903 holiday recipes

Halloween witch's brew punch with cranberry juice, candied ginger, floating grape eyeballs, orange peel worms, and dry ice for a smoking cauldron effect. A spooky crowd-pleaser.

Santa's Thumbprint cookies with oats, brown sugar, and chopped nuts rolled on the outside, filled with jelly. A festive holiday cookie recipe that makes 3 dozen.

Pumpkin fudge with mashed pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, evaporated milk, pecans, and butter cooked to soft ball stage. A seasonal candy that tastes like pumpkin pie in fudge form.

Broiled vegetable medley with zucchini, eggplant, red peppers, and onion brushed in garlic-rosemary olive oil. A simple Mediterranean-style appetizer or side ready under the broiler in 10 minutes.

If you love pastries, you will adore this scrumptious snack that will have you reaching for more.

Halloween Penicillin Pizza: English muffin pizzas topped with green-dyed Parmesan that looks like mold. A fun, spooky kid-friendly party snack ready in 20 minutes.

Apricot coconut balls are no-bake holiday candies with just four ingredients: dried apricots, shredded coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and a powdered sugar coating. Ready in 20 minutes.

Firm, creamy finger Jello made with whipping cream for an opaque, sliceable texture. Cut into shapes with cookie cutters for holidays, parties, and kid-friendly snacks.

Fizzy lemon-strawberry party punch made with frozen lemonade, orange juice concentrate, sliced strawberries, ginger ale, and sparkling water. A crowd-pleasing no-alcohol punch.

Halloween horrific witches brew floats a frozen blood-red severed hand of raspberry-cranberry ice in fizzy ginger ale and sparkling cider, garnished with gummy snakes. A spooky non-alcoholic party punch.

Christmas cinnamon ornaments made from applesauce, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger. No-bake scented ornaments air-dried into holiday decorations. Not for eating.

Kwarezimal, traditional Maltese almond cakes with cinnamon, citrus zest, and orange extract. Baked in logs and sliced into crisp biscotti-style cookies.

Halloween chocolate blood cake with red-dyed white chocolate sponge, strawberry ice cream center, and a creepy dripping red icing topped with vampire teeth candies. Spooky party showstopper.

Peanut, raisin, and chocolate clusters bind plump raisins, salty peanuts, and chocolate chips with frothy whipped egg white and sugar. Three-bite holiday candy makes two dozen.

Nut butter cookie dough folds toasted, finely ground pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, or almonds into a master holiday butter cookie base. Shape it into Linzer cookies, Viennese crescents, cut-outs, or thumbprints.

Almost instant chocolate mousse from a Jewish Holiday cookbook.