Culinary recipes

To prepare this festive delicacy, you'll need a brined pork knuckle. In America, it's called "city ham" and, after brining, requires roasting. To...

The Yule log (French: bûche de Noël) is a traditional Christmas cake popular in France and French-speaking countries. It was created to replace the pagan custom of burning the log at Christmas...

Serve a festive drink in stylized Christmas glasses. Make them from trendy Mason jars decorated with Santa-themed felt. In just a few minutes, your guests will...

Even with this modest set of ingredients, your ham will look like a million bucks! Take a large piece of cooked bone-in ham, use a knife to create a grid pattern across the entire surface, and...

Bake chocolate brownies in round cake pans, cut into eight triangles, and use a small assortment of sweets to transform them into fun Christmas reindeer. Caramel...

Prepare a festive dessert in the shape of an Advent wreath, which will immediately attract attention with its vibrant appearance and unforgettable taste. Crispy meringue topped with soft whipped cream...

Prime rib, or thick cut of beef, is a delicious, tender, and juicy meat that's best roasted whole. For a perfect roast, the meat needs...

Prepare a festive roast the traditional English way—complete with Yorkshire pudding. The best cut for this roast is the thick rib eye of beef, also known as...

This casserole features a creamy corn base, enhanced by the amazing flavor combination of ham and kale. The mixture is topped with a cornbread topping with grated cheddar cheese,...

In many countries, oven-baked ham is considered a staple of the holiday table. In Scandinavia, for example, no Christmas is complete without it, and in America, ham is increasingly even...

If you love sweet and spicy sauces, you'll love this hot chili pepper jam sauce. Make it at home using fresh sweet and hot peppers and preserve a few...

Marzipan is considered one of the most popular baked goods fillings in the Netherlands. Christmas sweets, including candies, cookies, buns, and many other confections, are especially incomplete without it.

Bake a delicious appetizer made from thin dough with a cheese filling. This is a variation of the traditional Bulgarian banitsa, made not as a pie, but as individual layers. Place on baking sheets...

Banitsa is a traditional Bulgarian pie made of thin puff pastry with a cheese filling. Banitsa is typically baked in the shape of a snail, and on major holidays like Christmas or New Year's, it's topped with...

Banbury puff pastries are a traditional English pastry with a vibrant oriental flavor and aroma. Their birthplace is considered to be the town of Banbury in England, where these pastries have been baked for many centuries after...

Bakpia Pathok are sweet pastries considered the culinary signature of the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta. Originating in the Pathok district, they are popular throughout the city, the country, and even abroad.

After tasting a slice of this delicate chocolate cheesecake, your guests won't even guess it's dietary. Despite the fact that most of the cream cheese has been replaced with 1% cottage cheese, and...

Those who adore peanut butter and its salty-sweet flavor will be delighted with this cake. After all, this beloved treat is incorporated into every component of the cake: the cake layers, the buttercream, and...

This cake's design perfectly replicates the look of red and white peppermint candies. This cake is perfect for candy lovers or as a Christmas treat, as it would look so...

This unique cake, with layers of sponge and meringue, sandwiched between a silky cream cheese and white chocolate frosting, and sprinkled with flaked almonds, is too good to miss this winter...

For a main dessert on your holiday table, try this chocolate roulade with French buttercream and the subtle aroma of Christmas eggnog, which comes from the mixture...

Aloo pie (aloo, meaning potato in Hindi) is a fried, thin-crust pastry filled with potato. Samosas from Trinidad and Tobago are a fusion of Asian, Indian, Arabic, and...

While ice cream isn't the most popular dessert during the winter holidays, it can also be used to make a truly festive cake, with the traditional Christmas flavors of Italian panettone bread...

American chocolate chip cookies are perhaps one of the most delicious homemade cookies. Lots of butter, sugar, and a generous handful of chocolate chips make them deliciously crunchy...

The cheesecake base is made from crushed chocolate cookies mixed with sugar and butter. The second layer is the chocolate cheesecake itself, made from cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, eggs, and chocolate.

As befits a true winter pastry, this cake is filled with fruits, dried fruits, nuts, and aromatic spices. In addition to raisins and walnuts, mix into the dough a puree of...

If you've always associated ravioli with pelmeni or vareniki, this recipe will give you a new perspective. Make sweet ravioli with the flavor of an American camping dessert...

These cookies are made in the shape of miniature Christmas cakes. They have a soft, cake-like texture and are topped with buttercream. The cookie dough is...

Fresh blueberries are one of the most popular toppings for American muffins. They add moisture, subtle aroma, and a wonderful flavor to the muffins. Blueberries will brighten up even muffins without...

In America, these types of cookies are also called "kitchen sink cookies" because they contain everything but the kitchen sink. Indeed, chocolate, walnuts,...

Using ready-made puff pastry in baking simplifies the entire process and gives the buns a wonderful flaky texture that will impress everyone. Spread the filling onto the prepared dough...

Peanut butter blossom cookies, shaped like flowers and flavored with peanut butter and a chocolate teardrop center, are very popular in America.

A chocolate-vanilla marble cake always looks much more impressive and festive than plain chocolate or vanilla. And it's easy to make; even a beginner can handle this recipe.

Rose geranium, or pelargonium, is not only a delight to the eye as a houseplant, but has also long been used in cooking. Oddly enough, it's not the flowers that are responsible for its distinctive aroma, but the plant's leaves. Their...

This chocolate cupcake recipe is inspired by a British diet oatmeal cookie recipe. Although baked as cute cupcakes perfect for tea, they still retain...

You'll find all sorts of filled chocolate on store shelves! But you can still find countless flavor combinations to suit your tastes, ones you won't find anywhere else, but can easily...

Red and white peppermint candy canes, shaped like Christmas candy canes, transform plain white chocolate into festive colors. And the texture of the bar becomes more interesting when the hard pieces...

The pleasantly smooth texture of this white chocolate toffee is given by an unusual ingredient for this delicacy: marshmallows. Melt them with cream and sugar until...

Mexican elotes (Spanish for "corn on the cob") are baked in the shape of a corn cob, a traditional Mexican cereal. They resemble buns in shape, but their texture is more like soft...

Even though these cookies are gluten-, dairy-, and egg-free, they are quite tasty, thanks in large part to the chocolate dough and the chocolate chips mixed into it.

In Mexico, sponge rolls with a sweet center are called Niño Envuelto (Spanish for "wrapped baby"). The sponge cake is first spread with fruit jams, then rolled into a roll and...

The Mexican state of Sonora is considered the birthplace of the delicious pastry called coyotes—a hybrid of a cookie and a pastry. Traditional coyotes, baked in Sonora, consist of two layers of cookies, with a...

The highlight of these cookies is the salted straw. Its flavor pairs beautifully with the salted caramel filling, which is added to the indentation left in the cookie with your finger before baking. To make the filling...

"Nun's Sighs" are traditional Spanish deep-fried choux pastry doughnuts. Spanish convents have historically been considered the place where the most...

Making delicious homemade candied nuts isn't all that difficult if you have a candy thermometer. It's the only way to know when to cook the caramel to the right degree of doneness. First, boil...

Brown butter, or fried butter, is widely used in French cuisine to elevate the flavor of a dish or dessert. Make these tartlets with brown butter instead of...

Costa Rica's Caribbean coast boasts cuisine with Jamaican roots, favoring tropical fruits and dishes of grouper, seafood, rice, and beans infused with coconut milk,...

Yesterday's baked goods, already stale, can be used as flour with just a little grinding. This recipe will help you avoid wasting a single crumb. Return the new...

In Mexico, Molletes—open, hot sandwiches that are delicious and filling—are often served for breakfast. Sliced ​​Mollete bread, which gives the sandwich its name, is placed on a baking sheet and...

These delicious muffins prove that healthy baking can be delicious! Boost their fiber and micronutrient content by adding whole grain flour to regular flour, and it adds flavor...