Homemade Holidays

Sugar cookie recipe sweet sentimental favourite

Sugar Cookies

Recipe submitted by Anne Thoroughgood

Cranberry orange scones soft, not too sweet

Cranberry Orange SconesRecipe submitted by Marlene Cyncora

Chili paste adds dash of heat to caramel cookies

Gochujang Caramel CookiesA Free Press Favourite recipe submitted by Jill Wilson.

Nutmeg adds depth to classic Christmas dainty

Elsie’s Butter TartsA Free Press Favourite recipe submitted by Nicole Buffie.

Nuts and nostalgia mingle in not-too-sweet nuggets

Shirley's Nutty Nuggets A subtly sweet and sentimental cookie recipe submitted by Denise Duguay.

Crowd-pleasing classic clodhoppers require no baking

Also known as clodhoppers, this big batch of White Chocolate Treats requires no baking and few kitchen tools.

Traditional Dutch dessert a deep-fried delight

Olieballen is a traditional Dutch treat of deep-fried dough.

Get holiday baking on a roll with snowballs

Snowballs: these nutty, subtly sweet cookies are a family-friendly bake.

Rich, spicy hot chocolate a decadent treat

Castilian Hot Chocolate, a spicy and satisfying stovetop hot chocolate recipe from Free Press reader Sandy Rubinfeld.

Almond cookies melt in your mouth

Today’s Homemade Holidays feature is a recipe for delicate, melt-in-your-mouth Almond Crescent cookies.

“This is a cookie my Nana used to make, not necessarily for holidays specifically, but it’s one of my favourites, so now I make them every year. Almond and vanilla is such a classic combo and I love that this recipe isn’t super sweet,” writes Erin Lebar, the Free Press’s manager of audience engagement (and a heck of a baker).

Almond CrescentsFree Press Favourite submitted by Erin Lebar

Ingredients

Pucker up for this oh-so-sweet and easy lemon trifle

Lemon Trifle, an impressively easy trifle recipe from Free Press office manager extraordinaire Margaret McMillan.