Traditional Snowballs (Russian Tea Cakes)

These cookies will no doubt bring back a flood of memories for many of you. Christmas baking sessions of yesteryear, cookie exchanges of your youth, or church parties in the basement. Few trays of holiday delights would be complete without these little bites of shortbread. Snowballs are often called Mexican wedding cookies,…

Maple Nut Cookies

I love it when I find a recipe that I have made several times before and then kind of forgot about.  And a Christmas cookie to boot!!! Its like…well…Christmas!  Discovering a little surprise package.  Oh look at this!  A great cookie recipe!  Tucked away in the catacombs of my cookbook collection, it…

Fruit & Nut Rum Balls

There might be some kind of rule that says I have to post lots of Christmas cookie recipes in December but I don’t really care.  I actually have so many cookie recipes I could post here (literally dozens and dozens) that I couldn’t choose between them and decided to share this recipe…

Sweet Potato Casserole & Thanksgiving Prep

Sweet Potato Casserole is the recipe for today’s post, but first, a few words about Thanksgiving! If you don’t know this already-and that would only be if you don’t actually read this blog and instead only look at the recipes because I have mentioned this several times before so it should not be…

Maple Pecan Shortbread

I am particularly excited to share this recipe with you.  Why?  Because it is one of those treats that is super easy, super fast, and very, very, good.  All things that we all like in a recipe, right? Shortbread, it seems to me, is one of those cookies that everyone likes.  It…