Thanksgiving:
Gourmet Sweet Potato Classic:
Ingredients:
5 sweet potatoes
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons heavy cream
1/4 cup butter, softened
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
2. Bake sweet potatoes 35 minutes in the preheated oven, or until they begin to soften. Cool slightly, peel, and mash.
3. In a large bowl, mix the mashed sweet potatoes, salt, 1/4 cup butter, eggs, vanilla extract, cinnamon, sugar, and heavy cream. Transfer to the prepared baking dish.
4. In a medium bowl, combine 1/4 cup butter, flour, brown sugar, and chopped pecans. Mix with a pastry blender or your fingers to the consistency of course meal. Sprinkle over the sweet potato mixture.
5. Bake 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until topping is crisp and lightly browned.