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The Best Holiday Recipes

One of the best parts about holidays is the festive food! Find recipes sure to become traditions for all your special occasions.

almond poppy seed bread from Our Best Bites
Baking

Almond Poppy Seed Bread

63 Comments
frosted sugar cookie bars on a rack with sprinkles
Baking

Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars

132 Comments
A peppermint fudge cupcake baked right into a little jar, topped with peppermint frosting and candy cane pieces.
Christmas

Peppermint Fudge Cupcake Jars {& striped frosting tutorial}

153 Comments
Christmas

Apple Cider Caramels

114 Comments
slice of cheesecake on a plate with fresh berries
Desserts

Creamy Cheesecake

61 Comments
baked square of pumpkin French toast sliced on a plate with whipped cream on top
Baking

Overnight Baked Pumpkin Spice French Toast

47 Comments
A yeti cupcake, made by adding vanilla frosting, shredded coconut, candy eyes, and plastic vampire teeth.
Baking

Super-Easy Yeti Cupcakes

20 Comments
Snowmen made out of nutter butter cookies, dipped in almond bark, and decorated with mini M&Ms and pretzels.
Cookies

Nutter Butter Snowmen {Easy!}

15 Comments
A strawberry on a fork. The inside is stuffed with hazelnut cream.
No-Cook

Stuffed Strawberries

11 Comments
A Valentine card that says, "Blowing You Kisses Valentine" with a tube of bubbles and a few chocolate kisses attached.
Crafts

Bubble Valentines {Blowing You Kisses!}

10 Comments
Two loaves of challah on a bread baking pan.
Baking

Challah Bread

27 Comments
Candy bar printables on a pile of candy bars. THe one on top says, "Here's some chocolate. Go take a nap. Happy Mother's Day!"
Crafts

Mother’s Day Chocolate Bar Printable (Plus Teacher Appreciation!)

10 Comments
A bottle of "love potion" (store bought red drink with a printable love potion label on it).
Crafts

Love Potion {Free Printable!}

16 Comments
A series of tiny mailboxes, each with a mini Snickers and a little note in an envelope.
Crafts

Printable Valentine Love Notes

56 Comments
Reindeer cookies made from nutter butters, with mini M&Ms for eyes and noses and a mini pretzel for antlers.
Christmas

Easy Reindeer Cookies

25 Comments
Cute sugar cookies decorated to look like owls with colored frosting and candy eyes, using a tulip shaped cookie cutter.
Cookies

Owl Sugar Cookies {With a Trick!)

50 Comments
An acorn treat made from a doughnut hole, with the top dipped in chocolate and then toasted coconut, with a curved pretzel piece as a stem.
Crafts

Easy Acorn Treats {Two Ways!}

30 Comments
A knife dipping into a little glass pot of chocoalte hazelnut spread.
Condiments, Dips, & Sauces

Chocolate-Hazelnut Spread {Homemade Nutella!}

44 Comments
A plate of cute little bats made from chocolate dipped oreos with candy eyes and paper wings.
Cookies

Not-So-Spooky Oreo Bats

44 Comments
A few homemade snow globes on a table. The snow globes are made from old jars, laminated pictures, and plastic greenery.
Christmas

How To: Make a Homemade Snow Globe

272 Comments
3 spring chick cupcakes, nestled in a bed of moss.
Cakes & Cupcakes

{Easy} Spring Chick Cupcakes

40 Comments
Crackle-dyed "dinosaur egg" easter eggs in red, purple, blue, and green in a bed of moss.
Easter

Dinosaur Eggs

74 Comments
A Valentine's wreath made with felt rosettes.
Valentine's Day

Weekend Crafting: Valentine Rosette Wreath

41 Comments
Thanksgiving turkeys made from Oreos, peanut butter cups, whoppers, candy corn, and frosting, lined up in a row.
Crafts

Oreo Turkeys and Cookie Pilgrim Hats

346 Comments
A stack of glass block Jell-O: rectangles of white Jell-O with transparent blocks of colored Jell-O scattered throughout.
Christmas

Glass Block Holiday Jell-o {Festive!}

164 Comments
A green mug filled with gourmet Nutella hot cocoa.
Christmas

Gourmet Hot Chocolate

64 Comments
A close up of the tag for "reindeer food," giving instructions for sprinkling oats for Santa's reindeer.
Crafts

Reindeer Food for Christmas Eve

28 Comments
Halloween mason jar lanterns made to look like a pumpkin, ghost, Frankenstein's monster, etc. on a window sil.
Crafts

Crafty in the Kitchen: Mason Jar Lanterns

100 Comments
Library

Fruity Candy Popcorn

87 Comments
A collection of "shrunken heads" made of dried apples on sticks.
Cookies

Crafty in the Kitchen: Shrunken Head Tutorial

47 Comments
A basket filled with cute utensil bundles that look like carrots. Green utensils are wrapped in orange napkins with a little green bow on each.
Crafts

Easter Carrot Napkin Bundles

69 Comments
Oven Baked

Overnight Cream Cheese-Stuffed Lemon French Toast with Strawberries

85 Comments
red white and blue berries
Candy

Red, White, and Blue Patriotic Strawberries

34 Comments
Valentine's Day

Pavlova

34 Comments
Dipping berries in sour cream and brown sugar
Breakfast

Strawberries with Sour Cream and Brown Sugar

22 Comments
strawberry topped cream pie
Pies, Pastries, & Tarts

Chocolate-Drizzled Strawberries and Cream Pie

116 Comments
strawberry chocolate nachos
Appetizers

Strawberry & Chocolate Nachos

93 Comments
Desserts

Chocolate Berry Trifle

49 Comments
bowl of fresh cranberries covered in sugar
Condiments, Dips, & Sauces

Sugared Cranberries

27 Comments
Pies, Pastries, & Tarts

Classic Apple Crisp

35 Comments
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