Tag: Christmas Dessert

RECIPE: Peppermint White Hot Chocolate & Chocolate Peppermint Brownies

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Christmas season is a bonanza for peppermint lovers, from candy canes to peppermint bark to chocolate-peppermint everything. Now, have a cup of peppermint white hot chocolate with a dark chocolate peppermint brownie. Both recipes are from McCormick. While together they create a chocolate-peppermint symphony, they can be split up and paired with non-peppermint, non-chocolate beverages…
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Make A Figgy Pudding (a.k.a. Christmas Pudding, Plum Pudding)

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“Oh, bring us figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer,” goes the carol, “We Wish You A Merry Christmas.” Don’t know the carol? Sing with the bouncing ball. If you start now, you can have a homemade figgy pudding at Christmas.     WHAT’S A FIGGY PUDDING? A distant cousin of the fruit cake,…
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RECIPE: Eggnog Panna Cotta

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Eggnog panna cotta. Photo courtesy Driscoll’s.   Panna cotta is an Italian dessert whose name means “cooked cream.” The heavy cream and eggs form one of the different types of custard. This recipe, from Driscoll’s Berries, adds rum and brandy, ingredients of eggnog; and creates individual portions in ramekins. The puddings get a festive finish…
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