Rainbow Cookies

Rainbow Cookies

Also known as Neapolitan or Venetian cookies, these colorful treats are flavored with vanilla and apricot and coated in chocolate. A great Christmas gift.

Coconut Kisses by Norman Van Aken

Coconut Kisses

These bite-size homemade candy bars made with coconut, dipped in bittersweet chocolate, and rolled in nuts will have you singing for almond joy.

Individual Meat Pies with Cointreau Marmalade by Francine Segan

Individual Meat Pies with Cointreau Marmalade

These meat pies, are true minced meat pies, filled with ground meat–lamb or beef–and dried plums, currants, spices, and a Cointreau marmalade on top.

Snowflake Cookies by Tish Boyle

Snowflakes Cookies

Sugar cookies flavored with vanilla and orange zest are covered with icing and decorated with sanding sugar and silvery dragees for a Christmas-y look.

Swedish Christmas Glogg by Kirsten M. Dahl

Swedish Christmas Glögg

Glogg is Scandinavian mulled wine served at Christmas. This version combines port wine, brandy, whiskey, raisins, almonds, orange zest, cinnamon, and cardamon.

Portuguese Christmas Eve Cod

A traditional recipe on Christmas Eve in Portugal, this dish of salt cod, potatoes, and cabbage is drizzled with a garlic oil and topped with hard-boiled eggs.

Portuguese Christmas Golden Soup

For this sweet Christmas dessert, slices of sponge cake are dipped in a sugar syrup then drizzled with a custard sauce and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Bounty of Biltmore Cookbook by Whitney Wheeler Pickering

Cranberry-Orange Glazed Ham

Ham glazed with cranberry fruit cocktail provides a tart sweet combination. Garnish with cranberries and oranges for a colorful holiday main course.

Golden Caramels

Golden Caramels

Golden caramels — literally, that’s what these are in taste, color, and topping. Decorate each caramel square with a bit of 24-karat gold for a glitter look.

Beef Wellington

Beef Wellington

A favorite holiday dish, beef Wellington is beef fillet is slathered with pate, covered in a dice of mushrooms, wrapped in puff pastry, and baked.

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