何w to Holiday
This year, Epicurious is joining up with Bon Appétit to present a curated collection of essential holiday cooking advice, recipes, and menu inspiration. Check back here for updates, new recipes, and tips—何w to Holidaywill be your guide straight through to 2022.
Welcome to the Season of Snacks
Whip up a few of these easy snacks, then gather a group around a crackling bonfire or cozy up on the couch with an old movie. However you're celebrating the holidays this year, the finger food situation has never been better.
With These Goat Cheese and Salami Stuffed Dates, You Can Sip Your Cocktail While You Snack
These salty, sweet, and meaty one-biters spell cocktail hour success.
Take a Ride With Horsey Goat, the Peppery Cheese Spread Your Snack Table Needs
Give your chèvre a kick with a touch of horseradish.
Meet the Epicurious Holiday Recipe Finder
Snacks, cookies, drinks, sides, and mains—all the holiday recipes you need are in this interactive finder. Click on up to three buttons to find new favorites and beloved classics, then click through to the recipes.
Bake Your Way Through December
We're here to help with all the sweet technique—and inspiration—you need.
Nanaimo Bars, the Essential No-Bake Canadian Christmas Treat
The Nanaimo bar requires no glitter to sparkle, but it will certainly shine at any cookie swap or holiday celebration you bring it to.
Secrets of the Spritz Cookie
Break out the cookie press for these buttery Christmastime stalwarts—and add a little cornstarch to make the dough easier to work with.
For Holiday Desserts, Ditch the Vanilla and Raid Your Liquor Cabinet Instead
When it comes to holiday baking, look to liqueurs, spirits, and fortified wines for a glorious range of flavoring options.
Life-of-the-Party Cake
From the always-sunny brain of Flour Shop’s Amirah Kassem, this colorful, festive cake with a surprise filling is about as celebratory as it gets.—Bon Appétit
For the Love of Cookies, Please Don't Skip This Step of the Recipe
It's there for your own good!—Bon Appétit
Ayesha Curry’s Jubilant Holiday Feast
The cookbook author and Sweet July founder turns her family’s nostalgic Jamaican staples into a seriously celebratory spread.—Bon Appétit
何liday Drinks
何t Cocoa, Yes. And Also Hot Butterscotch
It’s like toasty, buttery caramel in drinkable form.
3 New Hot Cocktails to Sip Outside in Chilly Weather
Move beyond the basic hot toddy.
Just Toddy It: How to Drink Hot Negronis All Winter Long
There are an infinite number of drinks you can shake or stir with ice. Why can’t the same be true of hot cocktails?
Snacks Are the Best Part
61 Finger Food Ideas, Because Being Festive Doesn't Require a Fork
These holiday party favorites are worth making even if it's an appetizer party for one.
Sprinkle Sugar on Your Cheese for the Best Holiday Snack
Cheese and crackers gone fancy.
Meera Sodha’s Bombay Rolls Are the Best Snack of the Year
These cheesy, spicy, bright, and buttery pastry wheels are a must-make.
Festive Mains
何w to Make Tamales That Are Light, Fluffy, and Deeply Flavorful.
First: Invite some friends over to make them together.
何w to Make Bone-In Glazed Ham
The payoff is disproportionate to the prep.—Bon Appétit
On the Side
Cookies, Cookies, and More Cookies
127 Best Christmas Cookies to Feed the Sugar Plums Dancing In Your Head
Who needs a holiday cookie swap? These are all worth baking and keeping for yourself.
Not-Quite-Bonnie's Rugelach
This version of the flaky holiday pastry is made with a cream cheese dough and filled with quince paste, walnuts, and demerara sugar. It’s simple to make—and perfectly buttery.
Chewy Flourless Pistachio Cookies
Crispy, chewy, and naturally gluten-free.
A Festive Breakfast
何w to Make Crispier Waffles
I made waffles for weeks in an effort to find out, once and for all, how to make them crisp and keep them that way.
These Holiday-Ready Biscuits Go Sweet or Savory
Stuff them with greens and cheese or layer them with ginger and jam.
My Family's Never-Fail Make-Ahead Christmas Breakfast
Christmas morning is all about presents and family. Breakfast should be easy.
It's Time to Get Wrapping
The 45 Best Kitchen and Cooking Gifts for 2021
These gifts can actually make cooking (and baking, and cocktail-making) fun again.
The 40 Best Gifts Under $50
Memorable gifts on a sensible budget.
The Best Gifts for Your Siblings
Because sibling rivalry should be all about who scored the better present.
Take This Quiz to Find the Perfect Gift for Every Kind of Cook
Make everyone on your list happy with the click of just a few buttons.
16 Cooking Gifts for Kids That Go Beyond the Easy-Bake Oven
They don’t want kitchen toys! They want kitchen tools!—Bon Appétit
49 Gifts for Coffee Lovers, Espresso Drinkers, and Cold Brew Devotees
We did the research, you get the credit.
The 27 Best Gifts for Tea Lovers
Are they more stovetop or electric kettle people? High-caffeine matcha or low-key chamomile? Don't worry, we've got all types of tea fans covered.