Why settle for ordinary deviled eggs when you could make these visually enticing Bloody Mary Deviled Eggs? This recipe offers a fun Bloody Mary twist to this popular appetizer, garnished with celery stalks, olives, and shrimp! Bloody Mary Deviled Eggs are perfect for those special occasions or festive holiday celebrations such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter,…
Christmas
Flavor Mosaic recipes that are often served for Christmas holiday dinners. This includes main dishes, sides, appetizers, and desserts.
Mexican Wedding Cookies
These Mexican Wedding Cookies (also known as “snowballs”, Mexican Polvorones cookies, Russian Tea Cookies, or Pecan Sandies) offer a buttery pecan shortbread cookie ball that’s coated in sweetly soft powdered sugar – resembling powder-soft early snowfall, officially welcoming the Christmas season! These sweet buttery shortbread snowballs make the best melt-in-your-mouth wedding cookies! While the name…
Carrot Cake Cheesecake
Carrot Cake Cheesecake is an exquisite, show-stopping dessert! Whether you serve it at a birthday party, or as a holiday dessert at Easter or Thanksgiving, everyone will be asking you for the recipe. Decadent and delicious, the soft and spongy carrot cake is layered with a smooth and creamy cheesecake! If that weren’t enough, this…
Baked Acorn Squash Slices
Sweet and Spicy Baked Acorn Squash Slices are oven-roasted with pumpkin seeds (pepitas) and pomegranate seeds to make an impressive and festive Thanksgiving side dish for your holiday dinner. Covered in a sweet and spicy seasoning made with brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, chili powder, paprika, and a hint of cayenne, this oven-roasted acorn squash recipe…
Instant Pot Pear Apple Cider
Bring on the flavors and aromas of fall with this Instant Pot Pear Apple Cider recipe! It’s the time of year to enjoy a mug of hot apple cider. However, we added a twist to ours and combined pear cider and apple cider in this easy Instant Pot cider. This Pear Apple Cider offers a…
Twice Baked Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Warm, comforting, and topped with fluffy marshmallows, these Twice Baked Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are the perfect option for when you’re craving those fall flavors. Twice Baked Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are individual sweet potatoes, stuffed with a creamy, pumpkin pie spiced sweet potato filling, and topped with gooey marshmallows that are roasted until they are perfectly…
Ham Salad Tortilla Pinwheels
Ham Salad Tortilla Pinwheels are fun party appetizers that are family-friendly and make delicious finger food for a party, picnic, or lunch! Burrito Sized Tortillas are filled with ham salad made with ham, cream cheese, celery, mayo, mustard, relish, and more, for a make-ahead, budget-friendly party appetizer! These make flavorful bite-sized pinwheels that are an…
10 Best Recipes To Use Up Leftover Ham
You cook up a large ham for holiday dinner! It is delicious, but now you have all this leftover ham. Here are some of the best ideas for how to use that leftover ham. These are my top 10 recipes for using leftover ham. With all the other food that you had for the holiday,…
Best Homemade Carrot Cake
This is the Best Homemade Carrot Cake recipe because it is a sweet, moist, and rich Carrot Cake made from scratch with pineapple, raisins, and pecans with a smooth cream cheese frosting. When you want a dessert that everyone will love, make this cake! It makes a perfect Easter Dessert, Thanksgiving Dessert, or Christmas Cake….
Peach Glazed Spiral Ham
Peach Glazed Spiral Ham is a salty, savory ham with the best sweet peach ham glaze and is perfect for an Easter, Thanksgiving, or Christmas ham dinner! Sticky, Sweet, Salty, and Smokey, this Spiral Glazed Ham will be a hit with family and friends at your next holiday dinner. A glazed spiral sliced ham has…
Lime Charlotte Icebox Cake
Lime Charlotte, or Charlotte Russe, is an easy lime icebox cake that is a delicious no-bake Mexican Dessert. No baking, just layers of creamy goodness over cookies, then refrigerate or freeze for a deliciously refreshing dessert. You’ll love this easy no-bake, light, and creamy dessert! Served cold, it has that creamy goodness inside, and is…
Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate Bombs
Make Hot Chocolate fun by adding Salted Caramel Chocolate Bombs filled with hot chocolate mix and marshmallows to steaming hot milk and watch the chocolate melt away and the marshmallows release! These Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate Bombs are perfect for a fun hot beverage on a cold night, or a Valentine’s Day gift for your…
Mini Gingerbread Cheesecake Bites
Mini Gingerbread Cheesecake Bites are mini cheesecakes with a delicious gingerbread cookie crust. These gingerbread cheesecakes provide a taste of Christmas in every bite. With a vanilla cheesecake filling inside of mini gingerbread cups and drizzled with melted white chocolate, these mini cheesecakes are perfect when you want a bite of the dessert without baking…
A Stunning Holiday Dinner Menu
Today I’m sharing our Christmas Dinner Menu that has amazing recipes that will result in a Stunning Christmas Dinner! Included are all the necessities for every Holiday Dinner, including appetizers, drinks, salads, sides, main course, and desserts! As a bonus, I’ve added some additional recipes to give you some ideas on what to do with…
Molasses Crinkle Cookies
Molasses Crinkle Cookies, AKA Molasses Crinkles, are soft, thick, spiced molasses cookies, covered in powdered sugar, and are delicious for the holidays or any day! You’ll love these molasses cookies because they are soft and chewy and crinkle-y and sweet because they are coated in two types of sugar. Why You’ll Love These Cookies If…
Hot Chocolate Cupcakes
Hot Chocolate Cupcakes are filled with marshmallows and topped with a satiny chocolate ganache and topped with a marshmallow and peppermint, or candy cane chips, and a candy cane “straw.” However, since this chocolate cupcake recipe is so versatile, you can make it not only for Christmas but also for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Birthdays,…
Christmas Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies
Christmas Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies, with Buttercream Icing, are colorful, sweet, buttery shortbread thumbprint cookies, covered in red and green sprinkles and topped with either red, green, or white buttercream frosting! Make a batch of these Christmas Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies and get ready for a holiday party to break out. They are so cheerful and colorful…
Leftover Ham and Broccoli Quiche
Leftover Ham and Broccoli Quiche is an easy and delicious quiche recipe to use up leftover holiday ham and is perfect for a weekend breakfast or brunch! A rich creamy, cheesy and savory egg custard in a flaky pastry crust, this quiche recipe uses ham and broccoli as its fillings and cooks up easily in…
Creme Brûlée (Cranberry and White Chocolate)
Cranberry White Chocolate Creme Brûlée is a sweet and creamy white chocolate custard with cranberry sauce and topped with a crisp sugar coating for an impressive gourmet dessert! What is Creme Brulee? The typical homemade Creme Brûlée is a creamy vanilla custard topped with a crisp, a light golden caramelized sugar coating, that makes a…
Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad
Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad, with apples, pomegranates, parmesan, and pecans, is drizzled with a sweet and tangy apple cider vinaigrette, is crunchy and delicious. This Salad makes a perfect Fall salad for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner or any holiday dinner. Years ago when My husband and I were first engaged we went out to visit…
Cookies And Cream Cookies
Cookies And Cream Cookies, also known as Oreo Cheesecake Cookies, combine Oreos and cream cheese to make a sweet, chocolatey cookie recipe that is sure to become a family favorite! When I was making my Holiday Baking List, I wanted to add a cookie recipe that was delicious but different than what I have made…
Eggless Sugar Cookies
These Eggless Sugar Cookies are thick, soft, sweet, buttery drop sugar cookies made without eggs, but taste like the old fashioned sugar cookies you remember as a kid. Is it Christmas in July? Sort of. National Sugar Cookie day is in July. Did you miss it? No worries, here is an Eggless Sugar Cookies recipe…
Strawberry Mini Pavlova (Meringue Dessert)
Strawberry Mini Pavlova is an egg white meringue pavlova dessert that is topped with strawberries and is soft and pillowy on the inside and crisp on the outside. One bite of this sweet, crispy, creamy meringue dessert with strawberries and you’ll agree that this is the best pavlova recipe! Topped with strawberries, and it is…
Instant Pot Ham and Bean Soup
Instant Pot Ham and Bean Soup is a delicious, hearty, budget-friendly soup made with a ham bone or ham hock, or chopped ham, and dried beans (no soaking required) with lots of seasonings in your pressure cooker. What is great about Ham and Bean Soup? There is no better comfort food than Ham and Bean…