I love Christmas baking, but I usually stick with simple and easy. To give you a little more variety than I could provide on my own, we put together the Holiday Treats ebook last year, featuring more than 15 talented bloggers! In it, you'll find quick and easy treats as well as more complicated…
The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: 101 Days of Christmas: Gingerbread Snowflake Creams I love ginger. Beyond marinating chicken, spicing up my fried rice, and making salad dressing zing, ginger is great for baking. It makes me instantly think of the holiday season, curled up in front…
When I was a little girl, I attended the Apple Festival in Berkeley Springs, WV several times with my grandparents. It may have been there that my love for West Virginia, a place we now call home, was born! I had no idea that making apple butter is as simple as it is until a…
We've now made these not once but twice! As you may remember, we dipped our first batch in chocolate. The problem was that they still had a pretty bitter aftertaste, and I didn't want to post about them until I figured out how to get rid of that. In our experience, you need really ripe…
I love to make "barks" -- chocolate barks, almond barks, vanilla barks, etc. -- not only because they're different than traditional cookies and candy but also because the variations are practically limitless, and they have a little crunch to them, which makes them just about perfect in my book. This cranberry crunch bark from Pampered…
Chocolate is known worldwide. It is thought the Mayans made the first hot chocolate drink over 2000 years ago. The Aztecs had a hot chocolate vision that was bitter and spicy with chilies. The Spanish version replaces the chilies with black pepper. Explorers brought cocoa to Europe, where it became popular. At first, hot cocoa…
If I could only choose one tradition or one cookie to bake, this would be it! You see, for the longest time, I had this vague memory of delicious candy cane cookies that my mom used to make when I was little. I could almost taste the cookies, but I couldn't find the recipe. A…