The holiday season is the biggest baking season of the year. Even people who haven’t turned their ovens on in 11 months will still usually bake up a batch or two of holiday cookies! It’s important to have your pantry well-stocked for the season and a Holiday Baking Gift Pack from Rodelle is just what you need to get through all the baking you have to do this month. The set includes Rodelle’s new vanilla bean paste, as well as vanilla extract, chocolate extract, almond extract and unsweetened baking cocoa – and I have two gift packs to give away to two lucky readers!
To enter the contest, just leave a comment on this post and tell me what your favorite holiday baked good is – whether it is a Christmas cookie that you’ve been baking for twenty years or a coffee cake recipe you just added to your repertoire for holiday entertaining. The contest ends Sunday at midnight (12/14/2014) and two winners will be randomly selected from the entries. Don’t forget to fill in your e-mail on the comment form (it will not be made public), as that is how I will contact the winner, and good luck!
Here are a few chocolate and vanilla recipes to kick start your holiday baking:
maureen
December 11, 2014I recently bought a cookbook that has a gingerbread bar recipe in it. I had been looking for a recipe to recreate a cookie that my husband loves and this came very close. The place where we would purchase the gingerbread cookie is not near us any longer and he loves them. I made these bars with some cream cheese frosting and they were wonderful and we are going to make again for a gathering.
Amy Kazanas
December 11, 2014I wait every year for cranberries to show up so I can make Vanilla Cranberry Buckle. It’s one of the things I’m willing to use my hoarded vanilla bean paste on and it is so good.
Erin
December 11, 2014My mom’s gingersnaps & pecan tartlets are the best holiday treats!
Lise
December 11, 2014What an awesome giveaway!
I’m from Belgium, I hope that that isn’t a problem.
My favorite X-mas recipe is frozen hot chocolate with the chocolate cookies from my grandmother! <3
Fingers crossed 😉
Lise
Shelly G.
December 11, 2014I love making Jewish Apple Cake 🙂
Patty
December 11, 2014Cookies, any kind
Bianca @ Sweet Dreaming
December 11, 2014yule log 🙂
Katie
December 11, 2014Cinnamon rolls… everyone always loves them and they just feel like a lovely holiday treat! 🙂
Tricia
December 11, 2014A double chocolate cookie with dried cranberrys….. I got hooked on Rodelle cocoa a few years ago when Costco had it for sale…..now I have to order it from Amazon. LOVE this stuff as does my family….
Tommy
December 11, 2014I just made Panettone for the first time last week, and I think it may become my favorite
Nupur
December 11, 2014I make almond biscotti- simple but classic and always a hit with my family and friends. I’ll be making a batch for my daughter’s teachers this weekend.
Traci Ross
December 11, 2014Every year I make a different variety of cookies to give out as gifts. Rugelach is one of my favorites to make!
Cheryl Newton
December 11, 2014Peanut brittle! But only if it’s made from the same recipe that one of my mom’s friends uses. I’ve never tasted anything better.
Madmax
December 11, 2014Date Pinwheel Cookies
LauriM
December 11, 2014My grandma, mom, & I make the same cookies for Christmas every year. We make sugar and gingerbread cut-outs, snowballs, and gum drop cookies.
Trish
December 11, 2014Probably my mom’s molasses cookies. They are home to me.
dhivya
December 11, 2014Christmas fruit cake
Angie
December 11, 2014My grandmother’s sugar cookies!
SarahK
December 11, 2014My favorite baked good this time of year is the peanut butter cookies with a Hersey’s kiss on top. My mom has been making them for as long as I can remember and I’ll be turning 27 this year!
Vimitha
December 11, 2014The classic Christmas rum cake is my all time favorite… 🙂
Joshua
December 11, 2014Every year I have to make and eat a ton of white chocolate covered pretzel wreaths with red and green sugar sprinkled on. Yum!
Lisa Gutierrez
December 11, 2014My mom Christmas cookies, decorated by us for the last 50 years, with great grandchildren now participating.
Christine L
December 11, 2014My son asks for sugar cookies every year – I love seeing how happy it makes him.
lisa
December 11, 2014Pizelles are my favorite holiday cookie!
Brian
December 11, 2014I have always loved Linzer cookies – they’re relatively easy but people are always impressed by them.
Liz McClurkan
December 11, 2014My favorite holiday baked good is hard to pin down. Things I absolutely MUST bake include the following:
pumpkin pie, puppy chow, snickerdoodles, and chocolate fudge.
Any of those are usually my go-to’s…. but I love many recipes!
jeanie
December 11, 2014My family MUST have Russian Tea Cakes and Peanut Butter Blossoms.
Luke
December 11, 2014A family cookie we call “heavenlies”
Christy Siojo
December 11, 2014I love soft gingerbread cookies!
Terry Z
December 11, 2014Favorite holiday baked good is Hungarian kalacs. This year I might try stollen or panettone as well.
Katherine
December 11, 2014Gingerbread cake. Yum.
Matt
December 11, 2014Anything with anise and clove.
Heather
December 11, 2014My mom’s toffee bars – made every year, only for christmas.
Terri
December 11, 2014I love making peppermint bark during the holidays.
Sarah
December 11, 2014I have the usual suspects when it comes to cookies, so I always like to try at least one new recipe every year. I haven’t decided what this year’s will be though. Chocolate chip are my favorite.
Cara
December 11, 2014My grandmother’s tea cookies
Allison
December 11, 2014Spritz cookies
Alexis
December 11, 2014Your Pumpkin Pie cupcakes have become a staple. And my Vanilla Loaf Cake!
Kristen
December 11, 2014My mom’s pecan thumbprints.
Brittany Bailey
December 11, 2014I love cinnamon chocolate Amish friendship bread that my mom makes every year. This year was my first time making it myself!
Eva @ Eva Bakes
December 11, 2014Cheesecake!
Nicole
December 11, 2014Eggnog flavored anything, cookies, pies, puddings, cakes, drinks. YUMMY!!
Kat
December 11, 2014Cookies, cookies, and more cookies!
Jessica
December 11, 2014Spritz cookies!
Laurie Mackey
December 11, 2014Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies… They are always a hit!
Christie
December 11, 2014Fudge!
Heather M.
December 11, 2014I love making Mary Randolph’s Tavern Biscuits from her 1828 “Virginia House-wife” cookbook.
Franny
December 11, 2014Sugar cookies!! and all the other cookies… but fresh soft sugar cookies cannot be beat!
beccalecca
December 11, 2014The Christmas cutout sugar cookies! Sprinkles galore!
Ashley
December 11, 2014I look forward to getting a loaf of panettone during Christmas time. It’s tradition in our family. Oh and you can’t forget gingerbread cookies!