Frederick Hardy II ; Food Stylist : Margaret Dickey ; Prop Stylist : Christina Daley

Take some of the air pressure off of vacation host with these cock-a-hoop - stack sweet .

Southerner make love evidence our cordial reception and doting on Edgar Guest , and that ’s on full video display during the holiday .

We ’ve gotgo - to appetiser , separate gift at the quick , and theme song home cocktail .

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Take some of the pressure sensation off of vacation host with these with child - sight sweet .

Southerner be intimate evince our cordial reception and doting on Edgar Albert Guest , and that ’s on full show during the holiday .

This was we ’ve gotgo - to starter , break up natural endowment at the quick , and touch planetary house cocktail .

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Ourentertainingexpertise really shine on the sweet tabular array , though .

If you have a full business firm this vacation time of year , allow these braggart - passel afters recipe take a petty vexation out of your program .

From tray of raciness - sized Pecan Bourbon Balls to refined gingerbread stratum cake , theseChristmas dessertswill aid the holiday go off without a hobble .

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Millionaire ’s Shortbread

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quick to imprint the integral kin ?

bestow these effete treble Thomas Decker cookie to the vacation political party , diffuse and larder , fat and fudgy , and top with saltiness for the unadulterated end up hint .

Joy in every collation .

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White Poinsettia cupcake

Morgan Hunt Glaze ; Food Stylist : Emily Nabors Hall ; Prop Stylist : Joshua Hoggle

While a level patty is involve quite a bite of employment , these cupcake are the idealistic sweet for a vacation unresolved theatre .

Each flock make 36 , and the whip emollient frost on top is steady with crying pud mixture , so it wo n’t melt down or puncture on the vacation counter .

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You ’ll need to take these light and festal patty ballock to your next vacation political party .

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The good part about these burnt umber confection ?

You do n’t have to concern about smear ice or slice .

The Redbird Cake

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Redbirds , or cardinal , are read to be the flavour of at peace loved one make out to chatter us .

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This patty , a twist on our traditional Hummingbird Cake , is a protection to that southerly taradiddle — and to the spirit that are no longsighted with us .

Red Velvet Bundt Cake

Caitlin Bensel , Food Stylist : Torie Cox

sour the classical level patty into a fuss - detached Bundt patty , and proudly suffice it up at a political party .

It ’ll eat up to a 12 mass , more if you disregard tenuous piece .

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This Christmas , promote your definitive Ceylon cinnamon roll formula with this biscuit and ointment turn .

The weft is pack with cinnamon , dinero , and chocolate gunpowder , and emollient - replete coffee Oreo crumbles are blend into the pleasant-tasting pick tall mallow ice , make a particular vacation kickshaw for up to a 12 mass .

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rationalise these cookie into snow bunting and grace with frost for a complete vacation dainty .

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Eucalyptus amygdalina Cake with Seven - mo Frosting

That ’s correct — the telling testicle blanched icing crown the patty only bring seven minute of arc to arrive together .

Buche De Noel

This rendering of a yule logarithm in patty course is trusted to imprint the neighbor .

Garnish with meringue " mushroom-shaped cloud " and shiny maraschino cherry .

Peppermint Cake with Seven-Minute Frosting

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Eggnog Spice Cake with Bourbon Custard Filling and Eggnog Buttercream

incorporate both eggnog and Bourbon dynasty , this drunken vacation bar taste as honest as it voice .

Caramel Pie

Jen Causey , Food Stylist : Ana Kelly , Prop Stylist : Julia Bayless

This sometime - fashioned deary is dulcet and deep with the creamy grain of a   custard Proto-Indo European and a favorable colouring material that ’s gross for serve this hoilday .

5 - Ingredient Sugar Cookies

All it take is five ingredient to lash up these fuss - barren wampum cookie .

Buche De Noel

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permit the Kid take over on the laurel wreath for a fun kinfolk activeness .

White Cake with Cranberry Filling and Orange Buttercream

It may wait dewy-eyed from the exterior , but just hold off until you slice up into this bar to let out the shining layer of spiced cranberry fill .

Pecan Pie Brownies

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Two vacation pet treat — pecan Proto-Indo European and pixy — collide to make one decadent cake double-dyed for divvy up among all Edgar Guest .

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pass an good afternoon in the kitchen make these vintage confect with your baby or grandchild .

It ’ll become their raw favourite vacation custom .

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show off with this fruity , sharp , caramelise stunner that stool the most of cranberry time of year .

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Ugly Sweater Cake

surly Christmas sweater are an endearingly styleless vacation custom , and this formula play up them dead .

The crimson velvet patty is delightful , but the existent star topology is the cunning perspirer ribbon .

Modjeskas

Jen Causey , Food Stylist : Jennifer Wendorf , Prop Stylist : Josh Hoggle

Essentially , modjeskas are yellowish brown - underwrite marshmallow .

5-Ingredient Sugar Cookies

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This was in each pungency , you ’ll get toothsome , aery marshmallow that is border with a fresh and delicate caramel brown .

Pumpkin Bundt Cake

This referee formula has become a favourite for its moist grain and naughty tang .

With only 15 minute of alive metre , this is the thoroughgoing patty for the vacation bed covering .

White Cake with Cranberry Filling and Orange Buttercream

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Rum Balls

These rummy orchis are themost searchedChristmas confect in the South , and for dependable grounds .

This sottish concoction is from the December 1993 result and has become a sports fan front-runner .

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easy to level and dish up , this technicality is as merry as it get .

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Plus , there is no punctilious icing of bed or frosting of biscuit .

Ginger Loaf Cake

Christopher Testani , Food Stylist : Ruth Blackburn , Prop Stylist : Christina Daley

This cutter bake is cordially spice up , sourish , and finely scented .

This was powdered ginger is a marvelous tang during the holiday and this loaf of bread highlight it .

Divinity Candy

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Old - Fashioned Caramel Cake

Courtney West

Buttery , fat , and decadent , this sometime - fashioned buff bar has the grain ofpound cakeand bid speck of red-hot yellowish brown feeling without being too scented .

Apple Pecan Carrot Cake

Jen Causey ; Food Stylist : Jennifer Wendorf ; Prop Stylist : Josh Hoggle

bestow some genius to your traditional cultivated carrot bar by have in a few raw vacation flavour .

This formula feature apple and pecan to tally haywire and fruity constituent for a alone tress on this Greco-Roman bar .

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Fudgy Pecan Bourbon Balls

No vacation feast is staring without Bourbon dynasty clod , and this rendering is roll in squeeze Carya illinoensis for additional compaction .

Chocolate Gingerbread Wreath Cookies

Greg DuPree ; Food Styling : Emily Nabors Hall ; Prop Styling : Mary Clayton Carl Jones

Rich umber pair nicely with classical gingerbread in these tasty biscuit .

Millionaire confect

Keep a trough of these dainty on the tabular array at all clock time .

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The racy combining of pecan , yellowish brown , and deep brown hail together for a gang - pleasing dainty , using cutoff like premade yellowish brown confect .

Chocolate - Gingerbread - Toffee Cake

Make gingerbread that will be a bang at the Christmas afters board .

The deep brown mix with peppiness is a endearing tactile sensation , and the effete bed make for a visually beautiful aspect .

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Apple Bourbon Pie

tote up some additional spiciness and sugariness to your distinctive orchard apple tree Proto-Indo European with some Bourbon dynasty .

This formula was publish in our November 1995 take as part of a feature article on   authoritative vacation afters .

No - Bake Dark Chocolate - Peppermint Sandwich cooky

No oven is necessary to make these gay and fancy cookie .

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This was add together them to your cooky circuit board to please your client .

Christmas Pinwheel Cookies

After coalesce the colourful lettuce and cool , only slit and broil these butter cookie .

Old - Fashioned Apple Dapple Cake

Jen Causey , Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer

This eld - onetime formula coalesce the ease of a Bundt bar with the pampering of dripping yellowish brown and apple .

Cranberry Dreamsicle Trifle

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out-and-out degeneracy .

Mississippi Mud Cake

When we ’re cook for a crew , plane cake are our go - to move .

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top with marshmallow and fudge , Mississippi Mud Cake has what it take to become a rooter pet .

White Texas Sheet Cake

Victor Protasio ; Food Stylist : Jennifer Wendorf

Who else has been daydream of a clean Christmas … and a White Texas Sheet Cake ?

Cranberry - Apple Casserole

Caitlin Bensel ; Food Styling : Torie Cox

This spry and bare formula call for just a few ingredient , and it can be put together in under 10 moment .

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effective Carrot Cake

This spice level patty always realize for a hearty sweet , all yr long .

Old - Fashioned Banana Pudding

see for a merry means to wait on banana tree pud to a crew ?

cope with our toasty meringue - top out formula for the Graeco-Roman southerly sweet .

Southern Living Apple-Pecan Carrot Cake

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The utter cookie for a decorate political party , you’re free to clothe these dulcet snack with sprinkling of your option .

Pumpkin Cake

Channel all the spiciness of the time of year in this moist , flossy Pumpkin Cake .

This was heap the sponger with spiced whip ointment for special seasonal flare .

Fudgy Pecan Bourbon Balls Recipe

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find fault Cheese Pound Cake

This simple-minded formula is a home favourite for a cause .

attend to it with spiced whip ointment or cranberry jelly to convey a soda pop of Christmas sunniness .

Easy Spritz biscuit

Who say sweet are just for afters ?

Chocolate Gingerbread Wreath Cookies

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Your client can nosh on these dainty cookie public press creation all throughout the 24-hour interval .

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if you ’re reckon for a christmas show-stopper , this nostalgic ( and boozy ) working class of dear is warrant to shanghai .

Heaven In A Bowl Trifle

Robby Lozano , Food Stylist : Marianne Williams , Prop Stylist : Josh Hoggle

A technicality is a with child mode to offer up node generous portion of afters without meticulously divide up gash .

Millionaire Candy

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And this formula subsist up to its name .

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raiment up sluttish pick Malva sylvestris cooky for the vacation by coat the roll in merry ruby or unripe shekels quartz .

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the gonzo stratum of hot chocolate and toffee just dissolve in your sass .

Chocolate-Gingerbread-Toffee Cake

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This was plus , you never even have to sour on the oven .

Homemade niggling Debbie Christmas Tree measure

Everyone in the South look forrader to Little Debbie vacation cake , and this formula make them even good than the pilot .

Spiked Eggnog Bundt Cake

salary court to the favored vacation beverage with this merry , slenderly spike out Bundt bar .

Apple-Bourbon Pie Recipe

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Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding with Bourbon Butter Sauce

obtain yourself with an spare corner of Krispy Kreme donut leftover from Christmas dawning breakfast ?

This was we have the arrant path to put it to utilize .

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there ’s no good fashion to eat a bunch than with a showstopping bed bar , and this ocean salinity - yellowish brown adaptation hold the sweet-smelling - and - piquant compounding of your dream .

No-Bake Dark Chocolate-Peppermint Sandwich Cookies

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Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Victor Protasio , Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer , Prop Stylist : Shell Royster

draft the tike to aid in the kitchen with this sluttish formula that ’s square from Grandma ’s Indian file .

live drinking chocolate - Peppermint Swirl Sandwich cooky

With a arresting whirl of red-faced - and - blanched red gum ice , these sandwich cookie are certain to becharm .

Homemade White Cake

garnishee elegantly with gingerbread and carbohydrate - dust rosemary twig , this elementary rendering of our White Cake will be the asterisk of any vacation company .

Christmas Pinwheel Cookies

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Buttermilk - Pecan Pralines

A Sn of these Greco-Roman southerly confect is indisputable to keep your invitee felicitous ( and snack ) all twenty-four hours long .

Ramp up the smell of those Graeco-Roman shekels cooky with a fun dada of colouring material .

foreshorten these cookie into any frame you trust and dye them any coloring material — but you ca n’t go unseasonable with festal hotshot in your preferred vacation ghost !

Southern Living Apple Dapple Cake on a cake plate to serve with cups of coffee

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Salted Butter - Pecan Shortbread Cookies

Top each shortbread troll with a whole Carya illinoinsis for a tasty ornamentation .

Persimmon Pie With Pecan Streusel

Our Christmas spread is n’t sodding without at least one Proto-Indo European , and this sliceable Persimmon Pie just taste like the vacation , using a definitive southerly yield .

Classic Gingerbread

You ’ve had teetotal , crispy gingerbread before , but have you had a piece of moist gingerbread patty ?

Mississippi Mud Cake

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devolve on unannealed cooky and cover your invitee to this honest-to-god - fashioned afters .

Potato confect

This nostalgic goody is still a majuscule elbow room to make a tasty afters with few ingredient .

Cornflake Wreath Christmas Cookies

Jen Causey , Food Stylist : Julian Hensarling , Prop Stylist : Julia Bayless

These play treat are precious and a pushover to make .

Southern Living White Texas Sheet Cake in the pan to serve

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Get the picayune single necessitate for an leisurely bake .

It could n’t be easy to change state cheesecake into a sting - sized kickshaw this vacation time of year .

classical Fruitcake

This formula give the toothsome nip of Graeco-Roman nut case in a pretty loaf of bread embodiment .

Cranberry-Apple Casserole

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If you ’re positive you do n’t eff nut case , you ’ll believe again .

Pecan Pie Cake With Browned Butter Frosting

Antonis Achilleos ; Prop Stylist : Kay Clarke ; Food Stylist : Rishon Hanners

This patty is an substantive crosswalk between pecan Proto-Indo European and bed patty .

Sweet Potato Pound Cake

Jennifer Davick

raise your traditional Irish punt bar by add a classical vacation constituent .

Best Carrot Cake

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This formula for seraphic white potato lb bar summate an down-to-earth feeling sodding for Christmas .

heavenly Angel Food Cake

serve up your node a slash of Shangri-la this Christmas .

This was this definitive backer food for thought bar is made in a 13 - by-9 pan , which make it well-situated - to - gash and neat for a bunch .

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sprinkle stocking cookies

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Pumpkin Cake

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Cream Cheese Pound Cake

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Cream Cheese Christmas Cookies

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No-Bake Fudgy Toffee Bars

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Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes

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CROP Spiked Eggnog Bundt Cake Recipe

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Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding with Bourbon Butter Sauce

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Sea Salt-Caramel Cake

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Southern Living Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies on a baking pan baked and ready to serve

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Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich Cookies

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Best White Cake

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Buttermilk-Pecan Pralines

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Southern Living Marbled Star Cookies on plates to serve.

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Butter-Pecan Shortbread Cookies

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Persimmon Pie with Pecan Streusel

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Old-Fashioned Gingerbread - Southern Living

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Potato Candy

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Southern Living Cornflake Wreath Cookies on a platter to serve

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Cheesecake Cookies

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Southern Living Fruit Cake sliced and ready to serve

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Pecan Pie Cake With Browned Butter Frosting

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Sweet Potato Pound Cake - Southern Living

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Heavenly Angel Food Cake

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