Fruit
This Mid-Century Modern Gingerbread House Is the Winter Baking Project We All Need Now
Okay, it’s not actually gingerbread—it’s better. Use Judy Kim’s detailed templates and blueprint to build the ultimate edible holiday centerpiece: a cardamom cookie house complete with twinkly lights, shimmery doors, ceiling beams, and color-coordinated wallpaper.
Chocolate Miso Bread Pudding
In this rich and custardy bread pudding, the chocolate’s flavor is enhanced by the addition of coffee and savory-salty miso. Serve the pudding as a holiday dessert, or as a midday snack.
It’s Time to Pour a Whole Bottle of Wine Into Your Dessert
Dousing the world’s most aromatic fruit with spiced rosé and then piling it into this impressive, glossy tart is a project that conjures some much-needed holiday magic.
Quince and Almond Tart With Rosé
Poach quince in rosé with a dash of cocktail bitters and a few warm spices, then assemble into a tart with almond paste using an upside-down, Tatin-style method.
Extra Can of Cranberry Sauce? Make This Post-Thanksgiving Snack Cake
What else is there to do on Black Friday but shop online and eat cake?
Cranberry-Orange Snacking Cake
This simple snacking cake could be breakfast—or an afternoon pick-me-up. It’s a great way to put any lingering cans of cranberry sauce to good use.
Thunderer
This easy-to-make cocktail was one of the earlier drinks I created for the bar menu at our Brentwood restaurant, Tavern. It is made with a honey syrup infused with fresh ginger and chiles de árbol, so you get those flavors and that heat in the cocktail. I added grapefruit to make it tangy.
Old Pepper
Warm up with this concoction of bourbon, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. It’s not a Southern classic, but it certainly drinks like one.
Have Your Thanksgiving Wine and Mix This Cocktail With It Too
Riesling meets apple cider and bourbon in a sophisticated cocktail that goes well with turkey, stuffing, and more.
Paradise Apple
In this cocktail, Riesling (Marrero favors dry Rieslings from the Finger Lakes or Alsace) adds brightness to a mix of fresh apple cider and bourbon. Blending dried figs with honey syrup gives you a sweetener that’s full of earthy, nutty notes, and a small amount of floral liqueur gives the tart, refreshing drink a subtle luscious quality.
Cherry and Smoke
The campfire smokiness of the Lapsang Souchong (which is brewed strong, so that the tannins intensify) is a great counterpoint to sweet, tart stone fruit.
Cinnamon Streusel Babke
June Edelmuth has become known all over Sydney for this legendary bread. The deliciously dense cinnamon and sugar-swirled babke honors the memory of June's Russian grandmother, Minka.
Judy Kim’s New Pear Tart Is the Prettiest, Flakiest, Easiest Thanksgiving Dessert
In this simple fruit-forward dessert, the flavor (and impressive aesthetic) is all about the pears.
Baked Chocolate Tofu Cheesecake
This cheesecake has a chocolatey rich mousse-like texture that is absolutely amazing.
This Easy Coconut Macaroon Crust Will Improve Any Tart
A better press-in crust with none of the crumbly letdown.
A Lemony Cranberry Pie For a Brighter Thanksgiving
This fruit-studded riff on chess pie might not look like all of the cinnamon-laced desserts on your Thanksgiving table, but that’s kind of the point. With a refreshing tang and a lip-puckering bite, this pie may even steal the show.
Cranberries Aren't Just For Sauce: Use the Juice in This Festive Campari Cocktail
If, for you, the best part of Thanksgiving is the tang of cranberry sauce, this super-easy, super-tart Campari-laced drink is for you.
Lipstick Memory
This festive, refreshing cocktail balances bittersweet Campari with tart, unsweetened 100% cranberry juice. The drink’s tartness and bitterness awakens the palate for whatever you’ve got cooking.
How This Diwali Sweet Became My Thanksgiving Tradition, Too
These pistachio-date balls are nutty, fudgy, and easy to send in a care package if you're celebrating Diwali—or Thanksgiving—away from your loved ones.
Khajur Ladu (Date, Pistachio, and Almond Morsels)
These date balls, which I make each year for Diwali, are nutty and fudgy—without any chocolate. In years when the celebrations for Diwali and Thanksgiving are close together, I like to make a double batch to add to our Thanksgiving spread. They fit right in.