RECIPE: Gingerbread Cookie Dip & Spread

[1] Yummy and easy dip for cookies, fruit and more (photo © QVC). [2] You can served ginger cookies, ginger snaps, or your cookie of choice. Here’s the recipe for these ginger cookies (photo © Plugrá).   OMG, we haven’t even finished Thanksgiving leftovers but the countdown to Christmas is ON! If you’re too busy…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Almost Apple Pie (Slow Cooker Apples)

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away (see below), it stands to reason that an apple dessert helps, too. We have two slow-cooker apple recipes for you today. The second is like apple pie filling. Both are classic fall and winter desserts, suitable for weeknights or for company. They can be served warm,…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Recipes For National Lemon Cream Pie Day

Frozen lemon cream pie with a hit of lemon-flavored vodka.   National Lemon Cream Pie Day is November 29th. This year, we’re serving up something special courtesy of a recipe from New Amsterdam Vodka: a frozen pie with vodka. Don’t want the alcohol? Don’t want a frozen pie? There’s a very creamy lemon cream pie…
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FOOD FUN: PieCaken & Its Recipe

[2] Zac Young’s Thanksgiving PieCaken (photos #1 and #2 © Dillon Burke | sndwch creativ). [2] Cinnamon buttercream and oat crumble add the finishing touches. [3] Before the PieCaken there was the Cherpumple: three layers of cake with a different pie baked inside of each. Here’s the recipe (photos #3 and #4 © Matthew Clark…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Easy Rum Raisin Ice Cream

Look for it in stores or make your own Rum Raisin ice cream. Photos courtesy Häagen-Dazs.   Our favorite Thanksgiving ice cream flavor is not Pumpkin, but Rum Raisin. It’s an old-fashioned flavor that seems very American (as rum was produced close to home, in the Caribbean). Actually, its roots are in Sicily; the history…
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