These super simple Christmas goodies are easy to make, perfect to gift, and just the right size to enjoy a bite-size treat!

I love when recipes remind me of someone, don’t you? In an instant you’re transported to a memory that you hadn’t thought of in forever, yet suddenly it’s like you’re there again. So today, I spent the afternoon back in high school, in my friend Jess’ kitchen with her mom. Shirley was the kind of mom everyone wanted; and I have a feeling that she influenced the future momming of a lot of young ladies. 

I have to think that she influenced the Christmas cookie line-up of a lot of people as well with these winners. They’re so simple, and use just a few ingredients, but somehow are more than the sum of their parts. 

Over the years I’ve seen a similar Christmas cookie that involves spreading peanut butter on full size Ritz crackers, sandwiching them together, then dipping. No judgement if that’s your jam (well, a little judgement) but I have to tell you that these pop-in-your-mouth variety are a million times better…and easier, I have to think. 

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This honey bun cake is moist, sweet, and sticky… and incredibly simple. Prepare to be asked for the recipe every time you make it.

There are some recipes that every time you make it, someone asks you for the recipe and you think…why don’t I make this more often??

This is one of those recipes.

I found it a lot of years ago in a cookbook called The Cake Mix Doctor. (This recipe and one for a cream cheese pound cake were the real standouts in the book, most of the others I tried were kind of meh).

As you might guess from the title of the cookbook… this recipe uses a cake mix. If you’re a from scratch only kind of cook, feel free to pass on this recipe. If you, like me, are okay with the convenience of mixes now and then…keep reading.

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This simple, classic peach pie recipe is made rich with cream. It’s bursting with summer flavor and is easy to make using just a handful of ingredients.

Peaches kind of scream summer, don’t they?

And there’s something about peach pie that is nostalgic just all by itself. Simple flavors and ingredients, dripping with sweet sentimentality.

But this particular peach pie is particularly nostalgic because it’s my Grandma’s recipe. My childhood summers were spent at my grandparents’ lake cabin and there was always something cooking in the kitchen. Always.

Grandma rolled and dried homemade noodles, fried raised doughnuts, made every variety of cookie from simple sugar cookies to her spicy ginger snaps, baked caramel rolls and custards, and made dumpling soup from her garden vegetables.

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