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Christmas Recipes

Traditional Christmas Gingerbread Cookie Recipe with Warm Spices

Few Christmas treats feel quite as festive as a plate piled high with beautifully decorated gingerbread cookies. Gingerbread people, stars, Christmas trees, snowflakes, candy canes, and other holiday shapes instantly make a kitchen feel ready for Christmas. These traditional Christmas gingerbread cookies are warmly spiced with ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and a touch of cardamom, …

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Traditional Nuremberg Lebkuchen Recipe: Soft German Christmas Gingerbread

Few Christmas treats capture the warmth of the season quite like Nuremberg Lebkuchen. Fragrant with cinnamon, cloves, ginger, cardamom, honey, citrus, and toasted nuts, these classic German Christmas cookies are wonderfully soft, richly spiced, and perfect for a holiday cookie platter. Unlike the familiar American gingerbread cookie, Nuremberg-style lebkuchen is especially nutty and tender. Ground …

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Traditional Dresden Stollen Recipe: A Festive German Christmas Treasure

Few Christmas bakes look quite as festive as a traditional German stollen. Beneath its thick, snowy coating of powdered sugar is a rich buttery yeast bread filled with raisins, candied citrus peel, almonds, lemon zest, and warm spices. The stollen pictured here has exactly the look you want: a rustic golden loaf with a dense, …

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Festive Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

There are certain flavors that instantly make the kitchen feel like Christmas, and gingerbread is right at the top of the list. Ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, brown sugar, and molasses come together in these soft gingerbread cupcakes for a holiday dessert that tastes every bit as festive as it looks. The finishing touch is a …

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Festive British Christmas Mince Pies: A Holiday Tradition

Few Christmas treats feel quite as unmistakably British as a warm mince pie. These little pastries have crisp, buttery shortcrust shells filled with rich, spiced mincemeat and finished with pretty pastry stars and a generous dusting of powdered sugar. Set them on a platter beside the Christmas tree and they look as though they belong …

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Indulge in the Festive Spirit with These Vegan Christmas Recipes

Christmas dinner is all about comfort, celebration, and bringing something special to the table—and none of that has to disappear when the menu is vegan. In fact, Christmas is a wonderful season for plant-based cooking. Winter vegetables become deeply flavorful when roasted, mushrooms bring wonderful savory richness to gravies and main dishes, cranberries and pomegranates …

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Savor the Flavor: A Delicious Vegan Mushroom Gravy Recipe

There is something wonderfully comforting about pouring warm, savory gravy over a plate of mashed potatoes during Christmas dinner. This vegan mushroom gravy delivers all the rich, cozy flavor you want from a holiday gravy—without butter, cream, or meat drippings. Made with browned mushrooms, onion, garlic, vegetable broth, herbs, and a splash of soy sauce …

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Traditional Vegan Gingerbread Cookies: Easy Christmas Cut-Out Recipe

Few things make a kitchen feel more like Christmas than the smell of gingerbread baking in the oven. Warm ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and rich molasses create that unmistakable holiday aroma, while a collection of cookie cutters turns a simple dough into an entire tray of festive Christmas treats. These traditional vegan gingerbread cookies have …

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The Perfect Holiday Honey-Glazed Ham Recipe

There are certain dishes that instantly make a Christmas dinner feel complete, and a beautifully glazed ham is one of them. Sweet honey, brown sugar, tangy Dijon mustard, fragrant orange, and warming cloves come together to create a shiny, caramelized glaze that looks every bit as festive as it tastes. This holiday honey-glazed ham recipe …

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5 Easy and Festive Christmas Snacks to Try This Year

Christmas entertaining doesn’t always require an elaborate menu. Sometimes the foods everyone remembers most are the little things scattered around the table—the cheese and crackers people nibble while talking, a warm pastry fresh from the oven, or a bite-size appetizer that disappears before dinner even begins. These five easy and festive Christmas snacks offer a …

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