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Check out these chicks!

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Have you heard of these chicks before? I hadn’t until a few weeks ago. It was really kind of a weird little coincidence. I was in the bookstore picking up Pioneer Woman Cookbooks for a recent giveaway and my eyes locked in on a book called The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen. Loved the title and the design, but because I was over my limit on books for the day, make that month, all I did was thumb through the pages really quickly before I made myself leave.

But then, just two days later I received an email from none other than Serena, one of THE Farm Chicks. Seriously. Out of the blue. Two days later. Does stuff like that happen to you, too? Strange coincidences? It does to me all the time.

(Hmmm… The Pioneer Woman and The Farm Chicks. That’s kinda weird, too. Okay, I’m moving to the country.)

Anyway, it was a really short email message that said she wanted to send me something.

Curious, I said, ok. (I like surprises.)

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And boy was I surprised when several days later I received a package full of all of these sweet, sweet gift tags.

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Some with little cakes.

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And others with sweet messages.

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Plus there were all these fun recipe cards. (Forgive me for the extra blurriness. I was playing with different settings on my camera.)

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Some even had Christmas themes.

I had no idea they had all these cute products plus a cookbook. Impressive.

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Speaking of their book, I had to run out to the bookstore and get it right away.

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Wish I had seen this before trying to make a pie last week. Could have come in handy.

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The Farm Chicks love some pie. And the book has several yummy ones like this.

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Plus, it has fun, do-it-yourself projects throughout. I’ve never made scones, but if I do, I want a scone cozy to go with them. Cozy scones. Yes. I want my scones to be cozy. Adorableness. Cuteness doesn’t quite cut it here.

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Hi Serena. Thanks for sending me all the fun stuff. I love it.

Especially the necklace.

Oh, I forgot to tell you guys about the necklace. Well, it has a cake on the front of it and it’s just darling.

See.

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And, since Serena sent me two of them… well…

Would you like one? Then, we can both look super cute, adorned in cake.

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I’ll even throw in some of my gift tags and recipe cards, too. I’m a sharer.

Enter for a chance to win some fun Farm Chicks stuff
(necklace, recipe cards and gift tags)

Just leave a comment on this post and let me know:

  • What’s your favorite sweet or dessert at Christmas?
  • Leave your comment with a way for me to contact you if you win.
  • Deadline to enter is Monday, November 30th at 7 p.m. ET
  • TIME’S UP!

  • One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Monday evening on this post.

Good luck! Now, I’m off to read up about Farms and Chicks. If I’m not back soon, look for me in the country. I’ll be the one lost with lollipop sticks.

www.thefarmchicks.com

And, here’s the winner…
Wow, wow, wow, I am going to need the rest of the year to go through all of your favorites. So many things I like, too… especially fudge and so many that I have never even heard of. You guys should take a look through them if you get a chance and want some ideas for something new. Thank you for sharing. And the winner is… #2670… That’s you Heather. All you have to do to get your prize is send me some of your dad’s Keeflies. Just kidding. But really, I just looked those up and they sound great.

Winner

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3,171 comments on “Check out these chicks!”

  1. My favorite holiday dessert are the cream cheese cookies my mom makes. YUM!
    hstarb@gmail.com

  2. Ooh, this is a tough one. Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake has got to be up there, though. (Thank you Paula Deen for lightening up this Missouri favorite!)

    melissahiatt at gmail dot com

  3. My favorite sweet at Christmastime: spiced cider and shortbread cookies! YuM!

  4. Ohio Buckeye candy! (also known as Peanut Butter Balls)

  5. Wafer cookies are my all time favorite Christmas cookie. They are a sandwich cookie, very delicate with a super sweet frosting. There is a raw egg yolk in the frosting and my mom wouldn’t let me eat them the Christmas that I was pregnant! I’m pretty sure I smuggled some home, though, and my son is just fine :)

  6. My favorite sweets at Christmas time are eggnog with my mom’s Sand Tart cookies covered in powdered sugar…addictive!

  7. I love sugar cookies.

    Oh and peppermint ice cream.

    And hot chocolate, with a dollop of whipped creme.

    And peanut brittle.

    And… just this weekend I was blog surfing and found the Farm Chicks. Cool!!

  8. My family makes this amazing caramel nut coffee cake bread thingy thats cooked in a bundt pan and can only be cut when it is hot (other than that it turns to a brick)

    its not really a “dessert” per-say, more of a sweet that we eat for breakfast

  9. It’d be SO cool if I would win as today (the 30th!) is my bday!

    Anywhoooo in answer to your question, my fave thing for christmas is all the yummy goodies I get to bake with my daughter!! I just love baking cookies and yummy sweets to share with the family. I am looking forward to getting started!

  10. I love to make a rockin’ homemade pecan pie for Christmas! Plus, I absolutely love sugar cookies decorated with frosting, sprinkles, you name it…yum!

  11. sugar cookies decorated as trees, snowflakes, gift presents, etc, any type of decoration, as long as they are sugar cookies with lots and lots of icing =)

  12. Nanimo bars. My family has been making them every year for as long as I can remember. The job has passed to me now, and they always taste just like Christmas to me. Even Grandma’s, which are always a mess, are delicious:)

  13. the classic decorated sugar cookies…a tradition to make on christmas eve. it wouldn’t be christmas without them!

  14. A favourite? I am happy to be able to bake my silly little head off all december. But the one thing I indulge in usually only at christmas is baklava…oh those gooy sweet layers of phyllo and nuts..yum

  15. Pecan pie, no… sugar cookies, uhm, actually maybe ice cream drinks after dinner, well..I do really love pecan fingers and I can’t do without lime meltaways. Then again, what would Christmas be without a red velvet cake! I guess you stumped me on this one :) Happy Holidays!

  16. My dad loved the holidays… almost as much as he loved cherry popovers. He passed away almost 4 years ago, so every year during the holidays, I enjoy a special batch of cherry popovers just in memory of him. I can’t wait until my children are old enough to understand just how special this is to me :o). They’re my favorite Christmas treat.

  17. My favorite holiday dessert is the cookies me and my kids make. I make them and they shape or cut them out and do the sprinkles. We put them on trays and share them with our friends and families.

  18. Petifores….MMMMMMM! One day I will be brave enough to try and make them.

    Thank you for your fabulous website!

  19. Since I was a child, during the holidays my grandmother and I would make a simple cookie batter and mix in red & green M&Ms! It was/is simple, fun, yummy and reminds me of my grandmother and the holidays!

  20. I make Kahlua every year and give it to family and friends. It may not be a classic holiday treat, but this is really the only time of year I make it, and I make sure to make enough to last all year!!

  21. I enjoy most holiday desserts. I like making pumpkin spice cake, simple peppermint bark with my ten year old daughter, and a Christmas bedecked red velvet Armadillo cake, I do live in Texas after all :).

  22. My mom’s fudge is the best thing in the whole world! I like it best when it’s still warm and not completely hardened yet so you have to eat it with a spoon (and quickly before you get a swat on the wrist!) Hooray for Holiday goodies!

  23. My family always makes Chocolate Delight. It’s so simple with chocolate pudding, cream cheese, powdered sugar and whipped cream. It was the first dish I ever baked when I was 12!
    Jessi
    jessirenae485@aol.com

  24. My favorite Christmas treat is my mom’s homemade English toffee. DELISH!

  25. Cool stuff. I love peanut butter balls. My mom makes them golf ball sized which is much preferred to my Mother-in-law’s, tiny marble sized peanut butter balls.

    Who likes big balls? I like big balls. My mom makes the biggest….balls of them all.

  26. My favorite Christmastime dessert would be egg nog cheesecake!! I’ve come across many different variations of the dessert, and it’s always fun to try new ones.
    -Jenna
    jcsnowbunny@gmail.com

  27. Pizzells. An Italian Christmas cookie. YUM!

  28. My favorite is French Waffle cookies, gaufrettes…you make them in a pizelle iron and they are SOOOO good!

  29. I can’t even pick just one!!
    My uncle makes these yummy eggnog flavored log cookies that are awesome!

  30. Cinnamon rolls, sugar cookies with my girls, pretty much anything!

  31. I LOVE my mom’s monkey bread. She makes it every Christmas morning!!

  32. another book that needs to go on my christmas list, thanks for all the ideas!

  33. I love making Russian Tea Cakes as part of my holiday baking. My mom and I have been baking together at Christmas time for years, and the tea cakes have always been my fave!

  34. Spoon cookies from the now-defunct Gourmet magazine, but the recipe can be found at Epicurious.com. And I confess to being a cookie-dough eater, and this one is great because it doesn’t have eggs, so it is safe to eat in dough form.

    They’re rather fussy to make but really worth it. Especially if you wait a few days to eat them, as recommended in the recipe. I have to practically leave town to keep from sneaking them early, though. My husband calls them Fort Knox cookies.

  35. Sugar cookies with lots of frosting :)

    andi.gril@gmail.com

  36. Dark fruit cake with marzipan paste!

  37. My favorite Christmas treat is easily Divinity. I like it plain with no nuts or candy canes thrown in. Maybe a touch of green dye. We also make batches of caramels for all our neighbors using Miss Martha’s wonderful recipe for Golden Caramels. -Marianne

    mariannemarguerite@yahoo.com

  38. my favorite are peanut butter cookies with a hershey’s kiss on them. yum!

  39. Christmas pudding definitely :D !

  40. My favourite is an Apple and Blackberry pie. I pick the blackberries in August/September and freeze just for the Christmas pie. Apple pie is so good on it’s own, but there’s something about the colour and tartness of the blackberries that kicks it up a notch. This year I’m going to try Alton Brown’s alligator pepper tip.

  41. I love butter cookies. Not necessarily the blue can Danish butter cookies, but more along the lines of homemade, fresh out of the oven yummies. I’m a big cookie fan when it comes time to Christmas. My boyfriend’s mother makes these wonderful gumdrop cookies that are just to die for, and not terrible for you since they’re made by a diabetic who is very strict about her diet!

  42. My favorite sweet is Pecan Sticky buns they are the best!

    my email is hollykristina1981 @ yahoo . com

  43. I love the assortment of cookies at holiday time- all of them!

  44. My favorite christmas dessert is that english christmas pudding soaked in rum. And ill be honest what i really like about it is the setting it on fire part. Mom has a vintage mold to make it in and the cake pan has a lid which i find kind of weird. we also have a plate thats over 150 years old and we know for a fact that the only thing that has ever been served on it is that flaming christmas pudding.

  45. definitely homemade hot chocolate :) we buy this kinda from william’s sonoma, which is basically chocolate shavings that you melt with hot milk! last year was the best when me and my sister sat on grandma’s porch in the cold and drank hot chocolate and looked at stars :)

  46. Pecan pie (it’s my favorite anytime of year) and sugar cookies with loads of frosting. :)

  47. Pumpking pie. I made 3 last week. Mmmmm. Thanks for hosting a giveaway.

  48. Homemade gingersnaps! I look forward to making them for my Dad every year.

  49. During the holidays i love making gingerbread!! gingerbread houses, gingerbread men anything gingerbread. I love the spicy warm feeling i get. It hold such good holiday memories.

  50. Flan. Lots and lots of flan. You know it’s a special occasion in a Filipino household when there is flan involved…and Christmas is no exception!

  51. My favorite dessert, hands down, is my Dad’s Peach Cobbler. Every time I go home, it’s the first thing he pops in the oven. We were never without a giant scoop of vanilla ice cream to go on top. Just the smell of peaches takes me back to “home”. Being a military spouse, it’s often hard to be away from loved ones especially during the holidays. Smelling my Dad’s peach cobbler in the oven takes me “home”, even if only in my thoughts.

  52. My great-grandmothers recipe…. Sherry Swirl Cake. A delicious coffee cake we only treat ourselves to on Christmas morning, it’s heaven on a plate.

  53. Two years ago I started making about a billion of the yummiest cookies ever from Deb over at Smittenkitchen. They’re unbelievable and I love so many I can’t possibly pick one!! Thanks for being a sharer!!!

  54. Peppermint ice cream with hot fudge. Yum!

  55. dense chocolate cake :D, and my mom’s pecan pie!!

  56. My favorite Christmas treat is my Grandmother’s Sour Cream Walnut cookies. Sooooooooo gooooooood!
    She passed away last year but I’ll make sure the tradition lives on.

  57. I have such a sweet tooth, but I think homemade sugar cookies are #1, with shortbread coming in 2nd.

  58. My favorite treat are the home-made carmels my sister taught me to make when we were growing up. YUM!

    mistyflambert@yahoo.com

  59. I love this peanut buttery chocolatey a tiny bit rice krispy things that my neighbor always includes in the little tray at my family’s house. For years I loved these, can never figure out exactly what they are but they rock. I usually make sure to grab them all and quick before others get to them :)

  60. Nice and Soft Sugar Cookies and Chocolate meatballs.

  61. Oh! I almost forgot one more….a special fudge, made with Velveeta. Yes, Velveeta!! Husband and his co-workers ask for it year after year. It’s crazy how good it is!!

  62. I love “Puppy Chow” or “Snowman Poop”- So delicious! Chex cereal covered in chocolate, peanut butter and sugar. Soo unhealthy but so good.

  63. I love love love chocolate covered cherries- and I eat way too many of them during the weeks leading up to Christmas

  64. I love love love LOVE peppermint bark.
    Someday, I think I’ll make it myself :)

  65. Mexican Wedding Cakes is my absolute favorite Christmas-time cookie. I can remember learning how to make them from my grandmother. My mother carried on the tradition of always having them on hand for an after school snack during December. My family devours them as soon as I make them; and it happens to be a favorite of our golden retriever, who one year, got to sample them before anyone else!!!

  66. Oh jeez….there’s no way I could pick just ONE favorite Christmas treat. That’s like saying I have to pick just one favorite Christmas! I adore almost all Christmas cookies….especially the cut-outs from my husband’s hometown. Before that, Puppy Chow (choc/peanut butter Chex mix concoction…mmmm!). I love the Farm Chicks stuff…so cute! Off to check out more….

  67. Fudge! I crave it all year, then I have one or two pieces at Christmas, and that’s enough to tide me over until next year!

  68. My favorite treat? It has to be chocolate peanut butter bars!

  69. My great-aunt sends us “buckeyes”, which are peanut butter balls dipped halfway in chocolate! So good and we only get it during Christmas time.

  70. Hmmm, sugar cookies or peanut butter fudge! Too hard to pick just one :)

  71. My Nannie’s Peanut Butter Candy. The base layer is made with powdered sugar, vanilla, milk and butter, then rolled flat and has peanut butter spread on top. It is then rolled in a pinwheel fashion, refridgerated till firm, then cut into slices. It NEVER lasts long enough to display – it’s so pretty, but mostly de-lish! The tins that she used to store the candy have a special meaning as well. It’s just the best!

  72. I love my mom’s Christmas Meltaway cookies and her homemade Spudnuts. Yum!

  73. Our family makes a special family recipe each year, a cookie called “Suga Kuga”, which is an anise flavored sugar cookie with a yummy, buttery, strudel-like topping. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it! :)

  74. oh my favorite is my mom’s polish cookies.

  75. My favorite Christmas sweets are simply cookies. Sugar cookies decorated with a lot of icing. Every year, I try to make Christmas cookie boxes for my neighbors. This year, I might do jam cookies and sugar cookies with a side of truffles. :)

  76. Sugar Cookies for sure! The whole process of making sugar cookies is so much fun!

  77. My favorite Holiday backed good is probably Gingerbread Cookies. I love the smell, and they’re lots of fun to make/decorate with little ones!

  78. If I say cake pops, will it influence your decision? :o) Just kidding!

    I’m a sucker for Russian Tea Cakes (Mexican Wedding Cakes). So yummy and crumbly. Great with a cup of tea.

    Slurp!

    http://www.lileejane.blogspot.com

  79. Growing up, my mother’s chocolate pie was always my favorite. But then there is also fudge, sugar cookies, and red velvet cake!

  80. Love that necklace!!! and cant wait to go out and buy that book!

  81. My favorite is good ol’ Shortbread Cookies! Yum! :)

    bleasdaleclan @ gmail.com

  82. Peppermint ice cream! It’s only available this time of year, which is a tragedy because it is my favorite flavor ever.

    Very cute stuff. :)

  83. Ever since I was a little girl, my dad (resident baker in the family) has made oatmeal white chocolate chunk cranberry cookies. He only makes them in December for the holidays, and I crave them all year. I’ve actually had the recipe for a long time, but a part of me is afraid to make them any other season in case it ruins the sacred-ness.

  84. Sugar cookies, for sure. Every year I make them with my niece and we have so much fun.

  85. Adorableness at its finest! :)

    I love white chocolate mint covered popcorn! So good!!

  86. I love anything chocolate. When I was a child we only had chocolate during the winter months as the Australian summer made it impossible. Modern conveniences have changed this and make it possoble to enjoy these treats more often now.

  87. I love almond rocca and my moms homemade chocolates!

    I know you said sweets but I also love my moms recipe for cheeseball.

    lawlorlawlor at gmail dot com

  88. Peanut butter balls are my favorite holiday treat.

  89. I usually bake a lot during the Christmas season. My favorite thing to make is usually buckeyes, but I think over the past few years that has changed. I am looking forward to making chocolate chip shortbread dipped in melted chocolate. I can’t really pick one thing as a favorite sweet or treat though. ummm. OH! the peppermint cookies I made a few years ago were very good. I’ll choose those. they were just a basic sugar cookie with broken up candy cane pieces in them.

  90. I have been craving peppermint bark! My husband doesn’t like peppermint (I swear I was unaware of this abnormality when I married him), so if I buy a package, it is mine, ALL MINE!

  91. I make a kringle that is heavenly. My favorite part of it is the stuff that spills out onto the pan! Yum

  92. I have so many wonderful, yummy, holiday memories. My mom was an incredible baker but if I had to choose one thing it was her popcorn balls! I may have to pull out that recipe this year and make them in her memory!

    thanks for doing this generous give away :)
    rdmiraglia@verizon.net

  93. cookies, any kind. or peppermint lattes at starbucks.

  94. My favorite Christmas sweets are actually drinks; Egg Nog and Glogg!

  95. I love white chocolate dipped pretzels with red & green colored sugar. MMMMM!

    carolinejaco@gmail.com

  96. Well….for my Mum’s work, I’m making a chocolate shortbread christmas tree for them all to share and spiced sugared nuts. And i love to make this for my own family as well! YUMMY!

  97. Cookies! Gingerbread especially. My husband and I make a gingerbread house from scratch every year, and each time the house is more elaborate. We love it.

  98. my favorite dessert at christmas-time is my mom’s chocolate pie with her homemade peppermint ice cream! so yummy!!! :)

  99. Sugar cookies with royal icing, seven layer and King Leo soft peppermint sticks (I couldn’t pick just one). Simple choices, I know, but oh so yummy. They taste like childhood.
    anna-laurasmith@hotmail.com

  100. I’d have a agree with some of the other readers..FUDGE! And my mom’s apple cake! Yum! :)

  101. For Christmas it’s all about cookies, cookies, cookies – Pfeffernusse and Mexican Wedding Cookies (can one say no to something coated in powdered sugar?) shortbread cookies with a Hershey’s kiss in the center. Peanut butter cookies.. Now if I can just get an invite to one of those cookie exchange parties.

  102. Peppermint brownies!

  103. My favorite is these cherry cheesecake-type bars with a crumb topping. They are delicious. I also really love all the cookies.

  104. Hmm…. Gingerbread cookies are probably the most classic desert. And my mom’s recipe makes the most delicious gingerbread men I’ve ever had. So I’d have to go with those as my favorite Christmas dessert. (:

    If I, by some miracle, win that adorable necklace, I can be contacted through email (amandajt@email.unc.edu).

  105. I love a good, rich, chocolate cake with hot fudge and ice cream. Yummy!
    It’s especially great when shared with a friend…

  106. My favorite christmas sweet is snicker doodles! I recently tried a recipe for popcorn brittle (instead of peanuts) and it was delicious!

  107. Berry Pie! or Chocolate cake! :)

  108. My favorite sweet is Chocolate Chip Cookies! :)
    I love everything else but Chocolate chip cookies always remind me of baking them with my mom for Santa :)

    – courtneyssweets [at] hotmail.com –

  109. Ohhhh, big, huge sugar cookies frosted AND decorated. I have this big Santa cookie cutter from when I was little…the finished Santa must be about 9 inches tall! So fun to make and give away. :-) Giant snowflakes too!

    Happy belated Thanksgiving!

    Pam

  110. Definitely Gingerbread cookies! I have 2 recipes. One for making houses and one for cookies.

  111. My favorite sweet/dessert at Christmas is still, hands down, homemade frosted sugar cookies. I have about a million memories of making them with my mom and my brothers, and plan to send a huge package my brothers’ way this season, since I won’t get to see them at Christmas.

  112. the first candy cane of the season!

  113. this is weird…but i get cravings for double stuffed oreos and milk! hahaha…i wish i was santas wife. I would have all the cookies i want. then again, my husband resembels a younger version of him:)

    btw, i made some cute pilgrim and indian thanksgiving cupcakes if u wana take a look:)
    thanks for the cutest site ever!

    ++MIRA++

  114. I’ve been searching for cute recipe cards!
    My favorite Christmas treat: any and all Christmas cookies! :)

  115. My great-grandmother’s southern tea-cakes. It wouldn’t be Christmakkah without them.

  116. I would have to say chocolate rugelach! I love them year round, not just at Christmas. :)

  117. Nanimo bars for sure!

  118. Favorite sweet anything chocolate like chocolate oranges or orange or raspberry sticks. Yum, can’t help it a fattening month for me.

  119. I love making pinwheel cookies for Christmas but my favorite dessert is pecan pie. Cookies of any kind are a year-round favorites.

  120. Love love sugar cookies with almond extract instead of vanilla..just makes them taste a little different. Buttercream frosting on top too!

    clintonfive@mac.com

  121. German stollen…which is weird, because I don’t like any other fruitcakes. But this has been our Christmas morning breakfast tradition forever. Yum!

    I love your blog — so creative and fun. Thanks.

  122. I’m not very wild and crazy but I do love my mom’s snickerdoodle cookies! Those just scream Christmas to me :)

  123. I would have to say that my favorite Christmas sweet is Red Velvet Cake. Every year till I was about 17, I can remember my grandma making one for Christmas dinner.Oh how I love that light, delicious cake! And now…I carry one the tradition and bake the red velvet cake!!!

  124. I would have to say Fudge…my dad makes the absolute best ever. And Christmas isn’t complete without it!!

  125. We celebrate Hanukkah, and I’ve learned over the years to make a mean jelly donut.

  126. Whoa cute overload.

    Believe it or not, my grandmother’s fruitcake. The woman is like a baking-god; she knows no bounds. It’s amazing.
    Thanks for the giveaway!

  127. I absolutely love homemade fudge at the holiday time — sprinkled with crushed candy canes it’s a must have!

  128. Grandmother’s tea cakes with buttercream frosting!

  129. Chocolate covered Oreos! Ok, ok, not really a Christmas goodie, but it’s the only time you can buy them here!

    Thanks for sharing about the Farm Chicks…I’m going to have to add that one to my library!!!

  130. anything with peppermint is my favorite! (Especially chocolate and peppermint!)
    cheyennealexander at hotmail dot com

  131. favorite sweet is such a tough call. last year my fave was warm brownies topped with a homemade peppermint ice cream and a warm, fresh marshmallow. yummmm.

  132. This is such a tough question! There are so many wonderful desserts that are evocative of Christmas celebrations of days past, but I guess I am particularly attached to spritz cookies. They’re not as sophisticated or complex as some other holiday favorites, but with their unnatural colors and shapes they are quintessentially Christmas-y to me.

  133. My mom’s yellow cake. I only get to see her at Christmas and we make it together every year =) its absolutely delicious!

  134. There’s nothing like thumbprint jelly filled shortbread cookies and a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows. Mmmm, it just makes me happy thinking about it!
    I make my own wedding/event cakes so that necklace and those gift tags would be perfect additions to some baked goodies I’ll be giving this Christmas!

  135. mmm bread pudding!

  136. Gingerbread cookies! iced gingerbread, half dipped in chocolate. Reminds me of my grandmother.

  137. Every morning we have sweet petals. They are a sweet dough with cinnamon and sugar and I make them in the shape of a big flower. The kids and grandkids all love to pull off the petals, so yummy.
    I love the Farm Chicks.
    Thanks can’t wait to win:)
    Jan

  138. my mammaw made the best fudge (and without nuts!)

    faith.speaker@gmail.com

  139. My favorite dessert is chocolate pie! Last year my grandpa and my aunt had a chocolate pie contest to see who could make the best pie…my family and I were more than happy to be the judges!

  140. French silk chocolate pie. It was one of my mother’s favorites, we lost her this year, so it makes this pie even more sweet.

  141. My favorite dessert at Christmas time are Applesauce Cookies. I hope you got my e-mail and recipe for these treats!

  142. I love the fruit tart cake that I always get once a year for my birthday (around Christmas time). =) Eating it once a year make it more memorable and favorable.

  143. I absolutely love sugar cookies!!!! mmmmmmmm delicious!

  144. Pumpkin Bread – it smells like the holidays!

  145. Every year the family makes candy. Rum nut balls are my favorite. Creamy, chocolatey, and nutty. Dreamy.

  146. Fudge, although I have a nostalgic love for pecan sandies.

  147. fave Christmas sweet is mexican wedding cookies. they remind me of snow!

  148. Oh, oh, oh!!! Greek Shortbread that my mama makes! I still can’t get it as right as she can.. but I will be making some this holiday to munch on with the ‘nog.

  149. My grandma always makes fudge brownies and they are my fave. YUM!

  150. Monkey bread!!!

  151. So sugar cookies with cream cheese icing is SO my favorite Christmas dessert to eat and to make :o). I love them because they taste yummy and you can make so many fun shapes and styles with this dough! My email is greekchic2009@comcast.net if I just happen to win this amazing giveaway because this new farm chicks book is SO going on my Christmas list! :o). Thanks for having this great giveaway!

  152. Chocolate chess pie is a favorite along with peppermint bark!

  153. Smooth, creamy fudge or pralines would have to be my favorite. One of my Mamaw’s friends makes the BEST pralines!

  154. Soft Iced Sugar Cookies!! Love them! (with peppermint ice cream on the side!)

  155. My favorite Christmas sweet? gotta be egg nog punch.
    1/2 gallon of vanilla ice cream
    1 quart egg nog
    1- 2 liter bottle Sprite

    It’s a winner!

  156. I love sugar cookies, decorated with powdered sugar frosting. It’s been a tradition in my family as long as I can remember, and it’s just not Christmas without them!

  157. Jam Tarts. Not too sweet which is a nice break from the influx of sugar. rutheo13@gmail.com

  158. Definitely a double chocolate/brownie/mini-M&M cookie called Fudge Jumbles that my mom only makes at Christmas…so the tradition has spread to my little family: I only make them around Christmas, too. It makes them even more delectable.

  159. Chocolate Peanut Clusters! How can you go wrong? (unless you have allergies…)

  160. Dorie Greenspan’s World Peace Cookies! They are totally awesome chocolate delights, and if everyone in the world had some to eat, we’d have world peace for sure!

  161. I actually made some wasabi icecream after the chef made some at work the other week. It was absolutely delicious.

  162. Pizzelles! They are Italian cookies using a special pizzelle iron. Although my heritage is Slovak, my mom grew up with these and made them every Christmas for us.

  163. Birch Log cookies are my fave. They are almost a cinnamon shortbread rolled into a log, then dipped in white chocolate and drizzled with milk chocolate. They are so pretty and sooo yummy.

  164. Peanut Brittle – yum!

  165. homemade dipped pretzels I think or maybe fudge; that’s a tough one some many good things at Christmas time

  166. gingerbread, hands down!

  167. Mexican bread pudding! It is sooooo good with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

  168. WOW! I had never heard of them so thanks so much for this post! I would love a chance to win but even if I don’t I am still going to look them up and get the book too! Hugs from conroe, tx!

  169. Homemade Pecan Pralines. I haven’t had them in a few years but really think I need to get them made this year!

  170. Well i have to, first of all BRANDY BUTTER. since i was about 4yrs old i have helped my dad make the brandy butter for our christmas pudding and i am just a little bit addicted. Not only is it just creamed butter and sugar in a bowl (dont you just love eating it out of the kitchen aid?!?) but you actually have an excuse to eat it!

    and secondly omg. your oreo truffles. dip them in milk chocolate, drizzle on white chocolate, add a bit of ho9lly and vola you have yourself a little, mini christmas pudding with no interfearance from fruit. just good old chocolate, chocolate and a bit more chocoalte :)

  171. My mother’s butter cookies. The best! I usually eat a ton of them every Christmas, but not this year. :o( My love affair with them is on a hiatus this year and not by choice.

  172. My favourite thing to eat at Christmas is panettone! Oh, boy. I go to sleep early every night in December just to get up sooner the next day and cut me a big, fat slice with coffee for breakfast. Thank goodness Christmas is only one a year or my poor waist line would be a mess!

    ^_^

  173. We love Danish Christmas cookies during this time of the year! (Also known as Pedder Nodder – yum.)

  174. Cookie, cookie and more cookies of all sorts to give as gifts during the holidays. BUT on Christmas Day….Monkey Bread to munch on with coffee while we open our Christmas stockings…

  175. I love candy canes!

  176. Very traditional but I love all kinds of fudge. Mostly because I love making it with my mom for all of our family and friends and eating lots of it in the process!

  177. Farm Chicks is new to me but I’ll have to go check out that book. Scone cozy!!

    Around Christmas my sisters, my Mom and I always make loads of cookies to give away and eat. My favorites are jam thumbprints made with my Auntie’s raspberry jam and Chinese Dragon Ginger slices (a butter cookie dough with crystallized ginger bits and dried cranberries.) Nummy!

    melodyvalentine @hotmail .com

  178. Bûche de Noël, definitely! It’s got everything…cake, buttercream frosting, whipped cream filling, meringue. It’s yummy and so rewarding to make because it’s a showstopper :-D

  179. peanut butter cookies with hershey kiss on top. nothing is stopping me from making them year-round, but for some reason they are christmas-only treats in our house.

  180. Peanut butter kiss cookies!

  181. I love an old family recipe,Potato Cake. It is a dense chocolate cake w/ pecans & spices.Baked in a Bundt pan & not frosted,really a sign of the holidays for me!

  182. Choose just one??? If I had to, it would be decorated sugar cookies, though I don’t know if it’s the taste or simply the good memories associated with them!

  183. eggnog brownies- let me know if you would like the recipe! Ymmmmm!

  184. I love spritz cookies! They are the best!!

    jenc at crazysummer dot org

  185. My mom makes these cookies called Chocolate Crinkles every year just for me. Well either she does or my sister does. They are a dark chocolate cookie rolled in powdered sugar, then baked. I’m afraid to make them for myself because they are my absolute favorite cookie and if I mess them up I would be really disappointed in myself.

  186. Pieee!!! And anything with hot fudge!!! Here in México we hace a sweet drink PONCHE, with tons of fruits and hot and its amazing!!! Omg eggnog I want that too… I´ll stop Im hungry now.

    Love your desserts, I´ve tried a few and they all are asweome and sooo tasty!!!

  187. Snickerdoodles.. potato candy.. ALL of it!

  188. Camp Chocolate Cake or Poppy-seed cake…my mom’s most favorite & requested recipes during the holidays!!

  189. i have to have snowball cookies every Christmas! powdered sugar + pecans + butter = awesomeness!

  190. Cheesecake! I always make tons of cheesecakes for Christmas. Yum!

    I’m tackling cake pops this season as well. I’m certain they’ll become a favorite too.

  191. It’s not really a sweet – but my favorite snack to graze on at Christmas time is cheese straws. Mmmm. With just the right amount of cayenne pepper.

  192. Pumpkin Pie. Absolutely love it!

  193. I love this chestnut cake covered in ganache that my mom makes…..so yummy!

  194. My favorite holiday treat is peanut blossom cookies! Unfortunately my little one is now allergic to peanuts so we’re going to try almond butter in them this year!!!

  195. My husband loves shortbread so I make his Mom’s recipe and do christmas shapes. They are excellent. I love chocolate crinkle cookies and I also love soft ginger/chocolate cookies (a Martha recipe). I gain pounds just thinking about them…lol

  196. Favorite treat would be my kids homemade sugar cookies….A 3 year old can really pipe!!!

  197. I honestly can’t chose b/c I love anything with sugar. And chocolate of course. But my husband’s favorite is a soft gingerbread cookie wrapped in dark chocolate. They’re up there on my list too!

  198. Fudge is my husband’s favorite, but mine is anything with mint!

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