31 Easy Holiday Recipes for Two

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.

Holiday Main Dishes for Two

1

Easy Slow Cooker Turkey Breast and Gravy

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.

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2

Easy Juicy Roast Chicken

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.

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3

One Pan Roasted Chicken and Veggies

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.

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4

Crispy Fried Chicken

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.

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5

Grilled Beer Can Cornish Hens

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.

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6

Slow Cooker Cornish Game Hens and Veggies

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.

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7

Roasted Cornish Hen with Vegetables

This Roasted Cornish Hen with Vegetables dish is super easy and delicious. It’s an entire meal cooked in just one cast iron skillet.

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8

Easy Slow Cooker Beef Pot Roast Dinner

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.

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Holiday Side Dishes for Two

9

Homemade Creamy Green Bean Casserole

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.

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10

Homemade Stuffing

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.

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11

Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls

Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls smell and taste amazing! This small batch of buttery rolls bakes up soft and tender.

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12

Cornbread

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.

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13

Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecans and Marshmallows

This classic sweet potato casserole with pecans and marshmallows is light, fluffy, and has just the right amount of sweetness.

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14

Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallow Pecan Streusel

These Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are filled with a delicious marshmallow, brown sugar, butter and pecan streusel topping.

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15

Cheesy Hashbrown Casserole

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.

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16

Creamy Au Gratin Potatoes

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!

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Holiday Desserts for Two

17

Pumpkin Pie and Homemade Crust

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.

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18

Best Pecan Pie

This classic Southern Pecan Pie is an incredibly delicious pie made with pecans that are baked in a syrupy filling and a flaky buttery crust.

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19

Best Black Forest Pie

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.

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20

Mini Snickers Cheesecake

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.

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21

Best Homemade Apple Pie Recipe

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.

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22

Small Batch Sugar Cookies

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.

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23

Easy Individual Peach Cobbler

This easy individual Peach Cobbler is delicious and is ready in just one hour with just a few minutes of prep.

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24

Extra Fudgy Brownies

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.

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25

Individual Pineapple Upside-down Cakes

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.

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26

Pumpkin Roll Cake

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.

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27

Salted Caramel Apple Crisp

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.

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28

Best Soft Batch Cookies – Small Batch

These are the best Soft Batch Cookies. This recipe makes a small batch of 6 soft and chewy cookies.

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29

Mint Chocolate No-bake Cookies

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.

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30

Soft Batch Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

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.

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31

Soft Gingerbread Molasses Cookies

These Soft Gingerbread Cookies combine ginger, molasses, cinnamon and sugar to form the perfect soft batch cookie. They are ready in just 20 minutes.

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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!