What is your favorite holiday cookie/treat?

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Trying to get ideas of new things to bake this year for the holidays. Please share your favorites (and recipes, if you have them). Thanks!
 
msjinkzd said:
Trying to get ideas of new things to bake this year for the holidays. Please share your favorites (and recipes, if you have them). Thanks!
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Without a doubt my Grandma's gingerbread. We all make our dough (using her recipe) the day before, and then meet at her house to decorate and bake. We make puffy, soft, cake-y cookies. MMMmmmmm! I'll pull out the recipe when I get a chance. :)
 
Pavlova
I doubt you've ever tried it, but it's a favourite over here in NZ.

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Recipe:

Preparation time: 40 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
Servings: 1 pavlova

Ingredients:

  • 3 Egg Whites
  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon cornflour
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Directions:

  1. Beat egg whites until stiff (forms peaks).
  2. Add sugar - heaped tablespoon at a time - beating well after each addition.
  3. Then beat for at least 10 minutes. This is very important.
  4. Then sprinkle vinegar, cornflour and vanilla essence into mixture.
  5. Beat until blended.
  6. Coat baking paper with water drops to allow baking paper to stick to sides of tin and pile pavlova mixture in 20cm circle.
  7. Heat oven until 300°F (or 150°C).
  8. Put pavlova into oven and immediately turn oven down to 250°F (or 125°C) and leave for 1 hour.
  9. Then turn oven off and leave in oven until cold. (Usually overnight).This makes a nice crust on outside of the pavlova.

Before serving, cover the pavlova with whipped cream and decorate with your favourite fruit (Raspberries, Strawberries, Cut Kiwifruit...)

Merry Christmas :thumbsup:
 
I'll have to get my mom to give me her Yum Yum cake recipe-Favorite around these parts!
 
Fudge. I don't make it but it's my favorite to eat.
 
Definitely my mom's almond shortbreads. They're a closely guarded secret, though. I don't even have the recipe :)
 
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