Category: Recipes

This recipe is for all of you coconut lovers out there; there is no chocolate, no fruit, nothing to distract from the sweet, rich, tropical flavor of coconut, supported by warm, indulgent vanilla bean. The exterior is golden with a crispy chew and the interior is soft, chewy, creamy...

This recipe for White Chocolate Cranberry Pecan Tea Cookies is another of my earliest recipes for my holiday goodie trays having made an appearance for about 13 years now. While I would love to give credit to an original source for the recipe, I honestly don’t recall where I...

Moving from one Dorie Greenspan recipe to the next, this recipe for World Peace Cookies, like the Dulce de Leche Duos, made its way onto my holiday baking rotation after baking it with the Tuesday’s With Dorie group. These are a sablé or shortbread style cookie, which isn’t typically...

I first made this recipe when participating in the Tuesday’s with Dorie baking group way back in 2008 – 2010. Some of you may recall, from earlier posts, that the Tuesday’s with Dorie baking group was actually the impetus for the original incarnation of this website. At that time,...

These delicate, buttery thumbprint cookies have been making an appearance on my holiday goodie trays since the very beginning. While I’m not usually one for a fruity dessert, there are a few fruit flavors that always evoke the holidays for me – apple, pumpkin and, of course, cranberry. I...

These graham cracker millionaire bars are one of the most recent additions to my holiday goodie trays, and one of my absolute favorites. When I was developing this recipe, millionaire bars were the current hot thing, you found them all over the internet. I knew I wanted to do...

The fifth, and final, fudge recipe included on my holiday goodie trays is my award winning Red Velvet Fudge. This fudge is very much a crowd pleaser, it is one of the first to disappear on goodie trays I’ve brought to work or shared with friends and it has...

Even though Grandma’s Old Fashioned Fudge is one of my all time favorites, I just can’t resist tinkering and trying out new riffs on an old favorite. Depending on my mood, this particular variation can sometimes edge out the original for the top spot. It first made its appearance...

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned my grandmother’s old fashioned fudge (which she made for so many occasions throughout my childhood) as one of my earliest introductions to fudge. I’m sure no one is surprised to learn that it also has a place on my holiday goodie trays. I’m...

As I mentioned in last week’s post, fudge is one of my favorite things. While I have a definite preference for chocolate based fudge flavors, I also like to try and provide a variety that will appeal to a wider audience on my holiday trays – I really want...