When it comes to Christmas baking, it’s all about warm spices, festive colors, rich flavors, and (it may sound cheesy) a lot of love! Here are some delicious sweet treats that truly are merry and bright!
Christmas Tree Shortbread Sticks
These beautiful little edible Christmas trees are the perfect festive snack or cake topper! Christmas tree shortbread sticks feature a super quick and easy shortbread cookie dough that bakes up into crisp, melt-in-your-mouth perfections. Use candy melts or chocolate (or both!) to drizzle little Christmas tree branches on top of each one and enjoy as is or as decoration for other desserts.
White Christmas Cake
Cranberry white Christmas cake is a stunning Christmas dessert! Featuring soft and tender white cake sandwiching layers upon layers of cranberry filling and ermine frosting. It’s such a beautiful and delicious way to finish off a holiday meal!
Best Fudgy Brownies
Ditch the boxed brownie mix and try these homemade chocolaty brownies! These brownies have a crackly top with a dense and fudgy center. Upgrade the look by cutting them into triangles and topping with colorful buttercream frosting to make Christmas trees and Santa hats!
Christmas Cake Pops
Add some festive cheer to cake pops with these 3 fun Christmas decoration ideas! These Christmas cake pops can be made into one, two, or all three of the following designs: cake pop Christmas trees, melting snowmen, and/or Santa hats. The cake batter is super easy to whip up from scratch and has warm and toasty brown sugar and cinnamon flavor for the ultimate treat!
Chewy Gingerbread Sprinkle Cookies
These chewy gingerbread sprinkle cookies are seriously SO CHEWY and soft and come together super quickly. They have all the delicious warm and toasty flavor of classic gingerbread cookies, but they’re much easier to make and decorate!
Cranberry Apple Mocktail
This bright and flavorful mocktail makes for a beautiful holiday drink. Learn how to make this incredibly easy non-alcoholic drink that anyone can enjoy! All you need are 3 ingredients – and NO ADDED SUGAR!
Candy Cane Cookies
Make these fun and festive candy cane shaped cookies this holiday season. These buttery treats taste like a mixture between Danish cookies and shortbread, with the same melt-in-your-mouth goodness that we know and love!
Mini Cranberry Mousse Cakes
These cute little no bake mini cranberry mousse cakes are a mix between classic mousse cake and cheesecake. With a deliciously rich and tangy cheesecake mousse filling, swirled with tart cranberry sauce and sitting on top of a crispy graham cracker crust, it’s as delicious as it is beautiful!
Giant Sugar Cookie Cake
Everything we know and love about sugar cookies, but ready in a flash! This giant sugar cookie cake is soft and chewy but with a hint of cakey lift. It’s the perfect Christmas dessert, but can also be customized for any celebration year round!
Sugar Cookie Cheesecake
A classic Christmas cookie in cheesecake form! This sugar cookie cheesecake does NOT skimp on cookie dough goodness. It has a plain sugar cookie dough crust, topped with silky cream cheese filling that’s studded with more sugar cookie dough, and is all topped off with a sugar cookie dough frosting. It’s the ultimate Christmas cookie lover’s dessert!
Melting Snowman Cookies
These adorable melting snowman cookies are such a fun and festive cookie to make for Christmas! The sugar cookie dough has that authentic chewy texture, but ready in less than half the time. No need to chill the dough in the fridge or freezer at all – just whip up the dough and they’re ready to cut & bake!
Brown Butter Cinnamon Rolls
Upgrade traditional cinnamon rolls with toasty brown butter flavor! These warm and gooey brown butter cinnamon rolls have the same look and feel as the classic roll but with brown butter in every component. They’re soft and fluffy with gooey and sweet filling and perfectly melty and sticky cream cheese icing.
Gingerbread Cookie Bars
These gingerbread cookie bars are deliciously chewy and spicy with just the right amount of crispness on the edges. These bars pack all the warm and cozy flavor of classic gingerbread cookies – but ready in less than half the time and much easier to make!
Chocolate Mousse Cake
This rich and decadent chocolate mousse cake is as delicious as it is impressive. The cake is so SO soft and moist (even after sitting in the fridge!) and is adapted from this reader favorite chocolate cake recipe. The mousse is made without raw eggs and without gelatin – but still sets up to a perfectly sliceable and airy texture!
Caramel Gingerbread Cake with Whipped Caramel Icing
This impressive cake is actually a lot easier to make than it looks! Caramel gingerbread cake with whipped caramel icing is everything we know and love about the classic Christmas cookie in cake form. With a lazy version of easy homemade caramel sauce, this cake and icing have a light and sweet flavor that is unbelievably delicious and not something you taste everyday!
Chubby Gingerbread Man Cookies
These chubby gingerbread men are the perfect alternative to make fun and festive cookies without a cookie cutter! The dough is a very easy to make, eggless gingerbread cookie that’s then used to make little blobs for the gingerbread men. They look so dang cute and are a unique little twist to add to your gingerbread baking!
Chai Spiced Snowflake Cookies
These buttery, melt in your mouth chai spiced snowflake cookies are super fun and festive! This recipe features a very low spread chai spiced sugar cookie dough that you can use to cut out any shapes you like. They’re also super easy to decorate – using a simple glaze for dipping the cookies in and topped off with some sprinkles and chai sugar.
Stacked Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
These fun and colorful stacked Christmas cookies are deliciously soft and chewy, with crispy bites of sprinkles! Each cookie features a base sprinkle cookie topped off with a plain cookie to make decorating a breeze.
Red Velvet Cupcake Cookies
A cross between chewy cookies and tender cupcakes, these frosted red velvet cupcake cookies are the best of both worlds! The tender and airy cookie centers dome up like a cupcake top but still pack that classic chewy cookie texture. It’s all topped off with a swirl of silky and rich cream cheese frosting and a few cookie crumbs.
Caramel Cheesecake
Caramel cheesecake is the BEST cheesecake! With caramel sauce in the batter, swirled in the center, and drizzled on top, this cake is full of rich, creamy and velvety goodness in every bite!
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