Holiday Desserts: What's YOUR favorite?

joshperson195
joshperson195 Posts: 819 Member
edited November 14 in Food and Nutrition
Me? Can't turn down Hershey's PB Blossoms and peppermint bark!
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  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Gingerbread cookies. I only make them at Xmas. Yes, they have to be mine because most people think gingerbread = hard af, aka a ginger snap.
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  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    The coconut hello dollies my friend Lisa makes.
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    These cookies my mother used to make called chocolate dream bars. I can't have them any more because gluten.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Sugar/butter/almond cookies. But made with good ingredients... I'm really picky about my cookies... Really don't like baking them though.

    Or a good Yule log. I made a chestnut one a couple years ago that was to die for, probably going for hazelnut praline this time though.

  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I'm not a big desert guy...at least not traditional pies and whatnot. I'll probably just have some homemade egg nog.
  • bunnyluv19
    bunnyluv19 Posts: 103 Member
    Marzipan and fruitcake :smile:
  • bioklutz
    bioklutz Posts: 1,365 Member
    Nut horns (they might be called Kifles - I am not exactly sure). It is a family tradition with my in-laws. We get together to make them. We usually make them sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. They are a huge pain to make so we only make them once a year.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    homemade fudge or toffee
  • Steelpit202
    Steelpit202 Posts: 51 Member
    Homemade chocolate chip cookies
  • crzycatlady1
    crzycatlady1 Posts: 1,930 Member
    edited December 2016
    I'm not a big sweets person so I make a beeline for the fancy cheese, meat and cracker trays- I can do some serious calorie damage with a cheese ball lol!

    And then it's a tradition for my mother -in-law to make a huge batch of snack mix that we eat on Christmas when we open gifts-loads of assorted nuts, check mix, pretzels, fishy crackers, oil and a homemade seasoning concoction, baked on low for hours-sooooo good!
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    My favourite are my mom's cookies.. she makes amazing shortbread and rugelachs. This year she's not making them, I am making some biscotti but meh, not the same.
  • successgal1
    successgal1 Posts: 996 Member
    Apple pie, when I alone make it with Cortland apples, which have not been seen in Florida for 2 years. :-( No apple pie, but also no temptation!
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Christmas dessert: cream, powdered sugar, mini-marshmallows, pineapple chunks, and pecan chips whipped together, then chilled outside provided the weather is cold enough (being in Ohio it usually is cold that day). We also used to make a bunch of different cookies: oatmeal raisin, buttercotch, peanut butter, and chocolate chip.
  • CMNVA
    CMNVA Posts: 733 Member
    Cranberry Date Nut Bars that I make--addictive. Haven't made any this year as I know they will do me in.

    Also I really love Peppermint Bark from Williams-Sonoma or Vermont Nut Free.
  • billglitch
    billglitch Posts: 538 Member
    http://www.yummyhealthyeasy.com/2015/01/avocado-truffle-chocolates-recipe.html#_a5y_p=3257226 There ARE NOT SWEET, they are bitter dark chocolate but i love them
  • RochelleLUnangst
    RochelleLUnangst Posts: 42 Member
    Turkey Joints (candy from upstate NY) They're so expensive though!
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  • capaul42
    capaul42 Posts: 1,390 Member
    I bake a lot. My go to's:
    Chocolate Chip - mine rock
    Spider Cookies - both coconut and peanut butter varieties
    Italian Christmas Cookies
    Apple pie - Cortland apples only
    Peanut butter pie
    Chocolate sugar cookies

  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    Egg nog. Yum.

    Cheese cake is a favourite of mine, Nut mixes with seeds, coconut and a few chocolates. I usually get beef jerky in my stocking too.

    Before switching to LCHF, I used to eat a homemade cinnamon bun or two every day over the holidays. Now? I'll just have one. Too much sugarwhich affects how I feel for a few hours.
  • Karb_Kween
    Karb_Kween Posts: 2,681 Member
    Those little chocalate hazenut balls wrapped in gold with the fancy name
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    Buttertarts (but can't eat these anymore because of Crohn's :( )
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  • TMW2119
    TMW2119 Posts: 178 Member
    I'm skipping all of the "holiday" desserts. I've been having dreams at night about eating chocolate pudding and brownies. I am making a huge pan of Ghiradelli brownies for Christmas and that will be the only dessert I have. I would just make them now, but then the entire pan would sit in my house. I need to wait until I can have one and leave the rest with family. I can't be trusted around those brownies.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,631 Member
    Pavlova! :):):)


    And, of course, Nanaimo bars.
  • schac061
    schac061 Posts: 41 Member
    Dutch apple pie.

    There's an apple orchard that's local to me that makes their own take and bake pies that are AMAZING and they're a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember. We have one at Thanksgiving (along with pumpkin and pecan, of course) and at Christmas. I didn't have any this year at Thanksgiving because I ate WAAAY too much dinner and was physically ill by dessert time. I didn't even want to take a piece home.

    Needless to say, I'm counting the days...
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,631 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Pavlova! :):):)


    And, of course, Nanaimo bars.

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  • pebble4321
    pebble4321 Posts: 1,132 Member
    I'm a traditionalist and will enjoy my once-a-year treat of plum pudding with brandy butter on Christmas day. Though I think we will be having pavlova too - and it will look suspiciously like the one @machka9 posted I think. The better question might be whether there any Aussies who won't be having pavlova on 25 December?

    Although yesterday I helped with a cooking frenzy that included proper old fashioned stuff like coconut ice and cheese biscuits from the Women's Weekly biscuit book (not a dessert, but a treat) and a new experiment with some seriously delicious panforte. Yum!
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