Frozen Christmas Pudding

Combine classic Christmas pudding flavours with ice cream, et voila; an updated, simple-to-prepare dessert. The best part? You can make it up to five days ahead. If you prefer, serve it with Orange Grand Marnier Sauce.

Holiday Fruit Salad

Ginger syrup and toasted coconut accent this refreshing fruit combo. Feel free to vary the fruit to suit your brunch crowd.

Slow Cooker Aloha Short Ribs

Reducing the sauce at the end of the cooking is an essential step to achieveing sweet-and-sour short rib nirvana. Serve over white rice and with a drizzle of sriracha if you can stand a little heat. For best results, look for thick, meaty short ribs.

Sweet-and-Sour Fish

Fruitcake Bars

To soak dried fruit in rum quickly, microwave with rum on medium-high for 1 to 2 minutes or until hot. Let cool until room temperature, 1 hour. 

Carrot Cake for a Crowd

We bulked up our favourite recipe to fill a 20-cup (5 L) metal cake pan, such as a 14- x 14- x 2-inch (35 x 35 x 5 cm) square or 15- x 11- x 2-inch (38 x 28 x 5 cm) rectangle. You can rent these from some cake-decorating stores, or buy one online at goldaskitchen.com. Or use two 13- x 9- x 2-inch (3.5 L) pans.

April Fool's Day recipe: French Fry Cookies

Since this recipe makes plenty of classic sugar cookies, you'll have enough to fill the cookie jar, too.

Dark Christmas Cake

For a nostalgic holiday throwback, add this boozy fruitcake to your must-bake list. It’s a super make-ahead dessert.

Rich Brandied Fruitcake

Preparation for fruitcake is now a lot faster given today's quality diced candied peel and seeded raisins. Thank goodness the flavour is still as good as it was in my mother's day.

Fruitcake Biscotti

We've taken the best of everything that fruitcake has to offer and captured it in our favourite biscotti. This modern and festive treat is delicious with a cup of coffee or tea after dinner.?