This lightly-spiced holiday yeast bread is laden with candied fruit peel, almonds and raisins. Decorate the finished loaf with candied fruit and almonds for an especially festive touch.

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Submitted by: HANNER

Home Town: Salinas, California, USA

Living In: Madison, Wisconsin, USA

These buttery, nutty-tasting shortbread cookies are cut out into holiday shapes, and decorated with colored frosting and edible glitter to make your cookie tray festive.

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Submitted by: KATHARINENOLA

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Submitted by: Gitano

Living In: Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Sheets of red and green butter cookie dough are rolled around each other to make a log of spiraling colors. Sliced into colorful pinwheels, these heirloom cookies are the perfect holiday treat. They can also be made in a chocolate-vanilla pinwheel variation.

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Provided by: Karen Uffelman

It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap. With its two key ingredients--rum and butter--it ought to be a hit. This recipe includes dried cherries, mango, cranberries, and currants soaked in rum overnight (a week or a month or more is even better). After it's baked, it ages in cheesecloth with additional splashes of rum. Let it ripen for 10 weeks for best flavor.

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Submitted by: Peggy

Home Town: Nome, Alaska, USA

Living In: Anchorage, Alaska, USA

This is a good way to use up leftover ingredients from Christmas baking. The amounts of dates, nuts and coconut can be varied - just use a total of 3 cups.

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Provided by: Carol

This cake is a rich, dark, moist fruit cake, very flavorful at Christmas. Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch. This recipe is started in October or November so as to let it mellow before the holidays. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. I wish that I had that old crock.

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