The only thing I have to give every year is the fruitcake to my parents. Not sure what they'd do to me if they didn't get one.

I like to give DH some Twizzlers too because that's his favorite candy. This year I saw that they have really looong bags of Twizzlers at Walgreens for $5.00! I'll pick up a bag of those this week.

Funny you should mention that! Just today I went to Wal-Mart and had a lot of time, not one thing else I had to do today. I spied those choc covered cherries and got a box for my oldest daughter. She LOVES them. It makes my mouth pucker just to think about them! I'll give them to her today and she won't share them w/ anybody! I went to Wal-Mart looking for one thing, didn't find it, and spent $94. anyway. Oh, well, it's the season!

I love chocolate covered cherries!
I think I get it from Gramma, she did too!
The kids and now the GB's always get Hallmark ornaments for sure every year.

After us talking about fruit cakes yesterday....Today Denny actually ask me about getting one...He said he hasn't had one since he was a kid. And wants one...

What is a good one without spending a bunch....OR...are they hard to make???

Think I could make one??? Anyone have a recipe.

patti

Speaking of chocolate covered cherries.Here's a true story that still makes me smile,but when i first heard it i almost PMP i was laughing so hard.

My sister loves chocolat covered cherries,and one year for xmas her youngest son gave her a 5# box of them.After everyone went home she settled down to watch tv and enjoy some of her chocolates.She said she couldn't stop eating them,and when they got too sweet,she went in the kitchen,got a bag of potato chips and ate those as well.She said she ate the whole 5# box of cherries that night.When she was telling me i couldn't stop laughing,tears were streaming down my face as i pictured her doing this.I've never heard of anyone doing it before or since.

I asked her,didn't you get sick,no not at all she said.I can't even imagine it.She has never done it again,either,she said she now just puts some on a paper saucer and when they are gone,that's it for the day.
Kathi

I always give Kenny a box of chocolate-covered cherries in his stocking, I used to give my dad one, and now I just continue to do it. WE LOVE them, and if we can find them in dark chocolate, even better!
DO NOT buy Zachary's, though, they taste like an old cherry dipped in liquid chalk, rolled up in chocolate-flavored wax. Ugh, I still can't get the awful taste out of my mind. I contacted them and told them how bad they were, they sent a new box by UPS, and they tasted just the same. Yuck.
JoanMN

I don't give it, but I have to have a box of pfeffernusse each year.

Christmas is not Christmas if I don't eat 'em!

What a great idea.....get a box of those and tape the gift certificate to it!
Thanks, Glenda!!!

As much as I love sweets, I don't like Chocolate covered cherries. I guess I have never learned to eat them except to pop the whole thing in my mouth. They are TOO sweet and runny.

Patti, about the fruit cake, there are as many recipes as there are people who make them. No two alike probably. I remember my DM making them, and I have made them also. I gave up because the candied fruits are too expensive and so many people seem to have a dislike for them,. I really like a good moist one with lots of fruit (no citron) and nuts and I prefer the light batter type. Years ago I ordered them from Sears. They had different kinds and they were absolutely the best. Don't know if they still carry them or not. Claxton's aren't bad. Depends on your taste.

Sue

When we were were at Buzzard's get-together, Annie TX bought an apricot fruitcake. She and I ate almost the whole thing ourselves.

I have already bought a box and ate the whole thing by myself. (hanging my head in shame) :)

I can only remember one Christmas without my mom's Chex Party Mix. She still uses the original recipe from waaaay back - it calls for a cup of butter and a cup of bacon grease, if that tells ya anything! :-)

A few weeks before Christmas last year, my dad had just had a difficult procedure for prostate cancer, and it's the first year I can remember that we didn't make Party Mix. We also didn't go to the cemetary and put out Chrismas flowers - two traditions broken the same year, but Pop healed up nicely!

I used to give chocolate covered cherries for Christmas...I made my own, with Remy Martin VSOP Cognac.
They were such a hit, the list got longer every year.
I stopped making them a few years ago, mainly because I got tired of it.

We're looking for the dark chocolate ones. Yum! I usually get 5 or 6 boxes, since these days it seems they don't seem to have many in one box.

I also have to buy a bag of those hard candies that have filling. I like the peppermint and the green peppermint with the chocolate filling.

Oh--and peppermint stick ice cream. We can only get it at Christmas and it's such a treat!

Bought one dark chocolate and the light chocolate.
All in trunk of car!
Could eat the whole box of whichever!

I used to bite into the head of the cherries, suck the goodies, first, and then eat the chocolate.

Ohhhhh man I am drooling over the thought of homemade Chocolate covered cherries!! I bet they were heavenly!

hershey's gold is always on our list...

Had to buy my Dad chocolate covered cherries every year.
Had to buy my grandmother pickled pigs' feet.
Whatever.

My sister-in-law and I love those things and get each other a box every Christmas.

LOL me too Connie - I have never tasted a homemade chocolate covered cherry and Monica's sound wonderful.

I would be content if all I received at Christmas from family was a good box of chocolate covered cherries and a fruitcake.

I always give my friend Kathy the same gift every year since we were teenagers - a flannel nightgown. This year I had decided I would try another gift for her but wondering how she would take the break of tradtion but she actually came up to me and whispered she had enough nightgowns. LOL Boy, I was relieved. LOL

I always try to buy my brother Paul a Canadian Farmer's Almanac and a Mad Magazine and of course some Kindereggs.

I haven't done any shopping yet and may just end up giving homemade Christmas cookies this year to everyone.

Anne

My Memaw use to give all of us grandkids a box of chocolate covered cherries for Christmas. I guess I ate one too many many years ago and I just don't like them, but my DH and DS love them.

Joan - funny you mentioned Zachary's - my stepdad LOVES their big box of assorted chocolates and I give him one every year for Christmas. As a matter of fact, I just asked my mother this week isn't there something else I could give him but she said he loves "that crap" and will have the entire box eaten before the first of the year. I told her I'd start giving them to him from Braden and Collin.

Mom has been gone 10 years now, but she always bought me 2 big boxes of chocolate covered cherries. One to share with the kids, and the other one she always told me to hide so I didn't have to share with anyone. I miss that. Thanks, I'll have to go buy a couple of boxes just for the memories.

Love chocolate covered cherries!!!

Best fruitcake (and I get it every year) is from Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey. Unfortunately because they are all handmade and limited quantities, they sell out early. I usually place my order around Thanksgiving.

But here's a link to their website where they list a few stores they sell to, and you might also try searching on the internet.

Here is a link that might be useful: Trappist Abbey Fruitcake

Glenda--got my chocolate cherries today at Wal-Mart. I bought 5 boxes for 97 cents each. Geez, they only have 10 in one box. I thought of you while I was eating my third one!!!

Ran into my best friend, while I had the cherries in my basket, and she bought two.
She thought I was buying them for myself :o)
She bought two and they are already gone.

Mine are stored safely in my car trunk! along with a big bag of pistachios!