Although I am not much of a dessert person, I do try to have something on hand for our parties – and a pecan pie seemed just right for our Kentucky Derby party this year. Easy and it makes a pretty pie, too. This comes from Smitten Kitchen.
Desserts
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Any time these appear on a cookie tray, I have to restrain myself from eating all of them. So I decided to go ahead and make them myself this year – definitely will be a regular addition in the cookie tins. This is from Joy of Baking.
Mint Chocolate Cookies
This may be one of my favorite cookies I’ve ever done – but I love all things mint. Definitely a popular one in this year’s cookie tins.
Cherry Chocolate Blossoms
Another new cookie in this year’s holiday cookie extravaganza, this one was cute and went over well. A twist on peanut butter blossoms.
Holiday M&M Bars
One of the cookies for our yearly holiday cookie tins – as much as I am not a fan of chocolate, I really liked this one. Simple and makes a lot, too.
Cinnamon Streusel-Topped Pumpkin Pie
This is a Cooking Light recipe I’ve always used for pumpkin pie, because it’s really excellent. I make no changes to it except sometimes I will make the crust instead of buying crust. Really excellent pie, easy to make, and it’s pretty. 🙂
Caramel Apple Cocktail
This was a seriously delicious (aka dangerous) cocktail we served at our Halloween party. It goes fast, so make plenty! Great for any fall get-together.
Candy Corn Cake
This is actually a chocolate layer cake with vanilla buttercream frosting, decorated in candy corn colors for our Halloween party. 🙂 This was a cake recipe I hadn’t tried before, but it was pretty good even for this non-chocoholic, so I will use it again. A fun dessert for the holiday! Got the idea from an article about Halloween-themed desserts.
Pistachio Cranberry Icebox Cookies
These were pretty little cookies that made a nice addition to our holiday tin. They were not super sweet, but still had a lot of flavor and the red and green from the pistachio and cranberry was obviously very festive. They were small cookies, but made a lot, so they were worthwhile to add some interest. They are also very quick, which is quite welcome during holiday cookie-fest!
Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
So it’s possible we ate a lot of these before we got a picture (and I forgot to take one while packing the holiday cookie tins this year). These were outstanding. I cannot resist anything peanut butter, and could pretty much have eaten the batter and said ever so sorry to the cookie tins. 😉 This is an America’s Test Kitchen recipe, and the only change I made was to use smooth peanut butter instead of chunky. I like it better that way, but it will clearly work whichever way you prefer! A definite winner.
Om nom nom! 