Best Holiday Recipes

Find the best holiday recipes for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years on this board. It features recipes for main dishes, soups and stews, sweet treats and desserts, side dishes, baking, festive appetizers, and more. Please pin only vertical, high-quality images. To join as a contributor, send a message requesting an invite.
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Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
Raspberry Peek-A-Boos or Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are a lightly sweet oatmeal cookie filled with raspberry jam in a thumbprint shaped well in the center of the cookie. Friends shared this easy old fashioned oatmeal thumbprint cookie recipe. It has become a new favorite Valentines or Christmas cookie and is perfect to enjoy all year round!
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the ultimate sweet potato casserole is ready to be eaten and served in the oven
Crock Pot Candied Sweet Potato Casserole
The ULTIMATE sweet potato casserole recipe is one of my most requested recipes because it is SO good!
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Easy Haystacks
A combination of sweet and salty this easy White Chocolate Haystacks candy can be made in the crock pot, stove top or microwave. Only three simple ingredients make these candy drops that are fun to make with kids and add to a holiday cookie tray or give as a gift.
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Christmas Chex Mix
Sweet M&M and peanut butter cup candy mixed with salty pretzels in this Christmas Chex Mix recipe make any holiday party more fun and tasty! Chex mix fancied up with red and green candy for Christmas is also called Reindeer Food, Reindeer Crack and Christmas Puppy Chow. Mix in your favorite cereal and candy to make this recipe best for you and your family! #Christmas #easysnack #funfood
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Christmas Pretzel M&M Hugs
An easy recipe to add to any homemade holiday gift, these sweet and salty Christmas Pretzel M&M Hugs are irresistible. The combination of Hershey’s Hugs softened on square pretzels with an M&M on top is decorative and delicious! Fresh salty pretzels provide the perfect base for a soft white chocolate Hug and slightly crunchy and colorful M&M. This is the perfect dessert recipe to make with kids of any age.
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The Fluffiest & Creamiest Homemade Mashed Potatoes
These are the fluffiest and creamiest homemade mashed potatoes you’ll ever make! With a smooth texture and a buttery finish, this recipe is a must-have for everything from casual family dinners to fancy holiday spreads.
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Small Batch Sticky Buns
Small Batch Sticky Buns Recipe
easy valentine treats for kids to make with rice krispy hearts and sprinkles
Easy Valentine Treat for Kids
Each year I find myself looking for fun and easy treats for my kids’ Valentine party at school. ​ ​I like to take a snack that most kids enjoy, is easy to make and isn’t too expensive. ​ ​So, crispy rice cereal treats are always a winner. ​ ​This year we’re going to step up our game by adding Valentine M&Ms and using a cookie cutter to make heart-shaped treats.
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Easy Valentine Drops Candy
Each year we look for a fun and easy Valentine candy or sweet treat to make. We love these Valentine Drops Candy with white chocolate, pretzels, crispy rice cereal, peanut butter, and cashews. ​ ​These are a great treat for school Valentine parties too!
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Chocolate Pixies
Chocolate Pixies are thin cocoa filled cookies dusted with powdered sugar that taste like a rich brownie. This easy chocolate cookie recipe is great to make during a holiday baking extravaganza! #cookie #chocolate #Christmascookie
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Cranberry Jello Mold
The perfect complement to savory dishes that is sweet with a little tang this Cranberry Mold is the best vintage jello recipe to serve at Thanksgiving. Crushed pineapple provides a natural sweetness and wonderful contrast to the tart cranberries in this no-bake salad that fits with almost any course in your meal. This congealed jello mold can be spread over a piece of turkey and creates a fun alternative to traditional cranberry sauce.
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Red Hot Jello Salad
Red jello with a warm festive cinnamon flavor and crunch from apples, celery and nuts creates the best Red Jello Salad for the holidays. We like to serve this vintage Jello salad recipe from a mold, but a bowl can be used too. My grandma always made this red hot jello salad for Christmas.
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Easy Christmas Snacks
These three Easy Christmas Tree Treats are perfect for kids to help make and enjoy over the holidays. These Christmas tree and candy treats look cute and taste even better! Make brownies or rice Krispie treats look like Christmas trees and take hugs melted on square pretzels and add an M&M on top for fun desserts kids can make!
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Peanut Butter & Chocolate Fudge
Soft and creamy with a rich peanut butter flavor and a hint of chocolate, this Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge recipe is the best sweet treat! Almost like a frosting in consistency this stove top peanut butter fudge has enough chocolate to make me think of buckeye flavors. My husband says this homemade fudge is like a Reese’s peanut butter cup in fudge form. It makes a big batch to fill a 9 x 13 pan too!
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Easy Christmas Cookies
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