>this year we're adding cranberry pistachio biscotti to the mix.
>marcella

whats your recipe for this, if you dont mind. Yum.

>If it's for presents, what does the BF care how cakey or not it is?
>LOL.

Thats true, Nancy. I actually like the cranberry bread, when I make
it I make two loaves, one to
give away, and one I freeze since Im the only one that will eat it.

>springerle; lebkuchen; chocolate pecan fudge;
>chocolate/coconut balls; Chocolate Amaretto truffles; pain de chocolat;
>stollen; pizzelles; waffle cookies; speculatius; kolacki. Carol

wow, I want to be at your house for Christmas.

>Cranberry Cookies
>(from Betty Crocker Recipe Card Library, 1971)

Great :-) thanks so much for posting that!

>I'm addicted to baking for the holidays and generally start around
>November 1... with TONS of sugar cookies, with many many many flavors
>and shapes.
>CJ

I know, me too. The Italian rum cake sounds so good.

>In my youth, Mom would make a banana bread rolled up with a buttercream
>(or similar) filling, almost 2 feet long. Looked like a giant yodel*.
>If left alone with one of those, I could eat it up to the point of
>getting sick.

Sounds almost like a personalized Büche de Noël. My mom used to make
filled sugar cookies,
the filling would be raisins or pineapple.

All the German cookies. I was in Bavaria one Christmas years ago. I
had this candy that was chocolate with marzipan. One of my favorite
candies ever since.