Cranberry

These pinwheel-style swirls pair classic sugar cookie dough with cranberry and red wine jam. They’re equally at home on a cheese plate and served as dessert.

These tender turkey meatballs swimming in gravy are ready to be served up with mashed potatoes and sweet-tart cranberry jam.

With tender buttermilk cake layers, a cranberry jam so good you’ll want it on toast, and a silky white chocolate frosting, this is a cake that’s equal parts impressive and achievable.

This classic apple tarte Tatin gets its tart-sweet flavor and crimson hue from a handful of fresh or frozen cranberries.

Whether spooned over cheese, layered in a sandwich, or blended into a smoothie, this flavorful sauce is a guaranteed hit any time of the year.

Save your fussing for the pie. 

This recipe makes a bright condiment for your Thanksgiving or Christmas table, but it's also a delicious, zesty topping for a breakfast of steel-cut oats.

A sleeper hit from Bon Appetit’s 1974 Thanksgiving menu, this country mince pie recipe is deeply fruity and loaded with warm spices.

This rum punch is very simple to throw together, but cranberry-studded ice makes it feel deceptively fancy, doubling as a festive garnish and temperature control.

Tart cranberries meet their match in bright ginger and fruity golden raisins for a no-fuss sauce that comes together in minutes.

Your Thanksgiving spread doesn’t just need a salad—it needs THIS salad with a bright, tart-sweet cranberry dressing.

Hibiscus is used in drinks throughout the African diaspora but most notably in Jamaica. Inspired by sorrel—a festive Caribbean punch—this sauce is sweet, tangy, earthy, and the perfect complement to the peppery profile of Jamaican jerk. Rum, allspice, and fresh ginger add a level of warmth and richness of flavor that is the signature of Caribbean cuisine. Serve with Jerk Turkey Sheperd’s Pie. 

Tart and sweet individual cranberry pies from Amanda Mack of Crust by Mack in Baltimore.

Cranberry mostarda isn’t as sweet as cranberry sauce, it’s got some fire from mustard seeds—and you’ll want it on allll the roasted vegetables this winter.

From homemade cranberry sauce to baked oatmeal, check out our favorite ways to rethink the favorite berry of the fall.

We have a thing for canned cranberry sauce, so we dreamed up a sauce as sliceable and jiggly and fun, with deep fruit flavor and a pretty topping.

This baked oatmeal is the make-ahead breakfast your holiday plans need.

A case for a trifecta of different cranberry options on the Thanksgiving table.

Figs bathed in butter and sugar bring a sweet, tawny balance to tangy cranberries.

Jalapeño and lime give this year's cranberry sauce the zesty-spicy kick it deserves.

Inside two layers of buttery, crumbly walnut crust hides a tart cranberry filling.

You could also use dried tart cherries or whole dried figs in place of the cranberries.

With just a hint of sweetness, this bright, bracing uncooked relish is an antidote to all the saccharine jellylike cranberry sauces out there (unless you’re into that sort of thing).

Our readers can't stop making this festive cranberry pie.