Let cranberries be the star of this year’s holiday entertaining! From inviting appetizers to cozy drinks, whipped butters, brunch casseroles, quick desserts and main courses, this week’s Saturday Seven shows off just what tartly sweet & vibrantly savory cranberry recipes can do to brighten up your holiday planning!
There are more to cranberries than just sauce (though my Homemade Jalapeno Cranberry Sauce does liven up any table)! Cranberries are absolutely bursting with bright, lip-smacking flavor that’s just at home in baked goods as it is in savory dishes and salads.
Let this little bright berry carry your holiday season with eye-catching numbers like Cranberry Cheddar Skillet Dip, Egg Nog Cranberry French Toast Bake, Cranberry Holiday Butter, Stuffed Pork Tenderloin and so much more. This season’s entertaining is made easy with cranberries!
7 Cranberry Recipes for Holiday Entertaining
Served straight from the skillet, all warm and melty with a little jalapeno kick, Southern Cranberry Cheddar Skillet Dip can be scooped with crackers, Melba toast, pita chips, chunks of hot bread, even pecans. A little sweet, a little salty, yet oh-so perfect for every table, this cozy dip is a gorgeously easy must-have for your next holiday gathering.
In this stuffed pork tenderloin recipe, juicy roasted tenderloin wraps around a seasonal filling of bacon, collard greens and walnuts combined with cranberries and goat cheese to create a beautiful holiday and special occasions dish that looks fancy but is so easy to make!
The lights are twinkling, and a crock pot full of Red Hot Cranberry Cider is filling the house with the wonderful holiday aromas of cinnamon and spices.  Made with cranberry, orange and apples juices and sweetened with Red Hot cinnamon candies, a piping hot cup of Red Hot Cranberry Cider is just the type of thing that holiday memories are made over year after year. Â
This is one of the most delicious Southern Cornbread Dressing Recipes for the holidays! Loaded with seasoned sausage, green & red apples and plump, tart cranberries, this dressing is moist and full of seasonal flavors. Subtly sweet and richly savory, you may never want to try another cornbread dressing recipe again!
The holidays mean lots of sweets and treats! But not every goodie has to be baked. Dark Chocolate Pretzel Bark with Cranberries is an easy way to get festive in a snap. Rich dark chocolate, salty pretzels and bright cranberries make a quick and easy candy when you need a little gift to give or sweet to serve but you don’t have a lot of time.
This easy, whipped compound butter with cranberries, cinnamon and a hint of orange is just the thing to make any holiday meal special. Perfect for scones, rolls, cornbread, pancakes and biscuits to name a few, you’ll find yourself serving this gorgeously festive, lightly sweet butter every time family and friends gather this season!
This French toast bake is packed with all the flavors of the holiday- soaked in egg nog and topped with loads of cranberries, pecans and orange zest. Wonderfully festive, beautifully indulgent, French Toast Bake with Egg Nog & Cranberry Pecan Topping is a holiday showstopper, for sure. But shhh… don’t tell anyone… it’s not hard to make at all!
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This little turkey slider is the best thing about holiday parties and leftovers! All hot and melted with piles of leftover savory turkey, tart cranberry sauce and whipped cream cheese, these little Hawaiian roll beauties are a holiday dream. Ultimate Leftover Turkey Sliders turns leftovers into melted baked goodness everyone will be asking for!
Filled to the brim with rich goat cheese, bacon, pecans, cranberries and spinach, these Stuffed Sweet Potatoes can serve as a gorgeous side dish for steaks, pork tenderloin or turkey or just be the whole meal by themselves. Don’t count these out for the holidays either! Packed with all the right flavors, they make fabulous additions to any holiday spread.
And don’t forget about thoughtful gifts! This simple simmer pot recipe makes a wonderful gift for hostesses and lovely party favors for guests from Thanksgiving to New Years. Or put together a little batch just for keeping your house festive! Cozy holiday aromas are sure to fill your home as cinnamon, oranges, cranberries rosemary, cloves and bay leaves simmer in the crock pot or on the stove.
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