Martha and Pierluigi Mazzella share their Christmas bread traditions by baking panettone bread and Kris Kringle bread pudding. Later, Kevin Sharkey constructs an easy yet elegant Christmas wreath.
Martha travels to Stissing House in upstate New York to see how chef and restaurateur Clare de Boer does a beautiful and decadent Christmas dinner in a wood-burning oven.
Martha shows how to make bakery-style cookies using better-for-you ingredients: farro chocolate-chunk, spelt-nut crescents, whole-wheat almond-butter sandwich, and granola
Holiday Traditions (Elegant Christmas): Pearl Tree Topper, Noel Nut Ball Cookies, Duck Breasts with Pomegranate Walnut Sauce, Buche de Noel, Arranging Holiday Flowers, Christmas Table Setting
Holiday Traditions (Christmas Prep): Garlands, Fruit and Nut Refrigerator Cookies, Embossed Gift Tags and Cards, Coq au Vin, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Christmas Wreath, Installing a Garland
Holiday Traditions (Kids' Christmas): Hot Chocolate with Snowflake Marshmallows, Holiday Decorating, Stained Glass Cookie Ornaments, Christmas Puppets, Origami Water Bomb, Recycling Christmas Cards
Vintage Christmas (Fondue): Fondue, Reverse Applique Stocking, Dresden Star Ornament Company (Field Trip), Country Duck Pate, Wrapping Pate, Christmas Kissing Ball
Last-Minute Christmas: Book Gifts, Clip Art Labels, Gift Wrapping Contest Winner, Gumdrop Ornaments, Cioppino, Acme Carriage Works (Field Trip), Lemon Butter Cookies, Warm Almond Milk with Honey Drink
Christmas Eve: Seafood Shooters, Collecting Nutcrackers, Arranging Conifers, Peppered Filet of Beef, Chocolate Dacquoise, Reindeer Farm (Field Trip)
Martha updates three cookie favorites: pecan, oat, and dark chocolate chunk cookies, chewy molasses cookies, and buckwheat-espresso cookies.
Martha and her niece Sophie make Martha's favorite Christmas cookies together including Martha's mother's noel nut balls, classic sugar cookies, Viennese crescent cookies, and cookie press cookies.
Martha demonstrates how to make special occasion cookies: vanilla and chocolate shortbread swirls, embellished wreaths with sugared flowers, and cherry blossom cookies
Martha shares three renowned French cookies: papillons (elephant ears), French meringues in a rainbow of colors and flavors, and buttery Bretons
Martha makes three of her favorite Italian cookies: buccellati cookies (filled with pecans, figs, and raisins), wafer cookies (anise pizzelle), and diamond-shaped zaleti
Martha shares three delicious Dutch cookie recipes: brown sugar and cinnamon speculaas, caramel-filled stroopwafels, and buttery arnhemse meisjes
Martha shares three authentic Greek cookie recipes: walnut and honey baklava, pine and anise-flavored kourabiedes, and paximadia (with orange, sesame seeds, and ouzo)
Martha explores cookies of the Middle East: geometrically patterned maamoul with dates, festive Iranian rice cookies, and tahini cookies
Martha bakes three classic cookies of Great Britain: traditional Scottish shortbread, Welsh bakestones, and Celtic knot cookies (known for their intricate trefoil pattern)
Martha prepares three Italian cookie favorites: chestnut-filled baci di dama alle castagne, Tuscan cantucci, and hazelnut and chocolate cookies (brutti ma buoni)
Martha shares treasured Eastern European cookie recipes: a family favorite of Martha's, chrusciki, feather-light goose feet, jam-filled kolache, and spiced pryaniki