2,441 holiday recipes

Triple-chocolate Halloween brownies with espresso, walnuts, and chocolate chips, chilled and cut into festive shapes with cookie cutters, then frosted in orange.

Ghost cookies made by dipping butter cookies in white almond bark with black jelly bean eyes. A no-bake Halloween treat kids can help make in under 30 minutes.

Nachynka z kapusty: Ukrainian cabbage and sauerkraut filling with sauteed onions, butter, and black pepper. A traditional Christmas Eve pyrohy and holubtsi filling from Western Ukraine.

Magiritsa, the traditional Greek Easter soup of slow-simmered lamb and liver, rice, fresh herbs, and a silky egg-lemon avgolemono finish. Eaten after midnight mass to break the Lenten fast.

Irish log rolls a tender chocolate sponge cake around mint-flavored whipped cream filling for a green-and-chocolate jelly roll cake, perfect for St. Patrick's Day celebrations.

Carolina Dream frosting with bourbon-spiked egg yolk custard, candied cherries, pecans, raisins, and coconut. The Southern fruitcake topping that's almost a layer in itself.

Fungus among us salad tosses crisp iceberg, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, and red onion with chilled creamed spinach as a green, gloopy 'fungus' dressing. A Halloween party gross-out salad kids love.

Cranberry orange bread folds whole tart cranberries and chopped nuts into a quick bread brightened with fresh orange juice and zest. A Christmas-classic loaf that gets better the day after baking.

Halloween popcorn crunch: popped corn, pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries and banana chips coated in hard-crack vanilla caramel. The fall snack mix that puts caramel corn to shame.

Linzer Augen are Austria's almond shortbread sandwich cookies: two tender, nutty rounds glued with apricot jam, the top cut with a little window that frames the glistening preserves under a snowfall of powdered sugar. A Christmas cookie tin classic.

Three-layer butter pecan cake filled with rich, from-scratch burnt-sugar caramel, frosted in buttercream and crusted with pecans. A classic Southern caramel cake worth the fuss.

Light, chewy coconut macaroons made meringue-style from whipped egg whites and grated coconut, sweetened sugar-free and scented with almond. Naturally gluten-free, and lovely topped with a glace cherry.

Peanut butter bran muffins made with whole wheat flour, double peanuts, and just 1 tablespoon of sugar. High-fiber breakfast muffins ready in 30 minutes. Diabetic-friendly.

Stuffed butternut squash filled with wild rice, torn whole wheat bread, red onion, sage, thyme, and fresh orange juice. A hearty vegetarian main dish.

Kolachki: tender, flaky Eastern European cream cheese cookies wrapped around a sweet ground walnut filling and rolled in sugar. A buttery, melt-in-your-mouth holiday tradition.

Christmas pudding steams grated carrot and potato with raisins, currants, suet, and warm spice blend into a moist holiday dessert. Serve with brown sugar sauce or custard.