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My favorite Holiday dessert is a yule log or Bûche de Noël.We have it every year when i celebrate Christmas at home with my family in France.

My favorite holiday dessert has to be the gingerbread caramel cupcakes I always make!

i love the christmas cookies my mom made every year and we helped decorate! she has since passed away and my daughter has carried on the tradition and makes them for her kids every year….

I love red velvet anything! LOL

Red Velvet Cake!

Cupcakes are considered a dessert?! I eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner! My favorite holiday treat would have to be homemade peppermint bark! Happy Holidays!

My favorite holiday dessert has got to be peppermint bark. Not only is it super festive, and easy to make, it’s not too heavy and filling, so no matter how much you indulged at dinner, there is always room for dessert. =]

I love trifle!

My favorite holiday treat would have to be any sort of cake – I’m a cake fanatic! I especially love Sprinkles cupcakes!!!

My absolute favorite Christmas dessert would have to be my own recipe for monster cookies.

My favorite holiday dessert would have to be Coconut Cream Pie! It may seem like something that people would enjoy in Hawaii over Christmas but I live in freezing cold Ohio and we still enjoy this tropical- like treat!

My favorite holiday dessert is generally simply cake…any. But my fiance’s Aunt makes something called a Christmas Cake. I’ve been eating it for the past 5 years and it is DELICIOUS!!! When I told my finance I was going to ask his Aunt for the recipe, he discouraged me. He said its’ been in the family for many years and he knew his Aunt Pat was not going to cough up the secret. She made for Thanksgiving & I decided to work up the nerve and ask. I called with a build up speech since I was so nervous. Aunt Pat was very nice and said, “No problem. I’m getting old and I’m glad someone is taking interest.” Simple as ABC…but no one ever dared to ask. So now I have it!!

I love the dessert that my kids bake me. They are just learning to bake cupcakes and I love any batch they come up with.

My favorite holiday dessert is homemade fudge! It just doesn’t feel right if I don’t make some every Christmas, especially the peanut butter kind!

Among all the many desserts for the holidays, peppermint bark, red velvet cupcakes, and the many kinds of cookies, my all time favorite is my mom’s homemade fudge.

my grandmother’s coconut cake

baileyscheesecake

My favorite holiday treat is peppermint – as peppermint bark. I just can’t get enough of it. It’s stashed in all drawers and cabinets. Once the holidays are over, I go through withdrawal so I usually stock pile for the next year, which only last a few months at most.

My favorite holiday dessert are red velvet cupcakes

My favorite holiday dessert would definitelyhave to be Pillsbury Christmas cookies, yummm.

Pineapple upside-down cheesecake for sure

Gooey Butter Cookies! YUM!!!

I love making and eating Red Velvet with Cream Cheese frosting. This year I am changing it up and making it GREEN for a Christmas Surprise..

It wouldn’t be a Holiday with a little Holiday Cheer~ My favorite dessert is “Cupcake Moscato.” The sweet delicate smooth taste rings Jingle Belles to my tummy.

My favorite holiday dessert is Cassata cake! I’m make a cupcake version this Christmas (Hooray)!

Fruitcake!! No, really…I love fruitcake.

Sprinkles Vegan Red Velvet cupcakes have been my favorite for the past two years!

I have two favorite holiday treats. A simple pumpkin pie is always delicious, but I sure do love my chocolate pecan pie. Both with dollops (or more like huge scoops) of whipped cream on top.

My favorite holiday dessert is chocolate chip cookies. Though they are more of a year-round kind of dessert, I associate them with the milk and cookies we used to leave for Santa.

My favorite is red velvet cupcakes! Sprinkles are my favorite!

Chocolate lava cake is the best! I love the rich decadent moist goodness filled with erupting hot chocolate. So delicious it warms my soul!

My favorite holiday dessert is peach cobbler and red velvet cupcakes my mom makes for me.

My number one all time holiday dessert/snack has to be the gingerbread cookie. Every year since I can even remember me and my sister would attempt to bake our own gingerbread man. Of course, we have gotten better over the years but it’s a tradition I love to do! Quality sister bonding time and it has a delicious product regardless of the craftsmanship. =]

brownies with white chocolate drizzled on top and crushed candy canes. Peppermint bark brownies. YUMM

My favvvv dessert of all time would have to be Sprinkles cupcakes. The fact that I even found this contest would have to do with the fact that I follow Sprinkles everywhere. I first had the extraordinary chance to tatse one of these July 18 2012 my birthday. From a lovey friend who decided to bring me a DOZEN. Fell in love ever since and have been bugging my boyfriend every weekend to drive to Beverly hills for sprinkles cupcakes. I think I’m actually getting a gift card for Sprinkles this year for Christmas haha I’m happy & excited about that.

My favorite holiday dessert is baklava or peanut brittle!

My favorite holiday dessert is homemade fudge.

Strawberry shortcake. There’s something wonderful about the combination of fluffy white cream, soft syrupy strawberry, and the grainy sweet-subdued cake. It’s comfort food, a wonderful celebration treat, and many other things.

My Favorite holiday treat is Mint Chocolate CakePops!

My favorite Holiday treat is Peanut Butter Blossoms. I always feel like the holidays have set in when I have these classic cookies, The perfect blend of Peanut Butter and Chocolate is one my favorite combinations. Brings back good memories of past Christmases!

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies. Cant go wrong with a glass of cold milk and warm chocolate chip cookies being surrounded by family and friends.

carrot cake is my favorite dessert along with a cream cheese icing, yummy

My favorite holiday treat is peppermint bark! I make it constantly and everyone loves it!

mmmmm… I really really love love love a delicious Tiramisu!

I adore peppermint bark, around this time of year. Ghiradelli or Russell Stover’s I love it all!

My favorite holiday dessert is baked apples with pecans. It’s a recipe that I got from my late grandmother, and it’s something that I will fix every year. It’s my way of remembering her, celebrating the holidays, and enjoying a really tasty dessert.

hark the herald angel eats,
cupcakes are my favorite treats!
peace on earth, desserts for all,
we’ll stuff ourselves until we crawl!
joyful all ye cupcakes taste,
(forget the impact on our waist)
with delicious frosting too,
all the best is yet to chew.

I love my mothers ricotta cookies

My ultimate dessert is 7 layer magic bars. The beauty in making these delightful goodies are that the recipe can be altered. I originally made the recipe from the back of a can of condensed milk. Then, took it up a few notches and changed a few thing for seasonal bliss. I substitute crushed gingerbread cookies instead of graham crackers for the crust and used peppermint bark instead of chocolate chips. After cooling, cut and place in festive cupcake papers. YUMMO!

My fave holiday dessert is: fruitcake icebox cookies..I haven’t had them in years & am hunting down the recipe lol..they are SO delicious though! thanks for the chance to win!

Happy holidays!

My favorite holiday dessert is anything my mom bakes.

My favorite dessert is my mom’s carrot cake.

My mom’s homemade pound cake with powdered sugar on top.

Baked Alaska

hmm favorite dessert? where do I even begin! I love cupcakes, chocolate cakes, cheesecakes! Our family growing up makes delicious filipino desserts such as flan, brazo de mercedez, palitaw, kochinta, and many more! I love them all!

The best part of the holidays is my favorite kind of bread. Homemade Pumpkin Bread. When I make it, it all disappears because it is so yummy with the way I make it. It’s so good right out of the oven and even better makes the house smells like the holidays!

I make peppermint butter cookies every Christmas They are my absolute favorite!

My favorite dessert is Prinsesstårta, a Swedish cake covered in marzipan! Pure deliciousness.

Oh my, I’m supposed to pick only one!? Well, I am quite the sweet tooth so that is hard! My favorite(s) would have to be pumpkin bars, chocolate crinkle cookies, and chocolate chip oatmeal cookies!

my favorite holiday dessert is the sweet potato casserole. it is healthy and sweet. i love the marshamallow topping lightly toasted from the oven. i love the cinammon spice and its creamy texture.

My favorite holiday dessert was my moms three layer delight it was so yummy. And creamy and delicious. Unfortunately my mom passed away in 2004 of breast. Cancer. I would love to win cupcakes. I miss my moms cooking so much. I am on diaylsis. And wait int on a kidney transplant. Please choose me thank you. Sherri

It would have to be chocolate cheesecake with caramel sauce on the side.

Creme Brule because it uses such simple ingredients that can be found in any kitchen!

My favorite holiday desert is brownies with m&ms inside them topped with candy cane bits! Yummm

My mom’s chocolate truffles!

I love peppermint bark! Or some panetonne on Christmas, yum!

My absolute favorite dessert for the holidays (or anytime!) Is puppychow. It’s really only common in the Midwest but it’s the best and so easy to make. All it is is melted peanut butter and chocolate coated over chex cereal, and than covered in powdered sugar. But there is truly nothing like it

my favorite holiday dessert is the pecan pie. i love the sweet fudged custard topped with pecans. the pecans are toasted to perfection giving a sweet salty contrast.

My families favorite holiday dessert is pineapple tamales (just like grandma used to make). We enjoy them with a cup of coffee or tea.

My favorite holiday dessert is pear and goat cheese tart. My mom has been making it for years and even though my family now lives in different parts of the country, the holidays, and the smell of goat cheese and pear tart baking, always brings us together. Good food and a loving family is the perfect way to spend the holidays.

Pfeffernusse (german spice cookies)

Banana bread… make from a recipe that’s about 60 years old

The Red Velvet Cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory.

apple pies, ice cream and fruit tarts. i love all of them!

My favorite holiday dessert is cupcakes, of course! Chocolate peppermint is the best.

Mmm, my favorite is “Better than sex Cake” because it is! It’s less fun name is Skor bar cake, google it.

I absolutely love ras malai. The perfect holiday desert, and why everyone should marry an Indian person just prior to the holidays. Ras malai is just that perfect!

My favorite holiday dessert would have to be chocolate chip cookies because they always tastes so good when they come right out of the oven and will always go great with a glass of milk!

I love macarons especially pistacchio.

My favorite dessert is pumpkin pie. i love the pumpkin filling. and l love the spices-nutmeg, cloves and cinammon. I love the pumpkin pie straight from the oven, piping hot.

Peanut Brittle! Or Cashew Brittle! Or Divinity… Shoot, just pass me the sugar, and skip the wait!

My favorite holiday dessert is called Oooy Gooies. My neighbor makes them each year and gives them to us. They are cookies that are slightly doughy and have powdered sugar with pecans all over them. They ooze all over your hands when you pick them up. SO GOOD!

My fave dessert would be my sugar cookies – my husband and his co-workers call them crack cookies because they are so addicting. They are my fave to eat and to make for all my friends!

One of my favorite place for sweet!

Homemade sugar cookies!

My favorite holiday sweet- making holiday cookies with my son. We add a new cookie each year. This will be our 11th year! We love the tradition and the cookies!

My favorite holiday desert is sprinkles’ vegan red velvet cupcakes! Nothing compares! If I could have a red velvet birthday cake I’d be in heaven!

You can’t beat a slice of apple spice cake! Simple, spirited, and classic.

My favorite dessert anytime of the year, especially at the holidays, is CUPCAKES!!!

Death by Chocolate with toffee bits on top!

All-time favorite holiday dessert is a Korean street vendor snack called Hotteok. This delightful pancake is both a hand and tummy warmer, an irresistibly chewy pastry that’s crispy on the outside and filled with an ooey-gooey cinnamon brown sugar syrup. Sometimes the filling has chopped peanuts for extra texture, but in any case, it’s the perfect indulgence for a snowy winter evening!

All-time favorite holiday dessert is a Korean street vendor snack called Hotteok. This delightful pancake is both a hand and tummy warmer, an irresistibly chewy pastry that’s crispy on the outside and filled with an ooey-gooey cinnamon brown sugar syrup. Sometimes the filling has chopped peanuts for extra texture, but in any case, it’s the perfect indulgence for a snowy winter evening.

My favorite dessert is Sprinkles Cupcakes! Either Red Velvet, Mocha, Lemon Coconut, or Triple Cinnamon. YUM!

love donuts from babycakes!

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Cupcakes are meant for me, sprinkles how can this be,
you’re tops cause you’re so fly, red velvet you’re always mine.
Sprinkles brings joy to all,
creamy frostings, mouths will drop,
let’s eat them all the time, hands up …
we’ll smile brighter than the sun x3.
(Sing to “Starships” tune by NM).

white chocolate Peppermint Bark..!!!!!!!!!!!! Yummyyy

Red velvet cake with peppermint bark on top!

Anything peppermint or eggnog. =) Ice cream all year around!!

My favorite dessert is my Grandma’s no bake cheesecake. It will make you think you died and had gone to heaven.

When I think of holiday desserts, I get a headache. Why? There are so many to choose from, but if I had to pick one, it must be cupcake; it’s different from your regular cake because it’s fun embodied in bite-size form. There are so many flavors to choose from and the texture just feels better for some unknown reason in comparison to the cake. While I can’t quite fathom what makes a cupcake so much more delectable, there really is no other dessert out there that’s as fitting for the holidays as the cupcake.

My Mom used to make a cream cheesecake and would add strawberries, sauce or chocolate drizzle. Heaven!

Pumpkin Pie is the best!

German chocolate cake with lots of coconut & caramel on top!

Around this time of year I really love pumpkin pie. So yummy =]

My favorite Christmas treats are red velvet cake, carrot cake, pumpkin pie, and Creme Brûlée’s. Also I recently got hooked French Macarons!

My favorite dessert is a Huge Banana Split, Rocky Road, Cherries Jubilie and French Vanilla topped with strawberries, hot fudge and pinneapple. Can’t forget the whipped cream and 3 cherries!

My favorite dessert is anything with apples or cranberries in it! I’m not picky with anything else

My favorite holiday dessert? Hard to name just one, but I will go with frosted sugar cookies. I only make them at Christmas, so they are special and decorating them with the kids is the best part !

My favorite holiday dessert is the colorful different types of cookies and cupcakes!

Chocolate and peanut butter torte!

My favorite holiday dessert is the Snowball cookie, also know as a Russian Teacake. There so delicious!! They are cookie balls with walnuts and rolled in powdered sugar. My mom has been making them for as long as I can remember, a family and friend favorite for sure! as soon as Thanksgiving is over she is bombarded with requests to make her famous snowballs!!

My favorite holiday dessert are cupcakes because their are so many ways you can alter its appearance to make it more festive for the holidays! You can “dress” cupcakes up to make them look absolutely stunning for holiday parties, and you’ll be surprise that this simple dessert can make one extremely happy!

Homemade potica. It is a slovak baked good that I watched my Grandma make every year!

Molton lava cake with fresh strawberries or raspberries. And I can’t wait for Sprinkles German Chocolate (which they need to make year round)

Strawberry pie with mint whipped cream. Bring it to a potluck and give out tickets. Only those drawing the
lucky number get a slice.

My favorite holiday dessert is key lime cheesecake! It is not particularly “winter-y”, but it makes me smile and seems to please many others, too…

for the holidays, i LOVE red velvet anything!! or sugar cookies!!!

Peppermint Bark Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory!

Quand je suis allée en Belgique les six derniers mois, j’ai mangé le cookie qui s’appelle “speculoos.” Il a un goût de pain d’épice, et il est très fréquent en Décembre pour la fête de Saint Nicolas (le 6 décembre). Ma mère a trouvé le speculoos au Californie, et m’a donné les cookies hier soir! Joyeux Noël! Je peux manger mon nouveau dessert favori belge aux États-Unis!

*Because French makes things sound cooler: When I went to Belgium for the last 6 months, I ate speculoos, a gingerbread-like cookie that is very common in December, especially for the feast of St. Nick on December 6. My mom found speculoos in California, and gave me the cookies last night! Merry Christmas! I can eat my new favorite Belgian dessert in the US! (thinking of memories of all my friends in Belgium who shared recipes and stories over glasses of milk and plates of speculoos)

**And I am still practicing on my french, by the way…

Love some cupcakes of course! I also love pumpkin rolls and anything chocolate and gooey! Yummm!

My favorites are probably lemon cookies and peppermint mochas !:)

Oh fudge! It’s hard to pick one favorite holiday dessert, but I’d pick my mom’s easy-to-make fudge because it tastes deliciously rich, and it so simple to make. I give away this treat as a hostess gift. (But no way do I reveal my secret recipe even though it can be found on the back of a name brand evaporated milk can!) I cut the cubes tiny and put them in decorative paper cups which make them taste even better! Wanna go nuts? Add nuts! (Walnuts work best.) Make sure you lick your fingers after eating each piece!

I LOVE cupcakes!! Peppermint vanilla cupcakes are my ALL-TIME FAVORITE!

My favorite dessert are brownies. They are the best in the world!

my favorite dessert is pumpkin pie bread pudding. it’s unbelievable!

Hands down my Grandma’s “Bento” Icebox. The day before xmas the grand kids get together, grandma makes a delicious vanilla bean custard and a simple (yet delicious)pound cake. Just like a factory and assembly line the grand kids cut the pound cake and build the “bento” icebox alternating pound cake and custard. Everyone gets involved. It goes to the fridge and we eat it on xmas day. It’s a family effort and brings so much good memories.

Apple pie is my favorite! (with extra cinnamon)

My favorite holiday dessert is egg tart. I love eggs and especially the taste of sweet sugary egg tarts. My mom and I usually make them from scratch with many flaky and crispy layers. Instead of using lard or white sugar, we use vegetable oil and brown sugar which makes them more special and look more different than the usual egg tarts. Every year the tarts always remind me of the good memories I’ve had as a child. I also remember the homemade banana bread, the chocolate chip cookies, and chocolate cupcakes.

My favorite holiday desser that I abbsolutely LOVE is Sauerkraut Cupcake Batter Cupcakes<3!!! This low-fat version of a delectable treat uses sauerkraut and applesauce instead of high-fat butter and oil<3!!! That's not to say I do not LOVE regular cupcakes and eat them all day I was just introduces to these last year at a holiday party and fell in LOVE<3!!! They are healthy, so I can eat a lot of food and still have a lot of dessert and they taste so good which I was not expecting at all the first time I saw them my friend had to beg me to have one! I LOVE LOVE LLLOOOVVVEEE cupcakes all kinds maybe that is why I love these so much<3!!! THANK YOU SO SO SOOOO VERY MUCH THIS IS SO KIND AND GENEROUS OF YOU !!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH AND HAVE A VERY AMAZING HOLIDAYS AND AN AWESOME NEW YEAR:)!!!!!!!

My favorite dessert this holiday as got to be white chocolate peppermint bark with a bottom layer of chocolate. YUMMY!

Chocolate raspberry bread pudding. So good.

My all time favorite is my aunt’s ho-ho bars (stacked chocolate cake with frosting stacked between the layers). But, I live three hrs from the closest Sprinkles and I get some every holiday season. Delicious!

My favorite holiday desert pumpkin pie! You can never go wrong with that. It’s absolutely delicious! happy holidays everyone :]

My fav holiday desserts is all. But i have to pick it would be snickerdoodle cookies. Yum or soft chewy ginerbread cookies. Delicious with a hot cup of hot cocoa with roasted marshmallow. IHappy IHolidays!!

My favorite holiday dessert is cookies! I just love cookies, there are so many flavors and also you can decorate them by cutting them into different styles or changing its colors. Cookies are absolutely yummy.

LOVE homemade peppermint bark!!

Fudge made from scratch, also made white chocolate dipped oreos this year…YUMMMMMY!!!!

My favorite dessert is pecan pie.

My favorite Christmas Desert were my grandmothers ginger bread shaped men with red hot eyes and buttons. Whenever I eat them, i think of her and how she always made Christmas the best holiday.

My favorite holiday dessert is my mother’s traditional peppermint cheesecake. The aroma of it baking always reminds me of Christmas and of her. She was the matriarch of our family, truly the glue that bonded us all together. She passed away suddenly 1/30/2006. Each Christmas Mom’s cheesecake keeps her memory alive.

my favorite holiday dessert is homemade sugar cookies that we all decorate with our kids with homemade icing and sprinkles

My favorite holiday dessert is a big plate of a variety of cookies, frosted, with nuts, irregular, perfectly formed and in every flavor! cookie cookies cookies.

Pumpkin pie, for sure!

a very chocolatey yule log (with whip cream instead of frosting) and pretty much any pie except mince meat!

Has anyone tried the new Baked Alaska at Trader Joe’s…that is my new favorite holiday dessert – I hope they make it every year! For those of you that aren’t lucky enough to have TJ’s near you, it’s peppermint ice cream on a graham cracker crust (although I wish it was an oreo crust) and yummy meringue topping. I can eat the whole box myself.

Sprinkles cupcakes are my favorite dessert year round (caramel apple, banana dark chocolate, mocha, eggnog), but for the holidays it would be the made from scratch, desserts my family and I make together each year. My mom has made homemade Gingerbread (from scratch) every year since I can remember. Some years we made houses and others we made men, women, children, and Santa Claus’. My grandmother would always make homemade divinity (so good!) and hard candy when I was younger. The best bit of it, for me, is the time we share and the memories that are created…AND I am the Official taste tester

I love all cakes with frosting, and cupcakes are the perfect size. I also like S’mores, but I haven’t not been able to make it to Sprinkles when that flavor is available since I have to fly to CA or NY from Seattle for my Sprinkles cupcakes!

My favorite holiday desert would have to be pumpkin pie!

reindeer cupcakes are super cute!

Quite difficult to choose only one holiday dessert as a favorite… But OK!! I guess mine will be the honey-dipped spice cookies (called ‘melomakarona’ in Greek) my lovely yaya (Greek for grandmother) makes mostly because they are made by her and she is the sweetest person in the world

Quite difficult to choose only one holiday dessert as a favorite… But OK!! I guess mine will be the honey-dipped spice cookies (called ‘melomakarona’ in Greek) my lovely yaya (Greek for grandmother) makes mostly because they are made by her and she is the sweetest person in the world

My favorite holiday dessert is Pumpkin Cake Roll – with cream cheese filling …. yum! I like the lower fat, stevia sweetened version.

Banana cream pie. Yum!

For as long as I can remember, my mom has made Christmas cookies to give out to friends and family. Now that my siblings and I are all grown up, we are the ones who make them while she relaxes! One of my favorite and delicious holiday traditions is making those cookies, especially since they’re all family recipes! Not only do they taste delicious, but there are so many memories baked right into them. My favorite are the butter cookies shaped like Christmas trees!

Absolutely Red Velvet Cupcakes!

Baklava! One pistachio and one spicy pecan. We can barely wait for it to cool down to eat it, even though it is supposed to rest overnight. Yum!

My favorite holiday dessert is my nana’s christmas candy. Its made with chocolate/butterscotch meltrd together on top of cornflakes mixed with a sweet coating. YUM!

My favorite holiday dessert has to be pumpkin pie or anything pumpkin really. There is something about that pumpkin smell filling the house that is soooo nostalgic to me. Plus the taste of pumpkin pie never gets old.

Ice Cream Cake. My birthday on 12/24. We always celebrate it with cake. Recently we been getting ice cream cake. I know….it’s freezing to have ice cream during the winter time. But to my 2 year old niece, it’s not a birthday without an ice cream cake. Since Ice cream cake brings a smile to her face, then it’s worth it

My favorite holiday dessert is pecan pie; it’s special to me because my mom made her own recipe for it, I hope to one day pass on to my (future) kids. Side note: pecans are great, they can be added to many other sweets, such as chocolate chip cookies, brownies, ice cream, even the icing on some cakes. Pecans are also the main attraction in a TX (southern) sweet, simply known as pecan candy. Yum!

Anything with peppermint or pumpkin!

My favorite Christmas dessert would have to be spritz cookies. I make them with my aunt every year and we use the cookie press to shape them into trees. When they’re all done, I fill them with fudge- my favorote part!

homemade madelines by my french grandma and a extra large sized tub of hagen daaz vanilla and chocolate covered almond ice cream. ~~ yums i gain weight just imagining this

A warm, ooie-gooie chocolate cake with melted oozing warm chocolate and a scoop of vanilla ice cream covered in hot fudge, sprinkled with toasted, shredded almonds. Uuuummmmm……I can’t wait!

Traditional English Christmas trifle is my absolute favorite dessert to eat at Christmastime. And nobody makes it better than my Nana. She’s 90 and first generation in her family here from the UK.

i love the old fashioned sugar cookies we make every year. My mother used to make them and I now I am teaching my daughters to make them.

My absolute favorite holiday dessert is lady locks. Every year my mother in law makes these flaky creamed filled treats for the whole family. It is a delicious treat that I look forward to all year long.

My favorite dessert is my mom’s Texan pecan pie. She uses Vanilla from Mexico and it’s AMAZING!

Appalachian Apple Stack Cake! My grandmother peels and dries the apples in the sun in Tennessee and mails them to me in Los Angeles. Then, I make these layers that are a cross between a sugar cookie and shortbread, and put the rehydrated apple mixture between all SIX layers. And the best part is it gets better every day, because the apples moisten it! Makes me feel like I’m back in the South.

My favorite holiday dessert is Mince Pies! Moving to California from England in 2010 they are not easy to find so I bake them myself each year. Warm them slightly and serve with brandy butter or whipped cream for the perfect dessert.

lilikoi soufle from the Mauna Kea Resort on the Big Island.

One of the best things during the holidays is baking, especially baking with friends and family. One of my favorite holiday desserts to bake and eat are gingerbread cookies. I always bake those with my kids. It’s so much fun. Sprinkles has a cupcake called Ginger Lemon, which I happen to LOVE. It is really delicious! And I am not saying this in order to win. I just really love that cupcake. But I guess since the Ginger Lemon cupcake is not really consider a holiday dessert, I am choosing the gingerbread cookies as my favorite holiday dessert. So I guess my answer (short one) would be: Gingerbread cookies are my favorite holiday dessert.

There once was a girl with curly hair
And a sweet tooth mega-sized.
She’d eat the cookies, cakes, and tarts
But cupcakes, she most prized.
Because she had a special friend
Who made it a tradition
To go down to the Sprinkles shop.
The cupcakes were their mission!
Together they would share two cakes:
Vanilla and banana.
The icing on their laughing faces,
They wished for more from Santa.
And still today with my special friend
Those perfect cupcakes, we crave.
Those cupcakes at the Holidays
Remind us of our sugary escapades.

Cheesecake! Any time!

Tiramisu

Oreo Dirt Cake..mmmmmm.

A haiku and ode to the best holiday dessert!

William Sonoma
Peppermint Bark is frikkin
worth the calories!

I sometimes run into the William Sonoma in the mall just to sneak samples.In December, the samples are always out! If it’s sample sized, it doesn’t count, right? Plus the kids love it. And it goes on sale during the holiday season. A win-win, obviously! Peppermint bark cookies, cheesecake, cupcakes… my favorite holiday dessert has you all owned!

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I HOPE THAT YOU ACCEPT THIS BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS POEM SINCE BEFORE 7 AM (MY HISTORY SAID 7:29AM BUT I WAS ON FACEBOOK WITH SPRINKLES WAY BEFORE THAT IN 5AM HOUR AND I TRIED TO POST IT EXACTLY AT 9:58AM ON CHRISTMAS EVE AND I’VE BEEN TRYING TO POST IT EVER SINCE WITHOUT ANY LUCK SO I THOUGHT I WOULD TYPE IT EXACTLY AS I TRIED TO POST IT (I SAW MY NAME WITHOUT A POEM ATTACHED SO HERE GOES…..mERRY cHRISTMAS EVE TO ALL!!!!!!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE TO ALL
TO ALL MOUTHS THAT EAT THIS CHRISTMAS DAY
I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A BALL!
& MAY YOUR HOLIDAY BE BRIGHT & GAY!
INSTEAD OF DREAMING OF DANCING SUGARPLUMS IN OUR HEADS
MAY WE ALL PARTAKE OF HOMEMADE SWEET SUGARY TREATS MADE WITH LOVE
WHILE WE ARE ALL SNUGGLED IN OUR BEDS
THIS AWESOME & AMAZING NITE
LET US AWAKE THIS HAPPY CHRISTMAS MORNING & LET US HAVE CHRISTMAS TEA & COOKIES
& LATER HAVE CAKES & PIES, ESPECIALLY PIES!
MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY TREAT IS A PUMPKIN PIE WITH A FEW TWISTS
SO ALL YOU WONDERFUL SANTAS OUT THERE MAKE SURE YOU PUT THIS ON YOUR NICE LIST
DARK CHOCOLATE COVERED CRUST, WITH A CARAMEL SWIRLED PUMPKIN FILLING TOPPED WITH CINNAMON
WHIPPED CREAM
& SO THAT YOU CAN FIND YOUR MAGICAL WAY, DON’T FORGET “SPRINKLES” OF PECANS
ON TOP OF A NORTHERN STARBEAM
AFTER ALL THE PURPOSE OF THIS DAY HAS TO DO WITH THE GLOWING GLORIOUS WHITE DOVE
ASCENDING ON EACH AND EVERYONE
SENT DOWN FROM HEAVEN ABOVE
SO TO ALL I BID A BEAUTIFUL DAY ON THIS LOVELY EVE & A MERRY CHRISTMAS NIGHT!!!!!!

AND SO I HOPE I HAVE WON!!!
AND I REALLY HOPE IT POSTS THIS TIME!!!! WISH ME LUCK EVERYONE!
JULIE ANNETTE VERONICA SMASAL (PUBLISHED POET) 1987 ON THE EASTERN SHORE (TM)

My favorite holiday dessert would be the homemade gingerbread cookies I would make with my family. We decorate each cookie as members of our family and set them up in front of our gingerbread house….it’s tradition!