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:
Treva
December 11, 2014Pumpkin bread is my absolute favorite, and for some reason we only make it at Christmas.
darla s.
December 11, 2014Gingersnaps!
Carol Neuhaus
December 11, 2014Just love baking cookies. I have made five different ones this week. My favorite are pistachio/cranberry biscotti dipped in white chocolate.
Shaina
December 11, 2014Hmm this is a hard one! I really love soft, chewy homemade cookies
Beth C.
December 11, 2014My grandmother’s mincemeat pillow cookies. She made them every year, and when I was stationed all over the place, she packed them in a shoebox and sent them to me.
Michelle
December 11, 2014My mom makes hidden kiss snowball cookies every year that I can’t live without!!
jane
December 11, 2014Gingerbread with crystallized ginger. I don’t know why people don’t want to make this all year. I love it.
Karen B
December 11, 2014Russian teacakes!
Dana S
December 11, 2014sufganiyot!
Alexandra
December 11, 2014Almond cookies!
Kris
December 11, 2014So hard to choose, but I really like pumpkin bread
Shannon
December 11, 2014I love making my white chocolate raspberry mousse cake for Christmas
Corrie
December 11, 2014My mom’s Peanut Butter Blossom cookies!
Rose-Ellen
December 11, 2014Chocolate crackle cookies! They are truly the picture of a Winter Wonderland, with their snowy white exterior and the promise of a chocolate fudgey interior. Yum!
Caley
December 11, 2014Cranberry cheesecake, especially individual cheesecakes!
Beth L
December 11, 2014Almond Toffee – made two batches already.
sprite
December 11, 2014I’m not sure they’re my favorite, but it wouldn’t be Christmas without Spritz cookies.
Carla
December 11, 2014My favorite thing to bake is Korova cookies.
Ella
December 11, 2014My Mum makes these insanely delicious mini cupcakes! Her lemon/cranberry (I think that’s whats in it) are tiny bites of Heaven! I’ve begged for the recipe because I live so far away now. She wont share her secret haha but she does send a big batch of them every Christmas, I’ll take what I can get!
SueBE
December 11, 2014Chocolate crinkles. They were a childhood favorite in my husband’s home. I love them but didn’t “meet” this cookie until after we married.
Rebecca
December 11, 2014My favorite is snow balls!
Kate
December 11, 2014French sables! I make them as gifts for my girls’ teachers during the Christmas holiday!
Talina
December 11, 2014Shortbread cookies!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
christy spurlock
December 11, 2014I love syrup tea cakes!
Serena Powell
December 11, 2014My favorite holiday baked good is my mother’s fudge! It is one of my all time favorite sweets.
Janice
December 11, 2014Shortbread cookies!!! Delish.
Terri A
December 11, 2014Almond Roca.
Seana
December 11, 2014Any and all kinds of gingerbread!
Melanie W.
December 11, 2014Hungarian Christmas Cookies!
The recipe was passed down from mother to daughter by my Great-Grandmother, who came from Hungary.
Brenda
December 11, 2014chocolate chip cookie, pecan pie, Oreo truffles. I love cooking for the holidays.
Sydney
December 11, 2014Definitely my grandmother’s recipe for snowball cookies 🙂
Lynn@Happier Than A Pig In Mud
December 11, 2014I wouldn’t be Christmas without some spritz cookies:@)
Jenny
December 11, 2014I love my family friend’s pecan pie that’s thin and delicious!
Cathie
December 11, 2014Gingerbread cookies. Hands down my favorite.
dena
December 11, 2014Candy. Candy candy candy. By the time I box up all the candy, I don’t want to even LOOK at chocolate. Of course that feeling lasts until about mid-January.
Dorothy Bukowski
December 11, 2014In my family it is traditional to bake up a batch of biscochitos a traditional Mexican wedding cookie.
Dorothy
Michelle S.
December 11, 2014Sugar cookies with lots of sprinkles.
Hannah
December 11, 2014Buckeyes!
Nan Ellman
December 11, 2014My favorite is chocolate dipped shortbread.
terri
December 11, 2014my mom has this “secret” recipe for cookies (she got it from a friend) that always remind me of christmas, since that’s when she’d always make it…
June
December 11, 2014I have a new favorite–gingered shortbread–shortbread with powdered ginger and crystalized ginger. They’re
awesome 🙂
Linda
December 11, 2014Hard to narrow it down but I think my favorite was one I got here that is a double chocolate peppermint chip cake that uses both white and dark chocolate and peppermint extract added to the white part and layered together. It is amazing.
heather
December 11, 2014My fav is mom’s Christmas cookies.
Joanie B
December 11, 2014American’s Test Kitchen’s pecan bars with a shortbread crust. When I discovered this treat a few years ago, I achieved baker rock star status amongst friends/family! And YOUR pumpkin sheet cake remains a favorite from fall through winter, Halloween thru Valentines Day! 🙂
Lisa
December 11, 2014Peanut butter fudge
karen
December 11, 2014I love pumpkin cheesecake and pumpkin bread. Make pumpkin bread quite often this time of year. The pumpkin cheesecake are for a rare occasions because they are so rich.
Teresa
December 11, 2014Swedish Almond Cookies–a light, almond sandwich cookie with a raspberry filling 🙂
ChAlsey klassen
December 11, 2014I love shortbread with marichino cherries. It’s hard to give away l eat the majority of it!!
jenn b
December 11, 2014gingerbread cookies! It just isn’t Christmas without them.
Laura
December 11, 2014I started making these soft ginger cookies with candied ginger several years ago and they are by far my favorite! I usually make something chocolately too!