Apartment Therapy: Holidays

Holiday Baking: Stock Up On Nuts Now!

We'll never forget the year that we put off buying nuts for our pecan pie until the weekend before Thanksgiving and then had to go to four stores before finding one lone stale package still on the she...

Snowy Village Cakelet Pan from Williams-Sonoma

Oh boy! It's that time of year! Fun baking pans! Here's the latest Nordic Ware holiday pan for Williams-Sonoma: a little village of cakelets. ...

Curious Candies: Have You Ever Made Nougat?

Imagine a cross between a marshmallow and a meringue, fragrant with honey and studded with tender nuts, and you've got nougat! We love to nibble it on its own and crumble it into desserts, but we've n...

Do You Have a Great Recipe for Spiked Hot Apple Cider?
Good Questions

Q: A friend is throwing an autumn party full of wonderful treats and drinks. My contribution is to be a boozy hot apple cider. However, none of the recipes I can find really tickle my fancy. Any tri...

What Is Your Favorite Bundt Cake Recipe?

Autumn is a time for office potlucks and holiday parties, and we're always looking around for a no-fail dessert. The bundt cake is impressively shaped, feeds a lot of people, and when properly made, i...

Holiday Food: Talk About Your Triumphs

Hello! We've missed you all the last two weeks. There was so much cooking and baking, so many dinner parties and Christmas cookies, and we want to hear all about your triumphs. It's not too late to ta...

Doing Good Food Deeds

Merry Christmas, Kitchn readers! Our hands are sore from jamming cloves into clementines so I'll see how well I can type. Today our writers take a well-deserved day off and I leave you with a nice big...

Last-Minute Menus for Christmas Breakfast

What are you making for breakfast tomorrow? Do you have a big meal, or do you just snack on Christmas candy and clementines while opening presents? We prefer a full breakfast on Christmas morning, and...

Un-Gift Guide 2008

Every year we do a rather ad-hoc Un-Gift Guide here at The Kitchn. It's intended to help you think creatively about gift-giving, and to help you get in the kitchen as you cook up sweet gifts for frien...

Candy for Giving and Party Snacks: The Full Roundup

DIY peppermint patties (quick, easy!), caramels with salt or cinnamon, old-fashioned whipped divinity, herbed almonds, fruit jellies, and slabs of toffee -- here are all of our favorite recipes for Ch...

15 Really Useful Kitchen Items for Your Favorite Cooks
Un-Gift Guide 2008

This is a homemade, handmade Christmas for many of us, and over the last two weeks we've shown you a great deal of homemade treats and sweets. But perhaps you don't have the time to make food gifts, o...

Recipe: Peppermint Ice Cream with Dark Chocolate Flecks

The only frozen thing many of us have on our minds right now (especially in New York) is what's falling out of the sky. But the snow piling up on our windowsill is not stopping us from making ice crea...

Gallery: 12 Fresh, Sweet, and Festive Cranberry Recipes

Cranberries! We can't get enough of them this time of year. Their bright tartness is a mood-lifter all winter too. Here are a dozen recipes that will show off fresh cranberries at Christmas and beyond...

Stocking Stuffer Idea: Mini Bags of Coffee
Un-Gift Guide 2008

While paying for our stash of holiday blend coffee beans the other day, we spotted some sample-sized bags near the register. This sparked an idea: Why not make our own "sample" bags of coffee to give ...

Tip: Use Spreadable Goat Cheese in Place of Cream Cheese

I recently got hip to a great cream-cheese alternative for bagels and such and was thinking it'd be a nice time to pass on the tip given what a brunch-y time of year this is between Christmas and New ...

Reader Survey: Do You Like Eggnog?

One person's cup of creamy, bourbon-spiked goodness is another person's eggy, high-fat nightmare. Where do you stand?!...

Wrap Food Gifts in Paper Bags
Un-Gift Guide 2008

Wrapping gifts in paper bags - sounds rather unromantic, right? Not when you do it like Martha Stewart! Brown paper bags are a low-cost, easy option for making homemade treats and goodies look very pr...

Chocolate-Dipped Pretzels with Mint Sugar
Un-Gift Guide 2008

Here is a very, very last-minute food gift that takes literally five minutes to make, and yet everyone you share it with will love it (and you). Too good to be true? No -- it's just chocolate-dipped p...

Have You Ever Made a Bûche de Noël?

We're loving this picture of an "Aspen" bûche de noël, a more modern take on the classic French Christmas cake. Traditional logs are iced in chocolate and often have little meringue mushroo...

Looking For: Christmas Morning Breakfast Casseroles

Here's a good question from reader Chelsea, who writes: Every year for Christmas, we eat breakfast casserole after opening our presents. It's easy to put together the night before and pop into the o...

Leaving Cookies for Santa

What cookies did you leave for Santa back when you were young and a believer? In my childhood home, it was Red and Green Christmas Balls (one red, one green) and a cup of cocoa left on the fireplace ...

Recipe Review: Cranberry Sauce with Port and Dried Figs

We love cranberry sauce. It's one of our favorite parts of Thanksgiving, and we always make sure there are at least two versions on the table. But although we eat cranberry sauce leftovers for as long...

Last Minute Gift Idea: Beer Bread Mix
Un-Gift Guide 2008

It doesn't get much better than beer bread: mix, bake, slather with butter, smile. Repeat last two steps until satisfied. What's better, all the dry ingredients can be mixed together ahead of time and...

Savory Food Gift: Spiced Olives from Martha Stewart
Un-Gift Guide 2008

When we think of food to give as gifts, we so often think cookies, candies, sugary nuts, toffee... The list of sweet stuff can go on and on. What about something good and salty? There are these savory...

Alternative Christmas Stocking: Use an Oven Mitt

Finding myself in possession of a house and household this Christmas season, I am trying to decorate for the holidays just a little. But it doesn't come naturally. I love the greenery, the white light...

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