Delicious Holiday Food Gift Ideas

A homemade gift is the sweetest thing. Not fancy, just straight from the heart. We cooked up three base recipes, with variations—and sprinkled with decorating tips.

Base Recipe: Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Bean Frosting
Photo: Rumulo Yanes, Recipes: Julianna Grimes and Deb Wise

Base Recipe: Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Bean Frosting

A touch of butter adds rich, luxurious flavor to the meringue, but admittedly, it also deflates it a bit. For a fluffy, snow-white cap, omit the butter as we did for the photo on left.

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