Once again, we want to give a big thanks to all of our volunteer recipe testers for your thoughtful comments and for helping us continue to strengthen our recipe recommendations. You can read each tester's comments by clicking through to the Community Picks (that's right: new Food52, new name to reflect the community!) recipes — the comments are at the top. And even if the recipe you tested wasn't chosen as a CP, please feel free to leave your testing notes in the recipe's comments section. Constructive criticism is always encouraged!
Congratulations to another great batch of Community Picks!
Community Picks for Holiday Confections (tested and photographed by us!)
Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cookies
Cardamom, Orange and Chocolate Ribbon Cookies
St. Clement's Orange and Lemon Cookies
- Community Picks for Holiday Confections (tested by you!)
- Deirdre's Coconut and Sesame Shortbread
- Rosemary Pecan Caramels
- Orange-Pecan-Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
- Cocoa Nib Brittle
- Almond Joy "Truffles"
- Coconut Milk Caramels
- Chocolate-Granola Bark
- Serinakaker
- Everyone's Favorite White Cookies
- Nutella Shortbread Brownies
- Santa's Favorite Black and White Cookies
- Coconut Jumbles
- Test Kitchen Fudge
- Quince Kolacky
Photos by Nicole Franzen
11 Comments on Community Picks — Holiday Confections:
Anita is a vegan pastry chef & founder of Electric Blue Baking Co. in Brooklyn.
added 6 months agoThe pictures look gorgeous! Just want to let you know that this contest inspired some ideas in me and I will be teaching a holiday confections class at Brooklyn Kitchen next month! We'll be making my chocolate toffee brittle (the cheater's kind, with a base of saltine crackers...made these a lot as a kid), sugarplums (recipe I entered in the contest), maple glazed hazelnut halva, and peppermint caramels. Can't wait!
Congrats to a great selection of CPs - they all look wonderful!
Congrats to all -- what a great group of recipes! I want to try every one of them!
Congrats to All! It is going to be a busy week when I get back to my kitchen, trying to figure out what to make for my Secret Santa!
So many wonderful recipes here..Congrats to all!!
Kristen is the Senior Editor of food52.
added 6 months agoThanks sdebrango for noting the typo -- should be fixed shortly!
Thank you forester_lady for the wonderful tasting notes! & thanks Kitchen_butterfly for the delicious opportunity to test the chocolate granola bark!
Thanks Panfusine for your feedback and for testing the recipe. Appreciate it
Congrats to all! Special thanks to EmilyC and Marcal for such great testing notes on my caramel recipes.
You're quite welcome! I LOVED testing your caramels and I'm excited to already know what I'm making for friends and neighbors this holiday season!
First of all congratulations to all and thank you so much editors for the CP, love the picture. Just wanted you to know there is a typo, it says Community picks for holiday roasts (tested by you) Should be confections. Thank you again
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