Holiday Baking: New and Traditional Recipes for Wintertime Holidays

by Sara Perry (Photographs), Leigh Beisch (Photographs)

The holiday season is alive with tradition, and nothing brings a family together faster than baked goods pulled fresh from the oven. Holiday Baking celebrates the six major events of the season with new and traditional holiday treats everyone will love. Vida Lee's Maple Pumpkin Pie will be gobbled up at Thanksgiving; there are three variations of rugelach for Hanukkah; Candy Cane Cupcakes are a minty delight for Christmas; Sweet Onion, Apple, and Cheese Tarts enliven a Boxing Day brunch; Brown Sugar Benne Cookies are perfect for Kwanzaa; and a Bloody Mary and Baked Mushroom Omelet on New Year's Day is the ultimate cure for a hangover. The recipes mix and match easily, whatever the holiday. Whether the plan calls for old-fashioned favorites or entirely new inspiration, the eighty-plus festive recipes in this baking compendium will bring everyone home for the holidays.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Christmas, Nonfiction, Holiday, Food

168 pages, Paperback

First published September 8, 2005

Reviews

[Valerie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this to have if I needed a spare gift at the holidays, and ended up keeping it. It has a few excellent recipes, but the precious names for everything kind of bug me.

[Juli Anna · Rating 1 out of 5]

100% forgettable.

[Mckinley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Needs more photos.

[Kit · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very few photos!

[Tabitha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very few photos, and no recipes I found too exciting.

[Marjanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a Christmas gift from my mother-in-law, and I am excited to try some of the recipes. This cookbook is just holiday (Thanksgiving through New Years) recipes. I appreciated the baking hints from the author, and the photography made my mouth water.

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

A couple great recipes that have become holiday standbys.

[Deanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a winner, YUM!