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Christmas Recipes

Celebrate the holiday season with Christmas recipes for everything from fancy feasts to casual parties. Plus, find seasonal favorites like cake recipes, eggnog recipes, casserole recipes, and gingerbread recipes.

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Christmas Food Gifts and Guides

Use our best menus, how-to's, and food-gift ideas to get ready for this holiday season.
  • How to Make Peppermint Bonbon Cookies

    The Ultimate Christmas Cookie How-To Guide

    Just in time for the holiday season, we've gathered expert tips and tricks for baking and decorating cookies, bars, and gingerbread houses.
  • Bittersweet Sugar Cookie Macaroons

    Gifts from the Oven

    Homemade treats like crisp biscotti, decorated cookies, or moist loaf cake spread holiday cheer among friends and family.
  • Rudolph's Christmas Sugar Cookies

    Treats for Santa

    Don't forget to put out snacks for Santa and his reindeer before you go to bed on Christmas Eve. Here are several treats that are sure to make the jolly old man's eyes twinkle.
  • Salted Chocolate-Pecan Toffee

    Give the Gift of Candy

    Take a little sugar and spice and create candy gifts for a hostess, a neighbor, or that special friend.
  • Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Men

    Bake a Batch of Gingerbread

    Sample a few of our favorite gingerbread cookies, cakes, cobblers, and crisps.

5-Star Christmas Recipes

Our top-rated Christmas recipes set the tone for a spirited feast.
  1. Chocolate-Mint Cake

    Southern Living, December 2003
    5 stars
  2. Chocolate-Vanilla Holiday Torte

    Southern Living, November 2001
    5 stars
  3. Cheesecake with Cranberry-Maple Topping

    Cooking Light, November 2003
    5 stars
  4. Sweet-Potato Gratin

    Sunset, December 2006
    5 stars
  5. Roast Turkey with Truffle Gravy

    Cooking Light, November 2007
    5 stars


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