The “Tweety Bird” of the 21st century. Image
via GraphicAlerts.com.

Every day is a different official food holiday. We’ve compiled all the food holidays here, and keep adding to them weekly as we receive notice of new holidays. It’s a great reference article.

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Serve your sundae in a cookie cup. Photo
by Marcin Bania | IST.

November 11th is National Sundae Day, so why not make something special?

We’re starting with a S’mores Sundae—chocolate ice cream, marshmallow creme, crumbled graham crackers and chocolate sauce. To celebrate the season, we’re following with a Gingerbread Sundae—cinnamon, ginger and vanilla ice creams with cubes of fresh-baked gingerbread, topped with whipped cream, candied ginger and chunks of Chocolove’s crystallized ginger and dark chocolate bar. (The truly indulgent can add caramel sauce). Whatever your favorite flavors, combine them, indulge and enjoy!

It’s National Vanilla Cupcake Day. Invite friends over tonight for TV and a bake-along. Here’s a recipe for a yummy vanilla cupcake with cream cheese frosting.

The name “cupcake” is derived from the teacup. Before the advent of muffin tins, where they are baked with a paper or foil liner, cupcakes were often baked in individual tea cups (as well as ramekins). They are frosted and often decorated with sprinkles, candies, rosettes, coconut and other toppings. In recent years, cupcakes have moved beyond children’s party fare and have become popular with pastry chefs and consumers as sophisticated alternatives to large cakes at weddings and other celebrations, where cupcake “trees” stack the cupcakes in the shape of a large, tiered cake.

Happiness is a vanilla cupcake. Photo by Ben Phillips | IST.

November is National Pecan Month. Celebrate with some of our favorite pecan products:

See the rest of the November food holidays.

This Southern belle makes wonderful pecan
toffee with your choice of dark, milk or white
chocolate. Photo courtesy Lula Belle.

It’s National Deviled Egg Day, so here are tips to make perfect boiled eggs. (1) Test eggs for freshness: A fresh egg will sink in a bowl of water. Raw eggs that float are over the hill. (2) Fresh eggs peel more easily, but make sure they’re more than 3 days old. (3) To avoid a green ring around the yolk, don’t overcook.

Try this technique for easy-to-peel eggs with beautiful yellow centers: Place eggs in a pot of cold water, add a teaspoon of salt and bring to a boil. Cover the pot and remove from heat; let sit for 13 minutes. Drain and immediately place eggs in an ice water bath until completely cooled. They should be perfect, and you can proceed with your favorite deviled egg recipe.

Deviled eggs topped with a piece of Smokra,
pickled okra from Rick’s Picks. Photo courtesy Rick’s Picks.

With 102 different flavors of stuffed cupcake,
you’ll be able to celebrate National Chocolate
Cupcake Day for many days to come. Photos
courtesy of The Petite Café.

Very few people we know would decline to celebrate National Chocolate Cupcake Day. So go out and buy a few or stay home and whip up a batch from your favorite recipe or mix.

If you want to celebrate National Chocolate Cupcake Day more than once a year, that’s OK with us.

It’s National Pasta Day, but think twice before breaking out that box of regular old rigatoni. If you love pasta, you may love flavored pastas even more. There are dozens to try, from artichoke and lemon pepper to jalapeño and wasabi. They’re delicious, and they make cooking a gourmet meal a snap. Create a main dish around them, use them as an exciting side or enjoy them simply with butter or olive oil and fresh Parmesan cheese.

It’s National Pretzel Month. What can you do to celebrate?

We’d celebrate National Pretzel Month forever
with the incredible pretzel-covered salted
caramel bonbons from BespokeChocolates.com.

Two antioxidants—chocolate and cranberry
—combine in this tasty new snack. If only
sugar were an antioxidant, too! Photo by
Emily Chang | THE NIBBLE.

October is National Cranberry Month, so enjoy this tart and tangy superfruit that boasts two powerful antioxidants. Fresh cranberries are coming into season, dried cranberries are always a treat and cranberry juice is ubiquitous.

For cooking, think of cranberry nut bread instead of banana bread, cranberry muffins, cranberry chocolate chip or cranberry oatmeal cookies, cranberry chutney, rice pudding with dried cranberries and dried cranberries tossed into salads of every kind. If you can find cranberry sorbet, grab it!

Better yet, celebrate by enjoying your dried cranberries milk-chocolate-covered in the form of new Nestlé Cranberry Raisinets. These delicious and convenient snacks come in single-serve, 100-calorie snack packs, plus larger, 5.5-ounce, resealable bags. Toss them onto ice cream, use them as cupcake garnishes or repackage your daily allotment from the larger bag to enjoy in front of the TV.

One winner will receive a gift basket brimming with Nestlé Cranberry Raisinets, including 100-calorie packs like those seen in the photo at left, plus several 5.5-ounce, stand-up bags. You’re sure to make lots of new friends to share them with. Read the bullet below to find out how to enter to win this week’s chocolate-covered prize.

World Egg Day is the second Friday of October. Sorry that we’re two days late on this one, but egg lovers can celebrate any day of the year. Try some organic eggs and savor their flavor. They taste so much better than regular eggs, that one NIBBLE editor calls them “a different species entirely.” Use any eggs quickly: Regardless of the expiration date on the carton, the fresher the eggs, the better they taste (just buy fresh eggs from the farmers market to see the difference—in eating, cooking and baking). We celebrated World Egg Day with fresh organic eggs cooked in Plugrá European Style Butter, sprinkled with a touch of sea salt and fresh-ground pepper. We had a side of Wolferman’s English Muffins with strawberry preserves (choices from our article on The Best Strawberry Jam And Preserves). With food this good, it’s like being at a country inn!