Holiday Cranberry Sauce

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If you are looking for a really special cranberry sauce to serve this holiday season, look no further. This holiday cranberry sauce is fantastic and will have everyone asking for seconds and thirds. It has quickly become a family favourite over the past few years. It’s tart and sweet and full of autumn fruits and flavours. The addition of chopped apples and pears along with the chopped pecans make this cranberry sauce a nice contrast to the usual canned cranberry sauce served at many holiday dinners. It’s made with wonderful fresh ingredients taking advantage of fruits at their peak. This…

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Pumpkin Snickerdoodles (Spice Cookies)

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I love cookies. They are definitely my weakness when it comes to baking. I would rather cookies over any other dessert item. And even though I adore cookies, I am usually able to limit my cookie consumption to a reasonable number of one or two after I’ve baked a batch. This was not the case with these pumpkin snickerdoodles!!! After baking them yesterday, I polished off TEN! I’ve never done that before! *hah* Ten cookies in one sitting!!! And I’m not the only one who thought these little spicy, sweet cookies were addictive. My boyfriend ate about the same amount…

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Apple Pie à la Mode Smoothie

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This smoothie is bursting with apple and cinnamon flavour, yet creamy and light. I think this special holiday drink would pair up nicely with some Chai-Spiced Almond Shortbread cookies as an after dinner treat on cold autumn nights. Even though this a chilled drink, I think it is comforting and warm because it reminds your taste buds of delicious apple pie with sweet whipped cream. And frankly, apple pie is as comforting as it gets for me. :) Enjoy!  Ingredients 2 large scoops of fat free vanilla frozen yogurt 1/4 cup of vanilla soy milk 1/4 to 1/2 cup of…

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