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Gingerbread tiramisu is the Christmas dessert I wish I'd invented. It's everything you love about classic tiramisu (coffee-soaked ladyfingers, clouds of mascarpone cream, a dusting of cocoa), but with a cosy gingerbread twist: a molasses-spiced coffe...

If you've ever been to a Latvian Christmas table, you'll know pīrādziņi. These are small, soft, golden yeast buns filled with smoky bacon and onion, shaped into little crescents and brushed with egg until shiny. They're served at every holiday, birt...

Kliņģeris is Latvia's celebration bread: a giant, golden, pretzel-shaped sweet yeast bread, studded with raisins and dried fruit, scented with cardamom and lemon, and topped with sliced almonds and sugar. In Latvia it's baked for birthdays and name ...

A Yule Log, or Bûche de Noël, is the showstopper of the Christmas dessert table: a light chocolate sponge rolled around fluffy whipped cream, covered in rich chocolate ganache, and textured to look like a real log. It looks like it came from a Fren...

Christmas Tree Brownies are the most fun you can have with a pan of brownies. Fudgy chocolate brownies are cut into triangles, piped with swirly green frosting, decorated with sprinkle "ornaments," and finished with a pretzel-stick trunk. They're ad...

Peppermint bark is the easiest homemade Christmas gift there is: a layer of dark chocolate, a layer of creamy white chocolate, and a crunchy shower of crushed candy canes on top. It takes 15 minutes of actual work, needs no oven, and looks beautiful ...

There's a reason this is called Christmas Crack: once you start, you can't stop. It's saltine crackers covered in a bubbling brown sugar toffee, topped with melted chocolate and festive sprinkles, then broken into sweet-salty shards. It's one of the ...

Hot chocolate bombs are pure holiday magic. They're hollow chocolate spheres filled with cocoa mix and mini marshmallows. Drop one into a mug, pour hot milk over the top, and watch it melt open as the marshmallows float up. They're fun to make, kids ...

Christmas sugar cookies are one of the most-searched holiday cookies in America every single year, and for good reason. These are the cut-out cookies of your childhood: buttery and soft, with crisp edges, and they hold their shape perfectly in the ov...

Gingerbread cake is the moment the holiday season really starts in my kitchen. This one is dark, sticky and incredibly moist, warmly spiced with ginger, cinnamon and cloves, with deep flavour from molasses. It's topped with a tangy cream cheese frost...