Favourite Christmas treat... ohh, my Stepmom makes a killer apple crumble with caramel sauce. Q__Q!

HERE is a recipe that is comparable to hers- important parts are using granny smith apples and you need the caramel sauce. Trust me. :>

I live honey cake, which we have for Rosh Hashanah(New Year) Recipe(I don't know if this is the same my mom makes, I'm sure she doesn't use coffee or tea) Honey Cake [Img]https://www.ohnuts.com/blog/honey-cake-14a.jpg[/img]

Short bread cookies! 🎅

xmas time means TRIFLE!! here is a recipe that is pretty close to the one we use (which is from an old cookbook which i'm too tired rn to dig out). we use a delectable home-made egg custard, and instead of the raspberries&cherries we use tinned peaches, combining some of the juice from the tin with the sherry, and properly dousing the sponge roll (that and laying the sponge slices in the bowl used to be my job when i was younger!) mmmmm i can't wait to eat some!! we have it for desert on xmas day, as well as breakfast on boxing day, and any other time we feel like it until it's all gone, it's our favourite xmas treat! ^^ this is an in-progress shot, but the finished product isn't as pretty with the bowl she uses >< ours looks pretty much like this except we have a nice big round glass bowl we make it in so you can see the glorious jelly roll through it. we finish ours basically like this, a nice layer of custard on top to cover the jelly, and dolloped whipped cream around the edge, that's about as fancy as it gets (i think we put some sliced strawberries on top one year whoa fancy)

Omg thank you so much! I was really torn as there are so many pretty wearables. Please may I have

Also pokes Aurora, the overlay was approved - too excited!

My favourite treats are Lebekuchen (lay-ba-coo-shun) from my years living in The Netherlands but I believe they are German in origin

recipe here

I have been wracking my brain but have no holiday treat that I love that's not year round. My family does some rum cookies and cream cheese cookies, but I don't like them. Um. Brownies with mint chips?

I use the old Saco Premium Cocoa recipe. Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla ½ cup flour ¼ tsp salt 1/3 cup SACO Premium Cocoa ¾ cup pecans, chopped

Melt the butter on the stove add it hot to sugar and cocoa. Put the rest in. Replace the pecans with half a bag of mint chips. Use 8x8 pan, greased. Oven at 350. Bake thirty minutes.

Christmas Cookies My favourite one to buy is Spekulaas. Dutch/Belgian spice cookies. You might know them produced by the brand Lotus [IMG]https://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/kekse264_v-contentgross.jpg[/IMG] The ones I like to bake the most are what we call "Spitzbuben" but in the English language they are apparently called Linzer Cookies. I usually make them with the following recipe: https://biancazapatka.com/en/linzer-cookies-vegan-spitzbuben/ The pic below shows the ones I made by myself a week ago or so
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Congrats on your win, love! <3 And oh my god, I never knew you were living in the Netherlands for some time! 😍 how come and whereabouts?

Oh! I came in 2nd xD Unlucky

Ah man, my mother-in-law makes these guys for us every year and my husband and I eat WAY TOO MANY in the weeks leading up to Christmas. But how can you not??

Italian Ricotta Cookies

[spoiler=Cheesy Pull-Apart Garlic Bread! ]

1 loaf of bread, ideally round (i use tuscan)
1/2 cup Salted Butter (melted)
2-3 cloves Garlic (or 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder)
1/2 Tablespoon Fresh Parsley (or 3/4 teaspoon dried parsley)
Guesstimated amount of Mozzarella Cheese, I cut and use ~1/2 a 10 oz block of cheese.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut into the bread in 2 directions to create squares without going all the way through the bottom. 

Cut mozzarella cheese into thin-ish strips, makes it easier to get enough cheese where you want it.  

Melt the butter, garlic, and parsley together. Drizzle mixture into each cut of bread. Press mozzarella cheese into each cut.

Brush the top of the bread with the remaining mixture. 

Wrap with foil and bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and open the foil and cook for 5-10 minutes longer until toasty.[/spoiler]

I lived there for 5 years (from 19 to 24)with my now ex husband as he was an air traffic controller.

We started in one of those eco houses in Heerlen and then we moved to a little village called Ohe en Laak. It was between Maastricht and Roermond and the river opposite our house on the other side bordered with Belgium. Where abouts are you from lovely?

That look so yummy. I loooove cheese. I am waiting for my local supermarket to get these back in for christmas, they are a flavoured bread wreath which you bake a camembert in the middle of, yum!

They only have them for a week and they sell out super fast!

Christmas isn't Christmas without these Gingerbread cookies. :) It's been a tradition in my family since I was a toddler.

Love a good pumpkin roll!

Peppermint fudge recipe

My partner makes me peppermint fudge. <3 Fudge is my favourite treat by a long shot and the way to my heart, so they learned to make all kinds of flavours for me in secret because they are insane incredibly wonderful. Here's a (random) recipe that seems similar to what they do.

Red velvet cake. MMMMM

i love cheese too, totally addicted lol! i make it every holiday i can. that looks really delicious too, i googled recipes for the wreath and it looks relatively easy to make - thank you for the new idea :D

Oh that's really cool! I love these eco houses, it's my dream to live in such a tiny house, one day 😍 Do you miss the Netherlands sometimes? Well, I'm from Germany but I used to live in the Netherlands due to my studies. It's my favourite country in Europe (based on my limited knowledge) and I really miss it immensely because I had to move back to Germany in March because of the pandemic... but it's really funny because you literally lived just around the corner, I used to live in the Limburg area as well ;)

pecan pie!! ill post under the spoiler.

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recipe

On the first post, can we get the date along with the time for the cut off please? I can never tell if I'm too late 😓