Holiday Treats

Cookies! Sweet Yummy Valentine (or Any-Other-Time) Cookies!

Carmel Nut Bars

The brand new Valentine Cookie Recipe Flickr Set is ready and waiting for you!!!

Find it right here!

As always, I am here if you have questions!!

Now … you have a whole weekend ahead of you ...  go bake cookies!!!

Celebration Cake for Twelfth Night - Grape Cake!

Twelfth Night Cake

Happy Twelfth Night!

As has become my recent tradition - I am celebrating with a brand new (to me), unusual cake! Grape Cake!

Many countries around the world celebrate December 5th-6th with special cakes. Loving the idea - I have borrowed the tradition! (You can find links to special cakes enjoyed in previous years near the end of the post.) 

Scrambled Pancakes from Austria! A Little Holiday Story!

Kaiserschmarren

 Kaiserschmarren image by Robert Lender

Kaiserschmarren! Scrambled Pancakes! A favorite treat in Austria anytime of the year but especially at Christmas.

Norwegian Cookie Advent Calendar

Norwegian Pepperkaker Advent Calendar

Without a doubt - the yummiest Advent Calendar ever! Just the fragrance alone will fill every nook and cranny of your home with the scent of Christmas goodness.

Last year, Gill, a lovely on-line friend living in Norway shared with me a story about the cookie Advent Calendars her MIL made every year for each of her children.

Scandinavian Christmas on the Pickled Herring Shares My How-to for Palæg Chokolade

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Palæg Chokolade! One of my two favorite breakfast treats! (the other being Chocolade Hagel of course!)

Both are versions of chocolate made for topping toast! And what could be more welcome on a frosty morning! Even my beloved Lingonberries have had to step aside for this!

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