Best Holiday Desserts from Select Registry Innkeepers

MARSHALL, Mich., Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Turn your kitchen into a winter wonderland with dozens of delicious holiday cookie recipes.

Gingerbread, sugar cookies, shortbread, rugalach, cranberry bars – you'll find all this and more in the Holiday Cookie Compendium from Select Registry Distinguished Inns of North America. Celebrating a long tradition of scrumptious baking, Select Registry innkeepers share their recipes for desserts you'll love to bake and to eat this holiday season.

Try Cocoa Christmas Cookies, Caramel White Chocolate Bars and festive treats that are fun to bake with children. These distinctive desserts are the innkeepers' best of the best. Visit http://blog.selectregistry.com/2011/best-holiday-desserts for incredible goodies to enliven any holiday celebration. Here's a sampling of the recipes you'll find:

• Small Gingerbread Cakes with Chocolate Ganache
• Pumpkin Macadamia Bars
• Hot Cocoa Tart
• Grand Marnier Chocolate Cobbler
• Leibkuchen Cookies
• Lebkuchen Brownies with White Chocolate Frosting
• Maple Gingerbread Pudding
• Eggnog Muffins
• Cranberry Noel Cookies
• Cocoa Christmas Cookies
• Cape Cod Cookies with Pistachios and Craisins
• Caramel White Chocolate Bars

For decades, Select Registry pastry chefs and innkeepers have delighted guests with holiday cookie tours, baking classes and award-winning baked goods fresh from the oven. Brimming with flavor and originality, their Holiday Compendium features mouthwatering marvels to bake, swap and savor. Enjoy!

About Select Registry

Select Registry is a collection of North America's most distinctive inns. Member properties must pass rigorous, ongoing quality inspections to gain and maintain membership in this unique portfolio. Many are recipients of coveted industry awards for service, ambiance, food and wine, including: Best Small Hotels in the U.S., Top Restaurant, Best Breakfast in America, Top Ten Romantic Inns, Best Places To Watch the Sun Set, and World's Best Adventure Lodges. Only 350 of the 20,000 inns and bed and breakfasts in North America have qualified to join this "best-of-the-best" collection. For more information, visit http://www.selectregistry.com.

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