Recipes

We love warming spices around the holidays, which is one of the reasons we love to sip hot chai this time of year.

These cookies have a delicious secret hidden inside — a crunchy, chewy centre of ground mixed nuts and honey. They are insanely good.

Are you the one who hunts for the cookies that are just slightly overdone, the ones that are just a hair on the other side of just done? These shortbread are the holiday cookie you want.

It’s a chocolate crinkle cookie. No, it’s a spice crinkle cookie. Wait! It’s both!

Sugar sprinkles are pretty, but they generally don’t taste like much. So when we created these delicious holiday butter cookies, we decided to experiment with colorful decorations that taste as good as they look.

Like the idea of baking holiday cookies, but hate the mess and trouble of baking? These are the cookies for you.

Pumpkin bread isn’t a classic Italian dessert, but that didn’t stop us from turning it into delicious biscotti fit for dunking in your holiday lattes and cocoa.

Brigadeiros are a classic Brazilian truffle-like confection that traditionally blends the flavours of chocolate and caramel. We love these easy no-bake treats, so we decided to update them with the more traditional holiday flavours of gingerbread, mocha and molasses. These brigadeiros also make great gifts, as they are easily made ahead and refrigerated for several weeks.

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TORONTO Sarah Richardson says there’s more to bringing a home to life than just beautiful decor, and enjoying a hearty, home-cooked meal with loved ones is a key part of the equation.

“Food to me is inextricably linked to how I enjoy home,” said the designer and HGTV personality.

My four daughters all inherited the love for sugary treats that my husband and I share. So to try to keep things in balance, I gravitate to treat recipes that are lower in sugar and add a bit of protein and fiber to level out all those sugar rushes.