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Holiday recipes are ready to help you celebrate with family and friends. You will find both Thanksgiving recipes and Christmas recipes gathered here, together with great tasting easy holiday menus.

Some recipes can be made ahead. Incorporating some make ahead dished helps the cook enjoy the holiday too! Find our holiday recipes here.

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For dark fruit cake lovers, this one’s for you. Dark and luscious, filled with sweet moist fruit, you can’t beat a fruit cake for the holidays. One of the best fruit cake recipes and easy to make. Definitely worth trying.

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Light fruit cake or dark - which one do you prefer?
For those who prefer a light fruit cake recipe, this one is delicious, moist and full of luscious fruit. Get the recipe here.

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We have a large collection of cooking recipes for everyday meals as well as entertaining and party food recipes. Most are quick and easy recipes to prepare, although some may cook along on their own for some time. Find our free online recipes here.

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Here is an easy Christmas cookie recipe that  both adults and children will love. They are so easy to make and the chopped gum drops create a stained glass effect that looks festive. It is really a simple bar cookie recipe that is a taste treat any time of the year.

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So many of us want to bake Christmas cookie recipes but have so little time to bake during the busy holiday season. Here;s the solution - a great tasting basic cookie recipe that turns into such a variety of easy to make Christmas treats, everyone will think you poured over all your favorite Christmas cookie recipes. Find the recipes and variations here.

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Our list of free bread recipes includes recipes for quick quick breads, yeast breads, bread machine breads, muffins, scones, flaky biscuits and pancakes. There is something for every baker, new or pro.

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The most popular muffin flavor around? Blueberry of course. This a delicious blueberry muffin recipe adds the nutrition and taste of oat bran to a wonderful blueberry muffin recipe. Get the recipe here.

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Here is an easy dessert recipe, especially since frozen blueberries are available all year round. This blueberry crisp recipe take advantage of fresh blueberries if you can get them, but works just as well with frozen. Get the recipe here.

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My favorite scone recipe is a traditional English cream scone recipe. It comes out light and tender every time.

Just remember, as with muffins, stirring the scone batter as little as possible will result in a lighter, fluffier scone. Find the recipe here.

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What I call the best moist chocolate cake recipe you will find is a classic chocolate mayonnaise cake. The use of mayonnaise ensures a moist cake every time.

Homemade chocolate cake is just about everyone’s favorite. This such an easy chocolate cake to make any day of the week that I am sure you will want to bake it over and over again.

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Are you cooking for vegetarians? It is not as difficult as you might first imagine. At WhatDoVegansEat.com, you can find a load of information on vegetarian cooking and vegan recipies. This site provides much more than just reasons why people become vegan and the different levels of vegetarians.

Along with vegan recipies and information about cooking for vegetarians, you will find articles and sources answering common questions about a vegetarian lifestyle. There is info about the safety of a vegetarian diet for children, sources of non-meat products, how to make a vegan cake plus much more.

You may be mistaken for thinking the baking a cookie is a relative simple thing to do.  If so, why do so many people get it so badly wrong?  Is it down to preparation, method, types of ingredients, oven temperature or maybe a combination of all these factors?

Making the perfect cookie isn’t difficult providing you have the ingredients and measure to exact quantities.  Once you are properly prepared, the only thing that realistically could go wrong is over or under cooking.

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There really is nothing quite like warm apple pie, fresh out of the oven is there? This is my favorite recipe for apple pie and it isn’t fancy. Just plain apple goodness in a tasty crust.

I have adjusted the recipe to use either cinnamon, a mix of cinnamon and nutmeg or just nutmeg, for the real nutmeg fans. Get the recipe here.

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An easy banana bread recipe that will make you wonder why you don’t bake more often. It’s a great way to use up overripe bananas and everyone loves banana bread.

We give you variations to make this bread sugar free and even healthier.

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Wedding cakes are as varied as the couples who order them. Everyone has different tastes and everyone has a different idea of what they think the perfect cake should look like. Making wedding cakes is probably a very fun career but those wedding cake toppers really take the cake … more info on those cool wedding cake toppers

Guys, lets face it. In marriage we have to sacrifice and we might as well start early in our relationship.

With that said; yes, choosing wedding cake designs are part of the duel (sp intention) responsibilities you’ll be inheriting. Its really not all bad since we get our own cake, sometimes, called a groom cake… more on wedding cake designs

My favorite times of the year are are the times we share delicious holiday recipes. At Thanksgiving and Christmas we gather with family and friends, enjoying each other’s company.

You will find both Thanksgiving recipes and Christmas recipes sprinkled throughout Cookingnook.com, but I have gathered several of them together to give you a few ideas for great tasting holiday menus.