Christmas Recipes
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 29 2026
The right icing can turn a simple Christmas cookie into a snowflake, ornament, Christmas tree, stocking, wreath, or tiny edible work of art. But cookie icing can also be one of the more confusing parts of holiday baking. Should you use royal icing or regular frosting? How thick should outlining icing be? Why does flood …
Jul 26 2026
Christmas French toast is one of those breakfasts that feels festive without needing to be complicated. Thick slices of bread soaked in eggs, milk, vanilla, and warm spices already make a cozy breakfast. Add berries, orange zest, cinnamon, powdered sugar, maple syrup, or a little cranberry compote, and ordinary French toast suddenly feels perfectly suited …
Nov 05 2025
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, …
Oct 24 2025
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 …
Oct 24 2025
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, …
Dec 16 2024
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 …
Dec 16 2024
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 …
Feb 03 2024
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 …
