These soft, gently spiced cookies that pack a bit of heat at the end, are best shared with friends, especially the ones who appreciate a little heat and a whole lot of cheek. Kat Lieu’s recipe will bring a smile to anyone’s face this holiday season!

Make delicious mini mock apple pies with a genius Ritz-cracker “apple” filling—no apples needed. Inspired by a vintage Great Depression recipe and made not-too-sweet, this quick 30-minute dessert tastes just like McDonald’s apple pie. Perfect for potlucks and holiday baking.

Thai sticky rice or Kow Neuw ข้าวเหนียว with mango is one of my favorite desserts. It’s gluten-free and usually vegan (I added condensed milk here, you can skip it or add vegan condensed milk, agave syrup, or maple syrup instead) and so refreshing, perfect as a warmed dessert in the winter time, and even better when chilled and enjoyed in the summer. Here’s a super easy recipe for you and you’ll be making Thai sticky rice in no time at home!

Let’s make a delicious and moist lemon loaf, except with yuzu and miso, to give Starbucks’ famous iced lemon loaf recipe a fun Asian spin! Bake this at home today with Kat Lieu’s amazing “copycat recipe.”

Let’s make Chinese peanut cookies for Lunar New Year, and cheat a little by using peanut butter with an amazing and easy recipe by Kat Lieu!

These bright purple cookies come to us from Kat Lieu’s book Modern Asian Baking at Home. The cookies get their distinctive color and aroma from the Filipino purple yam ube (specifically, in the form of ube extract and ube halaya, a sweet jam). The ube gives the cookie dough a fruity, coconutty flavor with notes of vanilla, and the chewy, stretchy mochi centers hiding beneath the surface take these treats to the next level.

This holiday season, or for any occasion, you’ll want to make these delicious matcha spritz cookies. They’re more cakey than crispy and may remind you of the buttery cookies you’d find in Japan, especially since they’re made with matcha and miso. Decorate them as you please, and be sure to share the cookies with friends and loved ones! Note you’ll need a piping bag and a star tip to pipe cookie wreaths. You can, of course, also pipe them out as Christmas trees. This recipe is excerpted from Modern Asian Baking at Home by Kat Lieu

Here’s a fun holiday recipe for you, Subway’s Footlong cookie but make it Asian with Kat Lieu

Swiss roll cakes from Chinese bakeries are soft and light as air, not too sweet, and perfect for my taste buds. The cake is airy chiffon that melts in your mouth, as does the fresh cream within. I love matcha anything, so we’ll be making a matcha sponge cake.

Let’s make a beautiful matcha chiffon cake for the holidays, topped with fluffy black sesame cream.

Let’s make a beautiful Matcha Milk Bread Christmas Tree that requires little kneading and no yudane or tangzhong. This is a super fun bread recipe for the holidays, especially with kids!

Let’s make the viral recipe Japanese Sweet Cream Cheese Buns for the holidays!

Let’s make a cute pandan bubble bread holiday tree! This is a no-knead bread recipe for pandan chigiri pan or chopped bread.

Let’s make triple chocolate black cocoa cookies for all our family and friends!

Let’s make delicious and addictive Pavé Milk Bread, savory or sweet, the choice is yours!

Let’s make Holiday Pavé Brownies with a recipe by Kat Lieu

Let’s make decadent sweet and savory garlic buns with milk bread dough. These buns are inspired by the viral Korean Garlick buns.

Let’s make thick red velvet cookies to celebrate any occasion, and not just for the holidays!

Let’s make pumpkin spice butter mochi with this quick and simple recipe by Van Fulton!

Let’s make a delicious ugly-beautiful miso pumpkin pie, fam!