2,441 holiday recipes

Christmas memory fruitcake steams then bakes a bourbon-soaked, dense old-fashioned fruitcake loaded with Brazil nuts, raisins, candied fruit, figs, and warming spices. Heirloom holiday recipe.

Festival sugar cookies: tender cake-flour roll-out cookies that hold any shape, perfect for cutter cookies, icing, and sprinkles. Holiday-tested recipe yielding five dozen.

Traditional Christmas fruitcake with brandy-soaked candied citrus peel, citron, currants, and raisins, deeply spiced and aged in a tin with periodic brandy basting before the holidays.

Christmas sugar cookies are buttery rolled cut-out cookies for decorating. Crisp edges, tender centers. Big-batch dough yields four dozen festive shapes for the holidays.

No-bake chocolate bourbon balls with crushed vanilla wafers, toasty pecans, and a generous splash of bourbon. Roll 'em in powdered sugar for holiday gifting or sneaky snacking.

Pumpkin pie with pan-browned pumpkin for deeper caramelized flavor and a sugar-flour barrier under the custard that keeps the crust crisp. Holiday classic, reimagined.

Hamantaschen are triangular Purim cookies with a tender butter dough wrapped around a prune, raisin, walnut, and lemon filling. Traditional Jewish holiday treat, makes 5 dozen.

Ultimate chocolate chip cookies with three dressy variations: chocolate drizzle, chocolate dipped, and holiday frosted. One base dough, endless options for gifting, parties, and cookie exchanges.

Eggnog waffles use leftover holiday eggnog instead of milk for warm spiced flavor and a tender, custardy interior. Optional pecans or walnuts add crunch. A festive December brunch.

Roll-and-cut decorative sugar cookies brushed with colored egg-white wash before baking. Almond-scented dough cut into shapes for holidays, birthdays and party platters.

Scalloped potatoes and ham casserole layers parboiled potatoes with diced ham, green onion, thyme cream sauce, and Swiss cheese. A creamy bake that uses up leftover Easter or holiday ham.

This is one of the most popular dips I make at all of my parties. From football to holidays, it is always the first dish to be empty!

Karen's pumpkin pie uses fresh roasted pumpkin, heavy cream, brown sugar, warm spices, and a splash of whiskey for the richest holiday pie. From-scratch Thanksgiving classic.

Hershey's Kiss cookies: tender brown-sugar thumbprint cookies rolled in chopped nuts and crowned with a chocolate kiss the moment they exit the oven. A holiday cookie tray staple.

Three-layer carrot cake with crushed pineapple, walnuts, and a tangy cream cheese frosting topped with toasted coconut. A moist, towering carrot cake for birthdays, Easter, and holiday tables.

Pumpkin puff pancakes are tiny silver-dollar pancakes built on Bisquick, canned pumpkin, eggs, and warm spices. Light, puffy, and ideal for fall brunch or holiday breakfast trays.