Christmas Recipes
Feb 02 2024
Few homemade treats look as festive as a jar of brilliant ruby-red cranberry jam. With its jewel-like color and naturally Christmassy flavor, this simple fruit spread feels as though it was made for December breakfasts, holiday cheese boards, Christmas baking, and homemade gifts. The beautiful jam pictured on the page is thick and rustic rather …
Feb 02 2024
Christmas dinner may be famous for roasted vegetables, creamy casseroles, buttery potatoes and decadent desserts, but a beautiful seasonal salad can be every bit as memorable. Crisp greens, jewel-bright pomegranate seeds, winter pears, cranberries, toasted nuts and colorful vegetables bring freshness to the table while looking wonderfully festive. These five Christmas salad recipes are designed …
Feb 02 2024
There is something wonderfully festive about a Christmas punch bowl. Whether it is filled with sparkling cranberry punch surrounded by floating orange slices or a warm, fragrant drink scented with cinnamon and cloves, punch has a way of turning an ordinary drinks table into part of the celebration. These 12 Christmas punch recipes offer a …
Feb 01 2024
There are plenty of cookies, candies and frosted treats competing for attention during December, which is exactly why a big bowl of salty, buttery Christmas Chex Mix can be such a welcome sight. It is crunchy, savory, just a little spicy and wonderfully easy to nibble while everyone is talking, playing games, wrapping presents or …
Jan 24 2024
Christmas baking doesn’t always have to mean rich chocolate, buttery cookies and heavy desserts. Peppermint meringue kisses offer something completely different: crisp, airy little sweets that practically dissolve on your tongue, with a cool burst of peppermint and beautiful swirls of Christmas red and green. They look wonderfully impressive piled onto a white platter, tucked …
Jan 23 2024
There is something irresistible about the combination of gingerbread and chocolate at Christmas. Ginger, cinnamon, cloves and molasses bring all the warm, nostalgic flavor of a gingerbread cookie, while a smooth dark chocolate shell turns those familiar spices into a rich little holiday confection. These gingerbread truffles are especially appealing because they look much more …
Jan 19 2024
Few homemade Christmas candies look quite as magical as divinity. Snowy white, delicately crisp on the outside and soft and airy within, these little clouds of sweetness have the sort of old-fashioned charm that belongs on a Christmas candy tray. Traditional divinity is made from an unexpectedly short list of ingredients: sugar, corn syrup, egg …
Jan 17 2024
For many families, Christmas dinner simply wouldn’t look complete without a magnificent glazed ham in the center of the table. Deeply burnished around the edges, glossy with a sweet-and-savory glaze and sliced into rosy ribbons, it is the sort of centerpiece that announces dinner before anyone has taken the first bite. Fortunately, Christmas ham is …
Jan 10 2024
Decorating Christmas cookies is one of those holiday traditions that can be as simple or as elaborate as you want it to be. A batch of plain stars, trees, gingerbread people and candy canes becomes something completely different once bowls of red, green and snowy-white icing appear on the kitchen table. The colorful cookies pictured …
Jan 04 2024
Few homemade candies have a texture quite as satisfying as peanut brittle. One moment you’re holding a glossy golden shard studded with roasted peanuts; the next comes that unmistakable snap, followed by buttery caramelized sweetness and plenty of nutty crunch. It is also one of those Christmas candies that looks wonderfully impressive without requiring a …
