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White Chocolate Peppermint Bark, a seasonal macaron flavor. Photo courtesy Dana’s Bakery. Dana Loia, we want you to be our new BFF. Dana is the creative force behind Dana’s Bakery, specializing in macarons. Her macarons rock—even more than other good macarons, because she’s quite the flavor artist as well as a designer, creating beautiful…
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Sugar free bridge mix, licorice and Gummi Bears (inside package) from Nuts.com. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE. Nuts.com is a third-generation purveyor of nuts, dried fruits, chocolates and other sweets. They offer some 3,000 items sold by the pound, but will also package the wares into snack packs, 3.2 ounce bags sold…
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Good nougat is hard to find. It can be a jawbreaker or cloyingly sweet. But is a Christmas tradition in numerous countries, and good nougat is worth hunting down. For at least six generations, Maria Walley’s family has made torrone for Christmas and Easter (torrone, pronounced toe-ROE-nay, is Italian for nougat). Her ancestors brought the…
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Peppermint bark is our favorite holiday confection, and our number one favorite bark is the Peppermint Cookie Bark (photo #1) from Enstrom’s, which also makes the best almond toffee we’ve ever had (and it’s also available sugar-free!). A one-pound box is $22.95 and worth every penny—and the line is certified kosher by Scroll K |…
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[1] Chestnuts drop from the trees in the fall. See photo #4 (photo © Tijana Drndarrski | Unsplash). [2] Before roasting, make a cut in the shell so the steam can escape (photo © Chef Eddy). [3] You can roast the chestnuts in the oven, on the stovetop, or on a grill (photo ©…
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