Caroline Bates, a Gourmet magazine editor for 51 years, returns to divulge a holiday dessert recipe that may change your life. She also shares a remarkable seven-decade retrospective of the cake that interweaves the magazine's history with her own...

New holiday recipes and menus for Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's Eve are our gift to you! Plus, a trio of holiday cookies, the best Christmas cake, Ruth Bourdain's gift-giving advice, and 14 more ideas...

Making salted brown butter the flavor base of a cookie will turn your holiday cookie swap into the hottest, hippest party in town.

Mushrooms made from meringue are the traditional edible decoration for a Yule log cake, and their cute quotient is high—they never fail to charm young and old alike.

Retrofit the macaroon as a bite-size sandwich filled with a pucker-worthy tart lime curd, and you've caught a new trend headed straight for the stars.

Made famous in France as Bûches de Noël, these sheet cakes, filled, rolled, and frosted to look like the trunks of trees, complete with the stumps of sawed off branches, provide creative cooks the...

Nothing says Christmas quite like a standing beef rib roast. For starters, it's got good bones. And those bones give it stature—there's nothing petite about this hunk of beef—so it is a...

The icebox has gone the way of the horse and buggy, but it didn't disappear before lending its name to the original concept of the slice-and-bake cookie.

Green beans have a certain suave, slender elegance that makes them a classic accompaniment to rosy-red roast beef. Try tossing them in a hot skillet with shallots and pecans that get caramelized in buttery...

Serve up traditional holiday favorites for appetites of all ages with our Christmas Classic menu.