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Home | Recipes | Make-Ahead | Page 8

Make-Ahead

If you’re looking to save time and reduce stress in the kitchen, then make ahead recipes are the perfect solution. From easy overnight breakfast casseroles to dessert, these recipes can be prepared in advance, stored in the fridge or freezer, and reheated when needed.

Prep your Thanksgiving sides ahead of time, have an easy dinner stashed in the freezer for a busy weeknight, or get ahead on your holiday baking.

An oval casserole dish filled with easy breakfast strata on a wooden board with a wedge of Parmesan and a spoon on the side.
Three banana bread muffins stacked on top of each other with chai whipped cream on top and more muffins on a plate in the background.

Banana Bread Muffins

30 mins

Gingerbread cookies, both molasses and honey, in a circle on top of a gingerbread cheesecake, beside cups of latte and spoons.

Gingerbread Cookies

2 hrs 15 mins

Leftover Halloween candy bark broken into pieces.

Leftover Halloween Candy Bark

2 hrs 20 mins

A basket of fried chicken with a jar of honey on the side.

Simple Fried Chicken

3 hrs 45 mins

A pile of cheese crackers on an old metal grater.

Cheese Crackers

25 mins

A chocolate pecan pie in a ceramic pie plate with one slice missing on a linen napkin.

Chocolate Pecan Pie

55 mins

Halloween meringue bones piled on a paper plate and scattered on a black cobweb tablecloth beside the plate.

Halloween Meringue Bones

1 hr

A white bowl being filled with Bobby Flay's barbecue sauce.

Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Sauce

1 hr

Sugar Christmas snow cookies, in various shapes, decorated with white icing.

Sugar Christmas Snow Cookies

35 mins

A poached pear with warm coffee sauce on a plate with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a spoon.

Poached Pears with Warm Coffee Sauce

30 mins

A blue platter filled with rabbit confit, garnished with twigs of rosemary and lemon halves.

Rabbit Confit

3 hrs 30 mins

A Chinese five-spice chocolate chiffon cake on a wire rack, being drizzled with chocolate glaze from a yellow pitcher.

Five-Spice Chocolate Chiffon Cake

3 hrs 55 mins

Fig, apricot, and pistachio biscotti resting inside or on top of two glasses and a stack of biscotti beside the glassware.

Fig, Apricot, and Pistachio Biscotti

1 hr 15 mins

Two cheese-stuffed dates with Proscuitto on a white plate with metal pins securing them.

Cheese-Stuffed Dates with Prosciutto

15 mins

Peanut butter sandwich cookies stacked on a plate, the top one is without its top cookie. A glass of milk is in the background.

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

1 hr 10 mins

Pumpkin cider soup in a blue and white teacup, garnished with crème frâiche and chives.

Pumpkin-Cider Soup

1 hr 40 mins

Wicked good chocolate-peanut butter puddings on a green cake stand, sprinkled with chocolate shavings.

Wicked Good Chocolate–Peanut Butter Pudding

4 hrs 20 mins

A plate with three eggplant wraps and loose basil leaves, with a whole red pepper in the background

Mediterranean Eggplant Wraps

50 mins

Barefoot Contessa fresh lemon mousse in a soufflé dish with the edges decorated with swirls of whipped cream and lemon slices.

Barefoot Contessa Fresh Lemon Mousse

45 mins

Three pieces of spicy pepita brittle on a white plate.

Spicy Pepita Brittle

25 mins

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