Baking

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

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.

With their slightly sweet flavor, light texture, and golden color, it's easy to see why these Swedish saffron buns have been enjoyed for hundreds of years.

This is a no-nonsense oatmeal cookie recipe—no raisins, chocolate chips, or anything else to divert attention from the comforting classic.

These old-fashioned molasses cookies stay soft and chewy days after making them.

This classic Jewish American rugelach recipe uses a very cold cream cheese–based dough to make tender, flavorful rolled cookies full of sweet jam and cinnamon.

Rose Levy Beranbaum’s base recipe allows you to mix and match pantry ingredients to create the cookie of your dreams.

While chocolate isn’t traditional for chess pie, I add it as my own delicious twist on the Southern classic.

A heavenly mix of textures—crunchy, airy, creamy—meets the nutty flavor of chestnuts in the Mont-Blanc.

Use this classic recipe to make decorated snowflakes, gingerbread men, and trees for Christmas—or even skeletons for Halloween.

This vintage pear pie recipe from “Gourmet" was inspired by the classic 1940s film noir "Mildred Pierce." Years later, it still delivers.

These soft and buttery sourdough rolls are perfect for Thanksgiving or any holiday meal.

Freeze-dried blueberries sweeten this ricotta-enriched loaf cake.

I don’t know how else to say it—I think these sweet corn biscuits are perfect.

The understated, familiar flavor of these delicate sugar cookies will take you straight back to your childhood.