This cream of mushroom soup recipe makes a hearty, flavorful soup perfect for a cold winter evening.  Once you know how easy it is to make homemade mushroom soup, you'll never go back to the canned version.

Miniature gingerbread house cupcake toppers out of gum paste are fabulously festive, outrageously charming, and entirely edible.  

Bake up a vegan gingerbread house with this delicious vegan gingerbread recipe.  I based this eggless gingerbread recipe on the amazing gingerbread house recipe my family has been using for decades, and for baking thousands of gingerbread houses.

Yes, you can make vegan royal icing!  Traditional royal icing is typically made with egg whites, but you can make an eggless royal icing by using aquafaba instead of egg whites.  Egg free royal icing is perfect for making gingerbread houses and decorating Christmas cookies.  This eggless, easy royal icing recipe works exactly like regular royal icing.

This recipe for rugelach makes a tender, delicious, absolutely amazing walnut rugelach cookies.  They're so good, in fact, that my family has renamed them.  No longer are they called walnut rugelach--they are now known as "The Magical Cookies of Deliciousness."  Yeah, they're that good.

Christmas fruit trays are a great way to serve a healthy festive treat at a Christmas party or on Christmas morning.  This Christmas fruit platter is shaped like a Christmas wreath, and is easy to make with grapes and berries.

This recipe for sticky buns has it all--a delicious, tender homemade bread and tons of gooey, sticky, decadent and delicious caramel sauce covering every inch.  I like sticky buns with pecans, but if you can't do nuts, you can easily eliminate them and still have an absolutely amazing sticky bun.

Make Buckeye Candy with this Chocolate Peanut Butter Ball recipe.  This is a buckeye recipe without shortening.

Recycle cardboard into a charming gingerbread house Christmas garland this year! This DIY Christmas garland is easy to make with the free printable templates I used, and some paper and cardboard.

My Christmas tree is full of an eclectic mix of ornaments--ornaments from my childhood, ornaments my children have made, pretty things I've bought, ornaments I've bought on our travels, etc.  There is definitely no theme that the ornaments create on my Christmas tree.  But it still looks absolutely beautiful, because I always use one unifying design element to create a cohesive look to pull everything together.