A Christmas Cookbook You Will Actually Use
Christmas Baking Tradititions
Who has cookbooks? Who has cookbooks they don't use? Who uses Pinterest for their recipes? Me, Me, Me on all three questions. Finally a cookbook I will actually use every year and keep going back to.
Taste of Home recipes are created, submitted and tested by regular people who shop in regular grocery stores, not gourmet stores. Taste of Home recipes use common ingredients and combine them into amazing, delectable desserts to eat at home, take to a church social, potluck, or family Holiday dinner.
I have been a fan of Taste of Home recipes since the mid 1990s when I Taste of Home magazine was owned by Reiman publishing (it has since been purchased). It was a wonderful magazine with no advertisements and packed full of recipes, pictures of food, desserts and had wonderful clip-out index sized recipes. I still use many of those recipes today.
The recipes still remain the mainstay of the magazine, are still submitted by readers and many of the recipes in this Christmas holiday book are past winners of contests, so they are the best of the best.
Traditional Old Fashioned Cookie Recipes
Christmas Traditions
It's a tradition in my house to bake cookies, lots of cookies, and give them to neighbors, mail them to friends, and to my Marine Corps sons at Christmas. I am cookie Mom, hear me roar. My kids always ask when I'm going to start making cookies about the first of December. There are many cookie recipes in this book where you can make the dough ahead of time, store in the freezer until it's time to bake them.
Our community normally has Christmas and holiday socials and dinners and I'm always looking for a new recipe I haven't tried to take to the potluck. Everyone loves desserts.
Hint: Write in your cookbook, when you've tried a recipe mark the date and any notes. Your kids and grandchildren will greatly appreciate the personal touch, the hints, notes and any substitutions you made on ingredients. This cookbook will become a keepsake for generations.
Taste of Home Recipe Book
Get Kids Involved in Baking
Get the kids involved in meal planning, use a different colored sticky note for each member of the family for them to pick out their favorite recipe.
Most recipes have an accompanying mouth watering photo and it's easy to see why the book will be full of sticky notes and bookmarks.
It will become your favorite go to for just about any meal. Most of these are contest winners of tried and true family recipes from across the country.
Home made soup, casseroles, desserts, salads, appetizers, they are all here in this cookbook which will become a keepsake.
A review of a Taste of Home cookie cookbook. Her book looks like mine, full of bookmarks and sticky tabs.
Hello Cookie Fans!
What is your favorite cookie or Holiday memory. Do you like crispy or chewy cookies? Do you make cookies throughout the year, of just around Christmas? Join in the cookie conversation, pick up your favorite beverage and sit a spell.
