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Holidays

Expecting a house full of guests for the holidays? From make-ahead meals, to easy finger food recipes, and crowd-pleasing seasonal favorites—holiday cookies included!—celebrate the season with these holiday delights.

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Freshly baked Challah on a board.

Holly’s Challah Recipe

The BEST Overnight Brioche Cinnamon Buns

25+ Thanksgiving Side Dishes: Hasselback Potatoes, Sweet Potato Casserole, Glazed Green Beans, Buttermilk Biscuits, Classic Stuffing & More

Just-baked hasselback potato gratin.

Hasselback Potato Gratin (No-Peel, Make Ahead)

A platter of oven-roasted fingerling potatoes.

Crispy Roasted Fingerling Potatoes

Frosted hot cross buns.

Spiced Hot Cross Buns (Overnight or Not)

A carved brown sugar glazed ham on a platter.

Favorite Easter Recipes

The best and easiest recipe for rack of lamb. It takes five minutes to prepare. It's foolproof. And if you enjoy gnawing on bones as if they were lollipops, this recipe is for you. Make it. // alexandracooks.com

Easiest Rack of Lamb

slice of sausage, spinach and egg casserole

Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Casserole with Spinach

freshly baked currant scones

Lemony Buttermilk Currant Scones

An up close photo of cut brownies on a board.

Best-Ever Fudgy (Shiny-Topped!) Homemade Brownies

a cast iron skillet with Irish soda bread

Super Simple Irish Soda Bread

Irish brown bread, just baked.

Simple Irish Brown Bread

This chocolate cake, made with buttermilk and oil — no butter — and exclusively cocoa — no melted chocolate — is incredibly light and moist and stays this way — tasting freshly baked — for days. It's another Ina Garten recipe, one she begged for from a friend, the grandson of Beatty, after taking one bite. // alexandracooks.com

Beatty’s Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

A slice of double chocolate cake with black velvet icing.

The Best Double Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing

Overhead shot of boozy chocolate truffles on a table.

Grand Marnier Chocolate Truffles

A tray of popovers in the oven.

Lofty Popovers (Yorkshire Pudding)

The custard, a ratio of 1 cup crème fraîche to 1 cup whole milk to 5 eggs, makes Tartine's Swiss chard quiche so fabulous. It's smooth with a slight tang and utterly delicious. // alexandracooks.com

Tartine’s Quiche

Sister Pie's Salted Maple Pie

Sister Pie’s Salted Maple Pie

An overhead shot of a dozen blueberry muffins on a cooling rack.

The Best Lemon-Blueberry Muffins

Two glasses of a Tangerine spritz.

Tangerine Spritz

Homemade ranch dip in a bowl.

Homemade Ranch Dip with Greek Yogurt

A cast iron skillet filled with baked fontina with rosemary and thyme.

Baked Fontina

40+ New Year’s Eve Recipes: Drinks, Crostini, Dips, Finger Food & More