4 Easy Delicious Homemade Holiday Cookie Mixes

This cookie mix recipe collection is just fantastic! There are four flavor variations here in one post. Homemade mixes are easy to make and you can control the ingredients. It’s a wonderful way to bake from scratch and still enjoy the convenience of a mix.
Best Ever Cranberry-Orange Hazelnut Bread

The very embodiment of Holiday quick-bread can be found in this addictive loaf. The texture is light with a thin even crust, and an abundance of toasted nuts to mingle with the tart cranberries.
Best Easy Pumpkin Pie Spice Pecan Sticky Buns

Pillowy and dreamy. Float away to happiness with these rolls that are as absolutely heavenly as they sound. These soft, delicate layers of lightly sweetened buttery dough are dotted with just a hint of toasted wheat germ to make it taste like a puffed-up super-soft graham cracker cloud of airy pumpkin pie goodness drizzled with caramel sauce you can stuff in your face. Too much? We don’t think so!
Big Texas Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This is a big ol’ cake with a shocking red color and an extra-tender cake piled high with fluffy cream cheese frosting. The finished cake is almost a foot tall when frosted! It’s a wonderful dramatic dessert.
The Best French Macarons

French Macarons are the pinnacle of baking confectionery genius. Macarons take cookies to an unimaginable extreme of culinary perfection. Don’t confuse Macarons with the coconut cookies called “macaroons.” These almond flour cookies are made with a meringue base. When baked correctly, they have a light, crisp sugary coating surrounding a tender, chewy cookie interior.
Best Complete Guide to Cooking with Amaranth

Amaranth is naturally gluten free, making it a versatile grain that can be used in a variety of delicious baking and cooking applications.
Classic Mile High Apple Pie

This pie recipe effortlessly combines everything we love about pies. A super buttery flaky crust that melts in your mouth and a sweet (but not-too-sweet) fresh apple filling that evokes a sense of down-home warmth and comfort.
Easy Beginner’s Sponge Cake & Boston Cream Pie

If you’ve never made a sponge cake, this is a fantastic recipe to start your baking adventure. It is also a good base in our Boston Cream Pie recipe because it doesn’t require any tricky folding or separating of eggs usually required for making a good sponge cake.
Easy Homemade Chewy Granola Bars with Nuts, Chia, and Cranberries

Store purchased granola bars are usually full of fillers, far too sweet, not nearly as chewy as they should be, and fall apart quickly.
Easy Chicken Pot Pie with Buttery Flaky Crust

Prep this dish to last you the week or make for a special dinner with loved ones. It’s sure to become your go-to pie recipe in no time at all.