2024 the best christmas dessert review

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Best Ever Christmas Dessert Recipes is also available in paperback and would make a wonderful Christmas gift. You can get it here:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1481019392

In Best Ever Christmas Dessert Recipes, Lori Burke brings you a collection of both traditional and contemporary Christmas dessert recipes. These kitchen-tested recipes are delicious and easy to make.

There are recipes for Christmas cookies, cakes, pies, breads and desserts. There are also recipes for traditional Christmas drinks.

Included are classic, family Christmas dessert recipes like Christmas Sugar Cookies, Rum Balls, Holiday Thumbprint Cookies, Poinsettia Cookies, Amaretti ai Pignoli, Polish Kolaczki, Christmas Bread Pudding, Christmas Rum Cake, Gingerbread Cake, Homemade Pumpkin Pie and more.

You’ll also find more contemporary Christmas dessert recipes like Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti, Lemon Sugar Cookies, Eggnog Cookies, Fruitcake Cookies, Brandy Eggnog Cake, Annie’s Apple Crisp, Eggnog Cheesecake, Pecan Squares and more.

There are also recipes for homemade Christmas drink favorites like Hot Mulled Wine, Hot Spiced Cider, Hot Caramel Vanilla, Italian Hot Chocolate and Traditional Hot Buttered Rum.

Whether you’re looking for a traditional or contemporary holiday dessert recipe to share at your Christmas table this year, Best Ever Christmas Dessert Recipes has a recipe for you.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A73LOX2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (November 13, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 13, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 221 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1481019392
Reviewer: Grace Darby
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Christmas Cookie Recipes all in one place!
Review: It's time to start planning for our annual Christmas Cookie Extravaganza, so I'm searching for something new to add to the traditionals. This cookbook is inspiring. It has my favorite classic dessert recipes, new twists on old favorites and completely new recipes!My ideal for this year is to not have to leaf through lots of different cookbooks and have them cluttering up the kitchen. This book collects most of them in one place. There are:- the classic sugar cookies (with variations and different icing options)- an different spin on our usual macaroons with the Amaretti ai Pignoli (almond macaroons with pine nuts)- a delightful (and time saving) approach to thumbprint cookies that will add lots of color and creativity to our cookie making- Chocolate Peppermint Cake (with peppermint schnapps, coffee and cocoa, how can you possibly go wrong!)and several things that I'm aching to try, like eggnog cheesecake.The directions are clearly written and well organized. There are ideas and tips on how to make the process successful, but best of all, there is a selection of divine baked goods that will make our Christmas Extravaganza extravagant!

Reviewer: Ionia Froment
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Straightforward recipes that are easy to follow.
Review: This book has a lot of classic holiday cookie and dessert recipes as well as quite a few contemporary recipes that I had not seen prior. The author makes the process of gathering the proper ingredients, making the recipe and getting the desired result at the end quite easy. She offers step-by-step instructions that anyone, regardless of experience can follow. Her speech is straightforward and easy to understand. My only complaint about this book is that I thought it would have been nice to see some photos of the finished products other than just the cover. Otherwise, the book was great and would be a lovely addition to any chef's holiday collection.

Reviewer: Steve Thomas
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Finally, A Kindle Cookbook That Really Shines!
Review: I have written reviews for a number of cookbooks, and it *always* comes down to "this could have been a good cookbook if only" or else "holy moly! Not for human consumption!"There are cookbooks that teach me how to cook a new cuisine (I'd like a good one on Vietnamese cookery!), ones that have clever and creative dishes that I will never make, but inspire me to try something similar, ones that serve as a reference when I make something I haven't made in decades (so I don't forget an ingredient), and ones I sit down with and thumb through, trying to find *something* that sounds good (or a way to use up foods that are starting to grow old.) This one does pretty well in all these regards.My late first wife baked up a storm every December, and I was recruited to help, so I have *sorta* made Christmas desserts, but she was really in charge. I'm pretty good with entrees and side dishes, and I get a lot of compliments on my bread, but I'm through grieving for her, and want to learn this other branch of baking.You know, Kindle really needs the ability to scribble in the margins before it will be a great platform for cookbooks; my paper cookbooks always had "2 eggs" crossed out and "3 eggs" substituted, nut I never have seen anyone carry a paper cookbook into Kroger. There are a lot of ingredients - rum, nutmeg, anise, eggnog - that I don't use otherwise, so I pulled it out while shopping and three, count 'em, three ladies told me that was a clever idea. because if they don't have an ingredient for recipe A, I can get the ingredients for recipe B instead.Which brings me to another point. Many of the cookbooks for Kindle are obviously "stolen" recipes. They'll measure ingredients in cups, then in milliliters for another recipe. Or they will ask for name brand products. If the recipe calls for Bob White and I can only find Karo, it's all corn syrup, right? But substituting Cool Whip for Reddi Whip or Dream Whip changes the flavor and texture.This cookbook, however, is well-written and well-edited. I'd bet that the author has made all these recipes year after year. In one case, she specifies Solo brand pie and cake filling, which I've never seen for sale (Walmart sells 6-packs of 12-ounce cans for about $20), but at the end of that recipe, she says she specifies that brand because it's significantly better. I can accept that; if you were to ask for my light honey rye bread recipe. I'd tell you to use Robin Hood light rye flour, because the others don't taste the same. Cam substitutions be made? Sure! - but I've been warned.A couple of the recipes say to use box cake mix, or box cake mix with pudding. She essentially says your scratch recipe cake is fine, but the other ingredients take charge, and effort thrown into making a great scratch cake will be wasted.Lori Burke has gone to the effort to have a linked table of contents. It's kind of a pain to build a linked TOC, so many cookbooks list the recipes without being able to click on the title.So is it a perfect cookbook? No. She has some Polish Christmas treats I've never heard of. Perhaps I've eaten them, but I don't know; maybe I know the dessert under a different name. It would be *really* nice if the recipes were accompanied by great photos. Instead, there are none at all. Gosh darn it, Ms. Burke! You have come *so* much closer than any other Kindle cookbook I've seen.There are a lot of great recipes online, and when I find one I really like, I cut-and-paste into an increasingly large file on my word processor, save it in Rich Text Format, and then convert it to a Kindle (MOBI format) book with Calibre. My own cookbook has been the only cookbook that has a permanent berth on my Kindle, convenient for shopping, cooking - and for sharing recipes with friends. At least for the Advent season, Lori Burke's cookbook is also remaining "local", not archived.. And maybe longer; I suspect one can eat chocolate peppermint cake year around.

Reviewer: C. Yates
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Christmas Desserts
Review: This cookbook from Amazon has some old tried and true recipies and some I have not tried. If you haven't started you holiday baking yet, you might want to get some idea here. This book has ideas that can be used all year if you need inspiration for your cooking.

Reviewer: Arlena
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good,good, good!
Review: Title: Best Ever Christmas Dessert RecipesAuthor: Lori BurkeAge Recommended: AllReviewed By: Arlena DeanRating: 5Review:"Best Ever Christmas Dessert Recipes" by Lori Burke was a good recipe book. I got this for my Kindle and thought I am saving not having another cookbook on my shelf...I have in on my Kindle yeah! I found plenty of cookies recipes....and a variety of other holiday recipes. You will find many new as well as old favorites. I found these recipes very informative and many of them can even be used through out the year. You will find the recipes are for the beginner as well as the advanced bakers. The only draw back was there were no pictures...but I knew that when I loaded it on my computer. Other than that I thought these were some great Christmas desserts. Now, what recipe will I try next?

Reviewer: Mindy Lee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just in time for Christmas!
Review: Yeah! Another fabulous Lori Burke recipe book just in time for Christmas! I was so excited when I saw this book in kindle! I picked it up right away knowing that I wouldn't be disappointed --- and I wasn't! Once again Lori has created a fabulous dessert book that is easy to follow and filled with excellent, simple, and delicious recipes.I immediately made the lemon sugar cookies and they were sooooooo good! I love the fact that she has included such a variety of recipes, including the drink recipes like egg nog and hot apple cider. It truly is a complete Christmas recipe book and all that I will need for this holiday season! I hope this book comes out in paperback as well, as I'd like to pick up a bunch of copies for my friends! Excellent book!

Reviewer: Stephanie F
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Many great looking recipes
Review: There are a bunch of delicious looking recipes in this book. I’m looking forward to trying some of them out.

Reviewer: N. Mirjan
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The book was so bad that I immediately put it in the charity shop bag. !!!