Good desserts for holiday potluck?

We're having a holiday potluck and I'm bringing dessert!

What do you suggest? (It's only about 10-12) of us.

I was thinking maybe those rainbow cookies since I just saw the recipe! And maybe chocolate chip cookies too.

Any other suggestions??

Re: Good desserts for holiday potluck?

here are some I make that people LOVE
Maybe it'll give you an idea!

Peanutbutter surprise cookies (peanut butter cookies with a mini snickers bar that melts inside.

Softbatch Chocolate chip cookies

Mexican Wedding Cookies (pecan crestent cookies, every nationality calls it something different)

Cheesecake topped brownies

Cheesecake

5 minute fudge wreath

Chocolate dipped pretzels

Message edited 12/14/2007 5:08:26 PM.

Re: Good desserts for holiday potluck?

do you have a recipe for the peanutbutter suprise cookies? those sound fantastic!

and I love the idea of chocolate covered pretzels too

thanks!

Re: Good desserts for holiday potluck?

also, tell me more about the fudge wreath!

Re: Good desserts for holiday potluck?

Here you go!

Peanut Butter Surprise Cookies
2 sticks butter (softened)
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 pkg. (13oz) snickers miniatures
Preparation
Combine the butter, peanut butter, and sugar, using a mixer on a medium to low speed until light and fluffy.
Slowly add eggs and vanilla until thoroughly combined. Then mix in flour, salt and baking soda
Cover and chill dough for 2-3 hours.
Unwrap all the snickers miniature.
Remove dough from refrigerator. Divide into 1 tbs. pieces and flatten.
Place a snickers in the center of each piece of dough.
Form the dough into a ball around each snickers.
Place on a greased cookie sheet and back at 300 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
Let cookies cool on baking rack or wax paper.
(Optional: Sift with powdered sugar and drizzle with melted chocolate)
Makes about 2 dozen cookies

I think the cookies look too plain without the drizzled chocolate on top.

Message edited 12/14/2007 5:29:37 PM.

Re: Good desserts for holiday potluck?

it's from Rachael Ray

Five-Minute Fudge Wreath
Ingredients
1 (12-ounce) bag semisweet chocolate morsels
9 ounces (3/4 of a 12-ounce bag) butterscotch morsels
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 (8-ounce) can walnut halves
1/2 cup (a couple of handfuls) currants
1 8-inch cake pan, lightly greased with softened butter
Candied cherries, red and green, for garnish, optional
Preparation
Place a heavy pot on the stove and preheat it over low heat. Add chips and milk and stir until chips are melted and milk combined. Save the empty condensed milk can. Stir in vanilla and remove fudge from heat. Add nuts and currants and stir in immediately.
Cover empty condensed milk can with plastic food wrap and center it in the greased cake pan. Spoon fudge into pan around can, making sure to recenter can if it drifts.
The fudge will set up almost immediately. Garnish can only be added in the first minute or 2 the fudge is in the pan, so work quickly. Decorate your wreath with "holly" made from cut candied red and green cherries. Cut the red cherries in half with scissors and the green cherries into quarters. Use the green pieces to make leaves and the red to make holly berries. Decorate the fudge with several groups of holly berry sprigs made from the cherries and garnish with walnuts between the sprigs. A wreath left plain can be garnished with a pretty fabric bow when serving.
Put the fudge in the fridge and chill until firm. Remove the can from the center, then loosen the sides and bottom of the fudge with a spatula. Cut the fudge into thin slices to serve.
Slice fudge very thin when ready to serve, a little goes a long way.
Variations:
White Chocolate Wreath with Pistachio and Cranberry

Substitute the chocolate chips with white chocolate chips, 1 1/2 ounce bag plus 1 cup.
Substitute 1 to 1 1/2 cups of shelled natural pistachio nuts for walnuts.
Substitute 1/2 cup dried sweetened cranberries for currants.
Goober and Raisinette Wreath
Swap butterscotch for peanut butter chips
Swap large whole peanuts for walnuts used in original recipe (such as peeled Virginia Peanuts)
Swap 1/2 cup large raisins for currants in original recipe