Candy Christmas's Christmas Collection: Recipes, Stories, and Inspiration from Candy's House to Yours

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Summary: Candy Christmas's Christmas Collection Book
Review: One of the best! Has such yummy recipes and extremely well done. Pictures are wonderful and just a all around darling candy,table setting,foods for the holidays and what to cook with what cookbook. You won't be disappointed with this cute Christmas cookbook. I have alot of cookbooks(hundreds)and this is one of my favorites because of the recipes in it, they are very good and easy to make. Great book for a gift.

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Summary: mediocre ... big disappointment
Review: This was a huge disappointment. Thank goodness I bought it from Amazon so can return it. All those recipes but no hints about why they're special -- and there's a vast difference between recipes you treasure because they contain ingredients that are readily available, because they're cheap, because they're quick and easy, and because they're delectable. I like to know which is which before spending my time and money, and this book provides no hints. It could have been cranked out from any sterile test kitchen. I prefer tried-and=true recipes that tell you why they're treasured.

The crafts are even worse. For example, a "new or recycled" picture frame to which you glue birdseed and hang it on a bush or tree. A *NEW* picture frame? Yeah, right. Is this book intended for the Rockefellers? I feed birds every day, but they'd rather have me spend my money on birdseed than on picture frames!

What a waste!