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A classic holiday cookie earns the top spot.
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The holiday season calls for festive dishes, shareable bites, and a lively blend of well-worn recipe classics and new additions to a home cook’s repertoire. And many cooks turn to the Internet to find their newest cooking adventures. When Southern Living fans in the South are searching for recipes in the days following Thanksgiving, fun and travel-friendly desserts are at the forefront of their minds. The following treats are proving especially search-worthy to our readers.
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Sugar Cookies Are The Most Searched-For Recipe
The top December spot for desserts goes to Easy Sugar Cookies. Cookie swaps are a much-loved holiday tradition, so it’s no surprise that Christmas cookie recipes like this one have been in high demand this season.
Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
Why Sugar Cookies Are So Easy
This straightforward recipe yields 2 dozen sugar cookies in just 15 minutes of active cook time, and these sweet, nostalgic confections are perfect blank canvases for icing, sprinkles, and other holiday-themed edible decorations.
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Why Southerners Love Dessert
Cookies may represent the most sought-after holiday dessert recipes among Southerners, but cake—an unquestionably festive sweet—also gets lots of love from recipe seekers in the Southeast.
Popular Cake Recipes
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Million Dollar Pound Cake, an endlessly-customizable vanilla almond cake recipe that can be garnished with chocolate syrup, fresh fruit, preserves, or even Christmassy sprinkles, has been a popular post-Thanksgiving search.
Hummingbird Cake is an absolute Southern dessert staple. This banana, pineapple, and cinnamon-flavored cake slathered in a perfectly-balanced cream cheese frosting first came to the American South in the 1970s by way of Jamaica, and in 1978, Southern Living published a hummingbird cake recipe that has become one of our magazine’s most celebrated recipes ever. Therefore, it’s fitting to see this iconic treat on our most-searched list for the holidays—it’s party-friendly, it’s crowd-pleasing, and it’s quintessentially Southern.
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