*Edited* Congratulations to ‘pandorapaula101’! You are the winner of the Cupcake bead! Please send me your name and address to marthnickbeads@gmail.com. Thanks for playing, everyone! You’ve put me in the mood for Christmas baking and I’m going to make some Hot Chocolate Cookies this weekend.
For today’s Beadmas giveaway, OHM has a sweet little Cupcake bead for the winner. I love this bead and use it quite a bit.
To enter, leave a comment telling us about a holiday treat you like to eat or make! I’ll announce the random winner in about 24 hours. Have fun!
marthnickbeads 
One of my favourite holiday treats are cinnamon stars, I love cinnamon! Also very important for me is gingerbread, as I live next to Nuremberg, which is famous for its gingerbread 🙂
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I really like a traditional Bûche de Noël as dessert on Christmas. Besides of that, there can never be too many chocolates.
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Holidays bring liebkuchen, stollen and pfeffernusse….. I love enjoying them with family and a hot cup of tea.
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My favorite sweet at the holidays are decorated butter cookies.
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I really like cheesecake. I will bake on my birthday, on Christmas and on Easter. I just bake for the weekend…
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Christmas isn’t Christmas without shortbread cookies! I love my Mom’s homemade ones the best! They are a delicious treat with a cup of tea!
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I’m making shortbread tomorrow!
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Christmas is for eating sweets in any variation 🙂
butter cookies / shortbread
Lebkuchen
Spekulatius
Gingerbread
Mince pie
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And don’t forget the caramelised roasted nuts from the Christmas market! And Quarkbällchen and Mutzen a wee cruller…
And if that hasn’t made you hungry 🙂
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Trisha is going to love being in Germany for Christmas.
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My favourite holiday treats are vanilla rolls and gingerbread.
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My favorite is the home baked 3 types chocolate fruitcake with tropical dried fruits like pineapple mango papaya ; cherries,raisins soaked in wine . 3chocolates in it are ,dark,white ,toblerone. Whenever it gets cool here in Thailand, then I’ll bake this cake, wch is rare though
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Yes, I can’t imagine it gets very cool there at all.
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One of my favourite treats at Christmas is making a proper old-fashioned trifle with fruit cocktail, custard & fresh cream!
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Oh and of course, I love to eat it too 😊
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I love to bake different cupcakes. Chocolate, orange, with raisins and candied fruits. And then I love them there)) with the whole family over a cup of tea)
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One of the things I like most at Christmas is the Panettone, a typical Italian cake, or the Torrone, filled with nuts or almonds and covered with dark chocolate.
I also love the buttery Christmas cookies with a hint of ginger, cardamom, cinnamon and clover, preferably with a cup of hot chocolate 😊
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My favorite Christmas treat is something that we call Panettone (I think it’s the same treat that you call “fruit cake”). I really love Panettone!!!
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Our fruitcake is different and not many people like it. But panettone is sold everywhere here at Christmas! Which remind me, I should get some!
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I love food, and Christmas time especially, as there is so much to eat 😂
Dutchies have something called ‘oliebollen’ and they are amazing!!
But a good German cake is always good too!
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I love mom food😍😍😍😍😍😍
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My mother does the baking, I´m not good at it. I love her traditional Christstollen and Weihnachtsplätzchen (christmas cookies).
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I love Chocolate goodies!
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I love the fruit cake baked by my mother-in-law. She only bakes during Christmas and Chinese New Year. And it is never enough to go around relatives and church friends because everyone loves the yummy fruit cake.
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My favorite Christmas foods are special because of the food itself, but more importantly, the person whose memory it brings to mind. They are Buche de Noel and Swiss Christmas cookies.
My companion was French and we enjoyed sharing Buche during many of our Christmases together, some of which I made. After his death, I continued to make Buche de Noel which I shared with members of my church after Christmas Eve Midnight mass.
My Grandmother’s Swiss Christmas cookies were Basler Lackerlis and Mailanders. Eating them reminds me of her, my favorite grandmother and my childhood Christmases. The Basler Lackerlis especially remind me of Christmas because one time when I gave someone them as a gift, they tasted it and said it tastes like Christmas.
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I love how certain holiday foods make us think of loved ones.
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It’s not Chanukah without latkes and jelly donuts!
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My husband makes pancakes Christmas morning, I have mine with real maple syrup & fruit. Otherwise, Christmas means cherries & nectarines!
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On Christmas Morning we always ate Monkey Bread!!! Our neighbor hand delivers it in the morning! Lol! Mom just had to supply the bundt pan😊😂❤️🎄
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Christmas time and Easter is when I love to bake and to share my baking with friends. Empire Biscuits and Shortbread are my favourites, as well as the staff where I work and share them. My daughter is the cake and cupcake queen in the family.
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The things I love to eat on Christmas holidays are simple things like exotic fruits you usually don’t find the rest of the year like tangerines and lychees.
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Strangely enough, I enjoy fruit cake! I may be the only one, hahaha! 🙂
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LOL!
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I like to cook and and to eat!! if we note houses, then with pleasure I prepare a different food and if the holiday is celebrated on a visit, then I like to eat more)))
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My favorite Christmas treat is a mock Boursin cheese spread that my Mom always made during the holiday season. Made with all sorts of savory spices, this spread is good on crackers and is perfect to dip pretzels into. Delicious!
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Sounds good!
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One of my favourite treats is chocolate banana cake. It makes me droll to even think about it. Unfortunately I haven’t eaten any sweets for over 10 years due to my allergy diet but I still dream about the taste 😀
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Cinnamone cookies with meringue, that taste brings me in my childhood, when my mom cooked it, amazing smell in the house.
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Gingerbread is still my all time favorite! Sprinkles with powdered sugar in some design that reflects the season. We also have stuffed dates every year. I am usually the only one who eats them.
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I like cupcakes and gingerbread. Both are fun to make with the help of the little chef 👨🍳 and you are lucky if there are some of them left for you to try 😂
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Love baking cupcakes and fruit cakes but I love to eat pineapple tart rolls a speciality in Asian homes. The tart is rolled with the filling of homemade pineapple jam and brushed with egg on top. It’s a must try for those who have never tried it. It always brings back memories of my late mum.
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I’ve never had that but it sounds good!
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One of my favourite holiday treats is Christmas Cake but not your traditional one , I love Madeira cake covered in marzipan and chocolate.
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I love the whipped shortbread cookies my mother in law makes (and so do my dogs). She often bakes lots of it because we will eat any that we can find. I do have the recipe, so will often bake it to bring to pot lucks or for my friends in the office.
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I love shortbread…not too sweet, just right. This time s year I bake my mom’s chocolate apple fruitcake. It’s about the memories…
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My favorite holiday treat is all the Christmas cookies my family will bake each year.Spritz,Sugar,gingerbread,snowballs,peanut butter,thumbprints,snickerdoodle and all the other kinds.I feel just like the Cookie Monster yum,yum,yum.#beadmas2018
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My favorite Christmas treat is chocolate pudding, my mom makes it and I could eat a lot of it 😆 #beadmas2018
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I have to have gingerbread cake at the holidays. I grew up with my mom making it and now I too make it for my boys and me!! We like it warm with whipped cream! Yummy! 🧁
#beadmas2018
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My favorite holiday treat to make and eat is a pistachio bundt cake with sugar icing drizzled across the top. The cake is green color inside when you cut it open. Very Christmasy!
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Shaped sugar cookies (can be store bought mix or from scratch) decorated with melted white chocolate and crushed candy canes for “peppermint spice” sugar cookies. They look beautiful and taste amazing, especially like to make snowflakes.
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Wow-rushing so bad I even spelled my name wrong! TANYA, not “Tabya” 🤣
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😂👍🏻
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swedish cookies…my Mom used to make these, I cannot begin to even come close to the original, altho I have tried many time!
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Cherry cordials that come in those red boxes at Christmas are my favorite, but I also like to make chocolate covered cherry cookies.
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I love Lebkuchen and I back them my self (also buy them because I eat so many). Since I live in the antipodes this year I want to make Lebkuchen ice-cream.
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I love apple pie anytime of the year but especially during the Christmas season.
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For Christmas, I will bake gingerbread and muffins with raisins, my whole family loves it
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I love Florentines at this time of year. I don’t know why I wait until now because they’re so tasty but they are a great indulgence. I have got to buy another pack because I have already eaten the ones I was supposed to put away.
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Hi there, my favorite holiday cookies are Finska Pinnars! It’s a simple sweet shortbread topped with meringue & chopped walnuts. It’s an old recipe handed down from my husband’s grandmother & I never knew what it was until I met him. Apparently it’s Scandanavian, and the best thing is it’s not very complicated so I can make them myself.
Merry Beadmas!
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I love gingerbread & butter cookies.
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My favorite is my mum’s trifle recipe… lots of fruit, custard and cream. And of course… chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. 😉
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Danish butter cookies are my all time favorite. I do love a danish cookie called klejner. I haven’t made them in years. I think I’m telling everyone in the house to go find something to do and just make them. Tell them all to go away, I’m going to make cookies. I’m smart, I’ll hide some for myself then.
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LOL! Love it.
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I like pelmeni, it’s russian food like italian ravioli
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I love making, decorating (and eating) gingerbread cookies with my Grandchildren at Christmastime!
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My mom always makes a ton of sweets for the holiday; divinity, fudge, torte, cookies. You name it she makes it. Out of all of it though, my favorite is those peanut butter cookies with the Hershey kiss on top. I was not graced with this baking sweets gift, I burn everything. So the only time I can have homemade delectables is the holidays. Let me tell you I’m quite excited for Christmas. Lol.
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I love cake “Napoleon” ! It is a masterpiece!
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My mother-in-law makes Finnish Sour Cream cookies every tea for Christmas ONLY. They are so good I could almost make myself sick on them because I eat so many 🤦🏻♀️
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I love the Haselnut Makronen my mum is baking. And no Christmas without our selfmade Kartoffelsalat!
Merry Christmas!
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I wait 11 months to eat the Pandoro!!
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Christmas pudding with double cream & brandy butter yummy
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During the Christmas season I love “Spekulatius” ( spiced buiscuits) with Glühwein.
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Christmas flavoured hot chocolates! I’ve had gingerbread, cookies and cream and caramelised orange so far this December.
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I love Christmas cookies. They are my favorite holiday treat!
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I really like flowers. I always decor flowers on my birthday, on Christmas and every event in my life.
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I make this deep, dark, fudge bundt cake that is amazing!! It is really dense and thick and goes really well with some whipped cream…I’ve even served it with pitted cherries! Best dessert I make!
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Yum!
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I love a good fruitcake. Not the red and green mystery fruits they sell at grocery stores. A homemade one with raisins, pineapples, cherries and pecans. Soaked in rum or scotch. Sweet and moist and with just a little buzz.
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Holiday treat I like is seafood BBQ with family and neighbors. We do this every year on New Year’s Eve 🙂
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During the holidays, we love to eat berry tarts.
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