Think of this tart as a study in almonds, beginning with a crust enriched with ground almonds that is topped with marzipan (a confection of almonds with the flavor of almond extract) followed by frangipane...

Making salted brown butter the flavor base of a cookie will turn your holiday cookie swap into the hottest, hippest party in town.

Mushrooms made from meringue are the traditional edible decoration for a Yule log cake, and their cute quotient is high—they never fail to charm young and old alike.

Green beans have a certain suave, slender elegance that makes them a classic accompaniment to rosy-red roast beef. Try tossing them in a hot skillet with shallots and pecans that get caramelized in buttery...

Retrofit the macaroon as a bite-size sandwich filled with a pucker-worthy tart lime curd, and you've caught a new trend headed straight for the stars.

Made famous in France as Bûches de Noël, these sheet cakes, filled, rolled, and frosted to look like the trunks of trees, complete with the stumps of sawed off branches, provide creative cooks the...

Nothing says Christmas quite like a standing beef rib roast. For starters, it's got good bones. And those bones give it stature—there's nothing petite about this hunk of beef—so it is a...

The icebox has gone the way of the horse and buggy, but it didn't disappear before lending its name to the original concept of the slice-and-bake cookie.

Unlike typical American pie pastry, crostata pastry is similar to cookie dough, so instead of being flaky, it bakes up like a crisp, chewy sugar cookie. Drizzle slices with warm spiced caramel sauce, and you...

This stuffing, interspersed with nubbins of sage-laced breakfast sausage and studded with tart cherries and toasted pecans, is so memorable, we guarantee it will be talked about wistfully long after the...