Christmas Entertaining
Sep 25 2026
Christmas dinner has a way of producing leftovers no matter how carefully you plan. There is half a bowl of mashed potatoes in the refrigerator, several slices of ham wrapped up beside the cranberry sauce, a container of stuffing nobody could quite finish, three lonely dinner rolls, and enough turkey to make you wonder whether …
Sep 06 2026
Secret Santa is one of the easiest ways to exchange Christmas gifts with a family, friend group, office, club, or other large gathering. Instead of everyone buying a present for everyone else, each participant is secretly assigned one person. Everyone buys one gift, everyone receives one gift, and the identity of the giver remains a …
Sep 01 2026
Christmas sugar cookies are one of those recipes that become much more than dessert. Rolling out the dough, choosing Christmas cookie cutters, covering the kitchen table with bowls of icing and sprinkles, and deciding which cookies should be left for Santa can become an entire December tradition. Fortunately, you do not need professional decorating skills …
Aug 31 2026
Christmas thumbprint cookies are one of the easiest ways to add a little jewel-bright color to a holiday cookie tray. The basic cookie is wonderfully simple: a tender, buttery dough is rolled into small balls, pressed in the center, and filled with a spoonful of jam. Raspberry preserves create a beautiful Christmas-red center, but strawberry, …
Aug 30 2026
Decorating Christmas cookies can be as simple as shaking a little sparkling sugar over a star or as elaborate as piping tiny snowflakes, ornaments, wreaths, and Santa faces with royal icing. Both approaches count. You do not need professional decorating skills to make beautiful Christmas cookies. In fact, some of the prettiest holiday cookies use …
Aug 28 2026
After spending an afternoon baking Christmas cookies, the last thing you want is to open the cookie tin a few days later and discover that the crisp cookies have gone soft, the soft cookies have dried out, or the beautiful decorations have stuck together. Fortunately, storing Christmas cookies is fairly simple once you know one …
Aug 27 2026
Christmas cookies have a way of multiplying in December. One afternoon of baking becomes three tins of sugar cookies, gingerbread people cooling on the counter, shortbread in the freezer, thumbprints waiting for gift boxes, and a mysterious container someone labeled simply “DO NOT EAT — CHRISTMAS.” Eventually, the obvious question arises: how long do Christmas …
Aug 26 2026
Yes—many Christmas cookies freeze very well. Freezing is actually one of the easiest ways to spread holiday baking across several weeks instead of trying to make every cookie immediately before Christmas. Sugar cookies, gingerbread, shortbread, many drop cookies, butter cookies, and other sturdy varieties can usually be frozen successfully. Some cookies are best frozen after …
Aug 24 2026
Christmas cookies have a way of disappearing faster than expected. You may begin with what looks like an enormous tray of sugar cookies, gingerbread, shortbread, and thumbprints, only to discover halfway through the Christmas party that someone has eaten the last snowball cookie and the remaining platter consists mostly of crumbs. So how many Christmas …
Jul 31 2026
Christmas morning deserves a breakfast that feels a little more special than an ordinary Tuesday—but that does not mean you need to spend the entire morning standing over the stove. The best Christmas breakfasts are festive, comforting, and easy to fit around everything else happening that morning. Some families want a big breakfast casserole before …
