Click photo to enlarge I make these delicious shortbread-y cookies every year at Christmas. 🙂 Today, my sister made them during our baking day.Ingredients 1 cup room temperature butter2 cups powdered sugar, divided2 teaspoons vanilla extract2 cups All Purpose Flour1/2 teaspoon baking soda1/8 teaspoon salt2 cups finely chopped walnuts Directions Heat oven to 350 degrees… Continue reading Mexican Wedding Cookies
Click photo to enlarge This is my mom’s recipe, she made these a lot with her Christmas cookie plates that she always gave our neighbors. A thick cutout sugar cookie, frosted with white chocolate and sprinkled with crushed candy canes. You can cute these into shapes, or, like my mom always did, make them in… Continue reading White Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookies
Click photo to enlarge This is the easiest recipe ever. It’s yummy, and it lasts forever. It’s a great addition to a tray of holiday baked goods. Ingredients Crushed candy canes, to yield 1 cup 2 pounds white chocolate Directions Place candy canes in a plastic bag and hammer into 1/4-inch chunks or smaller. Melt… Continue reading Paula Deen’s Peppermint Bark
Click photo to enlarge This is the simplest of holiday recipes. Fantasy Fudge. Super easy, super decadent. I only add walnuts to half (for my hubby, I am anti-nut) INGREDIENTS: 3 cups sugar 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter 2/3 C evaporated milk 1 package of chocolate chips 1 jar (7 oz.) Marshmallow Creme 1 cup … Continue reading Homemade Fudge
Click Photo to Enlarge This is my brother’s favorite. A crisp is much easier and less time consuming than an apple pie, (although in my opinion, apple pie trumps apple crisp) but generally apple crisp is loved by all, especially people who aren’t pie crust lovers (like me) and I make one every year for… Continue reading Best Ever Apple Crisp
Click photo to enlarge The trick to making homemade waffles light and fluffy is to separate your eggs and beat the egg whites until they are very fluffy. Once you’ve mixed your batter together, gently fold in the egg whites and you have a perfect hot breakfast for a snow day. Ingredients 2 eggs2 cups… Continue reading Homemade Waffles
Click photo to enlarge It might seem weird to BBQ on a snow day, but my hunky husband and I picked up some flank steaks at Costco this weekend, and this is the ONLY way to cook them. So delicious. He whips up this simple marinade, we let it sit overnight, and the next night… Continue reading Barbequed Marinated Flank Steak
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