Our appetite for festive sweet treats knows no bounds. Each year in the United Kingdom, we chomp our way through around 800 million mince pies, 40 million tubs of Quality Street and spend £45 million ...

Christmas pudding may be Britain’s best-known festive dessert, but in France, the bûche de Noël — or yule log — reigns supreme, with skilled pâtissiers and home bakers creating an array of different ...

A yule log is a large log burned in the hearth as part of a traditional Yule or Christmas celebration. In the kitchen of caterer Carol Jean Fraase of Springfield, Ill., the logs come out of her oven ...

Tis the season for Christmas baking, and if you're like me, you may be considering what kind of cake to whip up for the holiday dessert table. You don't have to wow your holiday guests with your ...

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 ...

Cookies often steal the spotlight during the holidays, but plenty of other Christmas desserts deserve attention, too—like these festive Christmas cakes! After all, what better way to end a celebration ...

More than 40 years ago, my mother made her first Buche de Noel. The cake is named after the Yule Log or Christmas Log. The sweet roulade (rolled) French dessert is an impressive log shaped cake that ...

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 ...