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No. We do cookie swaps and gingerbread houses. *edit* Avendesora Send a noteboard - 05/12/2011 05:18:31 PM
Typical "sweets" gift to bring to a Christmas celebration in the US would be plate of cookies or other home-made sweets. My favorite are bourbon balls, peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate (AKA Buck eye balls), iced sugar cookies, shortbread thumbprints with raspberry jam filling, and gingerbread men. Some people go crazy making gingerbread houses with their kids, or give them as gifts. I'm not sure, but I think that this may be old-fashioned. I live in a rural area where lots of people still so this sort of thing, but increasingly in recent years, a lot of people buy the horrid overly-sweet iced cardboard-tasting shit that they made in bakery sections at grocery stores. :dead: However, some people I know who rarely bake cookies the rest of the year will whip up some family cookie recipe at christmas time.

There is a cookie that my mother-in-law makes that reminds me of fruit cake with maraschino cherries, whatever spices are in it, and other fruit bits that are quite tasty. She calls them "Lizzies".

Also- that link is hilarious. :D
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I am confused. Do Americans not do cake at Christmas? Rebekah - 04/12/2011 10:59:04 AM 1504 Views
chrimbo cake is the BEST! Yunalesca - 04/12/2011 11:41:28 AM 719 Views
Re: chrimbo cake is the BEST! ranagrande - 04/12/2011 11:48:56 AM 757 Views
Chicken pot pies are pretty great. beetnemesis - 04/12/2011 07:18:47 PM 697 Views
Most do not. ranagrande - 04/12/2011 11:46:09 AM 763 Views
Fruitcake Isaac - 04/12/2011 12:39:23 PM 839 Views
This Danu - 05/12/2011 01:38:49 AM 715 Views
Christmas Cake is divine. Stephen - 04/12/2011 02:03:44 PM 758 Views
My family's Christmas is Second Thansgiving, but with bonus desserts. Mostly pie, cookies, and candy *NM* Burr - 04/12/2011 03:00:51 PM 438 Views
Or rather... Fifth Thanksgiving. Thanksgivings 2, 3, and 4 are all about Thanksgiving 1 leftovers. *NM* Burr - 04/12/2011 03:02:42 PM 327 Views
No, generally we do not make cake for Christmas. *NM* Tom - 04/12/2011 04:41:05 PM 337 Views
Cake? nossy - 04/12/2011 05:03:02 PM 740 Views
We don't have a sheet of icing? Palatine - 04/12/2011 05:08:00 PM 722 Views
We have different icing. It is not typically a very dense, flat sheet of solid icing. Like fondant. nossy - 04/12/2011 07:46:41 PM 993 Views
That's just for Christmas cakes and wedding cakes, usually. Rebekah - 04/12/2011 07:58:55 PM 810 Views
Ah nossy - 04/12/2011 08:33:29 PM 712 Views
No. (with other responses) Palatine - 04/12/2011 05:03:51 PM 1026 Views
its a fruit cake with a layer of marzipan and a layer of icing on top Yunalesca - 04/12/2011 08:32:55 PM 815 Views
Plus with loads of brandy used to "feed" the cake over the month before you ice it. Rebekah - 04/12/2011 08:45:28 PM 715 Views
i put three teaspoons on each cake once a week Yunalesca - 04/12/2011 09:35:23 PM 705 Views
You make pretty cakes! *NM* Sareitha Sedai - 04/12/2011 11:53:16 PM 354 Views
thanks Yunalesca - 04/12/2011 11:58:40 PM 742 Views
Fruitcake is yummy Floffe - 05/12/2011 05:41:59 PM 652 Views
I dunno if they do cake, but Jason Biggs does pie. *NM* ironclad - 04/12/2011 05:18:22 PM 350 Views
Your boozecake intrigues me. Dannymac - 04/12/2011 06:01:14 PM 758 Views
Christmas cake? Jeez, how awkward ARE you people? Praziquantel - 04/12/2011 06:21:06 PM 758 Views
I hate Christmas cake Aviendha - 04/12/2011 06:35:49 PM 895 Views
Nope. My family has no Christmas-themed desserts. beetnemesis - 04/12/2011 07:17:38 PM 721 Views
Christmas cake is horrid. Morgawse - 04/12/2011 07:25:59 PM 917 Views
There are other birds which it's "acceptable" to eat at Christmas, other than turkey. Tim - 05/12/2011 10:02:20 AM 704 Views
Ah, maybe generally acceptable, but not to the outlaws. Morgawse - 05/12/2011 01:46:45 PM 844 Views
We do ham a lot Christmas random thoughts - 05/12/2011 01:01:03 PM 670 Views
Re: We do ham a lot Christmas Morgawse - 05/12/2011 01:45:53 PM 831 Views
me and my first wife did steaks for Christmas one year random thoughts - 05/12/2011 05:17:47 PM 654 Views
Fruitcake, I guess. But we don't coat it with disgusting icing. And it's not really cake. *NM* Ghavrel - 04/12/2011 10:12:21 PM 344 Views
Pie in November and December. Cake the rest of the year. TaskmasterJack - 04/12/2011 11:52:31 PM 760 Views
I assume your Christmas cake is our Fruit Cake. Danu - 05/12/2011 01:25:07 AM 727 Views
It is, as far as I can tell. Morgawse - 05/12/2011 01:55:40 PM 1051 Views
The icing looks so... thick. Avendesora - 05/12/2011 05:23:44 PM 745 Views
we do cake sometimes but not usually random thoughts - 05/12/2011 02:05:50 AM 686 Views
My family does... though Jacob - 05/12/2011 02:08:13 PM 775 Views
We typically have flan....with some vanilla ice cream. Jeordam - 05/12/2011 03:57:50 PM 748 Views
I adore flan... *NM* Larisa - 07/12/2011 10:50:00 PM 475 Views
No. We do cookie swaps and gingerbread houses. *edit* Avendesora - 05/12/2011 05:18:31 PM 764 Views
our family offerings are bread pudding and sugar cookies. The_Muted_Grimaud - 05/12/2011 05:25:01 PM 757 Views
I have no concept of a "Christmas" cake A Deathwatch Guard - 05/12/2011 08:15:30 PM 672 Views
Christmas Cake = yum yum ppig's bum. As are Fruit Mince Pies. And boiled pudding... and roast potato *NM* Two Wongs - 07/12/2011 01:50:28 AM 345 Views
Message from the Queen to Americains: 'Let Them Eat Cake!' *NM* Sports_Gambler - 07/12/2011 06:16:59 AM 310 Views
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