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Here’s an easy and festive way to garnish holiday drinks: with small candy canes. Peppermint lovers can add a hint of mint to their libations. The mint flavor works with many cocktails, soft drinks, tea, coffee and hot chocolate. We hang them on a Vodka Martini, Chocolate Martini, Espresso Martini, Cosmopolitan, Irish Coffee, Mojito and…
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Delicious, either plain or chocolate-dipped (above). Photo by Jaclyn Nussbaum | THE NIBBLE. An elegant gift, stocking-stuffer or treat for guests (serve them with tea, coffee and/or ice cream), we love ultra-thin Moravian cookies. Beyond the luscious flavor, the thinness means fewer calories per cookie (in other words, two for the calories of one).…
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The White Russian, a combination of coffee liqueur, vodka and heavy cream, has been popular since it appeared in 1949. Leave out the cream and you’ve got a coffee-colored Black Russian. The recipes* are not Russian in origin, but were named in the spirit of the primary ingredient, vodka. *For a Black Russian, mix 1…
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Make stuffing muffins, or stuffins. Photo courtesy MackenzieLtd.com. We saw these stuffing muffins (“stuffins”) in the Mackenzie Limited catalog—too late for Thanksgiving this year, but just in time for Christmas! We found a recipe from Tara Kuczykowski, who writes the food blog Unsophisticook.com. And we whipped up a batch. Add them to your Christmas…
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Hibiscus is a flower that can be steeped into a vibrant, caffeine-free, healthy tea (more about hibiscus). Our friends at The Republic Of Tea have created this Christmas-red mulled apple-hibiscus cider, which gets its color from hibiscus tea. (You can buy The Republic Of Tea’s hibiscus tea online.) Ingredients For one large mug or two…
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