Recipes & Menus

Enjoy this velvety black sesame and red masa champurrado right off the stove as a dessert, or savor it with the crunchy company of a sugar-encrusted buñuelo.

Champurrado is an atole defined by chocolate; the classic Mexican hot drink is pure winter comfort.

Flavored with cardamom and often filled with dried and candied fruits, this rich wheat bread is traditionally served for Christmas in Norway.

Making your own king cake from scratch takes time and patience, but the rewards outweigh the challenges. 

This astonishingly moist and fragrant almond cake infused with rum and vanilla is crowned by a white glaze that crackles as the spoon digs in.

Our best panettone recipe, adapted from baker Jim Lahey, employs a long rise for a festive and flavorful holiday bread without much work.

This chana masala recipe has a clever trick: boiling the canned chickpeas with their liquid helps them mimic the texture you would get from soaking dried ones.

This bread—loaded with a rum-spiked walnut filling—is the traditional Romanian celebration bread for Christmas.

These Slovak Christmas dough balls are traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve as part of a 12-course meatless meal.

These fritters are often referred to as buñuelos de rodilla, or knee fritters, as they need to be quite thin and the knee is often pressed into the dough to stretch it out.

This flavor-packed nonalcoholic cocktail is delightfully bitter and tart.