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Christmas Week: Gingerbread Sugared Almonds
December 12, 2015 By Isabelle Boucher 3 Comments | Filed Under: gifts, holiday, winter
Welcome back for Day 6 of Christmas Week! This annual event was started in 2012, and is hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic. We have over 35 bloggers sharing festive sweet recipes this year, plus we all chipped in for a huge Amazon Gift Card Giveaway. Be sure to check the bottom of the post for full details!
My last entry for this year’s holiday sugar-binge extravaganza is these lovely little gingerbread-scented sugared almonds.
That’s right. This is it for Christmas Week! I’m still kind of stunned at how quickly these last few days flew by. It’s been all kinds of busy this week,…
View Full Recipe at Good Food, Good Wine and a Bad…
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