Chocolate and booze. In excess, both are detrimental to your health and waistline. But in moderation, they can be incredibly decadent!

Snickerdoodle cookies are really quite easy. Basic ingredients and a dusting of cinnamon sugar, these cookies come together quickly and have a great balance between soft and chewy. If you love cinnamon and sugar, these are a great treat.

Sometimes a long trusted recipe is just begging for an update. I have been making my mother's banana bread recipe for a decade and eating it for almost three.

A yeasted fruitcake, Stollen is a great holiday bread. It's chock full of dried fruit and nuts and sweetened with honey. Dusted in a heavy coat of powdered sugar, to me a baked stollen invokes the crisp snowy mornings in Michigan this time of year.

Oh my darling clementine! One of the things I love about the holidays are the clementines. I buy them by the crate and they become part of breakfast, an afternoon snack, and even dessert. Like little orange globes of sunshine, clementines brighten up the dreary winter evenings.