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Christmas Food and Recipes

Christmas is fast approaching and now is the time to plan that feast.

Are you looking for some great Christmas recipes to help you impress everyone during the festive season well here is a great book filled with Christmas recipes. There are so many more recipes in this book. What about Christmas cake recipes, Christmas dessert recipes and recipes for your Christmas dinner menu? 

How does this sound?

GLAZED BAKED HAM
SEVEN-LAYER SALAD
HOMEMADE DINNER ROLLS
Christmas Ham Braised in White Wine with Vegetables
Baked Oysters - a Holiday Tradition
Fried Country Ham W/ Red-Eye Gravy
Herbed Seasoned Roast Turkey
New England Roast Turkey with Chestnuts and Fruit
Party Ham Ring

That's just  for main course what about starters or do you have a sweet tooth? Why not try the great Christmas cookie recipes.

Here is the best Christmas cookie recipes all in one book.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
CRESCENT COOKIES
OLD-FASHIONED PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE WREATH
GRANDMOM WEBER'S HEAVY COOKIES
CHOCOLATE CREAM DROPS
LEMON BARS
SWISS ALMOND COOKIES
SCOTT SHORTBREAD
MINIATURE PARTY CUPCAKES
JOLLY PEANUT BUTTER GINGERBREAD COOKIES
OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES
SANTA'S WHISKERS
MOLASSES COOKIES
MOLASSES SUGAR COOKIES
MOLDED CHRISTMAS COOKIES
ALSATIAN CHRISTMAS COOKIES
AUNTIE VAN'S CHRISTMAS COOKIES
COTTON CANDY SUGAR COOKIES
CHRISTMAS CANDY COOKIES
CHRISTMAS BUTTER COOKIES

So many to choose from! Find out more at The Complete Christmas Collection

More recipes for Christmas 

Mars Bar Slice

Now this isn't a Christmas cookie recipe or a Christmas Cake recipe. It is a slice and it is delicious! Try a piece of Mars Bars slice.

A square tray or dish that will go into the fridge.
3 Mars Bars
3 oz butter
3 cups of Rice Krispies
Chocolate to melt

Cut up the Mars Bars into small pieces and place them in a bowl with the butter. Melt them in the microwave. Careful not to "cook" the Mars Bars, it should just start to melt with the butter.
Pour in the Rice Krispies and stir.
Put the mixture into the tray and flatten it down with the back of a spoon so the mixture covers the tray evenly. Place it into the fridge for an hour or so until it sets.
Cut the slice into bite sizes pieces.
For chocolate lovers melt some chocolate and pout it evenly over the slice before you cut it and place it back into the fridge for the chocolate to set. Enjoy!

Christmas food- chocolate balls 

Here is an easy to make recipe for chocolate ball that look like little Christmas Puddings.
250g plain sweet biscuits
1 cup coconut
1 can sweetened condensed milk
3 tablespoon of cocoa
Crush the biscuits. You can do this by putting them into a plastic freezer bag and rolling your rolling pin over the top. Or putting them into a blender.
place crushed biscuits into a bowl, add coconut, condensed milk and cocoa.
Mix well with a wooden spoon.
Take a tablespoon full of mixture and shape into a ball. Roll in the coconut. Pop them into the fridge to set.
You can add a drop of white melted chocolate o the top and add a decoration of a small piece of cherry and green mint leaf to look like holly on top of the chocolate ball. Now you have little mini puddings.

Christmas Cake 

My Grandma's famous fruit cake recipe

Here is my Grandma's Christmas cake recipe. She died before I was born. My mother named me after her. Her name was Violet May and I am Sharon May.
My Mother made this recipe every Christmas I remember as a young child her preparing everything before Christmas. When I was older I would help her. In my early 20's I did a cake decorating course and decorated Mom's Christmas Cake for her each year.
My dear Mom now has Alzheimer's and while still enjoying Christmas can sadly no longer cook.
Her Christmas cake would be a favorite of all the family and everyone made sure they had an extra piece to take home with them at the end of Christmas day. So I hope you enjoy this traditional Christmas cake recipe.

3/4lb butter
1 1/2 cups of sugar
4 eggs beaten
2lb mixed fruit
1lb plain flour
1/2 packet mixed spice
1 tablespoon of treacle
1/2 cup warm milk
1 teaspoon bicarb soda
1 tablespoon of Brandy (If you don't like Brandy just leave it out, if you do add more!)

Melt the butter in a large bowl then add sugar and stir.
Add egg mixture and beat well.
Add the rest of the ingredients.
Add the plain flour last.
Mix well.
Use butter to grease a large round cake tin around the sides and base.
Line the cake tin with brown paper around the sides and the base. Use the butter to grease to paper too. Cut a circle of brown paper to fit over the top of the cake so the top doesn't burn while cooking.
Bake for 3 hours in a very slow oven.
Hope you like your Christmas cake.

Gingerbread House 

How to make your own Gingerbread Houses

Gingerbread houses are the architectural wonder of the baking world, and every year around the holidays, constructions of all shapes and sizes spring up everywhere.
Some have Tootsie Roll mailboxes, shredded-wheat roofs, and gumdrop bells, while others are covered with snow and icicles and have balconies, garlands, and brightly glowing candy glass.
But no matter how elaborate a house is, one doesn't have to be an expert baker (or architect) to build one.
Gingerbread Houses:A Complete Guide To Baking And Decorating is for ginger-bread bakers who want to build their first or their fiftieth house.
With easy-to-follow instructions, it shows beginners all the basic techniques, including how to assemble the walls and roof without breaking the gingerbread. But it also shows more advanced bakers how to illuminate their house, use a glue gun, and even give last year's house a face-lift. The whimsical, two-color drawings and patterns are a wealth of new ideas for doors, windows, wreaths, bells, mailboxes, lampposts, fences, and trees. And for those who feel the entrepreneurial urge, there's even a section on marketing, packaging, pricing, and selling gingerbread houses.
With wit and humor, Christa Currie, champion gingerbread baker, makes building gingerbread houses fun for the entire family.
Gingerbread Houses is the perfect stocking stuffer for the baker or architect on your Christmas list.
Gingerbread Houses

Gingerbread House Mold 

NordicWare German Gingerbread House Mold

Gingerbread House Mold

* 2-sided mold for creating classic German gingerbread cottage

* Durable aluminum construction heats evenly

* Nonstick surface releases gingerbread perfectly and cleans quickly

* Houses measures 8-1/2 by 6 by 8-1/2 inches (W x D x H) when finished

* Includes gingerbread recipes

NordicWare German Gingerbread House Mold

Christmas Recipe books 

Christmas with Paula Deen: Recipes and Stories from My Favorite Holiday

Review: Christmas, that time of good cheer and lapsed diets, is the perfect holiday to showcase the cooking of Food Network star Deen (Paula Deen Celebrates!), who specializes in the kind of butter-and cheese-laden fare that epitomizes family-style comfort food.
Sweets and snacks account for most of the recipes, since Deen happily admits to never varying from her Christmas dinner menu, which centers on a Standing Rib Roast and features a trio of potato dishes, including some unbelievably decadent Crème Fraîche Mashed Potatoes.
Cooks will find the cookies and desserts familiar but richer, like eyebrow-raising but delicious Chocolate Cheese Fudge and creamy Chocolate Sandwich Cookies. Snacks and breakfast dishes are crowd pleasers, like gooey Praline French Toast Casserole and Cheese-coated Bacon Wraps.

Several pages of baking hints are included, but most of the recipes are simple and straightforward enough, with readily available ingredients, that even novices should be able to put together a generous Christmas spread.
Christmas with Paula Deen: Recipes and Stories from My Favorite Holiday

Christmas Chocolate recipes 

I'm Dreaming of a Chocolate Christmas

I'm Dreaming of a Chocolate Christmas

No one knows chocolate like Marcel Desaulniers, whose bestselling, award-winning books have made his name synonymous with luscious chocolate desserts.
Now Desaulniers has created the ultimate holiday baking book for chocolate lovers everywhere, packed with full-color photography.
The 72 chocolate treats and desserts you'll find inside are guaranteed to draw oohs and ahhs from your family and friends, and many are also straightforward to make-which means you'll have time to enjoy Christmas, too!
I'm Dreaming of a Chocolate Christmas

Christmas Cookies 

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.

Check out these recipes:
Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for the Holiday Season

Personalized Christmas Gifts 

Personalized Gifts for Everyone 

Christmas Food Photos 

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Christmas Cookies by Rainer Ebert

Christmas Cookies

Christmas Cookies by Wendy Piersall (@eMom)

Christmas Cookies

Fairy Dust Cookies by edenpictures

Fairy Dust Cookies

sugar cookies by pink_fish13

sugar cookies

the mess by pink_fish13

the mess

peanut butter by pink_fish13

peanut butter

stacking up by pink_fish13

stacking up

Sugar Cookies by davitydave

Sugar Cookies

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Great Christmas Food on Amazon 

Simply Christmas: 201 Easy Crafts, Food and Decorating Ideas

Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 07/11/2009) Buy Now

A Mr. Food Christmas: Homemade and Hassle-Free

Amazon Price: (as of 07/11/2009) Buy Now

Nigella Christmas: Food Family Friends Festivities

Amazon Price: $23.10 (as of 07/11/2009) Buy Now

New Amazon Plexo 

Thoughtful Wishes Gourmet Food Gift Basket - Small - Perfect for Christmas Holiday Gift Giving!

Thoughtful Wishes Gourmet Food Gift Basket - Small - Perfect for Christmas Holiday Gift Giving!

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Food Colour Markers - Christmas

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Clif Bar Nutrition Bars, Maple Nut, 2.4-Ounce Bars (Pack of 24)

Clif Bar Nutrition Bars, Maple Nut, 2.4-Ounce Bars (Pack of 24)

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Pick Of The Season Grand Gourmet Food Gift Basket with Smoked Salmon - Large

Pick Of The Season Grand Gourmet Food Gift Basket with Smoked Salmon - Large

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My other Christmas Lens 

More great Christmas Crafts and Recipes!

Christmas Craft Ideas
Here are some easy Christmas Crafts to make. You can make them for yourself, family and friends. You can get the kids involved too.
Christmas Beading Patterns
Here is a free beading pattern for you to enjoy making. It uses seed beads and safety pins. It is never to early to get started with some Christmas Crafts.

Great Christmas Stuff on eBay 

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Christmas Food and recipes from Google 

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Reader Feedback 

The_Party_Animal wrote...

Great info - post your lens on my Squidoo Home for the Holidays under: Holiday Cooking - http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-home-for-the-holidays

ReplyPosted October 15, 2008

spirituality wrote...

Great collection. *****

ReplyPosted October 08, 2008

awesomesteals2002 wrote...

Your Christmas Cake recipe sounds wonderful! Nice lens!

ReplyPosted January 05, 2008

Book-Club-Critic wrote...

I will definitely be trying your Mars Bars Slice. It looks sinful!
Visit my lens for some Easy Recipes for Christmas Dinner. I have an quick tenderloin recipe from Paula Deen's new cookbook.

ReplyPosted November 27, 2007

prosperity66 wrote...

Wow! Thanks for so many recipe ideas! Not really good for the weight but delicious!
Prosperity66

ReplyPosted November 19, 2007

 
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