Holiday Treats and Sweets

Whether you’re putting together a DIY gift basket for every one of your 24 aunts, uncles, cousins, and family pets, or planning a feast to ring in 2013 in style, here are a few suggestions courtesy of Good. Food. Stories to get your holiday headed in the right direction:

By Popular Demand!

• Buddy the Elf’s Spaghetti Pie
• Salted Caramel Hot Cocoa

Festive Drinks

• Baltimore Egg Nogg
• Hot Mulled Cider
• Wintergarden West Side

Sweets and Homemade Gifts

• Savory Parmesan Shortbread Rounds
• Easy 5-Ingredient Caramels (and 14 other holiday desserts!)
• Chocolate Mint Thumbprints
• Linzer Cookies
• Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Chips
• Spoon Sweets
• Spicy Apple Chutney

For the Holiday Meal

• Crabmeat au Gratin
• Warm Lentil Salad with Jerusalem Artichokes
• Hanukah Latkes
• Lussekatter, or Saffron Buns
• Espresso-Encrusted Pork Roulade
• Pork and Sauerkraut for the New Year
• Cherry-Cranberry-Pear Pie
• 10 Pies with 1 Foolproof Pie Crust