Southern Living Our Best Christmas Recipes

For the first time ever, the best of holiday food and entertaining ideas from Southern Living, Home for the Holidays and Christmas with Southern Living come together in one volume. Included are approximately 350 recipes and 15 menus offering a variety of holiday food, over 70 color photos, plus helpful tips to make cooking easier than ever.

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Southern Living Our Best Christmas Recipes Reviews

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This is the one cookbook in my collection (of at least 50 others) that gets the most usage! I loved it so much that I gave this cookbook as a gift to my sister (a caterer) and aunt (who entertains quite a bit)! This is by far my FAVORITE cookbook(and theirs)! The recipes are easy to follow and well laid out. They offer many different meal plan suggestions and the ingredients are easy to find. The Chocolate Mousse Au Grand Marnier is sinfully delicious! Everything that the three of us have made from this cookbook receives RAVE reviews! (i.e. Chicken Alouette, Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes, Holiday Banana Bread, Streusel-Topped Sweet Pototo Casserole, Mushroom Roll-ups, etc.)

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Every recipe I have tried from this cookbook is wonderful. The make-ahead mashed potatoes are yummy and a time-saver. I use this cookbook exclusively for my Thanksgiving and Christmas meals.

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Santa’s North Pole Cookbook: Classic Christmas Recipes from Saint Nicholas Himself

In this one-of-a-kind Christmas cookbook, Saint Nicholas himself invites readers to pull up their chairs to his dining table at the North Pole and enjoy a bounty of his most cherished holiday recipes. Featuring classic American holiday dishes as well as mouthwatering Christmas fare from all over the world-Santa’s favorite finds from his extensive travels-Santa’s North Pole Cookbook offers an abundance of holiday meals that are as delicious as they are rich in Christmas tradition. With more than seventy classic Christmas recipes from German Christmas Goose with Cabbage and Potato Dumplings and Santa’s Favorite Rosemary Turkey to Christopsomo (the traditional Greek holiday bread that children decorate with dough designs before baking) and English Christmas Plum Pudding, Santa’s North Pole Cookbook is a must-have for anyone who delights in preparing delectable, yet easy-to-make holiday food for their family. Santa also tells the fascinating lore of the celebration of the winter solstice and the festivities of Christmas, sharing with readers the wonderful stories about how and where he personally encountered these toothsome delicacies in his yuletide travels. Full of appetizers, side dishes, main courses, beverages-and, of course, desserts!-Santa’s North Pole Cookbook guides readers in creating special holiday meals for their loved ones at Christmastime.

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Santa’s North Pole Cookbook: Classic Christmas Recipes from Saint Nicholas Himself Reviews

Review by Robert I. Fernandez:
Did you know there are no plums in plum pudding? And did you know that cherries originated in Cerise, Turkey around the time of Nicolas, born in the year 280? You can learn more about different food ingredients and how certain dishes came to be associated with Christmas, such as fruitcake cookies. This fun and easy to follow cookbook provides history lessons to impress your family and guests. The book provides recipes of dishes used to celebrate Christmas in many parts of the world and many are easy for family cooking time. So you can cook and learn about history at the same time!

Review by Jeff, Young Old-Timer:
I got this little book for my cook book-collecting wife. She fell in love with it instantly. Any book that makes her that happy is more than worth it – and not as expensive as jewelry. I didn’t really say that, okay? I think it has quite a few very interesting recipes, many of which are quite simple. We’ll be enjoying dishes year-round.

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Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for the Holiday Season

Do you have a favorite Christmas cookie? Is it made of chocolate or spice? Is it an iced and decorated sugar cookie or a molasses ginger round? Or maybe it’s a crisp, chocolate-covered toffee bar or a jam-filled Linzer sandwich cookie. There are so many choices! Christmas cookies are loved for their special shapes, cheery colors, and seasonal flavors. They bring joy to our gatherings, help preserve the magic and tradition of the holiday season, and make heart-warming gifts. Christmas Cookies offers fifty wonderful recipes for holiday treats, such as light-as-air Cocoa Meringue Kisses, Chocolate Peppermint Cookies that perfectly complement a mug of hot chocolate, sweet-tart Iced Lemon Rounds, the much-beloved classic Pecan Sandies, Ginger Coins with the right amount of snap, and many, many more. Avid holiday baker Lisa Zwirn baked hundreds of cookies to come up with these fabulous fifty recipes. There is something for everyone: treats for chocoholics, hol­iday shapes that children will love (that can be baked and decorated by the little ones, too), luxurious sandwich cookies, and plenty of spiced rounds, buttery wafers, and decadent bars. Christmas Cookies will also show you how to make the most of your time in the kitchen with these useful tips and ideas: Cookie baking guidelines for successful baking Options for freezing dough so you can bake cookies when the mood strikes Storage suggestions to help keep treats fresh for as long as possible Child-friendly recipes, such as Peanut Butter Chocolate Kisses, Chocolate Caramel Thumbprints, Gingerbread People, and Molasses Ginger Cookies, which are easy and fun for beginners The best cookies to mail and how to wrap them How to host a holiday cookie swap and cookie-decorating party Whether you’ve baked Christmas cookies for years or are just

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Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for the Holiday Season Reviews

Review by Visa:
Lisa Zwirn’s book, Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for the Holiday Season, is a wonderful addition to my collection of cookbooks. This attractive, beautifully photographed cookbook is filled with recipes of delicious treats your family and friends will truly enjoy.

My family adores chocloate desserts of almost any kind, but I ventured out of the norm and tried the author’s heavenly Lemon Squares. They were absoultley wonderful, full of intense flavor with a moist, tasty crust. The Coconut Macaroons, dipped in Chocolate is another delightful sweet. They were moist, chewy and very simple to create. A co-worker borrowed my cookbook and chose to make the Apricot Almond Bars. She brought these fruity, chewy almond bars into the office for everyone to enjoy and we devoured them in a day.

I’ve given this gem of a cookbook to several friends and family members last holiday season and I received wonderful feedback.

For the upcoming holiday season I look forward to trying numerous new recipes from Lisa Zwirn’s superb cookbook. I highly recommend this appealing, well-written holiday treasure.

By: Jane from Wayland, MA

Review by Jeri Nevermind:
Just looking at the pictures in this book is enough to make your mouth water. Let me just tantalize you with a few of the wonderful recipes in here: Rocky Road Bites (p 126), Sacher torte Bars (p 116), Apricot Almond Bars (p 106), Chocolate Carmel Thumbprints (p 97, )Hazelnut Biscotti, Pecan Butterballs (p 70), Eggnog Cookies (p 61) and Sugar Cookies with Stained Glass (p 49).

In these tough economic times, I really appreciate a book like this. What could be nicer and more Christmasy than giving everyone a plate of your own homemade Christmas cookies?

The recipes are great! You will really like this one.

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Good Housekeeping The Great Christmas Cookie Swap Cookbook: 60 Large-Batch Recipes to Bake and Share

Butterscotch Fingers, Chocolate Crinkles, Gingerbread Cut-Outs, Peppermint Meringues: all these Christmas cookies sound delectable, but nobody can bake dozens of recipes at the same time. The solution? A swap! All across America, families, neighbors, community, and church groups gather at Christmas cookie swaps, where each participant brings a large batch of his or her favorite recipe to share. Everyone fills a plate or tin with samplings of the tasty treats; the more people, the merrier?and the more kinds of cookies to try. It’s a fun way to enjoy a variety of Christmas tastes without doing all the work yourself?and to celebrate with those you love.Good Housekeeping helps home bakers enter into the joy, camaraderie, and pure deliciousness of this tradition with a new collection of 60 favorite Christmas cookie recipes from around the world?each configured to make batches of at least eight dozen cookies. Choose from holiday classics and contemporary twists; they’re easy to make with everyday ingredients. And each recipe has been triple-tested for success in the famed Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, so you can bake with confidence. For extra help, there are also great tips on techniques and shortcuts, as well as fun ideas for throwing the best cookie swap ever. Finally, as a special bonus, the book features removable blank recipe cards in the back?so you can pass along the recipe.

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Good Housekeeping The Great Christmas Cookie Swap Cookbook: 60 Large-Batch Recipes to Bake and Share Reviews

Review by BeachBrights:
This book is the “go to” for all things cookie swap. Not only does the book give you tips for how to organize and host a cookie swap but the book also gives you great tips on baking the best cookies at the swap!

The book is a very manageable 5×7. It is spiral bound and lays flat for easier reading when cooking (I love these kinds of considerations). I would like to have seem more photos included with the recipes but they did write the recipes “large-batch” to make cooking and giving easier (another great consideration).

It is no secret that I can’t bake. Cooking yes, Baking no. There is a difference! From now on when I get invited to a cookie swap, I am going to use this book and cook all the delights: Coconut Macaroons, Cinnamon Spirals and Nut Cresents. I will have those “cookie swap church ladies” swooning with cookie envy!

This would make a great stocking stuffer or better yet, a great addition to a gift basket. Just add the book with a batch of cookies in a cute basket – all tied up in a bow. Perfect!

Review by M. Hill:
The Great Christmas Cookie Swap Cookbook is a book with a very specific purpose. While reading it I would sometimes forget its singular job and wonder why a cookie recipe required FOUR pounds of butter — a necessity when making multiple batches. It was disconcerting and amusing.

The vast majority of the sixty recipes are standard cookie recipes that would be expected fare at a cookie swap – Peanut Butter Cookies, Classic Sugar Cookies, Drop Sugar Cookies, Sour Cream Sugar Cookies, Coconut Macaroons, Almond Macaroons, Scottish Shortbread, Snickerdoodles, Mexican Wedding Cookies, etc. Although most of the recipes are old favorites, the Good Housekeeping editors did sprinkle a few interesting cookies and variations that would be standouts at any cookie swap – like Praline-Topped Brownies (which I prepared and are quite delicious), Finska Kakor (which were also great) and Apricot Raspberry Rugelach – a rugelach combination I had not tried and the result was terrific.

This is a solid cookbook but geared toward the cook that does not have many or any cookie cookbooks, because 95 percent of the recipes would be found in any basic cookie volume. The book’s selling point is the convenience of having the large batch calculations done for you. Of course, doubling, tripling or quadrupling recipes really doesn’t require much effort –but if the reader has serious time constraints — and, there are many people in precisely such a position — this cookbook may fill a void.

The book is attractive, easy to read (small font size but dark ink), easy to use (spiral bound) and the finish on the pages should make any spills or splashes easy to clean up. Fully a third of the book is 4 1/2 by 7 inch blank recipe cards – a blast from the past when computers were not used to print out and share recipes. I’m not sure most of us have time to write out recipes by hand to share at a cookie swap. The quantity of recipe cards also somewhat distorts the size of the book, which would have been a much slimmer volume without their inclusion. Rather than blank recipe cards, more cookie recipes would have added greatly to the book.

There are photographs of most of the cookies, but not all. There are a number of captioned group pictures of three or four different cookies, which is a fine and economical way to handle it, but also added to my annoyance that every cookie variation isn’t shown. Publishers of cookbooks need to stop viewing illustrations as optional. Sometimes I will see a picture of a cookie, find its appearance less than attractive, and decide on that basis alone to skip it. If the cookie is for family or children it isn’t so important, but for a party or bake sale it takes on greater significance.

This book isn’t for everyone, but it is festive and would be a nice gift for a novice baker, a cookbook collector or any harried soul with no time to add two and two together.

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Farmhouse Christmas: A Collection of Well-Loved Recipes, Holiday Trimmings, Heart-Felt Memories & Homespun Gifts to Give

Enjoy the simple pleasures of a country Christmas. Brimming with new ideas, Farmhouse Christmas has old-fashioned recipes like country chicken pie, golden mashed potatoes, hearty beef brisket and sugar cream pie. Learn to make Grandma’s hug quilt, share yummy gift mixes from your pantry and create homespun giftwrap. Filled with charming illustrations…it’s a classic. Hardcover, 224 pages. (9-1/4″ x 6-1/2″)

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Farmhouse Christmas: A Collection of Well-Loved Recipes, Holiday Trimmings, Heart-Felt Memories & Homespun Gifts to Give Reviews

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This book is wonderful….reading it is like talking to a good friend about holiday traditions. There are ideas for homemade gifts such as pancake mix, cookies in a jar, ornaments, and keepsakes. The recipes sound delicious and include items like an edible cookie bowl, Granny’s Pot Roast, Caramel Apple Crisp, and Snickerdoodles. Build a fire, grab some hot cocoa, make some homemade gifts, and cook up some warm food for your family….this one is a hit!

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FamilyFun’s Cookies for Christmas: 50 recipes for You and Your Kids

From the creators of the highly successful “FamilyFun” series comes a collection of 75 mouthwatering recipes for cookies that are as much fun to make and give as they are delicious to eat! Color photos.This bright, colorful cookie book is as much fun to look at as it is to bake from. Glossy photos of Sweet Sugar Plums, Candy Cane Twists, and many other sugary delights will make your taste buds tingle. These recipes are ideal for kids and parents to make together–and many call for icing on top. This messy but creative task is bound to be the best part of the whole cookie process (aside from eating them, of course!). Since Christmas is the main focus of the book, there are several seasonal novelties to create. A cookie advent calendar is sure to make December extra exciting, and a holiday garland will be gobbled up in no time. Every recipe could quite happily be given as a holiday present, so the authors offer terrific advice for wrapping and mailing these fragile gifts. Finally, don’t forget to leave some cookies out for Santa–but not too many! –Naomi Gesinger

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FamilyFun’s Cookies for Christmas: 50 recipes for You and Your Kids Reviews

Review by Susan:
My son (now and I have made cookies for his class’ Christmas parties since 1st grade. Each year has been successful, but it has been a struggle to find the right recipes, decorations we loved and/or could duplicate, etc. We stumbled across this book and have found FAME.The recipes are quick, clear, error-proof, and delicious. The instructions break down the adult part and the child’s part. He reads, he sifts & he measures. He pats & he rolls. He pinches & thumbprints, he cuts & he sprinkles…..The doughs handle very well. Decorating is a joy-we both have the opportunity to work that Martha Stewart gene.The Candy Glass is beautiful and wins raves (a slightly treacherous affair, but well worth it).One suggestion – ALWAYS SIFT THE FLOUR. One batch was troublesome because I didn’t sift the flour. For our tummies, we adjusted the recipes by substituting 1/2 butter flavored shortening sticksI shared my book with other Moms this holiday and they loved it too….

Review by N. Silcott:
I subscribe to the Family Fun magazine which I truly love. When I saw they had a cook book I had to get it as fast as I could point and click. We use the recipes all of the time. It is our weekend project to bake something. I think cooking has so many values that it teaches children. Measuring, fractions, goal setting, completing a project and a great reward. A lot of the recipes I already have but how many different variations can there be? The pictures are great and the ideas I got from this book have made the money well spent.

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Jeanne Bice’s Quacker Factory Christmas: Simple Recipes, Fabulous Parties & Decorations to Put Sparkle, Not Stress into Your Season (The Quacker Factory)

Quack Up Your Holidays! Are you longing for the festive twinkling of holiday lights but yours are tangled and on the blink? Ready to wrap your Christmas gifts but can’t remember where you hid them? Would you like to get your friends together for a holiday open house but don’t know when you’d find the time or what you’d serve them? Relax. Or, as Jeanne Bice, founder of The Quacker Factory says, “Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle!” Jeanne Bice, known to millions of fans as “the Head Quack” of the clothing line, The Quacker Factory, and designer-crafter extraordinaire, is here to show you how to make your home fittingly festive without the fuss. With the home-spun charm that has made her one of QVC’s most popular on-air guests, she will help you add sparkle to your season, whether you’ve been hosting holidays for years or don’t know which end of the turkey is up. If you’re looking for appetizers that break the ice without breaking your back, are stuck on what to make for the holiday bake sale (again!), searching for the perfect gift while avoiding the mad rush at the mall, or just wanting to add more joy to your season, Jeanne has the advice and inspiration. In addition to over a hundred family-favorite recipes, she shares simple Quacker-style decorating ideas along with complete menus for hosting themed parties, including a Crock-Pot Caroling Party, a Trim-a-Tree Party, a Cookie Exchange, and a Christmas Dinner Extraordinaire. From her never-fail no-lumps gravy and outrageous stuffing to original twists on old stand-bys like sweet potato casserole and corn cheese bake, you’ll be ready to entertain with poise and pizzazz. With charming artwork and stunning photography, this all-in-one guide gives you everything you need

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Jeanne Bice’s Quacker Factory Christmas: Simple Recipes, Fabulous Parties & Decorations to Put Sparkle, Not Stress into Your Season (The Quacker Factory) Reviews

Review by Karen R. Creveston:
I’ve read this book a couple of times now, and I’m still finding stuff I missed. I’ve also used several of the cookie recipes, and made a couple of the drinks (peppermint patty martini’s are great!) and everything is easy and do-able. I really like Jeanne’s philosophy on life, and I strive to apply her principals to my life also. Jeanne hasn’t had an easy life, and she has worked really hard to get where she is in life, and she gives me hope and inspiration. I recommend this book!

Review by TundraVision:
Gifts to get, make, and wrap; decorating tips and Food! Food! Glorious Christmas Food! But don’t eat it all, or you’ll have to buy new Quacker clothes in a bigger size after the holidaze. Or maybe that’s Jeanne’s plot

Written the way this popular hostess on That TV Shopping Channel talks (I can hear her speaking as I read. Or maybe the voice in my head is due to too many of her luscious and lascivious Peppermint Patty martinis and my over-cookied carbohydrate haze) and containing fun flashbacks of her growing up in Wisconsin,(Beer/Cheese biscuits!) this (at least mine is – I got the signed, hard-cover edition from QVC) beautiful color glossy book is sure to lessen your stress and defrazzle your holiday dazzle!

/TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer

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Delia Smith’s Christmas: 130 Recipes for Christmas

This collection of Christmas recipes from Delia Smith includes five different Christmas cakes, a complete vegetarian menu, recipes for gifts such as chocolate truffles, and many traditional favorites. There are also ideas for festive occasions from drinks parties to dinner parties, with dishes such as Roast Goose with Potato, Sage and Apple Stuffing, Caramelized Orange Trifle, and a Terrine with Four Cheeses.

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Delia Smith’s Christmas: 130 Recipes for Christmas Reviews

Review by P. Johnson:
Wonderful recipes for any time, but particularly Christmas. I enjoyed Delia’s mincemeat strudle at an English friend’s house, made with Delia’s delicious mincemeat recipe – not at all like the ghastly, oversweet stuff you buy in jars. Just had to order a book for myself.

Review by Sidhechilde:
I guess Delia is very well known in the UK – maybe like Julia in the USA. I discovered her thru a forum on line. What a piece of good luck. I have now made several of her recipes and enjoyed success from compliments and second helpings. I like her companionable way of writing instructions and tips

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