11 Christmas Recipes For A Crowd, For When The Whole Family’s In Town For The Holidays

Did someone say fresh garlic bread? Grab a premade pizza dough from your local grocery store to simplify the process, a la this recipe from Damn Delicious, and then watch your family members flock to the kitchen as the smell of baking bread and garlic waft through the house.

Salads are a great dish to feed a crowd because you can size it up as much as you need to, as long as you have a big enough serving bowl. This one from Averie Cooks is delicious as an appetizer or part of a larger winter spread. It’s got apples, pears, walnuts, pomegranate, and feta, all doused in an easy sweet balsamic vinaigrette.

You just recovered from brining and roasting an entire turkey a few weeks ago, so we need not go there again. Damn Delicious’ recipe for sheet pan chicken thighs and stuffing will give you all that herby, wonderful seasonal flavor with way less work involved.

Averie Cooks’ mashed potato recipe involves caramelized onions and plenty of cheese — hell to the yeah. If you want to simplify it, though, just skip the onions and follow the instructions for getting perfectly tender, mashable potatoes in your slow cooker. She’ll tell you exactly how much broth, half-and-half, and sour cream to add to get the perfect texture.

Seven ingredients (most of which are pantry staples you for sure already have) and 15 minutes of prep — that’s all you need to make Foodie Crush’s candied sweet potatoes.

You could definitely order a honey-baked ham and be done with it, but if you’re game to make your own, Damn Delicious’ version is surprisingly simple. The 8-pound ham yields about 12 servings, for reference, which you could scale up or down depending on your crowd.

Some dishes from Thanksgiving do deserve a comeback tour, and that includes green bean casserole. Family Fresh Meals’ version comes together in the slow cooker with nearly zero effort on your part and without so much as even taking up space in the oven. It’s a Christmas miracle.

You need carbs for an army, you say? Princess Pinky Girl’s slow cooker macaroni and cheese is the easiest and the cheesiest on the internet.

If you need to make a side dish for a crowd, a massive sheet pan or two of roasted veggies will always get the job done. You could choose broccoli, Brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes, or, in the case of this recipe from Budget Bytes, butternut squash.

Want to whip up one or two easy desserts that’ll feed a crowd? Simply LaKita’s no-bake eggnog cheesecake recipe is just a matter of measuring and mixing, and letting the cheesecakes set in the fridge for a few hours before serving. You will catch your relatives sneaking bites at midnight in their Christmas jammies.

You no longer have the energy to make another thing. That’s OK. Family Fresh Meals’ Little Debbie Christmas tree cake dip requires but a whisper of effort. You just need to food-process or mash everything together and stick it in the fridge to set for an hour, and I promise, the people will lose their minds over this stuff.