Christma Recipes

Vienna crescents are flaky yeast-leavened butter cookies filled with sweet pecan meringue and shaped into delicate crescents. A traditional Christmas cookie from Austrian and Hungarian baking.

Jewish rugelach with a flaky cottage cheese dough, apricot jam, cinnamon-sugar, walnuts, and currants rolled into golden crescents. A holiday cookie jar essential for Hanukkah or Christmas.

Old-fashioned milk-and-egg enriched white bread makes two soft, tender loaves with a light crumb and golden crust. A forgiving family recipe for beginner bread bakers.

Holiday gingersnaps with crackled sugar tops, deep molasses warmth, and a full tablespoon of ground ginger for serious snap. Chilled dough rolls into tidy balls that bake up crisp at the edges and chewy in the center.

Holiday pumpkin muffins with pumpkin pie spice, buttermilk, and a simple powdered sugar glaze. Soft, warmly spiced, and ready in 25 minutes for Christmas morning breakfast.

Christmas bread made with sourdough starter, currants and warm mace and cinnamon. Two loaves of fragrant holiday breakfast bread, slow-risen for deep flavor.

Celebrate the holidays with these delicious shortbread cookies that will have you wishing Christmas came more than once a year.

Classic Linzer squares and thumbprint cookies with toasted hazelnut dough, cinnamon and raspberry jam filling. Austrian-style Christmas cookie baking from one batch of dough.

Melomakarona: traditional Greek Christmas cookies made with olive oil, orange zest, and semolina, soaked in honey syrup and topped with walnuts. Fragrant, syrup-drenched holiday staple.

Macaroon meets chocolate chip cookie in this co-winner in the drop cookie category, with a twist of cinnamon, nutmeg and mint; it's from Jessica Wall-Valadez of Milwaukee.

Great and simple gift-idea! And the result tastes great as well.

Fresh tart cherry pie with a lattice crust and a bright orange glaze drizzled on top while warm. A stunning holiday dessert that pairs citrus and cherry beautifully.

Let your garden become a part of your baking skills with these rich biscuits.

Preschoolers will love these delicious cub-shaped cookies, made with nutty butter and crispy graham crackers. You and the kids can even create these cookies together!

Pecan cinnamon muffins with brown sugar and chopped pecans, ready in 30 minutes. Tender, golden, and warmly spiced with a nutty crunch in every bite.

Pecan praline cookie pizza with a buttery brown sugar shortbread crust, sour cream topping, and toasted pecans. A festive dessert that slices into wedges like a pie.