Christmas foods and healthy tips

Ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter or margarine (at room temperature)
1/4-teaspoon salt

1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
multicolored sugar sprinkles (optional) marshmallows or nips candy

Procedure:

1. Onto a piece of waxed paper, shift 2 1/2 cups of the flour, the baking powder, and salt. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, mix the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

2. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then the vanilla and lemon juice. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the flour mixture. Divide into three equal pieces, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or until thoroughly chilled.

3. Preheat the oven to 350° butter three baking sheets. On a surface lightly floured with about 1/3 of the remaining 1/2 cup of flour, roll out 1 piece of dough, 1/4 inch thick, and cut into shapes with cookie cutters.

With a spatula, transfer to the baking sheets, sprinkle with the sugar if you wish, and bake for 8 minutes or just until edge starts to brown. Let cool on the baking sheets for 2 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool. Repeat with the remaining dough. Decorate as desired using the icing. Store in an airtight container, but do not freeze-frosted cookies. Then it is done

Of all Christmas cake, fruit cake is the most common one .As we know it now - a rich fruit cake with marzipan and icing was introduced by the Victorians. Before that time, cake was eaten during Christmas, but without the toppings. Its idea of using marzipan is thought to be linked to the Tudor Marchpane. It is an iced and decorated cake of marzipan that acted as the table center piece during banquets and festive occasions. Those fruit cake were baked that are good for many days before it will be spoiled.

Champagne is one of the traditional Christmas tipple and millions of bottles of bubbly are enjoyed every year. It is calculate that there are over 49 million bubbles in a bottle of Champagne.

6 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups butter
1 can large evaporated milk
2 pack chocolate chips
A jar marshmallow cream
1 cup nuts

In heavy pan, cook until boiling, boil for 10 minutes, stir all the time. Take off burner and add chips, marshmallow cream and nuts, make sure you mix well, pour into 9 x 13 buttered pan. It will make 6 pounds.

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