Christmas Recipes

This dish is inspired by the classic braised beef recipes that appear in almost all vintage community cookbooks in the South. The classic relied on a packet of dry onion soup mix for seasoning and a bottle of cola to help tenderize the beef. This recipe updates those flavors a bit. Instead of dry soup mix, the gravy includes fresh onions and herbs. Pressure-cooking ensures tender beef, but the cola is still here for flavor.

Fill mushroom caps with a blend of stuffing mix, chopped mushroom stems & more for Easy Stuffed Mushrooms. Try our Easy Stuffed Mushrooms as an appetizer!

Minty Chocolate Cake Bites! Incredibly easy and perfect for the holidays. It’s made with ZERO artificial colors or flavors and ZERO high fructose corn syrup. Boom. Fudgy, sparkly, minty if you want them to be, perfectly stored in the fridge for an after-dinner bite-sized dessert or five…

This Pumpkin Pie is so easy to make, I call it Easy Peasy Pumpkin Pie! It requires just a few ingredients, and five minutes of your time to get it into the oven. Perfect for Thanksgiving and Christmas! Pumpkin pie is a staple at American Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is also one of the easiest pies to make! It is the perfect pie for kids to help out with. I love getting kids involved with cooking and this pie is perfect for them to help with! This recipe is my easy peasy pumpkin pie. All you have to do is put the ingredients in a bowl, mix, bake, and enjoy. It’s delicious. You can feel good because it is homemade. Did I mention that it is also a truly delicious pumpkin pie?

The BEST Monster Cookies recipe ever! They’re supremely ooey-gooey, thick and chewy, and jam-packed with bits and bites of chocolate and peanut butter in various forms (chips, candies, and straight-up PB). They deserve all of the dramatic statements you care to throw their way. Easy and perfect! Try it out!

Easy Cut Out Sugar Cookies with Icing features a simple dough that's fun to work with so you can make any festive shaped and decorated cookies you want! This simple sugar cookie dough is a joy to work with, it's almost like rolling out play-doh. That's because you roll the dough out first before chilling it. I find it's SO much easier this way and makes it so you can have little ones join in on this festive baking project.

Christmas is one of the most anticipated holiday traditions!When we prepare the Christmas tree, we will find the best cookies for Santa Claus.Of course, there are other Christmas recipes, like this one! With just three ingredients, this Honey Almond Baked Brie recipe is salty, sweet, creamy, and crunchy -- making it the perfect party food for any gathering!

This recipe for the chocolate cookies was sent to The New York Times several years ago by Mari Pfeiffer, a reader in California; it’s from the cookbook “Great Cookies,” published in 2003 by the author and teacher Carole Walter. The cookies are imbued with deep flavor from the combination of cocoa powder, unsweetened chocolate and espresso powder. Decorate them with royal icing. “Other icings — buttercream, melted white or dark chocolate or ganache — would take away from the cookie’s simple yet amazing flavor,” said Ms. Pfeiffer, who often cuts the dough into letters to spell out seasonal messages.

These fluffy sugar cookies are topped with a vanilla frosting and sprinkle just like the Lofthouse brand! Super easy to make at home. If you are making larger cookies, increase the baking time. For small cookies, I really only needed 3 minutes for my cookies – the ones that I baked longer than 3 minutes turned out very dry. Personally, I don’t care for these cookies plain. The frosting really makes them stand out!

Christmas is one of the most anticipated holiday traditions!When we prepare the Christmas tree, we will find the best cookies for Santa Claus.Of course, there are other Christmas recipes, like this one!

Joulutorttu are traditional Finnish jam tarts made and eaten at Christmas. Made with a delicate buttery ricotta pastry and filled with prune jam, they are the epitome of family Christmas food moments for Finnish folk. This recipe has been handed down through the generations and is a longtime family favourite.

Coconut dream bars. Magic cookie bars. Hello, Dolly bars. You’ve seen these classic treats at bake sales, holiday parties and potlucks over the years. But they tend to crumble when cut, thanks to a thin graham cracker crust. And, topped with gobs of super-sweet shredded coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and semisweet chocolate, they have a cloying bite that may be too much for even the sweetest tooth. This version starts with a thicker graham cracker cookie base. It's baked with an egg and a bit of brown sugar, which makes it pleasantly dense and chewy and means that it cuts nicely and stands up well to the decadent toppings. Next, unsweetened flaked coconut and dark chocolate are layered with plenty of chopped pecans and condensed milk. The slightly bitter chocolate and toasty coconut tame the sweetness of the condensed milk, which caramelizes as it cooks, making the whole package well-balanced and full of flavor.