Christmas

These cookies are nice and chewy on the inside with a nice crunch on the outside. They have a wonderfully soft texture from using both shortening and butter. When you bake these cookies,your house will smell like Christmas!

Delicious cookie bars enjoyed at christmas time

This is one of my FAVORITE holiday recipes. Our family loves to eat it with chips or crackers. We make it at thanksgiving as well. It is very pretty and “Christmasy” looking.

Olympia Creams is an old Stevens family recipe usually made around the Holidays. The creamy texture and slight caramel taste make this a favorite. Though you'll need a fair amount of time to stir, it's still worth it. NOTE: This recipe came from Grandma Lillian Stevens. Mom copied it from somewhere and the instructions were pretty cryptic. It took trial and error to figure out the "temperature of new milk." After several failed attempts and years of trying we finally got it down. As far as we know, our family is the only one on the Davis side who can make it. We have never added nuts, I have estimated the amount that might be added. EXTRA NOTE: This recipe doesn't exist on the internet. It must be called something else.

This is the stew we have on Christmas Day.

The English Toffee that we have every Christmas. When you make this toffee, you also make sweet Christmas memories.

Shortbread that we make at Christmas every year. It's really simple and oh, so good!

The caramels Mom makes at Christmastime.

Mom makes these at Christmastime.

We spell it "ebelskiver" and call them "aiglestaigles" but the real spelling is "aebleskiver." Aebleskivers go back to our Danish heritage and are specifically Danish. This is the recipe we use which Mom got from Sister Bedurick, an old family friend. The SolvangUSA.com website also published the recipe and it is exactly the one we have used in our family for years. (The city of Solvang is the "Danish capital of America".) For historical purposes, I'm including a picture of the recipe Nana used and there are slight differences between this recipe and Nana's recipe: this recipe uses two eggs whereas Nana's uses three eggs; Nana uses 1 tsp of baking soda this recipe uses 1/2 tsp; Nana's recipe uses 1 tsp of baking soda, this one uses 2 tsp; lastly, this recipe includes 4 T of butter, Nana's doesn't use any. Use Nana's recipe below if you want to go the "original" recipe I grew up with. To read more about the history of aebleskivers, go to https://solvangusa.com/aebleskiver-history-recipe/