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Chanukah Cake Pops (from homemade cake and frosting–with dairy-free options)
I made some cake pops for upcoming Chanukah parties. The standard recipe calls for cake mix and store bought frosting, but I just didn’t want to go that route. Making the cake and frosting is actual...
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Chanukah Recipes
If you are still mulling over what to make for an upcoming party, I have some ideas for you. Below is a list of some of my favorite recipes and a round-up of what other kosher bloggers have posted this...
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Three Doughs, Endless Possibilities: Grandma Rose’s Filled Cookies
I realize that most people have baked all the holiday cookies they intend to bake. We have moved from decadent treat baking frenzy to after-holiday fatigue and dieter’s remorse. So, my posts now should...
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Three Doughs, Endless Possibilities: Old World Mock Strudel
I mentioned in my last post that Grandma Rose’s filled cookies are a bit labor intensive, with a lot of rolling and shaping. The dough gets divided into four parts, and by the time I had rolled and...
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Three Doughs, Endless Possibilities: Julia G.’s Rugelach
I don’t know why, but I usually feel the urge to make rugelach this time of year. Not pareve yeast rugelach, but dairy rugelach, with real butter and cream cheese. It always seems like a fabulous idea...
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Gelt Trip: Brown Butter Toffee Crunch Bars
Toffee bars, but with the toffee and butter flavors amplified. Browning makes the butter flavor more intense and complex, and toffee chips add texture and highlight the caramel flavor of the crust....
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Caramel Spice Applesauce and Lemon Ginger Applesauce
It isn’t so hard to make you own applesauce, and the flavor is exponentially superior. Lemon ginger applesauce is a wholesome mix of apples, ginger, lemon and a bit of honey. The bright lively flavor...
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Easy Rugelach (aka Babka Bites)
Did you know that you can make rugelach from challah dough? Well, you can! These won’t be super flaky yeast dough rugelach. For that texture, you need what is called a “laminated dough,” or a dough...
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Chanukah Hush Puppies
A popular theme for Chanukah this year is “Food that is Thanksgiving-ish or Autumnal but still recognizable as Chanukah fare.” Put another way, the question is: What Thanksgiving food can be fried as...
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Chanukah Mac ‘n Cheese
About 20 years ago, I made macaroni and cheese to bring to a family Chanukah party. The next year I was asked to bring it again. “It can be a tradition,” my sister enthused, “every year the kids will...
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Chag Sameach! (Easy Chanukah Cookies)
“We are lucky to be living in an age where we have products that our grandparents never even dreamed of, probably because they had priorities . . . So nowadays you can buy a package of cookie cutters...
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Easy Latkes
Okay, so, like the cookies previously posted, these are really easier latkes. Easy latkes are the kind someone else makes. As long as you are doing more than just reheating, latkes are never really...
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Sufganiyot, Jerusalem
My husband was in Israel on Chanukah and didn’t eat any sufganiyot. The lines were too long and he didn’t have the cheshek. But, as you can see, they really looked amazing. There is this new thing...
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