When the holidays roll around, we start seeing cute little gingerbread men, long sheets of peppermint bark, and rolled, cream-filled cakes. But it doesn't have to be Christmas-time to enjoy the latter ...

Every year, once December rolls around, I find myself searching through lots of fun Christmas cookie recipes — from traditional snowball cookies to peanut butter blossoms and beyond. After thinking a ...

A bûche de Noël (the classic yule log cake) represents the pinnacle of Christmas baking excellence: a beautiful centerpiece for your holiday spread that not only tastes awesome, but shows you put some ...

Buche de noel, also known as a yule log, is a traditional Christmas dessert in France, often served on Christmas Eve or after Christmas Day dinner. It's a roulade, or rolled cake, filled and iced with ...

The traditional yule log, or bûche de Noël, is a chocolate Swiss roll cake. It’s delicious, but making a Swiss roll isn’t easy and, if you’ve ever watched a holiday baking challenge, you’ve probably ...

Along with traditional American holiday foods, many of us bring a taste of ethnicity to the table as well. Whether it’s potato latkes and jelly donuts for Hanukkah, Italian seafood lasagna on ...

The original yule log was a block-like log burned on the Christmas hearth through the twelve days of Christmas. Each year, a hunk was saved to light the following year’s log. It is the origin of the ...