Discover our most-saved chocolate desserts of 2025, featuring reader favorites like chocolate mug cake, buckeye brownies, chocolate crinkle cookies, and silky chocolate pot de crème.

Discover Mediterranean-inspired weeknight dinners with bright flavors and simple ingredients.

This creamy, homemade macaroni and cheese has fewer ingredients than the boxed version, and comes together in the same amount of time.

We’ve gathered some of our favorite make-ahead holiday party apps—including homemade pâtés and dips, hot-smoked salmon, and crispy, cheesy turnovers—to ensure fuss-free entertaining, whether you’re hosting or contributing to a potluck.

We rounded up our favorite kitchen gear purchases of 2025, including our favorite citrus juicer, a Ninja air fryer, and a petite-but-powerful Nutribullet personal blender.

Learn the simple chef-approved trick for glazing ham without burning it, plus tips for choosing glazes and getting a perfectly caramelized finish every time.

Transform your holiday baking from basic to beautiful.

Our take on this classic clam dish is packed with flavor, and can easily be prepared ahead of time.

Monkey has a variety of names, including pinch me cake, bubble loaf, sticky bread, pull-apart cake, plucking cake, and monkey brains. But no matter what you call it, this cinnamon-y sweet treat is easy to make, fun to eat, and the ultimate dessert for sharing. Here's how to make it.

Discover our most-saved holiday desserts, featuring cozy cakes, festive cookies, classic pies, and other winter favorites for seasonal celebrations.

Our favorite tips for elevating boxed brownies to a level you didn’t even think was possible.

Should you bring meat to room temperature before cooking? We tested steaks, pork, and chicken with probes and timers to see what changes in browning, cook time, and juiciness.

Classic soft, vanilla-scented sugar cookies, perfect for giving as holiday gifts or keeping all to yourself.

This centuries-old British technique breaks every flaky-pie rule—and produces a stronger, more reliable crust.

We tested 19 coffee grinders and found nine favorites, looking for ones that ground coffee consistently and were easy to adjust and use.

Make the best prime rib roast of your life with this smoked version that delivers real crust, deep beefy flavor, and a juicy center that's actually worth the holiday hype.

To find the best store-bought puff pastry, Serious Eats editors taste-tested six brands you're likely to find at your local supermarket, including Trader Joe's, Dufour, and 365 by Whole Foods Market.

Prime rib is often undercooked and disappointing. Here's why cooking it a little longer—and knowing when to stop—delivers better texture, richer flavor, and a far more satisfying roast.

Zuppa di pesce is a tomato-based seafood stew rooted in Italian coastal cuisine. This version pairs a rich tomato broth with shrimp, squid, fish, clams, and mussels for a celebratory meal perfect for holiday gatherings or cold winter nights.

For a fast weeknight meal, chicken is the most reliable standby. It's inexpensive, easy to cook, relatively healthy, and exceptionally versatile—as evidenced by this collection of recipes.

Celebrate the Italian Christmas Eve tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes with our favorite seafood recipes—festive, flavorful dishes designed to make your holiday memorable.

We made three pie crusts—each with a different type of flour—to find the one that would make the crispiest, flakiest one.

Celebrate Noche Buena with 14 traditional recipes, including pernil, tamales, arroz con gandules, and more dishes that honor Latin American, Caribbean, and Filipino holiday traditions.

To find the best gingerbread house kits, Serious Eats editors built and taste-tested seven gingerbread houses you're likely to find at your local supermarket and online, including Trader Joe's, Williams Sonoma, and Wilton.

These are the festive cocktails our readers are saving right now—creamy, cozy, and ideal for unwinding at holiday parties all season long.

All three of these materials have their pros and cons, but how does each one affect the bake on a pie crust—and which one actually produces the best result?

This tuna salad recipe uses labneh instead of mayonnaise and incorporates ingredients like quick-pickled onions, carrots, and dill to enhance the flavor.

In this homemade peppermint mocha recipe inspired by Starbucks, rich chocolate sauce, steamed milk, and peppermint extract come together to create a creamy, festive drink.

As these cool, the centers fall creating tiny ridges and canyons sparking with light coating of sugar. The flavor is pretty much unbeatable—rich and earthy with molasses and just the right hint of warm spice from the cloves and ginger.

Hong Kong milk tea—a rich, creamy beverage of strong black tea and evaporated milk—requires just three ingredients and comes together in minutes.

This sweet-and-salty puppy chow recipe upgrades the classic with browned butter, miso, and cayenne for a crunchy, chocolatey snack that's wildly delicious.

This salmon Wellington (salmon en croûte) pairs rich salmon with savory mushroom duxelles and crisp puff pastry for a showstopping, foolproof holiday main.

With their sweet, punchy kick from honey, miso paste, ground ginger, and fresh herbs, these roasted carrots are sure to brighten up your dinner plate.

This recipe for tender, juicy chicken paillard with lemon-herb butter sauce is ready in 30 minutes for an easy dinner.

Ten sweet and savory make-ahead breakfast recipes that make Christmas morning easy, whether you’re feeding a crowd or keeping it low-key.

Make your Christmas menu easier with festive make-ahead sides like duchess potatoes, root vegetable gratin, and green bean casserole that still taste freshly made.

For a complete list of the very best holiday cookies, we polled Serious Eats editors on their go-to cookie recipes to make this time of year. You'll find comforting classics, including oatmeal raisin cookies, as well as festive sweets, like chocolate peppermint sandwich cookies.

This creamy Levantine milk drink is gently scented with orange blossom water and topped with cinnamon and pistachios.

Learn how this centuries-old floral ingredient transforms desserts, drinks, and more with just a few drops.

Topped with a shiny layer of chocolate ganache, these no-bake chocolate bars are luxuriously rich and fudgy—and the perfect excuse to not turn on the oven.

We compared oven-braised brisket with two slow cooker methods. Here's the winner and the key steps for making slow-cooker brisket tender and flavorful.

Make holiday hosting easier with 10 no-bake Christmas desserts that free up oven space and deliver festive, crowd-pleasing flavor.

Learn how to avoid dry beef brisket with a method that keeps even the lean flat moist and tender.

Start low and slow in the oven and finish with a blast of heat for the juiciest, most flavorful, evenly cooked prime rib roast.

After testing 15 wire cooling racks, we found three winners in half-sheet and quarter-sheet pan sizes. The best cooling racks were durable and easy to clean.

These are the most flavorful crispy roast potatoes you'll ever make. And they just happen to be gluten-free and vegan (if you use oil) to boot.

This Southwest-style breakfast strata is packed with bacon, chiles, tomato, and cheese. It's a great make-ahead breakfast perfect for the busy holiday season.

These snowball cookies are buttery, nutty, and truly melt-in-your-mouth, thanks to toasted nuts, a long bake, and a clever trick for the perfect sugar glaze.

If your care packages tend to arrive in crumbs, start with these reliable, travel-friendly cookies.

Looking for ground beef recipes that aren’t tacos or burgers? Check out these 9 recipes, including creamy moussaka, salty-sweet Cuban picadillo, and tender seekh kebabs.