Tantalizing temptations for sweet holiday celebrations.

Colorfully iced, sprinkled with cinnamon, or chock-full of raisins or chocolate chips, cookies are always a favorite Yuletide indulgence. Here are 60 recipes for colorful, delicious cookies for holiday parties and gifts. There are iced cookies, brownies, biscotti, gingerbread, refrigerator dough, and other favorites. Recipes include Spicy Christmas Tree Cookies, Honey Ornament Cookies, Pudding Cookies, North Pole Granola Bars, Sugarplum Cookies, Cinnamon Cookies, Butterscotch Cookies, Snowflake Meringue Cookies, Peppermint Swirl Cookies, Jolly Snowman Cookies, Macadamia Shortbreads, Pumpkin Spice Bars, Chocolate-Amaretto Biscotti, Pecan-Caramel Brownies, Mini Snowball Snacks, and others.

Fast and fun or festive and fancy, these options for family meals during the holidays offer delicious versatility to please everyone. Here are 64 recipes to make up complete meals for casual or elegant family dinners! There are main dishes, soups, salads, side dishes, breads, desserts, and other foods. Recipes include Deep Dish Vegetable Pie with Oatmeal-Rye Rolls, Pork Loin Roast in White Wine, Salisbury Venison Steaks, Tenderloin of Beef in Pastry, Cornbread Loaf, Cranberry-Orange Gelatin Salad, Pumpkin Soup, Turkey Nachos, Glazed Lemon Cheesecake, Bacon-Mushroom Casserole, Caramelized New Potatoes, Cream of Artichoke Soup, Strawberry-Banana Frozen Yogurt, Chinese Rice Ring with Broccoli, Southwestern Chicken Casserole, and other favorites.

Whether sweet or savory, creamy or crunchy, lovingly cooked treats from the kitchen are the most personal, satisfying gifts you can present! Here are 73 recipes for a festive variety of foods to give friends and family. There are snacks, cakes, pies, cookies, candy, nuts, sauces, drink mixes, and other foods. Recipes include White Fruitcake, Nutty Olive Spread, Brandied Date-Nut Balls, Veggie Roll-up Bread, Chocolate-Mint Cheesecake, Peachy Gingerbread, Graham Toffee Pie, Grand Marnier Baklava, Almond-Amaretto Turtles, Spicy Sweet Potato Chips, Volcano Pizza Pie, Creamy Potato Soup, Turkey and Dressing Casserole, Banana Split Sauce, Beer Mustard, Easy Mustard Pickles, Grilled Meat Seasoning, and other favorites.

With this book, you’ll be whipping up dozens of candies that don’t require special molds, pans, or any kitchen appliances you don’t already own. From nut barks to lollipops, gumdrops to truffles, all your favorite candies are here, as well as a few new ones you won’t be able to resist. Many recipes include sugar-free and/or corn syrup–free alternatives for health-conscious confectioners. Whether you’re making sweets for yourself, for your family, or as gifts, the easy-to-follow directions and beautiful full-color photographs in this book will ensure you get the results you want. Some of the delicious candies include: Chocolate coconut candy bars Cinnamon hard candies Crystallized ginger Gumdrops Maple nut fudge Pecan toffee Rock candy Turkish delight, and more!

How can you make cakes, cookies, and candy even MORE fun? Award-winning blogger Heather Baird, a vibrant new voice in the culinary world, has the answer: Cook like an artist! Combining her awesome skills as a baker, confectioner, and painter, she has created a gorgeous, innovative cookbook, designed to unleash the creative side of every baker. Heather sees dessert making as one of the few truly creative outlets for the home cook. So, instead of arranging recipes by dessert type (cookies, tarts, cakes, etc.), she has organized them by line, color, and sculpture. As a result, SprinkleBakes is at once a breathtakingly comprehensive dessert cookbook and an artist's instructional that explains brush strokes, sculpture molds, color theory, and much more. With easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful step-by-step photographs, Heather shows how anyone can make her jaw-dropping creations, from Mehndi Hand Ginger Cookies to Snow Glass Apples to her seasonal masterpiece, a Duraflame(R)-inspired Yule Log..

This holiday season why not treat your family and friends to homemade candy, with our favorite 40 Christmas candy recipes? Discover scrumptious sweet treats and naughty nibbles. Enjoy easy to make recipes for bark and brittle, toffee, hard candy, soft candy, truffles, and fudge. Candies make ideal edible gifts, are perfect to pop into party bags or simply tuck into during the holidays. Traditional favorites like Cherry Divinity and homemade Candy Canes will bring back merry memories, while Sparkling Snowball Truffles and White Chocolate Ting a Lings will help make new ones. Create all your favorite classic candies, and probably lots more you haven't even discovered yet! So, what are you waiting for candy lovers? It's time to sweeten your season!