This week’s Family Fun Friday features recipes that will delight your family and guests, as well as your taste buds, and add flavor to your menu. Our recipes include the cheesy goodness of Cheesy Havarti Hot Spinach Dip, and a helpful tutorial for creating and displaying your own Chic Meat and Cheese Platter. Courtney does a nice job showing us how to display an appetizer to look simple and gorgeous. Also, you will never go wrong when placing this mouthwatering Cranberry Pear Flatbread appetizer on your table.

Our cold winter months are upon us and thank goodness for soup! This deliciously-tantalizing, Creamy Tomato Tortellini Soup would be a sure crowd pleaser for your holiday fun. A party without a little sweet isn’t really a party, these Fudge Mounds look so amazing, and Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are a perfect sweet- snack. For your gluten-free guests, we have a Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Cookie-which looks heavenly! What started out as 7 Christmas Recipes has turned into 12. I think you’ll love the holiday ideas you’ll find here.

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Happy Holidays, and enjoy this season while making these delicious recipes created by the bloggers who share their recipes at Family Fun Friday.

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I think you’ll love these wonderful recipes created by some of the most talented bloggers I know! Keep warm and enjoy these Christmas recipes and family fun ideas from Family Fun Friday.

12 Delicious Christmas Recipes

Gina at Kleinworth & Co. wows us with a delicious Cheesy Havarti Hot Spinach Dip, this looks so good! Find her recipe at: Cheesy Havarti Spinach Dip
Learn how to put together a Chic Meat and Cheese Platter with Courtney at A Thoughtful Place, she really understands how to make entertaining beautiful. Find her link at: Meat and Cheese Platter
Julie at This Gal Cooks shows us how delicious simple can be with her beautiful Cranberry Pear Flatbread Recipe. Find her link here: Cranberry Pear Flatbread
Stuffing is not just for Thanksgiving, it can be for any holiday – Easter, Christmas and New Year’s. Try my Mexican Cornbread Stuffing for your next holiday feast.
Erin at DelightfulE Made has outdone herself with this tasty and Creamy Tomato & Tortellini Soup, it looks so amazing! Find her recipe at: Creamy Tomato & Tortellini Soup
Try this awesome Fudge Mound Cookie Recipe by Helen at 3 Winks Design, I can’t wait to try it! Find her recipe at: Fudge Mounds
Nancy at The Bitter Side of Sweet has brought us this chocolatey-yum, The Crinkle Cookie, find her recipe at: Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
For our Gluten Free friends, Rebecca at Strength and Sunshine has created a GF and Vegan cookie, and it looks so good! Find her recipe at: GF Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Cookies
This Brie Baked Cheese Appetizer looks so amazing. I think I simply must have it at our holiday table. Special thanks to Growing up Gabel.
Need a dessert that will leave your relatives in disbelief? My mouthwatering Apple Pie is sure to please.
Living La Vida Holoka knows how to throw a party. Her goat cheese stuffed mushrooms are loaded with bacon. Yum!
Looking for a Homemade Cranberry Sauce? Look no further. Create With Joy shares her Homemade Cranberry Sauce and it’s delightful.

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