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Be sure to read the end of this post; I’m giving away a $50 Visa gift card just in time for the holidays!
Once we flip our calendar to December (yes I still have an old school wall calendar just for the girls and their social diva in training activities like bowling), we are pretty well booked every weekend. One of my favorite things about the holidays is visiting with family and friends we don’t get to see often.
Let’s face it, though, the patience level of kids falls off the face of the planet during the holidays. Even just a half-hour drive across town to have lunch with friends quickly disintegrates into “Are we there yet?” And that’s just as you’re pulling out of your driveway.
That’s when you crank the Christmas music and hand out bribes, I mean cookies. This is all, of course, just intended to raise your sweet darlings’ blood sugar. I would never condone parenting via bribery! (Ahem.) A few crumbs in your back seat is worth the silence.
It’s always good to arrive with a little housewarming gift and what better way to say you care about someone than to bring chocolate?
Here’s my mother’s famous fudge cake recipe, a holiday favorite that goes back to 1967 for my family!
Mama’s Famous Fudge Cake
Beat 4 eggs, add 2 cups sugar, 1 1/3 cup vegetable oil, 4 squares of melted baking chocolate, 1 tsp. vanilla – add 2 cups of flour with 1 tsp baking powder and 1/1/2 tsp salt and 1 cup of chopped nuts.
Line a large greased pan with two pieces of paper towel – then two pieces of wax paper on top of that. The cake would burn if you did not do this!!
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes – turn oven off and leave in oven 5 minutes. Cool slightly before turning out on counter (I turn mine out on a chop block).
Icing
Melt 1 stick margarine, 3 squares chocolate and 12 marshmallows
Add 3 tsp of milk and 1 tsp vanilla. When melted and warm add 1 box of confectionary sugar – blend well. You may need a little more milk.
Spread on cake. For thicker icing you can add 2 cups miniature marshmallows to the icing (my mom says she never does this, though.)
Cool and cut into squares and keep well covered.
Enjoy!
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My family’s favorite holiday treats are the peanut butter/Hershey’s kiss cookies. They never last long enough to cool!
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Okay, I have butterfingers and apparently somehow hit “submit” without telling you about dessert.
My grandmother has a lot of wonderful cake recipes, but for the holidays I’m a cookie girl. My dad and I share a favorite – basic Oatmeal Raisin!
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One of my favorites is my mom’s sour cream cookies-she puts chocolate chips in them or cinnamon on top. She has also puts homemade frosting such as mint etc-they are scrumptious
We love christmas bark. Its easy to make and tastes good.
Spritz Cookies are my favorite~I can’t wait for them every year
My favorite family holiday desert is pumpkin pie.
In my family our favorite holiday dessert is a cookie that is known as heavenly tidbits. They are so good and we only make them once a year. The best part of the holidays.
We love to make a cinnamon monkey bread. We can just pull pieces off and eat it for a long time…okay a few hours. lol
Fudge ,we only make it at Christmas and cut it into small pieces so everyone can enjoy a bit
Bunches of sliced or diced fruit like apples, pears, peaches, white grapes, cherries all mixed together in cool whip.
I like to make special morning pancakes with chocolate chips, walnuts, and other yummy ingredients.
we love to make Cranberry Sauce with fresh orange slices
I love to make Latkes for my family with lots of onions
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Our favorite family holiday desert is – my secret recipe Bread Pudding with special sauce.
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My family’s favorite holiday dessert is a Pumpkin Pie my mom makes every year.
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My family’s favorite holiday dessert is a filipino dessert called leche flan!
Fudge
Chocolate and oreo!
We love to make fudge as well. Pecan pie & oatmeal cookies too!
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I don’t know about it being a holiday dessert only (I certainly can’t wait until Christmas to eat this amazing dessert)... but I love muddy buddies! I do realize others around the U.S. call it a different name…
My family’s favorite desert for the holidays is an Almond Pound Cake and it is just wonderful!
Of course, we all love anything chocolate too!
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I love making things with white chocolate….white chocolate covered pretzels, white chocolate covered peanut butter ritz crackers…the list could go on. I decorate them with a little color for Christmas. They are all so good and easy to make!
Oooh, we have so many favorite holiday desserts in my family! Okay well maybe its just me that does—I have a total sweet tooth!
Some of my favorites are my mom’s peanut butter fudge, neopolitan squares, peanut butter balls, pizelle snowflake cookies, and anything else with chocolate! Hee hee.
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And thank you for your Mama’s Famous Fudge cake recipe—I was actually looking for something new and chocolate to make on Christmas
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Honestly, we get about 10 different things and attack ALL of them!
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I would love to win! My favorite holiday desserts are Chocolate Eclair, cheesecake, chocolate layer cake, and basically anything- I love it all!
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We always have a chocolate/vanilla cheesecake I make with a caramel, pecan and chocolate laced topping. It is my one holiday indulgence. Mmmmm…..now I will be thinking about it ALL day
I also make holiday candies but am slow on that job this year. The card gift would come in handy for groceries.
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Our favorite holiday recipe is homemade hard candies.
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My husband makes a wonderful vegan no sweetener added apple pie.
We love pizzelles- my grandmother and mother always made them. Now it’s up to me to carry on the tradition.
Ok…it’s not dessert…but it’s sweet.
My family is pretty crazy about Monkey Bread. It is a MUST have for Thanksgiving morning and Christmas morn. If I forget…..I never live it down.
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I would have to say it would be our family fudge! We make several different kinds and they all last only a few hours!
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My family LOVES cheesecake!
Our favorite is Pecan Pie. Thanks for the giveaway! Happy Holidays!
We love our homemade strawberry cheesecake
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We make spanish cheese flan. Delicious but it has tonsssss of calories so its only made on during teh holidays as a special treat, plus the anticipation of having it only a few times a year makes it even more special =)
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One of my favorites from years ago was homemade plum pudding with hard sauce. It was fun to make about 6 weeks ahead of time and delicious as dessert on Christmas. Of course it was very rich and would probably kill me now with all of the fat in it!
My family’s favorite holiday dessert is fudge. I love fudge! My aunts also make lots of cookies, especially sugar cookies. When I was a kid I helped them make cookies by dumping tons of sugar crystals on top of them *_*
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I make [from scratch] a strawberry & cream pie with fresh cut strawberries, drizzled chocolate..yumm! its delish
For our family, it’s the pumpkin cheesecake!!
My mom has always made this wonderful mint ice cream dessert at Christmas. It seems odd, because it’s so cold in our part of the country at Christmas, but it’s super yummy. It has a graham cracker crust, a layer of chocolate mousse, and then a layer of the peppermint ice cream you can only get at Christmas. Love it!
We like to toffee bars and wedding cookies.
My mom ALWAYS makes fudge! I LOVE IT
!! We only have it at Christmas so I can’t wait till it comes up every year 
We make white chocolate dipped pretzels so yummy. The kids make them and put sprinkles on them.
i always do pumpkin cheesecake – yummy! i also tried peppermint last year!
i love peppermint patty brownies… such a great winter treat!
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