Taste of home christmas recipes

If you're wondering, "How long do cookies last?" the answer may surprise you. Knowing how to store each type of cookie can help you keep your Christmas cookies fresh and prevent premature staleness or spoiling.

These are our favorite easy Christmas desserts, from colorful spritz cookies and spiced bundt cakes to bite-sized fudge squares and more.

Italian spumoni cookies look and taste like they're made from scratch. But refrigerated cookie dough makes them a cinch to create.

A salty and sweet treat to make at home using just 6 ingredients! This easy Christmas crack recipe is great as gifts or for cookie exchanges. With its highly addictive taste, this crack candy is a Christmas dessert idea no one will be able to resist!

Find out what the best ham options are to serve up on your holiday table, according to a blind taste test.

Learn how to make Swiss meringue buttercream—the creamy, rich version of buttercream frosting you haven't tried yet.

Christmas breakfast casserole is a bacon-egg-and-cheese strata proportioned to feed the whole family. The holiday morning is busy enough and our recipe is designed to be mixed up ahead of time and baked without babysitting on the big day. Add red and green bell peppers for some festive color!

This sugar cookie dates back to a Swedish woman born in 1877! Her daughter, Esther Davis, shared the recipe with me and she came up with all the exact measurements, since the original cookies were mixed by feel and taste. These are my favorite cookies and I hope they'll become yours as well. —Helen Wallis, Vancouver, Washington

Our peppermint meltaways have an incredibly soft cookie base, a rich peppermint buttercream frosting and are topped with festive peppermint candies.

Whether you bake up a vintage holiday layer cake or a beautiful Bundt, these old-fashioned Christmas cakes are sure to make an impression.