What Desserts Do You Serve For Christmas?

**staceyy** · 12-16-2005, 09:10 PM

I know everyone is busy so you don't have to post any recipes unless you want to, but what desserts do you serve during Christmas? Do you serve the same desserts every year? I switch up each year. This year I'm baking six types of cookies: Bon Bons, Chocolate Sandwich cookies, New Zealand Holly Cookies, Chocolate Swirls, Tea Sandwich Cookies and Holiday Nuggets. I'm baking cupcakes, A cherry cream cheese pound cake, a Bacardi Rum Cake and two Linzer Tortes. I love baking so this is my favorite time of the year to do so.

**dina** · 12-20-2005, 09:42 AM

It's just us this year and I am in the middle of making dietary changes for health reasons. So I'm thinking about going back to my mom's special Christmas dessert (from the poor days when she was a single mom). I remember hardly being able wait to have it.

She made up red and green gelatin in long trays. Then she cut them in cubes and put the red and green cubes in a fancy clear bowl she only used once a year for that purpose with whipped cream. It won't be "real cream"  -- more like whipped milk, but it gives the same idea.

In years before I always made a fruitcake for my Grandma -- I use dried fruit instead of candied. We always laughed because she wouldn't even open my package, just say thank you and hide it -- grandma didn't share fruitcake. And I liked to make up a bunch of different kinds of candy. On Christmas day everybody got their favorite dessert -- we usually had pumpkin pie, pecan pie, cheesecake, mincemeat pie. My oldest nephew and I were the cheesecake people. Several years ago I made a pumpkin cheesecake that was really good.

I have a lot of experience cooking for special diets so once I get used to the changes I'll be able to adapt some "regular" recipes to fit my needs. The gelatin thing just brings back a lot of childhood memories.

 

**daddys3chicks** · 12-20-2005, 11:52 AM

We usually just have cookies around and this year we will have a Birthday Cake for Jesus.

**jzkitten** · 12-20-2005, 03:08 PM

I ususally make peanut butter pie and buttermilk pie.

**PrairieRose** · 12-20-2005, 03:19 PM

I usually make a toasted coconut cake, cherry cheese cake for the girls, pumpkin pie and sometimes a pumpkin pie roll. This year my oven is still out so I'm just making the cherry cheese cakes. I may try a different twist on one or 2. Otherwise my dmom is making pumpking pies. It's just going to be us and our girls and dmom and ddad.

**hollyhill** · 12-20-2005, 05:25 PM

Pumpkin pie! From our own pumpkins.....
And a Trifle (layered cake, canned fruit, jello all set, then custard all set and topped with whipped cream).MMMMMMM....I love both.
We only have trifle at Christmas and I make a bunch of pumpkin pies and bring them to friends and neighbours. I will be making them on Friday!!!!!(The dough is already made and in the freezer and so is the cooked pumpkin.)

**kymom** · 12-20-2005, 08:47 PM

We are having banana pudding, chocolate chip cookies, fudge and a cake for baby Jesus and me. My birthday is the day after Christmas and I want to be a slug that day lol

**marym** · 12-21-2005, 08:48 PM

I am making a carrot cake roll. It's made with a box of spice cake mix and grated carrots bake in a jelly roll pan, filled with cream cheese frosting and rolled (like a jelly roll) sprinkled with powdered sugar. Wish me luck, it's a new recipe!

I received a juniors NY cheesecake as a gift so we will have that too.