Holiday recipes

This Italian-style stuffed squid dish with marinara sauce makes a delicious holiday treat or can transform an ordinary weekday dinner into a celebration. Fill the squid with...

Prepare a gift for your loved ones for a holiday dinner that's sure to be a surprise. A delicious pasta casserole with gooey cheese, spinach, and meatballs in a tomato sauce...

While strawberries are a rather exotic treat for a winter holiday, at Christmas or New Year's, you really want to treat yourself and your loved ones to the most delicious and interesting desserts! Especially since a little...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Although these cookies differ slightly from traditional Linz cookies in that they lack ground almonds, they are just as crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth, and beautiful. Moreover, these...

The cookies are so fragrant and delicious, with a pleasantly chewy texture on the inside and a crispy crust on the outside, you'll find yourself making them again and again. They're a distillation of everything that's so...

Make your own chocolate candies, and they'll be just as good as store-bought. The base is a mixture of chocolate-hazelnut spread and puffed rice cereal. The texture is...

Crushed hazelnuts added to the dough give these cookies a wonderfully deep flavor and aroma. And the most harmonious companion for hazelnuts is, of course, chocolate. Form the dough into bars...

If the complexity of making gingerbread cookies has intimidated you up until now, you can forget about it and focus on the creative part—painting the gingerbread cookies with icing. And that's it...

A gingerbread house isn't just a Christmas treat, it's also a festive attribute whose fairytale-like appearance will bring a sense of magic and comfort to both children and adults. Building a gingerbread...

These airy, coconut-flavored cakes, with a wonderful almond aroma, are baked in the shape of mini snowballs and garnished with cherry halves and almond flakes. The dough is quick and easy to mix, and...

If you're looking for a dessert that will not only captivate your guests with its flavor but also be a true highlight of your holiday table, create a magnificent, slightly ornate, yet unforgettable croquembouche. This...

Sicilian cannoli will be a true highlight of your New Year's and Christmas table, and are even perfect for an everyday dessert with coffee, if, for example, you use a simplified version with store-bought...

Despite the similarity in name, macarons differ significantly from the famous French macarons in their composition, shape, and preparation method. Unlike macarons, which require...

This bread pudding, shaped like mini muffins, is literally infused with Christmas flavors and aromas. It's made with panettone, an Italian Christmas bread shaped like a kulich,...

Unlike European mulled wine, which is made with red wine, fruits, and spices, in America, it's common to make mulled wine with apple cider during the winter holidays. It's also called mulled cider—...

The Kir Royale cocktail is a more luxurious version of the famous French Kir cocktail, but instead of white wine, it's made with high-quality champagne and cranberry syrup. Make a sugar...

The light and balanced tart-sweet taste of the Cosmopolitan cocktail, its name itself, and the TV series "Sex and the City" have earned it the reputation of being a drink exclusively for women. It's quite simple to prepare...

The main ingredients of this cocktail are vodka and apple juice. But if you prepare it at a home party, you'll captivate your guests with its original presentation and complex bouquet of flavors and aromas that...

What do Indian masala chai and Irish hot toddy have in common? Both are spiced black tea drinks with a warming effect. Combine the alcoholic...

This cocktail will tempt you with a citrus trio of lemon from limoncello liqueur, orange from flavored vodka, and freshly squeezed lime juice. The invigorating and sparkling taste...

The name of this cocktail can be translated from English as "gingerbread cookie." After all, that's the flavor it gets from the mixture of ginger beer, ginger juice, cinnamon, and rum, which makes this...

This cooler, made with mint vodka, cream, and a blend of spiced Benedictine and brandy, makes a great treat for a New Year's or Christmas party, creating a festive mood just like the...

In pre-Revolutionary America, until the late 18th century, Election Day was considered the second most important national holiday after Thanksgiving. Mass celebrations with feasts,...