Table of Contents
1 Morning Breads and Pastries
Classic Cinnamon Rolls 25
Nutella Star Bread 37
Morning Buns 40
Cranberries and Cream Danish 47
Pear-Almond Danish Braid 50
Coffee-Cardamom Monkey Bread 54
Powdered Sugar Donuts 59
Streusel Coffee Cake 63
Panettone Scones 67
Cheater's Croissant Dough 70
Easy Danish Dough 74
Sweet Dough 76
2 Holiday Desserts
White Cake with Cranberries and White Chocolate Buttercream 80
Carrot Cake with Burnt Honey Buttercream 84
Triple Chocolate Mousse Cake 89
Hazelnut Cheesecake 93
Apple, Caramel, and Hard Cider Pie 96
Crème Brûlée Pumpkin Pie 99
Chocolate Mint Ice Cream Pie 103
Bittersweet Chocolate Tart with Irish Cream 106
Frozen Bonbons 109
Shortbread Crust 111
Pie Dough 112
3 Gift Giving
Caramel Candies 116
Peanut Butter Cups 121
Triple Chocolate Peppermint Bark 123
Red Veivet Crinkle Cookies 127
Turtle Bars 129
Chocolate Gift Cakes 132
Modern Fruit Cakes 135
Florentines 138
Vanilla Bean Sables 143
Cut-Out Cookies 145
4 Beyond Christmas
Everything Bundt Cake 151
Lemon Pull-Apart Bread 154
Blood Orange Turnovers 160
Passion Fruit-Poppy Seed Muffins 163
Meyer Lemon-White Chocolate Scones 165
Blueberry Streusel Buns 169
Coconut-Cardamom Cupcakes 171
Cruffins 174
Hot Chocolate Cake 178
Confetti Cake 183
Rough Puff Pastry 186
5 Extras
Caramel Shards 191
Marshmallows 192
Caramel 195
No-Churn Ice Cream 196
Pastry Cream 199
Candied Citrus Peels 201
Cranberry Jam 202
Streusel 203
Whipped Cream 204
Crème Fraîche 205
Candied Nuts 207
Lemon Curd 208
Marshmallow Fluff 210
Closing Out the Year 212
Music to Bake To 215
Conversions 216
Bibliography 217
Resources 218
Acknowledgments 219
Index 220