Holiday Baking Guide
Indian-Spiced Cashews are sweet with a healthy bit of salty savoriness to them.
We share the winners from our annual Holiday Treat recipe contest. Chapel Hill cookbook author Nancie McDermott explores why coconut became a star ingredient of Southern holidays with recipes for coconut cake and ambrosia. Teresa Leonard writes about the quest to win a blue ribbon at the N.C. State Fair for her hand-pulled buttermints.
Beyond recipes, there are inspiring stories: a Cary family who bakes more than 600 cookies to give away as thank you gifts and the Raleigh woman whose cookie exchange lived on after her death.
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This story was originally published December 8, 2016 at 6:00 AM with the headline "Holiday Baking Guide."