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This Buttermilk Banana Nut Bread has the perfect combination of a tender, rich crumb from the buttermilk, sweetness from the ripe bananas, and a delicate crunch from the walnuts in the bread, and roasted on top. It's comfort in every bite. The hardest thing about this recipe is waiting for it to cool to eat it! A huge family favorite. This image shows the bread on a platter, with two slices cut in front of the bread. Butter and additional walnuts are in the foreground and background.

Buttermilk Banana Nut Bread

These Heart-Shaped Shortbread Cookies have a rich buttery flavor, a lightly crisp texture, and a white chocolate glaze that adds the perfect touch of sweetness and flavor. We love these for Valentine's Day, but they also make great gifts and treats throughout the year. This image has the cookies stacked and plated in the center of the image with additional sprinkles and cookies surrounding the image.

Heart Shaped Shortbread Cookies

This White Chocolate Popcorn Valentine's mix is a cheerful, sweet, and crunchy treat. Drizzled in white chocolate and mixed with M&Ms and sprinkles, the popcorn is highly addictive, easy to make, and perfect for Valentine's parties, movie nights, and gifting. Here the popcorn mix is being served in a Valentine's Day paper cup with hearts on a tray in the center of the image, with additional m&Ms, popcorn cups, sprinkles, and the bowl of popcorn in the background.

White Chocolate Popcorn Valentine’s Mix

This Creamy Broccoli and Cheddar Soup is pure comfort in a bowl. The creamy, cheesy soup base with the tender broccoli is the perfect combination. We love this served with bread or in a bread bowl. In this image, the soup is served in a bread bowl in the center of the image, with a spoon in the bowl in the center of the image.

Creamy Broccoli and Cheddar Soup

Here are our favorite Christmas cookie and candy recipes from 2025. With toffee, bark, cookies, and Christmas desserts, we have lots of ideas to share for your Christmas baking and gifting this year. In this overhead image, the cookies and candy are arranged in a 6 container wooden box.

Christmas Cookies Box Ideas

Peppermint Bark Pretzels

he chocolate and toffee need to set for at least 2 hours or up to overnight. You can speed up this process by placing the toffee in the fridge if desired. Place a spatula or bench scraper under the toffee and place it on a cutting board (it’s okay if it breaks a little with this process). Cut with a sharp knife to break into pieces and serve or store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to two weeks. In this image, the toffee is placed in a tin in the center of the image, surrounded by Christmas greenery, ribbon and ornaments.

Chocolate Butter Toffee with Pecans

These Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing are soft, citrusy, and sweet. Filled with tart dried cranberries, crispy chopped pecans, and bright citrusy orange zest, then rolled in orange sugar and drizzled with orange icing, they are a beautiful and delicious holiday treat. This image is an overhead shot of the iced cookies close together on a plate.

Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing

This Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark is the ultimate sweet-and-salty treat. The combination of the creamy chocolate base, crunchy and salty pretzels and peanuts, and a rich buttery caramel topping finished with a sprinkle of salt is an irresistible treat. Easy to make with just a few ingredients, its a fun holiday treat, perfect for packing in tins or sharing on a plate. In this image, a piece of the Caramel Pretzel Bark is leaning in front of a stack of the bark in the center of the frame with pretzels, peanuts and other bark pieces in the foreground and background.

Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark

These Baked Mashed Potatoes with Cream Cheese are the ultimate comfort food and make the perfect side dish for holiday baking. These make-ahead potatoes can be made 1-2 days in advance and then baked just before serving. Made with cream cheese, butter in the potatoes and on top, and cream, they are ultimately creamy and buttery, with a light golden top. Here a spoon is scooping the potatoes out of the pan in the center of the image

Baked Mashed Potatoes with Cream Cheese