We’ve compiled some of our favorite holiday recipes to help see you through. Don’t miss our roundup of main courses and starters and sides, and keep an eye out for an upcoming feature with some ideas for what to do with all those leftovers.
Pint Size Bakery & Coffee’s fig and ricotta hand pies are ideal to prevent the spread of germs over a communal dessert. Cookies are another great way to avoid sharing, and these pumpkin spice sandwich cookies are reminiscent of macarons. Or sneak some veggies into dessert with vegan chocolate-zucchini cookies.
If you’re OK with a shared dessert (designate one clean-handed person to cut and serve), this Southern 7UP cake from La Patisserie Chouquette’s Simon Faure is a New Orleans favorite. You can trick your family into thinking you’ve been laboring in the kitchen all day with quick caramel cake from Gourmet Soul’s Lavinia McCoy. Or add a salty counterpart to your sweets with Sucrose Bakery’s salted caramel tart.
No Thanksgiving is complete without pie, and the coconut pie from chef Candice Poss is a true show-stopper. Or keep things traditional yet progressive with a vegan pumpkin pie.
This article appears in November 2020.