Looking for show-stopping Christmas desserts the whole family will love? Look no further! There’s something for everyone on this list. From cakes to cookies and all sorts of sweet treats, make your shopping list and bake treats that everyone will rave about!
Nothing says the holidays quite like festive cookies, cakes, pies, and treats of all kinds. Whether you bake just one batch or several, sharing a plate of baked goodies and passing around hot chocolate is a holiday rite of passage.
Christmas Baking Is Easy
Christmas dessert recipes don’t have to be difficult! Christmas baking can be easy – you just have to have the right recipes! All the recipes in this list are tried-and-tested and made a bunch of times, so you know they’re going to turn out perfectly. Just make sure you have your ingredients on hand, and then get cooking!
Christmas Baking Pantry Essentials
If you’re heading to the grocery store and are looking to stock up on pantry essentials for all your holiday baking, there are some ingredients you should definitely have on hand!
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder – Make sure it is fresh. Baking powder can expire!
- Baking soda
- Vanilla extract – Pure or artificial
vanilla extract . - Granulated sugar
- Powdered sugar – Also called icing sugar or confectioners sugar.
- Brown sugar – Light and dark brown sugar.
- Molasses – A featured ingredient in gingerbread!
- Eggs – Most recipes call for large eggs.
Other Essentials
Now that you have your ingredients, also make sure to have the following Christmas baking essentials on hand to make every recipe easy!
- Baking sheets
- Mixing bowls
- Measuring cups and spoons
- Hand or stand mixer
- Spatulas
- Whisk
- Muffin tins
- Parchment paper
- Cooking spray
The Best Christmas Dessert Recipes
Now that you’ve got your pantry essentials and your baking supplies, it’s time to pick a recipe and get started! Here are my hand-picked tastiest and best Christmas dessert recipes!
Cranberry Bars with White Chocolate Drizzle
With a shortbread cookie-like layer on the bottom and a not-too-sweet cranberry topping, these Cranberry Bars are a fabulous make-aheadable seasonal dessert.
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Eggnog Sugar Cookies
Light, crisp, and flavored with rum and spices, these Eggnog Sugar Cookies are easy, fun to make, and taste like the holidays.
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Pecan Butter Balls Cookies
Light, nutty, and melt-in-your-mouth buttery, these amazing Pecan Butter Balls are a terrific cookie for the holiday season or any time of the year!
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Bourbon Balls with White Chocolate
Bourbon Balls with White Chocolate are a tasty boozy treat for the holidays! Easy to make and fun to share at parties, these festive boozy balls are a hit at every party!
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The Best Turtle Brownies
Dense, fudgy brownies topped with a rich caramel loaded with pecans makes these some of the best Turtle Brownies on the plant! Up your baking game and impress everyone with these brownies today!
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Eggnog Tres Leches Cake
Eggnog Tres Leches Cake is a tasty and festive cake for the holiday season. Rich but not too sweet, it's perfect with a rum cocktail or a cup of fresh coffee.
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White Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Light, crinkled, and full of white chocolate flavor, these White Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are perfect for holiday cookie exchanges, but they're also great in lunch boxes or just with a cup of coffee.
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Chocolate Gingerbread Men Cookies
Cute, delicious and fun to make, these Chocolate Gingerbread Men cookies will help you get into the holiday spirit!
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Eggnog Cookies with Spiced Rum Glaze
Crispy on the outside but soft and tender inside, these festive Eggnog Cookies with Spiced Rum Glaze are the perfect cookie for the holidays!
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Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies
Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies are just about the cutest holiday cookies ever! Delicious and fun to make, get the kids involved and make making these cookies a yearly tradition!
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Cinnamon Roll Cookies
Buttery and light, these Cinnamon Roll Cookies smell like freshly baked cinnamon rolls, but they're a crispy cookie!
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Baked Alaska
Whether you’re a baking beginner or a pro, this Baked Alaska recipe is a showstopping dessert that’s a real crowd pleaser!
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Sugar-Free Meringue Cookies
Light and fluffy and oh-so-pretty, these Sugar-Free Meringue Cookies are a real crowd pleaser!
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Easy Gluten-Free Linzer Cookies
Gluten-Free Linzer Cookies are a perfect holiday treat. Learn how to make holiday cookies from Austria here with this delicious and easy recipe! Egg-free, with a dairy-free, nut-free, vegan option.
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Browned Butter Coffee Cake with Spiced Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
There is little in this world as comforting as curling up with friends and family sharing memories and laughter together. Every cookie tray passes by with warm chocolate chips melting and staining your fingers
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Mini Rum Cake – a Holiday Dessert
Mini rum cake is a delicious dessert for a special occasion. Made from a cake mix base the cakes are soaked in rum and topped with powdered sugar and cherries.
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The BEST Sticky Toffee Pudding
Sticky Toffee Pudding is a moist cake with dates and a rich, gooey toffee sauce. This easy version makes an elegant Christmas dessert.
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Easy Tiramisu Trifle
This no bake tiramisu trifle is a quick and easy take on a classic tiramisu recipe. Angel food cake is soaked with coffee and rum, topped with a creamy Mascarpone layer and whipped topping.
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Oreo Mousse Cake
The flavor combination of an Oreo mousse cake is so delicious. It has everything that makes a perfect dessert: sweet, creamy, and chocolatey.
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Eggnog Bundt Cake
Eggnog Bundt Cake is rich and moist and full of the scrumptious flavor of eggnog. It’s a fun, festive dessert for the holiday season!
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Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie
From Thanksgiving to the Kentucky Derby, this Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie serves up rich chocolate and whiskey flavors in an Oreo crust.
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Easy Vegan Cranberry Loaf Cake with Blood Orange Icing
Bake an easy vegan cake using cranberries and a blood-orange icing. So easy and so delicious. Serving it as my Thanksgiving dessert
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Matcha Tart
This festive Matcha Tart features a flaky all-butter crust filled with a silky delicious green tea custard, topped with whipped cream.
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Favorite Easy Delicious Cheesecake
Easy Delicious Cheesecake is creamy, rich & luscious! Simple to make baked cheesecake with NO water bath. Cookie crust. Get the easy recipe!
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Macadamia Nut Snowball Cookies Recipe
Snowball cookies are the epitome of Christmas and holiday cookies. This recipe for macadamia nut snowball cookies is a must have in your cookie arsenal.
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Gluten Free Chocolate Sheet Cake
No one will know this Chocolate Sheet Cake is gluten free! It’s moist, delicious and the icing has just the right amount of chocolate in it.
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4 Ingredient Candy Cane Chocolate Fudge (No Bake I Vegan)
Smooth, creamy and no tempering required. This easy chocolate fudge is solid at room temperature and topped with crushed candy canes for a festive indulgence @fitasamamabear
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Easy no bake Christmas Date Cookies
With a pillowy texture and a strong, rich chocolate flavour, these easy no-bake Christmas date cookies are the perfect little holiday snack.
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Peppermint Candy Three Layer Cake
If you’re looking for a show-stopping winter holiday cake, Peppermint Candy Three Layer Cake is the recipe to make. Layers of wonderfully delightful, tender vanilla cake is topped with light peppermint frosting. For more scrumptious recipes,
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Easy Mint Chocolate Freezer Fudge
This delightful Mint Chocolate Fudge recipe is made with nutrient dense ingredients for a flavorful and guilt-free treat. Naturally gluten-free and vegan.
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Christmas Crunch Snack Mix
Christmas Crunch Snack mix is a sweet little snack The Buttered Home has been making for years. Quaker Oats Cereal and smoky pecans candied in a sweet concoction make this snack mix hard to quit. Easily cooked in a low heat oven, this sweet treat is a Holiday favorite.
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ULTIMATE Christmas Tree Cake
Learn how to make this surprisingly easy, yet showstopper 3D Christmas tree cake, the most impressive and delicious Christmas desserts ever!
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Biscoff Cheesecake
This Biscoff Cheesecake is perfect for the holiday season. A Biscoff cookie crust and filling add gingerbread flavor to a classic cheesecake.
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Salted Peanut Butter Balls
Salted Peanut Butter Balls are a quick no bake way to enjoy your own homemade peanut butter and chocolate treat. Add that flaky sea salt for even more flavor!
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The BEST Ferrero Rocher Cake
This Ferrero Rocher cake is the ultimate celebration cake with moist chocolate sponges, silky Nutella mousseline cream, and crunchy hazelnuts.
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White Chocolate Cranberry Bundt Cake
White Chocolate Cranberry Bundt Cake has fresh cranberries, Greek yogurt, and white chocolate making it rich and luscious.
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Red Velvet Cake: Celebrate in style
Who doesn’t love red velvet cake? This rich and decadent dessert is perfect for any occasion!
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Easy White Chocolate Bark
This colorful white chocolate bark recipe with pistachio, cranberry and raspberries is an incredible holiday treat for Christmas, or a sweet treat for any day of the festive season! A perfect edible gift for Christmas, too.
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Christmas Monster Cookies
Christmas monster cookies are soft chewy cookies filled with yummy flavors and festive colors. And best of all no dough chilling needed.
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Keto Chocolate Swiss Roll Cake Recipe – Yule Log
This Low Carb Chocolate Roulade or as some can call it Keto Chocolate Swiss Roll Cake is not only Sugar-free but Grain-free, gluten-free and also scrumptiously soft, fluffy and creamy, filled with cocoa aroma. With only 2g of carbs, this perfect Keto Dessert choice
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Gluten Free Chocolate Tart
Gluten free and full of chocolate flavor this Chocolate Tart is perfect for holiday entertaining. Serve it with whipped cream and lots of pomegranate arils.
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