Holiday Recipes

Halloween Jack-o-Lantern frosties: hollowed oranges filled with a blended orange-yogurt smoothie, decorated with icing faces and candy for a festive kid-friendly treat.

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.

Penn & Teller dessert is a theatrical bleeding Jell-O mold for Halloween: thick red gelatin and whipped topping hiding a bag of fake blood that gushes when you cut in. A gory, show-stopping party prank dessert.

Vodka witch's brew is a Halloween punch with apple juice, lime, vodka, and lime sherbet floated in club soda. Eerily green, slushy, and easy to scale up for a crowd of 16.

Ham Head is a fun Halloween food art project for kids. A round ham slice becomes a spooky face with hard-boiled egg eyes, olive pupils, pickle mouth with olive teeth, carrot ears, and string cheese hair.

Peanut butter reindeer cookies use a boxed cookie mix, an egg, and a reindeer cutter for shape, then decorate with chocolate chips, candy-coated chocolates, and sprinkles. Easy holiday baking project for kids.

Kitty litter cake made with crumbled spice and white cake, vanilla pudding, crushed white sandwich cookies, and shaped Tootsie Rolls. The ultimate gross-out Halloween party dessert.

Fitzwilliam Inn Nutty Pie with Caramel Sauce recipe

Halloween witch's brew, a kid-friendly non-alcoholic Halloween punch made with grape juice and soda water, garnished with halved grapes that look like floating eyeballs. Ready in 10 minutes.

Smoked salmon with Irish brown soda bread, mixed greens, capers, and cherry tomatoes. A classic appetizer plate served with lemon, butter, and a drizzle of good olive oil.

Halloween black cat cookies turn rich chocolate cookie dough into spooky-cute pops, with pinched ears, fork-pressed whiskers, candy corn eyes, and red-hot noses. A fun bake the kids can help shape.

Double rice stuffing for a 12-pound turkey with long grain and wild rice blend, sautéed celery and onion, and briny pimento-stuffed green olives. A bread-free Thanksgiving stuffing alternative.

Boiled baby potatoes dipped in a green broccoli cheese sauce made from blended broccoli and melted cheese spread. A fun, kid-friendly side dish ready in 30 minutes.

An easy 2-ingredient Halloween punch: orange juice and lemon-lime soda for a fizzy, spooky-orange party drink. Kid-friendly, ready in minutes, and a blank slate for ghoulish garnishes.

Cookie candy turkeys assemble chocolate stars, caramels, striped chocolate cookies, and candy corn into adorable no-bake Thanksgiving favors. Kid-friendly craft dessert ready in 20 minutes.

Fruit solitaire tarts with orange-scented butter pastry shaped like playing card suits, filled with cherry and blueberry pie filling. A festive New Year's Eve dessert.