The Best Christmas & Holiday Cookbooks

Baking confidence tastes better than any dessert ever could, which is exactly what Claire Saffitz delivers in Dessert Person.

Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence: A Baking Book cover

Dolly and Rachel Parton walk you through Good Lookin' Cookin' with over 80 recipes, family stories, and a year's worth of menus that taste like you've been invited to their kitchen all along.

Good Lookin' Cookin': A Year of Meals - A Lifetime of Family, Friends, and Food [A Cookbook] cover

Hope's Table offers more than 150 recipes steeped in Mennonite tradition—Hope Helmuth opens her kitchen so yours becomes a place where people naturally linger.

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Georgina Hayden Taverna /anglais brings Cyprus to your table through sun-warmed salads, orange-blossom pastries, and the kind of food that tastes like lemon, feta, cinnamon, and coming home.

Aran Goyoaga's Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple hands you 100 gluten-free recipes that taste so good, no one will suspect the flour's gone.

Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple: A New Way to Bake Gluten-Free (with Vegan Options for Most Recipes) cover

Let Jesse Szewczyk's Cookies: The New Classics walk you through 100 boldly flavored recipes—from malted brownie biscotti to blueberry muffin sugar cookies—that turn afternoon tea into something you've never quite tasted before.

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Aimee Ryan's Great British Vegan proves you can have vegan fish and chips, Christmas dinner, and sticky toffee pudding without giving up a single British comfort.

Great British Vegan: Simple, plant-based recipes to cook the nation's favourite dishes cover

You Got This! by Diane Morrisey is 100 recipes built for the dinner hour you actually have, not the one you wish for.

You Got This!: Recipes Anyone Can Make and Everyone Will Love (A Cookbook) cover

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