174 christma recipes

Add something new to your Christmas platters with these scrumptious crab cakes that are sure to be a hit!

Overnight breakfast sausage casserole with browned sausage, sharp cheddar, eggs, and bread cubes soaked overnight. The make-ahead Christmas-morning casserole that goes from fridge to oven to plate.

Based on Dean Ornish's Eat More Weigh less. I give this as Christmas presents each year and get rave reviews.

This decadent snack made with milk chocolate and marshmallow cream is perfect for surprising relatives at the next Christmas dinner!

Julekake is a traditional Norwegian Christmas bread with cardamom, candied fruits, and raisins, topped with confectioners icing, almonds, and candied cherries.

Rosettes are delicate Scandinavian fried cookies shaped on a decorative iron, crisp like a wafer and dusted with powdered sugar. A Christmas tradition in Nordic and Midwestern kitchens.

Roast goose with a festive wild rice stuffing of mandarin oranges, chestnuts, and pine nuts. The skin is pricked to render the goose's rich fat and crisp golden, making a classic Christmas centerpiece.

Caramel-orange Bûche de Noël assembly with Grand Marnier buttercream, almond sponge, and pastry cream filling. The classic French Yule log cake for Christmas.

Tiny green sugar cookie balls arranged in rings with candied cherry "berries" to make festive Christmas wreath cookies. A fun, easy holiday baking project for kids.

Nachynka z kapusty: Ukrainian cabbage and sauerkraut filling with sauteed onions, butter, and black pepper. A traditional Christmas Eve pyrohy and holubtsi filling from Western Ukraine.

Holiday decorating icing whisks powdered sugar with a splash of milk and a drop of flavor extract into a smooth, pipe-able glaze for outlining, flooding, and drizzling Christmas cookies.

Irish spiced beef: traditional dry-cured Christmas beef with cloves, mace, bay leaves, and brown sugar. Seven-day cure, slow boil, and pressed cold for sliced cold cuts.

Traditional German Christmas roast goose stuffed with tart apples, thyme, and onions, roasted until the skin is shatteringly crisp. Served with rich giblet gravy, red cabbage, and mashed potatoes.

Cinnamon, clove and nutmeg ornaments are fragrant homemade holiday decorations, not edible: a no-bake dough of warm spices and applesauce, cut into shapes, air-dried, and hung to scent your home with Christmas spice.