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What is favorite Holiday baked good, I like cinnamon bread, baked, sliced and toasted. EDITED (Original Post) debm55 Dec 4 OP
How do you bake your toast? SleeplessinSoCal Dec 4 #1
I edited the OP to explain how I do it. thank you debm55 Dec 4 #3
Have you tried the cinnamon roll hack with heavy cream? Hotler Dec 4 #4
That sounds divine! 10 Turtle Day Dec 5 #43
My cousin made the best frosted molasses cookies. Basso8vb Dec 4 #2
Poppyseed Kolachi and Baklava! Diamond_Dog Dec 4 #5
I tried the poppyseed, but I liked the apricot more. debm55 Dec 4 #36
A Kolachi story for you. Hotler Dec 5 #44
Wow!! Crazy!! Did your mom do the math to cut it down to a reasonable size? Diamond_Dog Dec 5 #45
I don't remember. The recipe is still in her old cookbook. nt Hotler Dec 5 #46
Sliced bread in the toaster, then topped with butter, honey and cinnamon. nt Hotler Dec 4 #6
Thank you Hotler. That sounds very good. debm55 Dec 4 #37
Homemade Panettone. Big Blue Marble Dec 4 #7
Thank you Big Blue Marble. debm55 Dec 4 #11
Santa face sugar cookies and gingerbread boys. Both with hand frosting, in very specific manners: rsdsharp Dec 4 #8
Thank you rsdsharp debm55 Dec 4 #12
My mother's cheese straws, pecan tassies, spritz cookies, and japple Dec 4 #9
Thank you very much japple. Mom's are always the best. debm55 Dec 4 #13
Brownies with chocolate chips inside and wnylib Dec 4 #10
Oh that sounds very good. Thank you wnylib debm55 Dec 4 #14
I had a job once that required me to work sometimes on wnylib Dec 4 #15
Thank you very much for your post. You were very loving to your co-workers. debm55 Dec 4 #16
Nah. I was really being selfish. I wanted something to nibble on. wnylib Dec 4 #18
I had to look up butterball cookies. Irish_Dem Dec 4 #31
My mother's cousin used to make them in two different batches. wnylib Dec 5 #41
Yes I have had both kinds. Irish_Dem Dec 5 #42
I like stollen JoseBalow Dec 4 #17
Same here, JoseBalow, Same here debm55 Dec 4 #19
Christmas pudding justaprogressive Dec 4 #20
Thank you justaprogressive. That sounds wounderful. debm55 Dec 4 #21
I'm detecting a theme in your posts Mike 03 Dec 4 #22
thank you Mike 03, I love pumpkin cheesecake. I live in SW PA. it is sold in stores and restaurants And yes I like my debm55 Dec 4 #23
By the way, I so enjoy your posts Mike 03 Dec 4 #24
Thank you very much Mike 03, I was a teacher for 43 years so I get it from there. Thank you for your very kind words. debm55 Dec 4 #27
Mincemeat muffins nuxvomica Dec 4 #25
Thank you very much nuxvomica. They sound very good. debm55 Dec 4 #29
My wife makes tourtierre (meat pie) for Christmas Eve displacedvermoter Dec 4 #26
Thank you very much displaceadvermoter. that sounds wonderful. debm55 Dec 4 #30
Whiskey fruitcake. Sneederbunk Dec 4 #28
Home baked from scratch Rolled chocolate cake with coconut whipped cream filling dusted with powdered sugar 😋 Clouds Passing Dec 4 #32
I think you will be okay if you don't over do it and it's only once a year. But do be careful Clouds Passing. The rolled debm55 Dec 4 #34
My Grandma used to make a Yule Log happybird Dec 5 #55
What a fun story. I would love to have tried your Grandma's Yule Log. Clouds Passing Dec 6 #58
I like fruitcake. LoisB Dec 4 #33
Thank you LoisB, Are you the poster that makes all the fruitcakes? debm55 Dec 4 #35
Not me. I couldn't make a fruit cake if my life depended on it. LoisB Dec 4 #38
stolen i supose. pansypoo53219 Dec 4 #39
Thank you pansypoo53219 debm55 Dec 4 #40
Pumpkin pie. Although I don't save it for the holidays. n/t malthaussen Dec 5 #47
Thank you malthaussen. Pumpkin pie is my favorite fall/winter dessert. debm55 Dec 5 #48
Homemade Estonian kringel bread Wicked Blue Dec 5 #49
Fancy! 👍 electric_blue68 Dec 5 #56
Baked ham. Different Drummer Dec 5 #50
Italian Sesame Cookies La Coliniere Dec 5 #51
I like Goatguy Dec 5 #52
Thsnk you Goatguy. It does sound like your house has a delicious smell. enjoy. debm55 Dec 6 #64
Thsnk you Goatguy. It does sound like your house has a delicious smell. enjoy. debm55 Dec 6 #65
Butter cookies with jam centers Eugene Dec 5 #53
Thank you Eugene. I have eaten then very, very good. debm55 Dec 6 #61
Mom makes cookies happybird Dec 5 #54
Oh those sound so good. Thank you happybird. debm55 Dec 6 #60
🤔 In our family we really didn't have anything I remember...but at one of my cousin's she started baking Chocolate... electric_blue68 Dec 5 #57
That sounds great, electric_blue68. Love all the dips you make. Yum debm55 Dec 6 #59
orange Kali999 Dec 6 #62
Thank you very much Kali999. wonderful. debm55 Dec 6 #63

Hotler

(12,388 posts)
4. Have you tried the cinnamon roll hack with heavy cream?
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 04:34 PM
Dec 4

Take frozen cinnamon rolls (I like Rhodes) let them rise. Before putting in the oven make up some brown sugar and melted butter and pour, smear on top, them pour in heavy cream all around the rolls about 1/3 the way up and bake per direction for rolls. yum, yum, yum, yum.

10 Turtle Day

(511 posts)
43. That sounds divine!
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:15 AM
Dec 5

One of my biggest weaknesses are cinnamon rolls. I’m going to have to try this. Thanks!

Hotler

(12,388 posts)
44. A Kolachi story for you.
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:45 AM
Dec 5

Back in the 1960's-70's there was a regional chain grocery store with a bakery in my neighborhood that had the best kolachi's, mom called the company and asked for the recipe. They mailed it to her, it was 50lbs of this, 25lbs of that and so on, everything was in pound and ounces. No cups, no tsp measurements at all. It must of made 50-dozen kolachi.

rsdsharp

(10,290 posts)
8. Santa face sugar cookies and gingerbread boys. Both with hand frosting, in very specific manners:
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 05:04 PM
Dec 4

japple

(10,388 posts)
9. My mother's cheese straws, pecan tassies, spritz cookies, and
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 05:08 PM
Dec 4

wedding cookies. Mom died in 2001 and our niece makes the pecan tassies, SIL makes the cheese straws, and they are good, but Mom's were the BEST!

wnylib

(24,787 posts)
10. Brownies with chocolate chips inside and
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 05:12 PM
Dec 4

white mint-flavored icing on top, with red and green sprinkles. Or, with crushed peppermint candy sprinkled on the icing.

wnylib

(24,787 posts)
15. I had a job once that required me to work sometimes on
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 05:24 PM
Dec 4

Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

So I used to take a tray full of home made Christmas cookies to work on those days for everyone to have while we worked. There were brownies, cutout sugar cookies, a puffy chocolate cookie with raisins and nuts, and butterball cookies on the tray.

The brownies always were the first to run out. They were everyone's favorite.

wnylib

(24,787 posts)
18. Nah. I was really being selfish. I wanted something to nibble on.
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 05:38 PM
Dec 4

Couldn't eat in front of coworkers without bringing some for everyone.

Irish_Dem

(59,727 posts)
31. I had to look up butterball cookies.
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 06:48 PM
Dec 4

I never heard of them before.

I was thinking maybe something like a little turkey, like a butterball turkey.

When I looked it up, looks like a Russian teacake cookie.
Yes everyone loves them on the holidays.
But I think you put a walnut in yours?
The teacakes I have had do not have a walnut half in it.

wnylib

(24,787 posts)
41. My mother's cousin used to make them in two different batches.
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 02:21 AM
Dec 5

One was butterballs for anyone to eat, mostly the kids.

The other batch was strictly for adults and was called rum balls, soaked in rum. You could have gotten drunk on just 2 of those cookies.

There were crushed walnuts rolled up in the dough.

Irish_Dem

(59,727 posts)
42. Yes I have had both kinds.
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 05:11 AM
Dec 5

Yes the rum balls were something weren't they?!
Definitely high alcohol content!

Oh yes I have had the crushed walnut version as well.

All of them very good.

justaprogressive

(2,574 posts)
20. Christmas pudding
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 05:40 PM
Dec 4

after the brandy's lit



What is Christmas Pudding?

Traditional Christmas Pudding is more like a heavy cake than what you might think of as a pudding. It is made with raisins and other dried fruit and flavoured with brandy or stout (a very dark beer). Sometimes it contains nuts as well. My husband’s family recipe does not contain nuts – and woe betide anyone who tries to add them. Believe me, I know! People get very passionate about their family recipes for Christmas pud.

At the end of Christmas lunch or dinner, the pudding is garnished with holly and doused in brandy or other alcohol which is then lit. Not only does this create a spectacle, it may also flavour the pudding. That said, I favour vodka for flaming as it seems to light better, flame for longer and leaves the flavour of the pudding unaffected.


https://apriljharris.com/old-fashioned-christmas-pudding-recipe/

Mike 03

(17,378 posts)
22. I'm detecting a theme in your posts
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 05:58 PM
Dec 4

You really love cinnamon!

My sisters love (or at least used to) cinnamon with butter on toast. It's a fond memory from my childhood.

Although I've only had it twice, one of the greatest things I've ever eaten was pumpkin cheesecake. My then-wife and I tried it the same year Christmas Vacation came out. We purchased it at a restaurant across from the theater. Then the following year we got another.

It was out of this world. I don't know if pumpkin cheesecake is a real common thing, or whether that was something local and special. But I have to tell you, it was really incredible.

debm55

(38,457 posts)
23. thank you Mike 03, I love pumpkin cheesecake. I live in SW PA. it is sold in stores and restaurants And yes I like my
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 06:07 PM
Dec 4

cinnamon.

Mike 03

(17,378 posts)
24. By the way, I so enjoy your posts
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 06:11 PM
Dec 4

and you are so good at this. You have the magic touch and seem like a delightful human being. It is such a refreshing break from the scary news.

Thank you so much. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season (and everyone here too)!

debm55

(38,457 posts)
27. Thank you very much Mike 03, I was a teacher for 43 years so I get it from there. Thank you for your very kind words.
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 06:22 PM
Dec 4

Happy Holidays to you also.

nuxvomica

(13,015 posts)
25. Mincemeat muffins
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 06:16 PM
Dec 4

I usually make a batch this time of year if I can find Nonesuch mincemeat. My mother usually topped them with chocolate frosting but I prefer them unfrosted. They are moist and flavorful and not overly sweet.

displacedvermoter

(3,233 posts)
26. My wife makes tourtierre (meat pie) for Christmas Eve
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 06:20 PM
Dec 4

like my grandmother made when I was a kid.

And chocolate chip cookies for Santa

Clouds Passing

(2,716 posts)
32. Home baked from scratch Rolled chocolate cake with coconut whipped cream filling dusted with powdered sugar 😋
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 07:09 PM
Dec 4

Not supposed to have sweets but just one little bite, please. 🙏🏽

debm55

(38,457 posts)
34. I think you will be okay if you don't over do it and it's only once a year. But do be careful Clouds Passing. The rolled
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 07:22 PM
Dec 4

chocolate cake does sound delicious.

happybird

(5,192 posts)
55. My Grandma used to make a Yule Log
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 11:20 PM
Dec 5

I'll never forget my brother in law, in his 20's and still just the boyfriend, on his first big holiday trip to Grandma and Grandpa's with the fam. He took a bite and said, "Oh, wow! It's like a big Ho-Ho!" We all gasped, lol. Grandma made meringue mushrooms and the whole nine yards. Her Yule Log was always gorgeous and took hours to make.

It really is like the World's Best Ho-Ho.

La Coliniere

(1,069 posts)
51. Italian Sesame Cookies
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:21 PM
Dec 5

aka Giuggiulena. Very simple to make cookies but oh so good with coffee. Mmmm. My Italian Aunt Mary taught me and my wife how to make them years ago.

Goatguy

(16 posts)
52. I like
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:24 PM
Dec 5

Homemade blackberry cobbler. Homemade sweet breads (pear, zucchini, jam), Homemade Chex mix. We will also make jerky. My house smells amazing this time of year. My fresh milk hot chocolate is awesome

happybird

(5,192 posts)
54. Mom makes cookies
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 11:02 PM
Dec 5

And I like to help when she allows it. Her Christmas Cookies are serious business!

It used to be about 12 different types and we'd give them to teachers, neighbors, friends, coworkers. As we've all gotten older she's cut it down to about 6 different types. I noticed a few years ago the ones that go great with a cup of hot tea or coffee are the ones that have stuck around.

My favorites are:

Cherry Crowns

Nutroll Cookies (don't know the official name but that's what we call them). It's a rolled pasty dough which is cut into squares. Each square gets a precise, smallish spoonful of homemade nutroll filling and then two of the corners folded towards each other to meet in the center. They are fussy as hell to make, and also Dad's favorite, so creatively hiding small batches of them in the freezers is a Christmas tradition.

Ricotta cookies.
A recent addition, fantastic with coffee. They aren't really a Christmas cookie, we make them festive with red and green sprinkles.

electric_blue68

(18,724 posts)
57. 🤔 In our family we really didn't have anything I remember...but at one of my cousin's she started baking Chocolate...
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 11:38 PM
Dec 5

Chip cookies in her teens for when they often hosted Christmas extended family get together. And she's often still does it like for 3 decades or so! So that's a treat!

Otoh if we occasionally had New Year's Eve with our extended family my mom, and I would do the dips! ?Hormel's chicken something into cream cheese, their (yum) deviled ham in cream cheese (eventually mom mixed half cream cheese and yogurt), ?Knorr's Onion Soup mix into cream cheese (more yum), we had crackers, a cousin brought a big pan of cut veggies for the dips, posdibly store bought, or home made Greek cookies, and maybe a few more things. 🥰

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