Holiday Desserts: What's YOUR favorite?

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

Those little chocalate hazenut balls wrapped in gold with the fancy name

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.

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...

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!

Norwegian Crowns! My Great Grandmother made these every year and they are to die for. They're like spritz, but waaaay better. There's no liquid; just butter and hard boiled egg yolks. LOL I've made many attempts over the years, but mine always crumble. Crumbs still taste good, though!

Holiday Memory: Growing up, our family holiday get-together was on Christmas Eve and dessert always consisted of fruit salad and those cookies. My G-Gma also made these beautiful lace oatmeal cookies, fattigman and krumkaker. Man, Norwegians know how to make some delicious cookies!

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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!

I have my pavlova egg (the mix) all ready to roll!

Left to my own devices, I'd eat the whole thing. Fortunately, I suppose, my husband will want at least half.

Pecan pie a la mode.

Pumpkin pie with Cool Whip.

Peppermint brownies. Regular chocolate brownies I make all year, but during the holidays I sprinkle the top with crushed up peppermint bark. My mom used to make dozens of different holiday treats every year. My favorite was the fudge she would make without pecans just for my brother and I.