Written by Susan Reid, Mary Tinkham, Allison Furbish, PJ Hamel and Robyn Sargent. This is our biggest issue ever, with 4 extra pages, packed with ideas for holiday baking and entertaining:

Breakfast: Do-ahead Eggs
Cakes: NY Cheesecake, Peppermint Cream cake
Candy: Buttercrunch, Christmas Delight, Choco-Mallow
Cookies: Candy Cane Cookies, Bourbon Balls, Cinnamon Snowdrits, Gigi’s “K” Cookies, Grandma’s Butter Cookies, Hermit Bars, Spiced Honey (Basler Laeckerli)
Desserts: Loukoumades
Pies and Pastry: Self-Crust Pumpkin Pie, Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese Tart
Savory Side Dishes: Cheese Latkes with Roasted Apples, Garlic and Rosemary Latkes, Olive Penguins
Quickbreads: Date Nut Bread, Scones
Bread machine: Olive-Filled Holiday Rolls
Yeast Breads: Hefenkranz (Yeast Wreath), 60-Minute Snowflake Rolls

Color, 8" x 10 1/2", 28 pages