Over the years, I’ve become less and less the person who buys gifts and more the person who makes, bakes or cooks them. In the space of time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, I find myself searching out every opportunity to host friends for festive meals, whip up care packages of home-baked treats, or share jars of whatever special summer ingredient I hoarded and turned into jam, jelly or preserves. Here are a few favorite things I’m thinking about as I’m sharing this love language with friends and family this time of year.
Iced Double Maple Glazed Cookies
Raspberry-Hibiscus Sablé Cookies
Chewy Ginger-Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Kabocha Pumpkin Cake with Bittersweet Chocolate Chunks
White Chocolate Cardamom Cake with Poached Pears
Fig Hazelnut Caramel Candy Bars
Lemony Pistachio Olive Oil Cake
Granola Chocolate Chip PANcakes
Everything Bagel Egg and Cheese Bake
Fluffy Sweet Potato Gingerbread Pancakes
Baked Carrot Cake Custard Oats
Great Golden Shiitake Dumplings
Radicchio and Roasted Sweet Potato Salad
Easy Peasy Rotisserie Chicken Pot Pie
Winter Squash Puff Pastry Pizza
A Very Good Mushroom Casserole
Butternut and Burrata Lasagne with Winter Greens
