Glenda Embree: Making Homemade Easy shares easy, approachable recipes to help you create delicious weeknight dinners, I believe cooking from scratch doesn’t have to be complicated and that YOU can do it. My simple recipes, tutorials, and cooking tips will help you get weeknight dinners on the table with less stress. Forget takeout or the drive-thru. Let me show you how to make homemade easy.
The Best Christmas Cookies: My Favorite Recipes
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Happy Friday Reader! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are starting to shake off the last remnants of the annual turkey coma. Just in case you have some of the big bird leftovers still hanging around, I'll share some of our favorite ways to use them up. But, in reality, Christmas season kicks in for me this morning, and I want to talk about cookies — the best of the best. Whether you make cookie boxes to share with friends and neighbors, participate in cookie exchanges or share them on a dessert table at holiday get-togethers, these are some of our favorites, and I think you're going to love them! Drop Sugar Cookies, All-Time Family Favorite In my family, this is THE Christmas cookie. Move over sugar plums, these drop sugar cookies are what's dancing in our heads and holiday dreams. No chilling or fuss, no rolling or cutting, just simple, delicious, confectionery bliss. Our favorite sugar cookies are soft and chewy perfection. AND we still frost and decorate them for the holidays. If we baked no other cookies at Christmastime, these are the ones we simply cannot skip. They are the perfect sugar cookie when you want buttery, delicious, quick and fuss-free. It's become our tradition to have a decorating night with our daughters and grandkids, and it's one of my favorite parts of the holiday season! These cookies, friends and family, and a LOT of buttercream icing make irreplaceably sweet holiday memories! Put Drop Sugar Cookies on your Christmas baking list and start early. They will disappear as fast as you make them! So, you'll definitely need extra! Get the Easy Recipe: Drop Sugar Cookies Orange Shortbread Cookies | Easy & DeliciousMy favorite shortbread cookies would not be considered traditional, but they are, without question, the best I have ever eaten! These are not the hard, crunchy shortbread cookies that you get in Christmas tins. These buttery delights have a melt-in-your-mouth, tender-crisp quality that is so satisfying. These craveably delicious cookies are lightly scented and flavored with fresh orange juice and zest. They're my personal favorite holiday treat. You won't go wrong with an afternoon break that includes a cup of hot tea, a mug of cocoa or a glass of eggnog and these scrumptious Orange Shortbread Cookies. Get the Easy Recipe: Orange Shortbread Cookies Date Pinwheel CookiesA vintage cookie that is a Christmas classic, Date Pinwheels are tender, pillows of caramel‑y cookie. These tasty cookies are moist and loaded with delicious, homemade date nut jam. The soft, tender cookie dough for Date Pinwheels is simple and basic. And, it has the deep, rich caramel flavor we expect from dark brown sugar. The date nut jam filling for these luscious date pinwheel cookies will rock your world! So good! (P.S. You can make the jam (with or without nuts) to eat on toast, biscuits or bagels, too!) Get the Easy Recipe: Date Pinwheel Cookies
Ideas for Thanksgiving LeftoversNow that we have the baking out of the way, I haven't forgotten that I promised some leftover makeover ideas for your Thanksgiving dinner dishes. Thanksgiving Casserole - an Embree Thanksgiving favorite, this is always offered for supper on Thanksgiving after the big meal is complete. I've been eating it since my grandma made it for me as a kid and the tradition has carried through the four generations. Leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy combine to make a savory satisfying meal everybody will love!
Cheering you on as you head into the holiday season with Black Friday shopping [affiliate link] and lots and lots of baking! Wishing you some comfy shoes and lots of yummy cookies. Enjoy your week, share great food with the people you love most, and I hope someone else does your dishes! Hugs! What's For Dinner?This is the part of the newsletter where I share recipe ideas from some of my best blogging friends and myself to inspire you with what's for dinner at our houses this week. That gives you seven days' worth of new recipes to inspire you for your own delicious meal plan. Enjoy!
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Glenda Embree: Making Homemade Easy shares easy, approachable recipes to help you create delicious weeknight dinners, I believe cooking from scratch doesn’t have to be complicated and that YOU can do it. My simple recipes, tutorials, and cooking tips will help you get weeknight dinners on the table with less stress. Forget takeout or the drive-thru. Let me show you how to make homemade easy.
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