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For this week's giveaway, one lucky reader will win a copy of The Pastry Queen Christmas by Rebecca Rather. The Pastry Queen is one of my very favorite cookbooks, and I love her Christmas cookbook just as much. From breakfast treats, to salads, sandwiches, and appetizers, to main course offerings and side dishes, to over-the-top desserts and sweets, this cookbook has it all for perfect holiday entertaining. And while many of the recipes are geared towards holiday gatherings, I've found myself cooking from it all year round. You may have already seen a few recipes from this book here on the blog: Apple-Spice Layer Cake with Caramel-Swirl Icing, Bacon-Green Bean Bundles, Warm Pear-Ginger Upside Down Cake, Red Velvet Cupcakes, and Wild Mushroom Quesadillas with Cranberry-Pecan Salsa. And I can think of a few more off the top of my head that I have made but not blogged. I already have several recipes bookmarked to be part of my holiday baking and cooking for this year too!
The Rules:
- To enter, leave me a comment telling me your favorite holiday dessert.
- One entry per person. The winner will be chosen by a random number generator.
- Must leave a valid email address with your entry (I need a way to get in touch with you if you win!!)
- Giveaway is open until Thursday 12/8 at 11 pm.
203 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 203 Newer› Newest»My grandmother's homemade cannoli are a Christmas favorite!
All different types of Christmas cookies!
My favorite Christmas recipie is a red velvet layer cake!!!
My favorite is steamed Christmas pudding with brandy butter! It'll keep you warm on a cold winter's night!
Fudge is my favorite holiday dessert! My grandma makes THE best.
Royal iced sugar cookies, delicious!
ascote727@yahoo.com
So it's kind of a weird dessert, but my mom makes chocolate covered potato chips at Christmas that are deeeelicious if you love the sweet/salty combo! They're one of my favorite treats ever!
maggiekathleengill at gmail
My favorite is my Grandma's Butterscotch Pie! It's so awesome!
My favorite holiday dessert is Buckeyes and my best friend's mom's chocolate chip cookies.
Ina Garten's pecan bars. They're ridiculously decadent, and I can only justify making them once a year!
I still love the sugar cookies my mom made every year when I was little. We still make them together and even though they are simple, they are still my favorites. I'd love to give her this cookbook as a gift.
Christmas cookies - all types! :)
My favorite is steamed Christmas pudding with brandy butter.
Russian teacakes (aka Mexican Wedding Cakes) are my absolute favorite. Melt in your mouth deliciousness.
I'd have to agree with Belladatura - Mexican wedding cakes are my fave!
All sorts of holiday goodies -- molasses cookies, oreo balls, cashew brittle, and on and on and on!
melisa 93 at hotmail dot com
My favorite holiday dessert is my mom's Coffee Crunch Cake. She usually only makes it during the holidays, because it's a time-consuming recipe (requires making the candy crunch topping, cake, and frosting from scratch) but it is AMAZING! Every time she makes it, everyone always asks for the recipe!
I love that apple caramel cake. I made it for Thanksgiving last year and it blew my mind!
We make a steamed pudding called raspberry roly poly :) It is warm, comforting, and there is lots of butter involved!
Pumpkin Roll is my favorite for sure.
Peanut butter fudge - it's seriously like crack to me.
Hmm...I think I'd have to say linzer cookies with strawberry jam. Lots of work, but so worth the effort! (jenniferjacksonsmith@gmail.com)
Cannoli from Corbo's Bakery in Cleveland's Little Italy. My dad's mentor and partner in his law office used to come by every Christmas Eve with a box of goodies from Corbo's and my little brother and I would split a cannoli for breakfast after opening all of our presents. Every time I eat one, it reminds me of a good, kind man who stuck his neck out for my dad (and ended up with a super kick-butt protege). And now that I'm in law school, I hope every day someone will be sticking their neck out for me someday soon.
Peanut brittle I make with my mom every year!
Fav Holiday Dessert = Cracker Candy, nothing beats sweet, salty, chocolately, and crunchy! yum yum!
Homemade dark chocolate truffles.
Homemade spice cookies... the smell whilst baking simply say "It's Christmas Time"
Thank you for the giveaway
A very Merry & Blesses Christmas to you and family.
Blessings
Christine T
cteo23@gmail.com
My favorite is my mom's Raspberry Trifle. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
sharonjo at gwtc dot net
My mom makes a pepermint Buche De Noel, Choclate roll cake with peppermint buttercream topped with chocolate ganache.
I really don't know what my favorite is because I pretty much love all holiday sweets.
I guess I'd have to say sweet potato pie or some apple cheesecake.
kelliholtz@att.net
Warm Cinnamony Apple pie with Ice Cream!
any holiday is my favorite if it has coconut pie.
What a hard question to answer....I love all the sweets, especially Christmas cookies, the Mexican Wedding Cakes...little balls of buttery yumminess!
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leileispilates@gmail.com
a good old fashioned pumpkin roll
Pumpkin pie with whipped cream! Yummy.:)
Cranberry upside down cake! lauwil07 at gmail dot com
Pumpkin roll!
Sherreelyn 79 at yahoo dot com
My favorite holiday dessert... oh man that is a hard one! I'd have to say the boxes of chocolate candies that show up around this time! :)
= Ann P.
Gingerbread men!
tokyoshoes (at) hotmail (dot) com
gingerbread and my great-grandmother's Mexican wedding cake cookies.
I always look forward to buckeyes at Christmas time!
ljyoung85 at gmail.com
Cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting-melt in your mouth good!!
I love amaretti cookies.
I love cold Pumpkin Pie!! :)
Love love love knock you naked brownies.
I love cheesecake!
Gingerbread Men!
I love anything with mint and chocolate - cheesecake, brownies, trifles, etc.!
I love decorated holiday sugar cookies!
Peppermint Brownies!
Russian teacakes. Butter, sugar, nuts, bite size...what more is there to love!
Red Velvet Cake - I used to make it every year for my Mother before she passed. It has become the cake of Christmas.
Pizelles!
All Christmas desserts!!! I could never pick just one!
msdurling@hotmail.com
My hidden kisses!
Cherry white chocolate cookies
I love fudge, but weird as it sounds I would rather have a second helping of green bean casserole than anything sweet!
My favorite holiday dessert is...
Christmas Snickerdoodles!
My absolute favourite holiday dessert is mini cheesecakes with various toppings. It was a holiday tradition with my family that we made lots of little bite-sized squares, cookies and treats for Christmas dessert, instead of one large cake/pie/dessert. So I love making mini cheesecakes topped with stewed cherries or caramel or whatever I fancy!
I love all the different types of christmas cookies!
Anything with gingerbread!
I love anything cinnamony for Christmas time!
I love peppermint bark and truffles!
Trifle!
My grandma's marshmallow fudge - many of us have tried making it ourselves, but just doesn't taste right unless she makes it!
My favorite holiday dessert is definitely all the different kinds of cookies.
Homemade apple pie.
My favourite Christmas dessert-Bread pudding made with pannetone. SOOOOOOOOOO good!!!
I love iced sugar cookies.
My favorite holiday dessert is pumpkin pie!!!! A simple staple of the holidays, but I always look forward to it!!! Yummmm!!!!
Pannatone bread pudding with an amaretto glaze!
Christina.ernandes@gmail.com
My favorite is fudge. es17000@gmail.com
My favorite is Raspberry Nut Bread. Christmas isn't the same without it!
chocolate peppermint cheesecake
Peppermint bark cheesecake! Yummm...
apple pie with ice cream!
My favorite holiday dessert is Apple Pie!
fudge
selb235 at gmail dot com
I love buckeyes and fudge this time of year!
vickdn512@gmail.com
Homemade fudge!
Yikes! I don't know if I can pick just one... I guess if I HAD to I would say Pumpkin Pie. But I really don't want to. :)
I love Christmas cookies, especially gingersnaps/molasses cookies! ana.lanni AT yahoo.com
Gingersnaps! Soft, chewy ones.
Christmas sugar cookies with frosting!
My favorite holiday dessert... gingerbread cookies!
My mom's fudge...which I have taken over preparing is SO good! Not the marshmallow fluff kind, the stand-over-the-stove-and-stir-until-your-arm-wants-to-fall-off kind!!
My favorite holiday dessert is chocolate pecan pie with fresh whipped cream on top.
When I was younger my grandmother took out her old stovetop pizzelle iron and made these cookies for us to have on Christams eve. Now my parents have kept the tradition going.
kplasman20@hotmail.com
Chocolate brownies with peppermint ice cream and fudge sauce!
marylaird.mangum@gmail.com
all the cookies, pumpkin roll with cream cheese frosting and christmas crack...a candy i make.
Cookies of course!
Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake!!! So good! What a great giveaway!! Thank you!
I love sugar cookies with lots of icing
Yum! Peanut butter cookies with a kiss on top!
Pumpkin pie with cinnamon whipped cream!
Gingerbread! I found a recipe I love and look forward to making it every year. :)
(bourbonandbananas@gmail.com)
pumpkin pie!
Brownies topped with Kahlua icing topped with chocolate ganache are my favorite. So decadent!
i love just plain old sugar cookies, decorated with sugar sprinkles. they're so much fun to make with my family!
My favorite is gingerbread men!
I love my mom's chocolate graham cracker bar cookies :)
Tollhouse pie. It's so incredible with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top!
My favorite holiday dessert is PIE!!!
I really like making Christmas Stollen around the holidays.
My favorite holiday dessert are my mom's pistachio pudding cookies!
Hmmm..this is a tough one! I think my favorite might be the chocolate covered pretzels. Sure, it's not fancy, but it's the only time of year I make them. Plus, you can grab a handful and walk around.
I really just love simple things, like the pumpkin roll my aunt makes or my grandma's homemade apple pie :) Sometimes the best kind of comfort food is the stuff I grew up eating because it reminds me of my family.
charysma88[at]hotmail[dot]com
lemon spritz cookies
One of the most well-received is also the easiest: Oreo bark! About 5 minutes to make!
Definitely peppermint bark from Williams-Sonoma!
-Gaby (gmalakates@ufl.edu)
Bourbon bread pudding.
lmdrury@gmail.com
Red Velvet or Italian Cream Cake
My favorite holiday dessert is all the different cookies and candies people bake! I look forward to it each year and really don't think I can pick a favorite :)
Cassie
caslee53@hotmail.com
Christmas cookies. Cream wafers, chocolate crinkles and bun bars are my annual must have treats!
so tough to choose! i would have to say snickerdoodles. cinnamon+sugar=heaven
shannonzhan@gmail.com
My favorite holiday goodie are 7 layer cookies. We make them every year!
booksncooks22@gmail.com
I LOVE molasses cookies!!
My mom's coffee cake that she makes on Christmas morning is hands down my favorite. Mmmm!!!
Pecan pie with lots of whipped cream :)
jelizoxner@gmail.com
Nothing beats the cookie platter! My grandmother always has the best selection on hers.
Gingerbread! There's something about spice and molasses that screams Christmas!
milove1082@yahoo.com
Christmas cookies. I love baking and eating them!!
My grandmother's chocolate cupcakes with red and green sprinkles, they are just perfect.
samantha.thorp@gmail.com
my grandmothers carrot cake!
my grandma's homemade apple pie. simply delicious
kerijo_27 at yahoo dot com
My mom's coconut cake!
My favorite Chrismas dessert would have to be Chocolate Torte; four layers of dark chocolate deliciousness with chocolate ganache and toasted almonds, plus lots of whipped cream. I must find that recipe. Now where did I last see it?
cmcfadin@swbell.net
Buckeyes, hands down!
Chocolate Cheesecake with Crushed Candy Canes on top!
adb6{at}humboldt{dot}edu
My most favorite eeeever would have to be my Grandmas Norweigan cookies. It's an old family recipe that I just love. My version is pretty good, but not as good as hers :)
My aunt eileen's baileys cheesecake! Thanks!
nothing beats Christmas cookies!
Thumbprint cookies with a slightly almond-y buttercream filling. Yum! Thanks!
love what mom called vanilla bean cookies. covered in powdered sugar and melt in your mouth. thanks for the opportunity and have a great day
my favorite holiday dessert is cheesecake or molten lava cakes!
jpinnick86 at gmail dot com
so looking forward to eating fudge every holiday. Must be a chocoholic!
Hi Josie,
I love anything that has lemon in it. It is such a bright and sparkling flavor so my favorite Christmas dessert is Lemon/Pecan Chess Pie but it has to be tart. Since hardly anyone makes Chess pies anymore, they make me look like a culinary genius... LOL!
P.S. It IS difficult to turn down a gingerbread man, tho... hahaha...
annie c.
kohn.haid@gmail.com
Hmm, I would have to say that I enjoy gingerbread cake the most! :)
Thanks for hosting!
onepreppycookie@gmail.com
my dad makes candied orange peel dipped in dark chocolate. need i say more? it is to die for!!!!
I love a big Christmas cutout with a healthy slather of vanilla frosting and tons of sprinkles!
My aunt makes the most delicious polish cookie that is a sugar/butter base with apricot filling. I have no idea what they are called, but they are to die for!
My mom makes Russian Tea Cakes!! They are THE best!
linzer cookies!
Stollen - so good!
chocolate covered peanut butter balls :)
Assorted cookies we bake just for Christmas season.Thanks.
girolamo@sympatico.ca
my fave are the hershey kiss pb cookies. i love rolling them in different colored sugars. my fave !
Roll out sugar cookies!
Nicole- nicole8747@hotmail.com
My fave is the homemade peanutbutter balls my mom makes.
Brandi - bwensel@verizon.net
My Mom's Pumpkin Roll! It's delish!
msadegian@gmail.com - Maryam
My favorite would be ginger cookies, the soft chewy enormous sized ones my sister makes! Haha
It's simple but I love my grandma's shortbread.
I love sweets, so is so hard to decide which is my favorite. I would love a chocolate cake with a caramel glaze on top.
Creme brulee without a doubt!
jennaros@usc.edu
My Favoritr holiday dessert is Pecan Pie.... mmmmmmm i love it!!
-jesselizdunn@gmail.com
My favorite holiday dessert Christmas cookies--especially the thumbprint cookies my mom makes with homemade jam in the center. :)
Hello Dolly's! I bought stuff to make them.
My favourite holiday treat is not homemade but still really good. It's the Starbucks holiday gingerbread. My family waits all year and buys an entire loaf. Despite its mass production, I love the frosting and the spice blend in the cake :)
ubiquitousfoodcravings@hotmail.com
Christmas cookies! Fun to make and even better to eat :)
I've heard so much about this cookbook! My favorite holiday dessert is my mom's peanut butter fudge!
Christmas cookies...any kind, any shape...I don't discriminate
I love to make the peanut butter cookies with the Hershey's kiss in the middle.
I Loooooove chocolate covered peanut butter balls!!!
my favorite is flourless chocolate cake-almost like melt in your mousse! I'd love this book.
spritz cookies
my fave holiday dessert would have to be my mom's mini butter tarts! the best
My favorite holiday treat is homemade caramels. I made jars of caramel sauce last weekend and will be giving them to neighbors for gifts!
Chocolate fudge!
Wow- reading all the great comments certainly did NOT help me decide on my favorite holiday treat...I think I will have to go with the nut cups my mother-in-law makes. My husband and I always fight over the last one!
Pecan pie
Cliche, I know, but I can't get enough pumpkin pie!
My Mom's oatmeal cookies! Soft and chewy. Love them.
My favorite holiday dessert are molasses cookies!
The peanut butter cookies with the kiss in the middle!
Pumpkin pie!!
My favorite is peppermint kiss cookies.
cfhogue@yahoo.com
Holly leaves
Tiramisu! YUM!
lauracoplon@yahoo.com
pumpkin pie and reese's peanut butter pie!
I love sugar cookies.
gingerbread cookies!
Every year I look forward to Chocolate Coconut Macaroons, I love them!
My aunt's fudge. She makes it every Christmas!
would LOVE a copy of this!
my fave holiday treat is gingersnaps!
Chocolate pizza or creme brulee are tied for my faves :)
my favorite hoilday dessert is petit fours.
I love the peanut butter cookies with a Hershey's kiss on top!
I have always loved chocolate crinkles. They are a holiday staple for us!
How can we choose jsut one holiday dessert?! SOme that I love are: peppermint macaroons, pavlova with fruit and whipped cream, italian wedding cookies, date/coconut/cocoa/toasted pecan balls, sweet potatoe pie... ok.. stop now... all way too yummy to think about! thanks for a fun giveaway!
Cathy B*****y pbprojecthope at yahoodotcom
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My grandmother's simple cut-out sugar cookies. My favorite all time cookie!
I have two. I love pie and we always switch up what kind we make. My other though would be my great-grandmother's nut roll.
I would have to say either sugar cookies or spice cookies!
Christmas cookies!
iuschwa@hotmail.com
Cinnamon rolls shaped like a wreath.
My mom's gingerbread cake.
Cinnamon rolls :) Every year for as long as I can remember, my mom has made yummy cinnamon roll wreaths for the neighbors as Christmas gifts...and an extra one for our family. Mmmmh! :)
Oh, and my email address is abgardner@liberty.edu :)
I absolutely love the peppermint chocolate combination. In fact I'm completely obsessed with Hershey's Candy cane kisses and have made brownies with them! Delicious :) My email is palomarolls@gmail.com
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