Candy Cane Popcorn Clusters

If you like candy canes, you'll love these festive clusters. Using chocolate coating wafers means these minty treats can be stored and enjoyed at room temperature without melting. You can find candy cane powder at cake decorating stores during the holidays, but you can also grind your own in a food processor. Keep this powder in an airtight container if you do it in advance, because the moisture in the air transforms it into a solid piece if it is left uncovered.

Mini Buches de Noel

Using vanilla wafer cookies instead of the traditional sponge cake makes these no-bake miniature buches de Noel (yule logs) an easy make-ahead treat. If you like, shape marzipan into little mushrooms or holly leaves and berries and pipe melted chocolate into twig shapes to decorate the logs as we've done here. Make sure your cream is cold before you begin so it's easier to whip.
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Berry Cream Ruffles

Strawberry Icebox Cake

When you're entertaining, make this pretty "log" cake early in the day. Not only will you like its no-bake preparation, you'll just love the compliments it brings.

Edible Birch Bark

These simple-to-make chocolate bits of "birch bark" look beautiful on our Vanilla and Coconut Birch Bark Cake. Watch below to see how they're made.

Gobble Pops

These pops make an adorable edible centrepiece on your Thanksgiving table. Small gingersnap thins fit neatly in a measuring cup; if you're using bigger cookies, break them into 1-inch (2.5 cm) pieces to fit in the cup. To make the crumbs, pulse the cookies in a food processor, or put them in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin, until they're crumbly but not powdery.

Easter Chicks

These adorable Easter chicks are made out of coconut macaroons, and transformed into cute animals with the addition of a few candies. For added effect, plate the chicks next to dyed, cracked eggshells. 

Pool Party Birthday Cake

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Cheesecake

This recipe is approximately 40 years old. I like to serve it with either canned cherry pie filling or whipping cream (or both).

Holiday Ornament Cake Pops

These easy no-bake cake pops make a great project for kids. Hit up your local bulk-food store for decorating sugar, dragées and sprinkles in assorted holiday colours. You’ll need 16 lollipop sticks—use them to also punch holes into a block of foam, then stand the cake pops upright once you get them onto the sticks for easy decorating.