Wondering what you should make for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner for two? Here are 31 easy holiday recipes for two including main dishes, sides, and desserts. These also work great for your New Year’s Eve dinner for two.
If it’s just you and your significant other, roommate, or bestie this year, you can still have all the foods and flavors of a traditional Thanksgiving feast.
These scaled-down small-batch recipes allow you to serve up all your favorite holiday dishes, without having to cook for an army or have tons of leftovers.
This Easy Slow Cooker Turkey Breast and Gravy is juicy, tender and delicious. A boneless turkey breast is slow cooked to perfection and topped with smooth onion gravy.
This easy juicy Roast Chicken recipe is simple to prepare and full of flavor. It is a whole oven roasted chicken that is tender and juicy with a delicious crispy browned skin and only requires a few simple ingredients.
One Pan Roasted Chicken and Veggies is super easy and delicious as well. The chicken is seasoned perfectly and comes out juicy with a tasty crispy skin. Roasting vegetables in the oven brings out their sweetness and natural flavors.
This super tender, juicy, and Crispy Fried Chicken for Two is sure to be a re-peat dinner in your house. The secrets to this chicken are soaking it in buttermilk for two hours and adding bacon grease to the frying oil.
These Grilled Beer Can Cornish Hens are so flavorful and juicy! They smell and taste incredible. Just apply a sweet and savory dry rub all over the hens, prop them up on open cans of beer, and let them grill. The hens can also be roasted in the oven.
Slow Cooker Cornish Game Hens and Veggies come out tender and savory and the meat falls off the bone. The herbs and spices provide a delicious flavor combination.
This Easy Slow Cooker Beef Pot Roast dinner has incredible flavor and includes rich creamy gravy! Tender potatoes, carrots, and onions are slow cooked with juicy fall-apart roast beef and smothered in delicious brown gravy.
This homemade version of the classic green bean casserole, with fresh green beans, a rich creamy mushroom sauce from scratch, and crispy French’s Fried Onion topping is delicious, easy, and quick and cooks in just one pan.
This homemade stuffing is very easy and is a basic bread stuffing which uses a generous amount of chopped celery, onion and seasonings and can be baked alone or inside of a small turkey.
This Small Batch Cornbread is a crumbly, slightly sweet cornbread that is delicious served with a bowl of chili or topped with butter, honey or jam. This recipe makes 4 pieces of thick cornbread or about 6 muffins and is ready in just 25 minutes.
This easy Cheesy Hashbrown Casserole has thawed hash brown potatoes combined with tender crisp onions, butter, cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, and shredded sharp cheddar cheese all topped with buttery crunchy potato chips or French’s Fried Onions.
These Au Gratin Potatoes are deliciously creamy and cheesy with the added flavor of onion baked inside. This recipe serves two people cooked in individual dishes for a romantic dinner, but could also be cooked in one dish if preferred. Plan ahead as it takes 1 ½ hours to bake, but is so worth it!
This Pumpkin Pie recipe is the perfect small batch size for two people. The crust is buttery and flaky, but still crisp and the filling tastes flavorful, light and creamy with the addition of cream cheese. Add some whipped cream on top for a perfect fall or intimate Thanksgiving dessert.
Black Forest Pie is the perfect combination of rich fudgy chocolate and cherry filling, topped with a layer of cherries, and a layer of whipped cream speckled with shaved baker’s chocolate all nestled in a flaky pie crust.
Mini Snickers Cheesecake is super decadent and rich with a vanilla no-bake cheesecake center topped with drizzled chocolate, salted caramel sauce, and peanuts all nestled in a baked chocolate cocoa crust.
Best Homemade Apple Pie, with an easy, no-fail, buttery, flaky homemade pie crust and filled with two types of apples and the perfect mix of spices. This recipe serves 2 and makes one 6 inch apple pie.
These Small Batch Sugar Cookies are soft with thick centers and a hint of almond flavoring. Top them with this easy homemade icing and sprinkles of choice.
These Fudgy Brownies are easy gooey chocolate brownies with cocoa powder that are extra fudgy and best served with a cold glass of milk and a scoop of vanilla ice cream! This small batch recipe makes 4–6 brownies.
These Individual Pineapple Upside-down Cakes are awesome!!! Moist fluffy yellow cakes are topped with pineapple rings, maraschino cherries, and the gooey sweet brown sugar and butter topping creates a crispy satisfying flavor and texture sensation.
This delicious Pumpkin Roll Cake combines a soft pumpkin spice cake roll with sweet fluffy cream cheese filling topped with a sprinkle of powdered sugar.
This Salted Caramel Apple Crisp has tart baking apples coated in sugar, spices, and salted caramel then topped with a crumbly crispy oatmeal topping baked in individual oven safe dishes.
Mint Chocolate No-bake cookies have dark chocolate and sweetened coconut no-bake cookies topped with creamy green mint frosting, smooth chocolate ganache, and garnished with sweetened coconut flakes.
These Soft Batch Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are super soft, thick, chewy, and loaded with oats, plump raisins, and cinnamon. These cookies are easy to make, so delicious, and ready in just 45 minutes! This is a small batch cookie recipe and makes about 8 cookies. They are perfect as an after dinner dessert or while snuggled up with your honey in front of a movie.
Hi and welcome. I’m Zona and I have a passion for recipes. I share recipes, tips, tricks, and resources to help you cook for two. Eat, drink, and enjoy!
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I need to know how to make "crunchy" chocolate chip cookies. I have tried but I just can't do it.
Thank you,
Charlene
Zona
Monday 4th of October 2021
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Charlene
Monday 4th of October 2021
I just love this site. I have a request please! I need to know how to make "crunchy" chocolate chip cookies. I have tried but I just can't do it. Thank you, Charlene
Zona
Monday 4th of October 2021
Hi Charlene, I'm glad you are enjoying my recipes. I don't have a crunchy cookie developed at this time but I found this one that has great reviews. If you want to cut the ingredients in half it looks like you could easily do that. To cut an egg in half, just use the egg white and leave the yolk out. The yolk leads to a more chewy cookie instead of crunchy. Copy and paste this link into your browser and let me know how it goes for you :) https://happyhappynester.com/the-best-crunchy-crispy-chocolate-chip-cookie/