Ten Two Tuesdays - Another Giveaway!
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This week’s Ten Two Tuesdays event is another giveaway, but with a little twist. Instead of just drawing one name at the end of the week, I’m going to draw three, and give each of those three winners one of the Altoids tin ornaments shown, plus a free six month subscription to The Monthly Muse (or a six month extension if they happen to be current subscribers).
So, leave a comment on this post (not some other post, because it won’t count), telling me about your favorite sweet edible holiday treat, and then check back on Tuesday, November 25th to see if you’re one of the three lucky winners.
Good luck!
That is easy, my mother would always make Nanimo bars. They are a three layer very rich treat. The bottom layer is semisweet chocolate, walnuts and graham crackers. The next layer is sweet thick Byrds Custard. After that is set you swirl on a milk chocolate layer. Now I live in the States with my husband, I make these at Christmas and our friends and kids go crazy over them!
Makes me hungry reading all of these yummy treats and I love everyone’s memories that go with them! The tins are beautiful!
My favorite holiday treat? Hmmmmm… I have so many! I hate to admit it, there’s nothing better than sucking on an end of a candy cane and whittling it down the end to a nice sharp point to poke my brother with. Ah… those were the days.
My favourite sweet are Lebkuchen, topped with chocolate and almonds. Every year I have to remember several months before Christmas to bake them, usually in August. When fresh they are hard as stone, but if you squirrel them away in tight tins they are soft and spicy by Christmas time.
My favorite holiday treat were the lemon sugar cookies my grandmother and Aunt made. They were cut in cute shapes, frosted and decorated with sprinkles. I can taste them right now, just writing about them.
my favorite is graham crackers spread with marshmallow cream or peanut butter then dipped in chocolate. The grandkids and I make them every year. Not sure if they are so good because they taste good or because they help me make them. I would love a chance to win your ornament. Hubby and I just found a job so hopefully I will get a pay check before Christmas to order some of the pictures to make some. Everyone loved the bamboo necklaces I made them. Thanks Lisa. Happy Holidays.Hugz, Scary
my favorite is chocolate peanut butter balls
2c. powdered sugar
1/2c. peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2c. milk chocolate morsels
blend the powdered suger, peanut butter and vanilla in a bowl.
blend until smooth.
Melt chocolate morsels in a bowl, slowly in 40 secs. intervals until melted.
now shape the blended peanut butter mixture in balls anout 1/2 inch
and roll them in melted chocolate.
let set for 3 hours and you are good to indulge!! Enjoy!!!!!
My favorite treats for the holidays are chocolate merangie pie, chocolate cookies, fudge brownies, chocolate covered and doubled dipped malted milk balls, or brach’s choc. covered cherrys and chocolate covered marshmello santa’s. Then I diet for 11 months. LOL, Cynthia
My favourite treat at Christmas is a jar of my friend’s homemade Christmas spiced chutney - yummy…….. I have it with every savoury dish (and am pretty sick of it come January!!)
My favorite holiday treat is homemade “peppermint” bark. I started making this several years ago. The first time was by the book, but in following years I became braver and started trying various addition starting with chopped nuts, dehydrated fruits, unexpected flavorings like pineapple or maple, and spices such as cubebs, saffron or cayenne pepper. I really look forward to the holidays now, because this is the only time I experiment with confections.
Hugs!
Lori
Pumpkin pie. I can eat it until I turn orange…which happens to be one of my fav colors!
Wow! One in three chance to win one of your gorgeous ornaments! I want one so bad!!!!!!!! Please, please, please let me be a winner!
One of my favorite Holiday treats is a Fruit Cake that I made…but it’s not like any other Fruit Cake that I have ever had…it’s not that sickening sweat, nobody wants to eat fruit cake. This one is easy to make and it is yummy!
My favorite holiday edible are nut cups. Little cups filled with nuts and sugar and spices. Delicious. Sort of like mini pecan pies that you can pop in your mouth.
I always made gingerbread men for my kids and to give to neighbours. I loved decorating them in very fancy outfits. One year, when the kids were little, I put some on our tree and the next morning, the ones on the lower branches had had their legs eaten off!
My favorite holiday sweet is Ribbon Candy, you know those thin strips of candy that are striped like beautiful ribbons and shaped. They come in fruit flavors. That really brings back the memories of Christmas’ past.
Hmmm, these ALL sound so good! My favorite treat came as a Christmas present– a pound of home made English buttered toffee. A Heath bar had nothing on it. There is nothing like the taste of REAL butter!
My favorite holiday sweet is kisses from my grandbabies!!!
NOTHING BETTER!!!!
Edibly - probably Chocolate Pecan Pie - OR the Date Nut Logs I was asked to fix for my dad and husband every year… I finally started making each of them a batch and a batch for the family to share - They are both gone now, and I haven’t made them since…
Gourmet Candy Apples!
We always make these candy apples each year for gifts for neighbors and friends…and of course for ourselves. If you have never had one you have been slighted for sure.
To Make: First gather all your favorite candies and nuts that can be broken into small bits (peppermint sticks, red hots, butterscotch discs, butterbrickle, coconuts, pecans, walnuts or toasted almonds, nonpariels, etc. Break up and place in separate bowls.
Take nice crisp granny smith apples, stick in handles and coat with caramel like an ordinary caramel apple.
Next, melt white chocolate (almond bark), and regular dipping chocolate, putting each in a separate freezer bag with the corner snipped off.
OK, now we are ready for the fun to begin! Drizzle one of the melted chocolates over an apple, then roll in any of the candies. Set aside for a few minutes to set up while you complete this step on more apples.
Then drizzle each apple with the other colored chocolate and add more candy or nuts, repeating on each of the apples. Repeat this step using different treats until you have built up a layer about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick, letting the chocolate set up between each layer.
Wrap in cellophane and give to special friends. To serve cut into 8-10 wedges…serves approximately 8 adults.
My favorite is tea cakes. I make these every year. It’s a yummy cookie that is not to sweet but very delicious.
Dale
for the last 30 yrs, my mum has made a layered icecream cake:
1st layer: coffee flavoured icecream with walnuts
2nd layer: chocolate icecream with chunks of mars bar or similar
3rd layer: strawberry icecream with pieces of cherry ripe
4th layer: mango icecream with bits of mango
5th layer; peppermint icecream with peppermint choc bits
top: cream (frozen) with flake chocolate on top.
this is made in a very large square icecream container, and feeds 20-30 relatives. She used to make two for two different events, but now she is 84 only makes one.
Oh, and icecream for Christmas? We live in Australia
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!
I’ve found them in my Christmas stockings as long as I can remember.
And now I put themin my grandchildren’s stockings.
Happy Holidays,
Joanie
Living in New Mexico, one of my favorite treats are biscochitos, which are almost like snickerdoodles, but have an anise flavor to them. The homemade ones are the best because everyone has a different recipe, and each one is slightly more unique from the other.
Of course there is always the fudge, but another favorite, one that I make after Thanksgiving, but doesn’t get brought out until New Year’s Eve, is BOURBON BALLS! The alcohol content in them is fairly strong. and too many can give you a mighty buzz. So I often make small batches of those and then make batches without the alcohol for kids and those who don’t want the alcohol.
My mother always made bunches of different kinds of Christmas cookies, including snickerdoodles, sugar cookies, and the kinds you squeezed out of cookie presses. I come from a large family, and she often had an assembly line going. We often had the kitchen coated with sugar and flour, not to mention us kids covered with cookie dough. It’s one of the fondest memories I had growing up, along with making yards of paper chains and Christmas cards made with linoleum blocks.
My Italian grandmother (Nonny) made Strufoli from my uncle’s homemade red wine! Even though all the family winemakers are no longer with us, the strufoli is! Nonny boiled red wine, oil and salt, added flour and made ropes of dough that she’d cut into pieces, deep fry, drain, then drop into a pot of simmering honey for a minute and drain on racks. I don’t know how long they’ll keep as they never last too long!