St Albans, England, is famous for its pubs.  It even has the most pubs per capita in England, and has the oldest pub in England, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks.  This year, for my own creative gingerbread project, I decided to recreate some of St Albans iconic pubs in gingerbread.

Make a dried orange slice gift topper with this easy tutorial.  Fresh evergreen branches, dried oranges, and cinnamon sticks make this natural Christmas gift decoration smell amazing, too.

This collection of Christmas fudge recipes is full of absolutely delicious homemade fudge flavors.  Make one of the easy fudge recipes or try your hand at a traditional fudge recipe--they all taste amazing.

Old fashioned penuche fudge is a soft, creamy homemade candy made with a traditional fudge technique.  It is made with brown sugar, cream, vanilla, and butter. 

This easy tutorial will show you how to make a pom pom garland.  Snowy white, fluffy pom poms in different sizes make a beautiful Christmas garland, but the pom-poms can be made in any color to match any theme.

37 Christmas Crockpot Recipes, including main dishes, appetizers, sides, dessert, and breakfast slow cooker recipes you can make for Christmas.

A dried orange slice garland is a beautiful, rustic, traditional Christmas decoration that's easy to make.  This style of dried fruit garland is a beautiful addition to your Christmas tree or fireplace mantel.

Apple Butter Pie is an amazing fall pie recipe!   It's creamy and deliciously spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, but with the bright, tart flavor of autumn apples, too.  The fabulous apple flavor comes from using apple butter, an intense, highly spiced, reduced fruit spread as the key ingredient--but unlike regular apple pies, this has the creamy texture of pumpkin pie.  

Looking for Christmas fireplace garland ideas?  Here are 20 fabulous DIY Christmas garland tutorials for you to try.

Apple butter is a delicious, spiced apple spread.  It's used like a jam, and is amazing slathered on toast, biscuits, or scones.  Traditional apple butter made on a stovetop takes hours and hours, and requires a lot of standing and stirring.  But making apple butter in an Instant Pot or other pressure cooker is much faster, and incredibly easy.