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Memorable main dish and side dish recipes for holiday feasts include turkey, sweet potatoes, dressing, vegetable casseroles, soups, salads and more.
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Black Cat Cupcakes: These cute kitties will especially appeal to chocolate lovers. Chocolate sprinkles, yellow gumdrops, black licorice laces and chocolate coating dots top a homemade chocolate cream cheese frosting.
Polka-Dot Cupcakes: Bake (or buy) both regular-size cupcakes and mini cupcakes. Frost half with chocolate frosting and half with orange-color frosting (if you can't find orange frosting, use gel-paste food coloring to tint vanilla frosting). Place orange and brown mini M&Ms on top of your frosting to complete the polka-dot look.
Pretty Pumpkin Cupcakes: Make these pumpkin look-alikes with orange frosting, fine and coarse orange decorating sugar, and pretzel sticks or rods.

Halloween Recipe Ideas

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This jam-swirled recipe is inspired by one from David Lebovitz' cookbook, The Perfect Scoop, that also calls for sour cream. If you're feeling adventurous, serve with a little cracked black pepper on top.
Our flaky hand pies taste just like their big sibs, but they're tidier to serve and eat, making them perfect for picnics and potlucks. The recipe makes extra filling; it tastes delicious spooned over ice cream or fro-yo. Best of all, you get to choose the fruit filling: cherry, blueberry peach or plum!
A humble pie if you ever saw one, this unassuming potluck star has an almondy crust and a yogurt-based filling that mimics the acidic tang of a phosphate. Amaretti (Italian almond cookies) are available at large supermarkets. You can substitute graham cracker crumbs.

Fourth of July Recipes

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Nut candies with swirled chocolate topping. Salted peanut squares recipe: http://www.midwestliving.com/recipe/candy/salted-peanut-squares Chocolate-Caramel Pecan Clusters recipe: http://www.midwestliving.com/recipe/candy/chocolate-caramel-pecan-clusters
Orange Popcorn Gorp
Christmas Mice Treats <3 Click here for our how-to video: http://www.midwestliving.com/videos/v/55531629/make-christmas-candy-mice.htm

Homemade Christmas Food Gifts

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Chocolate-Irish Cream Cheesecake - A decadent combo of chocolate, cream cheese, and Irish cream liqueur
Luck of the Irish Stew - A filling dish with meat, potatoes, and onions
Dandy Shandy - Combine your favorite stout beer with ginger beer or ginger ale for this British drink

St. Patrick's Day Recipes

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Cookie canvas: Whip up flavored icing for cookies, sweet rolls, cakes or coffee cake in minutes. For a Valentine's Day treat, try maraschino cherry juice for pretty pink color.
Festive candle: Add Valentine's candy nonpareils or small beads in the bottom of a votive for a festive candle display.
Fudge Brownie Hearts: Two kinds of chocolate are used to make these favorite dessert bars. Drizzle them with a sweet glaze or use them to make an ice cream sundae.

Valentine's Recipes

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This recipe kicks carrot cake to elegant new heights. Tender layers of carrot-tinted spice cake are sandwiched with a luscious coconut-pecan filling—and it's all covered in swirls of classic cream cheese frosting.
Perfect farm-fresh eggs are the inspiration for these crisp, mini meringues topped with cream and lemon curd.
These cupcake-size treats are a fantastically simple alternative to a full-size cheesecake. You could also garnish them with fresh raspberries or blueberries.

Easter Recipe Ideas

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Peppermint Brownies Recipe
A creamy, peppermint-flavor cheesecake layer adds holiday flair to classic chocolate brownies. #dinnerdishes #dinnerideas #dinnerrecipes #familydinnerideas #supper #supperideas
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Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheels Cookie Recipe
These cookies are easier than they look—make one batch of dough, divide it in half, and blend cocoa into one portion and crushed candy canes and peppermint extract into the other. The recipe comes from the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago, which hosts an annual cookie swap.
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Anise Cookies Recipe
"Anisettes feel so Italian because it's about abundance," says Chicago food writer Shauna Sever, of these deliciously soft, cakey cookies with a licorice flavor. "Small bites, but a huge yield." #dinnerdishes #dinnerideas #dinnerrecipes #familydinnerideas #supper #supperideas
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Peppermint Cake
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Whether your perfect Christmas cake is white and minty, rich and spicy, or indulgent and chocolatey, our recipes will be a hit at the holiday table.
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Cranberry Margarita Recipe
Stir up a pitcher of these rosy margaritas for your next holiday bash. The Simple Syrup recipe makes enough syrup for 30 margaritas but is easily halved or quartered. #dinnerdishes #dinnerideas #dinnerrecipes #familydinnerideas #supper #supperideas
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Mandarin Oranges
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Cranberry Orange Upside-Down Cake Recipe
Invert this moist cake while it's still warm to reveal a kaleidoscope of glistening, tart berries and sweet mandarin oranges.
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Saltine Cracker Toffee
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Cookie Tin
Cookie Tins
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Side Dish Recipes
Saltine Cracker Toffee Recipe
Midwest cookbook author Shauna Sever describes this sweet-and-salty, candy-like classic as "the unicorn of the cookie tin" — irresistible, elusive, and mysterious. It'll disappear before anything else!
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Our best Christmas cheesecake recipes include red velvet, peppermint, pumpkin, cranberry-orange, eggnog, sweet potato, peanut butter and more.
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Sandbakkels Recipe
Sandbakkels means "sand tarts" because the Norwegian sugar cookies (which, flipped over, can double as tiny shells to hold cream and fruit) have such a fine, crisp texture. Find them in Shauna Sever's book Midwest Made: Big, Bold Baking from the Heartland. #dinnerdishes #dinnerideas #dinnerrecipes #familydinnerideas #supper #supperideas
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Kolache Cookies Recipe with Apricot Filling
This tender pastry cookie, a cousin to Jewish rugelach, has Polish origins. In her book Midwest Made: Big, Bold Baking from the Heartland, Shauna Sever's apricot filling to kolacky (also called kolaches) nods to Hungary. #dinnerdishes #dinnerideas #dinnerrecipes #familydinnerideas #supper #supperideas
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These easy, retro recipes are perfect for any party. They have a throwback feel—but updated. Try favorites like cranberry punch, glazed pecans, cheese balls and deviled eggs.
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9 Midwest Christmas Cookies and Sweets
Cookbook author Shauna Sever shares recipes for Midwest Christmas classics including sandbakkels, kolacky, polvorones and cracker toffee.
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Sweeten your holidays with our pie recipes for an array of seasonal flavors: chocolate, pecan, cherry, apple, pumpkin, eggnog, cranberry and more. #dinnerdishes #dinnerideas #dinnerrecipes #familydinnerideas #supper #supperideas
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Favorite Family Holiday Recipes
Stir up warm new traditions in your home with these 21 holiday favorites-desserts, breakfast breads, main dishes, appetizers and more-from our readers.