Apricot Brandy: Homemade Apricot Brandy is actually easy to make! KansasA shows you how. Nice gift or treat to serve during your holiday festivities. This is a three month process so you may want to keep this one bookmarked for next year. Found at KansasA’s blog.

Butter Nutties: This recipe has a few steps involved, but it’s still an easy one to do and not that complicated. Standard ingredients, nothing too fancy. Incorporates walnuts and halved candied cherries. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Butter Tart Filling: Here’s an easy recipe for a basic butter tart filling, raisins or chopped pecans are called for but I’m sure could also try walnuts if you like. Makes about a dozen tarts, use your favorite pastry recipe or just buy tart shells. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Caramel Candies: This is a nice addition to sweets and dainties trays. Cutting pieces about an inch square is plenty. Not too fussy to make and gives a nice caramel, nutty crunch. Recipe posted on Tipnut.com.

Cherry Flips: This recipe needs to be chilled overnight before baking. Nice treat that you first roll the dough into balls, flatten, then wrap around drained maraschino cherries. The baked flips are iced with a simple pink icing then coated in nuts for a lightly layered treat. A little fussy to make, but a nice addition to dainty trays. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Cherry Shortbread: This recipe is for round shortbread cookies topped with a candied cherry before baking. Easy to make, basic ingredients needed. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Chocolate Mint Sticks: These are a nice addition to any dainty tray, and easy to make. Cut into strips 3/4″ x 2 1/4″. Posted on Tipnut.com.

Chocolate Nut Shortbread: We can’t get enough shortbread in our house, love it! Here’s a chocolate and walnut twist to this favorite Christmas treat. Easy to make, basic ingredients used. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Christmas Pudding: This is a steamed pudding recipe. Ingredients required include suet, cold coffee, grated carrots, breadcrumbs, raisins, currants and more. Recipe posted on Tipnut.com.

Christmas Pudding (Carrot): This is a steamed pudding recipe that calls for an unusual ingredient - grated potatoes. Lots of raisins, grated carrots and favorite spices like cinnamon and nutmeg included. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Christmas Punch: You can prepare this right before the festive gathering, just make sure all the ingredients are cold. Non-alcoholic recipe includes cranberry cocktail, Sprite, lemonade and some cherries and fruit slices for decoration. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Christmas Sangria: This one’s not for the kiddos since it includes wine and brandy, but it’s a nice holiday treat for the adults. Recipe ingredients include two bottles of Merlot, cranberry cocktail, brandy, soda water and other basic ingredients. Make this one the night before for best flavor. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Cinnamon Apples: You can use these as a garnish for Roast Goose. Just a few simple items needed such as currant jelly, small apples, cinnamon and more. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Coconut Squares: Every baking tray needs at least a choice or two of a coconut sweet, here’s an easy recipe to try. The top and bottom layers are simply graham wafers, then filled with the coconut goodnes. Cut these into pieces after chilling, makes a 9″ pan. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Cranberry Streusel Tarts: Not much better than a bite of cream cheese mixed with cranberries — here’s a nice tart recipe for the dainty tray. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Cranberry Tarts: A nice Christmas tart using dates, walnuts and cranberry sauce. There’s a homemade cranberry sauce recipe included, although I’m sure you could use your favorite instead if you prefer. Make a nice lattice pastry top for these, they look nice on the dainty tray. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Dark Fruit Cake Recipe: Quite a list of ingredients needed including currants, raisins, dates, glace fruit, maraschino cherries, almonds, walnuts and more. Makes a three-tiered cake. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Easy Butter Tart Squares: If you love butter tarts but find them too fussy to make, try this tart square recipe. It calls for raisins but you could use walnuts or pecans if you prefer. Makes a 9×9 inch pan. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Easy Peanut Butter Balls: Here’s a layered peanut butter ball treat. Just use a basic butter icing to cover the balls then roll in coconut. These are a no-bake treat, chill first for best results. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Easy Shortbread Recipe: A different recipe for shortbread that requires fruit sugar and rice flour. Easy to make and the ingredients required are just four items. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Fruit Cake Glaze: Here’s a easy & basic recipe for fruit cake glaze. Just needs corn syrup and water and suggests decorating with candied fruits. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Fudge Balls: Here’s a nutty fudge that is rolled into balls (any size will do). Don’t crumble the cookies or wafers in the recipe too fine, you want them to add to the crunch as well. Another easy recipe for dainty trays. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

German Stollen - Christmas Bread: Nicely detailed recipe for making German Stollen. This recipe makes 5 loaves so you can give some away as gifts if you like. Walnuts, dates, raisins, mixed fruit are some of the ingredients used. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Ginger Snaps: A traditional addition to the holiday baking tray, here’s an easy recipe for ginger snaps. Basic ingredients required including a bit of molasses. Recipe posted on Tipnut.

Gourmet Popcorn Recipes: Make up batches of these tasty popcorn seasonings, bag them or use small pretty jars, then give away as gifts. Great addition to the movie lovers gift basket themes. Posted on Tipnut.com.