Dinner Party Recipes

Find the best dinner party recipes to impress your guests while entertaining. From summer soirées to backyard birthday parties and BBQs, these appetizers, main dishes and dessert ideas make for the perfect menu.
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Caramelized White Chocolate Sablés with Sea Salt Recipe
The caramelized white chocolate sables with sea salt recipe from Zoë François’s new cookbook, Zoë Bakes Cookies, is as simple as it is decadent. With notes of dulce de leche and butter, you’ll fall for these cookies at first bite.
20 Low-Sugar Cocktails
Here are the 20 best non-sweet, low-sugar cocktail recipes to try if you're trying to cut back on sweets but you still want to enjoy happy hour. There are plenty of low-sugar, non-sugary mixed drinks for every preference, whether you like palomas or bloody Marys.
70 Big-Batch Recipes for a Crowd
Whether it's a birthday celebration, dinner party or any old weeknight, these 70 big-batch recipes and easy meals for large groups come together in no time. Many of these dinners for a crowd are make-ahead meals, or can be frozen for future busy evenings.
Ina Garten’s Baked Spinach and Zucchini Recipe
Baked spinach and zucchini are anything but a snooze-fest when Ina Garten gets her hands on them. Why? The Barefoot Contessa adds basmati rice and two different types of cheese. Genius.
Bourbon Biscoff Brownies Recipe
The bourbon Biscoff brownies from Zoë François’s new cookbook, “Zoe Bakes,” are sophisticated and simple. Read on for the boozy, Insta-worthy recipe, which includes homemade bourbon buttercream.
23 New Year’s Day Dinner Ideas
Start 2025 with 23 New Year's Day dinner recipes that are fancy enough to impress yet easy enough for lazy hosts (especially those who went to bed way past 12). Read on for a food editor's favorite New Year's day meal ideas for the occasion, including original PureWow recipes.
15 Traditional Chinese New Year Foods
I rounded up some of the most essential traditional Chinese New Year foods to celebrate the year of the snake in 2025. Here are 15 Lunar New Year foods to prepare, each dish with its own symbolic importance.
75 Easy New Year’s Eve Appetizers
Here are 75 New Year's Eve appetizers that are festive, filling, low-stress and guaranteed to soak up all that Champagne. These easy NYE appetizer ideas range from dips to baked Brie to salad, so there's something for everyone at the party.
28 Old-School Jewish Recipes
You may not make these old-school Jewish recipes *exactly* like Bubbe did, but I think you'll be pretty close. Read on for 28 tasty ideas, traditional and modern alike, that are perfect for Hanukkah, Passover and every day in between.
Rose Water & Coconut Macaroons Recipe
The rose water & coconut macaroons from Paola Velez’s new cookbook, “Bodega Bakes,” are floral, impressive and a total breeze to prepare. (Read: They only need six ingredients.) Read on for the full recipe.
Collard Greens Empanadas Recipe
The collard greens empanadas from Marisel Salazar’s new cookbook, “Latin-ish,” put a portable twist on a classic holiday side dish. Read on for the easy recipe, which stars homemade sazón and empanada dough.