While shaping the cookies, keep the rest of the dough covered with plastic wrap so it won’t dry out. Preparation: 25 min. Cooking: About 8 min. per batch.

Makes about 4 dozen.

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoons peppermint extract
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon red food coloring paste
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Peanut butter and potato candy. It sounds gross, but it’s really awesome. You’ll need the following:

INGREDIENTS
1 very small baking potato
Peanut butter
White powder sugar

DIRECTIONS
Peel, dice and boil potato until tender. Remove from pan and let dry well. When completely dry, mash well with a fork or potato masher. In a bowl slowly add powder sugar while stirring with a wooded spoon.

Don’t add too much because it will make the mixture too runny. You want the mixture to have the consistency of cookie dough. Lay a sheet of wax paper on the counter and form the potato mixture into a long flat piece.

The thickness should be about 1/2 inch thick or a little more. Roll it out even and smooth. Take the peanut butter and with a butter knife spread it completely over your dough roll. You can add as much as you want. Read More »

The Christmas recipes and Christmas baking recipes that are used during the holidays are as much a part of the annual Christmas traditions as putting up the tree. Most of us have a couple of favorite Christmas baking recipes that come to mind when we think of the holidays.

Christmas baking recipes and Christmas recipes are quite often passed on from generation to generation. Those chocolate truffles you eat every year may have been a recipe from your grandmother, or the famous Christmas stuffing is accredited to grandpa.

Christmas recipes such as turkey with stuffing and cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, Brussels sprouts and yams are favorites for many of us come Christmas day.
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Ingredients
2 cups butter, softened
1 cup sugar
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 egg, beaten
2/3 cup finely chopped almonds (or your favorite nuts finely chopped)
colored sugar crystals

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Chicken stew for the Christmas dinner

Ingredients
Chicken 1/2kg
Potato 1/2kg
Big onion
2 big sliced garlic
3 chopped ginger
1 inch piece chopped
Green chilly
5 nos slited chicken stock
Corn flour 1tspn
Coconut milk first 1/2 cup
Coconut milk second 1cup
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Carrot raisin salad

Ingredients
3 cups julienned carrots
1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
1 cup miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup raisins
2/3 cup mayonnaise
2 teaspoons sugar
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Roasted potatoes

Ingredients
1 russet potato, cubed
1 red potato, cubed
1 sweet potato, peeled and cubed
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup low fat, low sodium chicken broth
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Prime Rib

Ingredients
8 pounds prime rib roast
3 teaspoons grated fresh ginger root
1/3 cup orange marmalade
4 cloves garlic, minced
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
1 tablespoon mustard powder
1 cup beer
1/4 cup olive oil
ground black pepper to taste

Directions
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Maple Glazed Pork Loin

Ingredients
2 1/2 pounds boneless pork loin roast
1 cup real maple syrup
4 tablespoons prepared Dijon-style mustard
2 1/2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste

Directions
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This recipe is passed down from my grandma. The recipe I’m sharing with you is popular among the children and even the adults in our family gatherings. It’s funny because every Christmas gathering when I bake these cookies, everyone fights for them! Even the adults are acting like kids trying to get the first batch out of the oven!

It’s simply amazing how the cookies can disappear so fast and so quick in the blink of an eye! I absolutely love this recipe and I hope you will too.

Christmas Sugar Cookies

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