Behold: New Orleans’ French Quarter, made entirely of gingerbread and candy! For the past several years I’ve gotten together with a group of friends to make a crazy gingerbread project. (See bottom of the...
Did you know you can make super easy and tasty cookies out of cake mix? Well, now you do! And you can dye them green and decorate them with red sprinkles to make them...
Every Christmas, my brother-in-law Steve requests a batch of bourbon balls like his grandma used to make. The original recipe for this old-fashioned holiday treat calls for crushing up nuts, Nilla wafers, powdered sugar and...
Want to make your cookies look super cool? Here’s an idea that got a lot of rave reviews at my holiday party: glittery coconut macaroons. Did you know that edible glitter is really a thing?...
You’ve probably had a version of these melt-in-your-mouth cookies at least once in your life. They go by many different names but they are always irresistible. Whether you call them Mexican Wedding Cookies, Russian...
Each holiday season I try to buy local, artist-made goods to support my community and the creative class at large. No Walmart for me! Here are some of the coolest things I’ve found this...
Last week I did a roundup of my previous adventures in non-traditional gingerbreading, and I’m excited to show you what we made this year: The Snowy Japanese Gingerbread Pagoda. We used the old melted-Jolly...
Today I will be making my fourth non-traditional gingerbread house – I will keep it a surprise for the moment – so I found myself looking back on the last three years of crazy...
I’ve always liked snickerdoodles well enough, but they have never really knocked my socks off. It turns out what they are missing is some brown butter to put them over the top. This recipe...
This is one of my favorite holiday snacks – crunchy sugar-coated nuts with balancing hits of salt and spice. The trick with these is to stir them super vigorously so the sugar starts to...
I’d shake your hand, but I seem to be holding 2 ice cream cones. Also, this is the Internet.
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