Holidays recipes

Sour cream mashed potatoes enriched with cream cheese and butter, then baked into a make-ahead casserole. The tangy, fluffy holiday side you can prep days before dinner.

No-bake Irish cream chocolate cheesecake with bourbon, cocoa, and whipped cream folded into a gelatin-set filling. A boozy holiday showstopper that chills, never bakes.

Apricot walnut crescent cookies with a flaky sour cream pastry rolled around apricot preserves and ground walnuts, dusted with powdered sugar. An Eastern European holiday classic.

Hot cranberry pineapple punch brewed in a coffee percolator with whole cloves and cinnamon sticks. Serves 22 and fills the whole house with the smell of the holidays.

Yeasted coffee cake ring filled with apricot preserves, dried fruit, and pecans, flavored with cardamom and apple juice concentrate. A Scandinavian-style holiday bread.

English rocks cookies packed with candied cherries, candied pineapple, dates, and pecans in a spiced brown sugar-buttermilk batter. A dense, fruity holiday cookie baked low and slow.

Had some puff pastry on hand from the holiday baking, and made this apple strudel. It was great, the puff pastry certainly delivered a much richer result than phyllo pastry that I normally use. No leftover, we ate it all!

Jelly Christmas Eyes are sandwich cookies with a window cutout showing raspberry or strawberry jelly through the center, coated in sugar. A festive holiday cookie plate classic.

Peanut butter blossom cookies rolled in sugar and topped with a chocolate kiss pressed into each warm cookie. A holiday classic with buttery, chewy centers.

Birds in the Nest cookies with brown sugar dough rolled in ground nuts and filled with jelly. A thumbprint cookie recipe passed down through generations of holiday baking.

Surprise your family this Christmas with these decorative cookies that can bring out the holiday cheer in everyone.

Lemon blossom cookies are buttery thumbprint cookies made with lemon juice and powdered sugar, rolled in chopped nuts, and filled with fruit preserves or pecans. A classic holiday cookie tray staple.

Cinnamon red hots melt into this ruby gelatin salad layered with crushed pineapple and cherries, then crowned with a cooked, creamy dressing. A retro, sweet-tart molded salad for holiday tables.

Chocolate diamond cookies with unsweetened chocolate, pecans, and vanilla. A fudgy, brownie-like holiday cookie baked in one pan and cut into festive diamond shapes.

Broccoli and cheese quiche with sharp cheddar, fresh broccoli florets, and a silky egg-and-cream custard accented with nutmeg. A classic brunch quiche for weekends, holidays, or make-ahead lunches.

Italian Christmas bread for the bread machine: an egg-rich, raisin-studded sweet loaf with an egg wash crust. A holiday panettone-style bake with minimal hands-on time.