Holiday Entertaining

9 Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes: Tried-and-True Family Favorites

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Assortment of homemade Christmas cookies, including peanut butter cookies, peanut butter kiss cookies, walnut thumbprints, and decorated sugar cookies, arranged on festive holiday platters with evergreen branches and warm Christmas lights.

Some of my favorite Christmas memories begin in my mom’s kitchen. Every holiday season, Mama made hundreds of cookies. Chocolate Chip Cookies and Peanut Butter Cookies, colorful M&M Cookies, old-fashioned Oatmeal Cookies, Sugar Cookies waiting to be decorated, and beautiful little Thumbprints filled with different jelly flavors. But Mama wasn’t baking hundreds of Christmas cookies … Read more

10 Easy Christmas Appetizer Ideas Everyone Will Love

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Feature image for 10 Easy Christmas Appetizer Ideas Everyone Will Love, featuring Mama’s Holiday Cream Cheese Ball, Rye Boat, bacon and pecan cheese ball bites, and creamy spinach vegetable dip on a festive Christmas table.

Christmas is a time for gathering with family and friends, sharing delicious food, and making memories that last a lifetime. But if you’re hosting, it’s all too easy to spend more time in the kitchen than enjoying the people you’ve invited into your home! That’s why I love these 10 easy Christmas appetizer ideas. From … Read more