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Favorite Christmas Recipes

Christmas recipes are the best! We have baking, sides, mains, desserts and more to make cooking for Christmas fun and easy. Best Holiday Recipes!

This Brown Sugar Pineapple Ham is the perfect Easter Ham recipe! We made a delicious cola and brown sugar glaze for ham, and combined it with crushed pineapples. This spiral ham is easy to make, and filled with SO much flavor!

Brown Sugar Pineapple Ham Recipe (Pineapple Ham Glaze)

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Crockpot Sweet Potato Casserole

French Silk Pie is my all-time favorite pie recipe. This Chocolate Silk Pie is an easy version of a classic holiday favorite. We love this French Silk Pie at Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, my birthday, and every day in between. It tastes like chocolate mousse in pie form. Utterly decadent and delicious! Best French Silk Pie Recipe EVER!

French Silk Pie Recipe (Chocolate Silk Pie)

Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms are cheesy, savory, and so delicious! This easy, cheesy sausage stuffed mushroom recipe is the perfect appetizer for holidays, game day, or any special occasion. Mushroom caps are stuffed full of cheese, sausage, onion, and more to create the most amazing flavor!

Cheesy Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe

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Cheese Ball Recipe (Best Ever)

Peanut Butter Blossoms are a classic cookie recipe that is easy to make and loved by all! This BEST Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies Recipe has been in our family for years. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies are perfect for Christmas baking, but also made for enjoying year round, especially at Summer BBQs. When it comes to favorite cookie recipes, these Peanut Butter Hershey Kiss Cookies can't be beat.

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Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies (Hershey Kiss Cookies)

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Crockpot Turkey Breast (Slow Cooker Turkey)

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Crockpot Green Bean Casserole

Christmas Butter Cookies with Powdered Sugar Icing are a MUST for the holidays. Simple iced cookies are one of the best treats for Christmas, and this easy butter cookies recipe is my FAVORITE. Make your favorite shapes with cookie cutters, and decorate however you like using our powdered sugar icing recipe!

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Christmas Butter Cookies Recipe with Powdered Sugar Icing

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Parker House Rolls

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This Caesar Chicken Recipe (MELT IN YOUR MOUTH and only 4 Ingredients!) is made with only 3 ingredients (say WHAT?!) and is oh so tender and delicious. Easiest tastiest weeknight dinner ever. Made with just chicken, sour cream, creamy caesar, and grated parmesan. It will knock your socks off for both its flavor and how easy it is!

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Baked Caesar Chicken Recipe

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Baked Chicken Tacos Recipe

Easy Restaurant Style WHITE QUESO is our FAVORITE DIP RECIPE EVER. The EASY QUESO RECIPE tastes just like queso dip at Mexican restaurants! I have been waiting my entire life for this cheese dip recipe!

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Favorite Fall Recipes

Fall is the best season for good food! Gather the family around the table and enjoy some of our favorite recipes as the chillier weather rolls in.

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Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings

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Beef Stew

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Air Fryer Chicken Thighs

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Crockpot Chicken Breast Recipe

This Apple Cider Mimosa Recipe is simple, delicious and the perfect for Fall! You deserve such a fun and bubbly treat once in a while. Thanksgiving is the perfect time for an Apple Cider Cocktail, especially one as easy and tasty as this. If you've wondered how to make the perfect mimosa, this recipe is for you! I love a Mimosa, and this is my favorite Mimosa Recipe!

Apple Cider Mimosas (Easy Apple Cider Cocktail)

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Crock Pot Ribs Recipe (Slow Cooker BBQ Ribs)

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Apple Pie Sangria is a light, refreshing, delicious, and EASY Caramel Apple Sangria! This Fall Sangria Recipe is the hit of every party I take it to! Apple Pie Sangria is loaded with Apple Cider, Caramel Vodka, White Wine, Ginger Ale, and more! We call this Thanksgiving Sangria because it's Autumn in a glass. We have sangria recipes for every occasion, but this one is our favorite.

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Caramel Apple Sangria (Apple Pie Sangria)

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Baked Bacon Cheeseburger Sliders are a fun and easy lunch of dinner perfect for those busy school nights or fun game days! There's nothing better than this EASY Pull Apart Cheeseburger Slider Recipe for feeding a hungry crowd. So much cheese, so little time!

Cheeseburger Sliders Recipe (Baked Burger Sliders)

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CREAMY WHITE CHICKEN CHILI made with CREAM CHEESE is the ultimate comfort food! Made in minutes and feeds up to 16 people! Freeze some for a delicious meal later. THE BEST WHITE CHICKEN CHILI EVER!

White Chicken Chili Recipe with Cream Cheese

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Crock Pot Ribs Recipe (Slow Cooker BBQ Ribs)

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Honey Garlic Chicken Thighs

Every great cook needs an amazing SWEDISH MEATBALLS recipe. Eat them as an appetizer for the perfect party snack or over noodles for a delicious meal. This sauce is everything!

Swedish Meatballs (Best Sauce!)

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Holiday Desserts

The holidays are for baking! Nothing is better than homemade Fall, Thanksgiving, and Christmas desserts.

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This SOFT GINGERBREAD COOKIE RECIPE is absolutely DELICIOUS and so full of flavor. A touch of sea salt, a dash of pepper; just perfection. And the RUM GLAZE on top really adds an extra kick. Oh so chewy, these Rum Glazed Soft Gingerbread Cookies are fabulous for Christmas baking. The perfect Christmas cookie exchange recipe!

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Soft Gingerbread Cookie Recipe with Rum Glaze

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Peanut Butter Pie

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Strawberry Pound Cake

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Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are a festive and delicious treat! These Peppermint Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are so chocolatey, with just the right amount of peppermint flavor. They're the perfect Christmas cookies!

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Chocolate Peppermint Cookies (Peppermint Chocolate Crinkle Cookies)

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Soft Molasses Cookies Recipe

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Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies (Salted Caramel or White Chocolate Peppermint)

The BEST Sugar Cookie Recipe (aka Santa's favorite cookies) are soft sugar cutout cookies, festively decorated with sweet icing. This Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe checks all the boxes! We call this easy sugar cookie recipe SANTA'S FAVORITE COOKIE RECIPE because it's simple, classic, fluffy, and delicious. We love to decorate them with the kids to leave under the tree for Santa.

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Christmas Sugar Cookies (Best Sugar Cookie Recipe)

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Garlic Butter Steak and Potato Bites is the ultimate easy dinner recipe. Kids and adults alike all love this simple skillet meal that's sure to please.

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Stovetop Burgers are easier than you might think! Once we learned How to Cook Burgers on the Stove it’s our go-to easy dinner for anytime of year.

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Chicken Wings are a game day staple! This baked wings recipe has the most amazing seasoning consisting of paprika, garlic, salt and pepper. Simple but delicious.

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