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Easter Nest Cookies: Recipe for a Hoppy Easter Treat!

Tender cookie "nests" are an Easter favorite in the Ewer house! Use egg-shaped chocolate-covered almonds to decorate these pretty Easter cookies.

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Candy Cane Cookies

This is a wonderful cookie, but I find it a bore to make. Each and every year I drop this one from my list, and each and every year my daughter asks, hopefully, "Are you going to make those candy cane cookies this year?"

Each and every year I reply, "Well, all right, but ONLY if you'll help me!"

The reason for this devotion is obvious from the first taste. These cookies are distinctive and wonderfully flavored--and they look, smell and taste like Christmas! These are for you, honey!

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Pumpkin Spice Cookies

Ready for a new spin on a seasonal taste? Try these spiced pumpkin cookies covered with a melted-butter glaze for a memorable Autumn treat.

An original recipe from Cynthia Ewer, don't let the unusual preparation method throw you; these cookies are tender, delicious, and a perfect companion for coffee, hot chocolate, or a steaming cup of Witches Brew.

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Aunt Bill's Brown Candy

With unforgettable caramel flavor and bursting with plump pecans, this old-fashioned cooked candy is a Sooner tradition in the state of Oklahoma--and it's been a family favorite in the Ewer household for five generations!

Not for the inexperienced candy-maker, but for those with a good knowledge of candy-cooking, it's a heavenly holiday treat.

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Lemon Sugar Cookies

A tasty basic sugar cookie dough, kid tested through three generations of the Ewer family. Sturdy enough for decorating, these lemon-flavored cookies have a crisp, light taste.

Try Lemon Sugar Cookies rolled and cut into frosted Christmas shapes, or just flattened with a glass and sprinkled with sugar.

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Rocky Road

Easy enough for children to make and so delicious! Rocky Road is just the thing for the chocoholic in your life.

Vary the flavor by subsituting milk chocolate chips for semi-sweet.

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Mim's Texas Pralines

Creamy and delicious. this Texas treat dates from the days when Christmas memories had to be made with little more than some nuts from the backyard trees.

Traditionally sent to our family by my grandmother, Mim Miller, these pecan patties spell "Christmas" to me!

Includes both conventional and microwave directions.

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Haystacks

Each year, our family would wait eagerly for my grandparents' box of Christmas treats. This recipe was my grandfather's contribution.

Chocolate bundles of crunchy rolled oats, crisp coconut and plump pecans, these traditional Christmas favorites are easy to make ... and this candy freezes well if properly packaged.

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Peanut Blossoms

Tender peanut-butter cookies made memorable with a chocolate candy kiss, Peanut Blossoms are holiday favorites for children ... of all ages!

In the Ewer household, these are holiday season favorites. It wouldn't be Christmas without them!

While they're usually seen crowned by a chocolate kiss, try a simple recipe variation by filling a depression in the center with fruit jelly for Peanut Butter and Jelly cookies!

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