Make a big batch of hot cocoa right in your crock pot, where it will stay warm for hours! This Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate is perfect for parties, and only requires 5 ingredients (not including the toppings, of course). Serve as is, or set up a hot chocolate bar with your favorite flavored liqueurs for…
The Best Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies
If you’re looking for the ultimate recipe for soft and chewy sugar cookies, you’ve come to the right place. Not only are these sugar cookies fantastically buttery, tender, and doughy; but they also stay soft for days on end. They’re also incredibly easy to make and require no rolling out! Just like your favorite bakery…
Pretzel Shortbread Cookies
Inspired by the iconic cookies from Philly’s Lost Bread Co., these Pretzel Shortbread Cookies are a melt-in-your-mouth mashup that’s half pretzel, half shortbread, and 100% unlike anything you’ve ever tasted. Whatever you think Pretzel Shortbread is going to taste like, you can’t really prepare yourself for your first bite. Or at least that’s what almost every…
Grapefruit Bourbon Yule Mules
Grapefruit Bourbon Yule Mules. This holiday-inspired spin on the classic Moscow Mule features the warming flavors of Brown Sugar Bourbon and ginger beer, as well as plenty of citrusy grapefruit. It’s the perfect drink to unwind during the Christmas season. This post is sponsored by Heritage Distilling. Use code “HostToast10” to get $10 off each…
Amaretto-Matcha Christmas Surprise Cake
This delicious pound cake has been sponsored by Aiya America, who inspires my matcha Christmas creations year after year. I used to be firmly in the cookie camp, but this year I’ve got to say that my new favorite Christmas dessert is actually pound cake. Specifically, a dense, moist, and sweet pound cake that’s drizzled…
Chewy Chai Snickerdoodles
Today I was the girl who bundled up from head to toe, cleared off her car, waited 20 minutes for it to heat up, and braved the snow and the icy roads simply to get her morning coffee. Her morning iced coffee. A cold brew when it was below freezing outside. JUDGE AWAY. I’d love a…
Butter Pecan Snowball Cookies
These Butter Pecan Snowball Cookies make me feel so Shakespearean. A cookie by any other name… Did you know that these cookies are made in all corners of the earth, and that they have like a billion different names to show for it?
The Best Chewy Café-Style Peanut Butter Cookies
“So I see that there’s a Google search tab for ‘cookie-induced psychosis’ open on your computer,” James said the other morning. “Exactly how many more cookies are you planning to make this week?” If anyone had any doubts about these truly being THE BEST peanut butter cookies, please let that be Exhibit A. When you are…
Holiday Cranberry Mimosas
This Holiday Cranberry Mimosa recipe is part of a Friendsgiving series brought to you by the Friendsgiving with French’s® program #RealFlavorsHaveCrunch Check out the last post (Bacon Jalapeno Popper Creamed Corn Gratin) and stay tuned for another recipe for the ultimate Friendsgiving soon! Hosting holiday parties, definitely my thing. Punctuality, not so much. I’m predictably…
Chewy Cherry Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies
It’s the final countdown. We’re two days away from Christmas. One day away from Christmas Eve (and Hanukkah!). Zero days away from me making a disaster in my kitchen while trying desperately to prepare all of the food. It’s go time. You might feel like you already have a handle on everything for your holiday…
Peppermint Mocha Pie
Today’s post is brought to you by my bittersweet nostalgia. Oh, and McCormick®, whose sponsorship made this luxurious Peppermint Mocha Pie possible. So, I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching lately. And what I’ve realized tonight, thanks to a few glasses of mulled wine, is that I’m not feeling at one with people on either side of the…
Matcha Christmas Wreath Pavlova
This post is sponsored by Aiya America, who likes to encourage my love of seasonal baked goods. Because come on, with all of the grinchy, piney, mistletoey color around this time of the year, who wouldn’t love a little green in their Christmas dessert? This winter, can we take some time to celebrate the fact…
Prosciutto-Wrapped Pork Loin with Apple & Rice Stuffing
This post is sponsored by the jolly fellows over at Minute® Rice. Don’t work yourself into a tiffy over it, though. All thoughts and blooming brilliant opinions are my own. And I definitely always talk like this. Well aren’t I just the most elegant of food bloggers today with my nice wine glasses and beaded cloth…
Make-Ahead Rosemary Sweet Potato Rolls
One of the most universally loved dining-out experiences has to be when your waiter unexpectedly brings out a basket of freshly baked rolls, right? Who isn’t overcome with happiness for just a few seconds when you see that bundle of bread? They make my heart happy; warm rolls just get me in a way no one else…
Crispy Cranberry-Herb Butter Butterflied Turkey with Roasted Vegetables
See all of those glorious blackened bits? I bet you can’t make this turkey and not pick off some of those morsels to eat them before serving. Go on and try– call it an impossible exercise in self-restraint. Just like with any “blackened” recipe, the charred bits on this Crispy Cranberry-Herb Butter Butterflied Turkey with Roasted Vegetables are the…
Nutella Pumpkin Samoa Cookies
Happy Halloweekend! I know we’re excited about the here-and-now holiday, but I want to throw it back for just a second. Long, long ago, in the fabulous, fabled era of the nineteen-nineties, I was a young girl who had a vast and varied collection of beanie babies, a stockpile of gel pens, a dozen audio cassettes, three Lisa Frank folders, two tamagotchis,…
