How 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—How to Holiday will 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.
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.
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
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
Holiday Drinks
Hot Cocoa, Yes. And Also Hot Butterscotch
It’s like toasty, buttery caramel in drinkable form.
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.
Festive Mains
How to Make Tamales That Are Light, Fluffy, and Deeply Flavorful.
First: Invite some friends over to make them together.
How 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.
A Festive Breakfast
How 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.
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.
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
