Christmas Baking; Fun and Delicious Holiday Treats

The Christmas season is a magical time—sleigh bells ringing, puffy snow flurrying, a cozy fire crackling, and wonderful aromas coming from the kitchen as families make yummy Christmas treats. Christmas Baking will make the holiday season even more magical with fun and simple recipes that are sure to become Christmas traditions in every home.  

Prominent Swedish pastry chef Mia Öhrn offers thirty-eight of her amazingly creative and delicious recipes for cakes, cookies, candies, truffles, cupcakes, tarts, and breads that are tasty, colorful, fun, and decorative. Learn how to build and decorate the perfect gingerbread house, create marzipan elves, make toffee sticks, ginger-flavored chocolates, a gingerbread bowl, fig pie, and decadent chocolate cake with blood oranges. Aside from the sweets, Öhrn includes recipes for a fruit and nut bread, saffron bread, and poppy crisp bread.   

Along with the recipes, the author provides helpful hints for choosing the best ingredients, gives you valuable baking tips and decorating ideas, and shows you how to properly preserve your finished creations. The beautiful photographs of the delightful treats and winter scenes by Ulrika Pousette make Christmas Baking a very special book filled with treats that everyone will love.

Christmas Miscellany, A: Everything You Wanted to Know About Christmas (HC)

Wouldn’t it be great to understand all our Christmas traditions? Here, Jonathan Green offers the fascinating history behind our most beloved holiday traditions. For example, myrrh is incense made from the resin of a North African bush and was a special gift during biblical times. To the Romans, mistletoe was a symbol of fertility, so today we are encouraged to kiss when it is near. The Yule log was originally used to brighten homes during the dark, cold Scandinavian Christmas season. Packed with all manner of delightful surprises and delicious morsels, A Christmas Miscellany demystifies the origins of familiar festive customs such as caroling and Christmas cards, and entertains with fun, little-known facts. This is the perfect gift or stocking stuffer for the curious-minded during the holiday season.

Praise: A Creative Journaling Bible

Go deeper in your faith with Praise, a King James Version Bible that encourages quiet moments with God. This Creative Journaling Bible invites you to immerse yourself in His Word as you stop to color and personalize the most moving passages of Scripture. With three hundred elegant illustrations of thought-provoking Bible verses drawn by artist Laura Elizabeth Marshall, you can celebrate the glory of God and reflect on His teachings one artful verse at a time. Fill the lines in the oversized margins with your notes, your prayers, and your questions so that you may experience the Bible in a more personal and meaningful way.

This high-quality Journaling Bible is encased in a keepsake-quality, imitation leather cover that’s both durable and comfortable to carry. The titling is artfully debossed into the leather for a timeless effect. High-quality paper makes note-taking a joy, while the ribbon page marker helps you find your place every time.

• Complete, single-column KJV text for easy reading
• 300 hand-drawn partial or full page black-and-white illustrations of inspiring verses to color
• Roomy, lined margins for your reflection and responses to Scripture