Christmas Dessert Recipes

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I’ve gathered the best Christmas Dessert Recipes to share with you today! Let’s fa la la la la our way in love with holiday desserts! ‘Tis the season to eat up, am I right? I’m feeling hungry already, aren’t you? Happy holidays and enjoy these little goodies (and be sure to share them with your friends!).

The best Christmas Dessert Recipes to share with you today! We love with holiday desserts! 'Tis the season to eat up, am I right?

Christmas Dessert Recipes

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1. The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are Santa’s favorite cookies on Christmas Eve! These huge bakery-style cookies are warm, soft, and thick. Best of all, they are very easy to make with easy ingredients!

These bakery-style Chocolate Chip Cookies are warm, soft, and thick.

2. Santa Hat Pretzels

The sweet and salty taste canโ€™t be beat but present them like a Santa hat and your guests will be ooohhhing and aaahhhing over them until they are gone.  Which wonโ€™t take too long so enjoy the attention while you have it.

Santa Hat Pretzels. The sweet and salty taste canโ€™t be beat but present them as a Santa hat and your guests will be ooohhhing and aaahhhing over them until they are gone. Which wonโ€™t take too long so enjoy the attention while you have it.

3. Chocolate Dipped Christmas Crackers

Salty and sweet, what is there not to love? These crackers are deliciously delicate crackers adorned with holly sprinkles.

Christmas Crackers use your favorite old fashioned saltine cracker, dipped in chocolate, and adorned with holly sprinkles!

4. Grinch Skewers

These Grinch Skewers would be so fun for a holiday get-together or an after-school treat too!

These Grinch Skewers would be so fun for a holiday get-together or an after-school treat too!ย 

5. Christmas Lights Cookies

These creative, adorable, and fun Christmas tree cookies with M&M lights are super easy to make. The combination of cocoa powder and pumpkin spice mix gives these cookies a rich, decadent, and warm flavor, perfect for the holiday season.

These creative, adorable, and fun Christmas tree cookies with M&M lights are super easy to make. The combination of cocoa powder and pumpkin spice mix gives these cookies a rich, decadent, and warm flavor, perfect for the holiday season.

6. Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookiesย are soft, rich cookies with extra creamy flavor. Loaded with chocolate chips, theyโ€™re perfectly chewy and stay soft for days.

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

7. Gingerbread Hot Chocolate

Gingerbread Hot Chocolate is Christmas in a cup! Itโ€™s like drinking a chocolate gingerbread cookie!

Gingerbread Hot Chocolate is Christmas in a cup! Itโ€™s like drinking a chocolate gingerbread cookie!

8. Strawberry Santas

These Strawberry Santas taste delicious because they have a creamy vanilla center. Vanilla and strawberries? Yes, please!

3-ingredient Strawberry Santas for Christmas! ADORABLE Christmas treat idea recipe that is delicious, so easy to make, and great for a Christmas party.

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9. Chocolate Turtles

These four-ingredient Chocolate Pecan Caramel Turtles are so simple, delicious, and at a fraction of the cost of the fancy candy shops! Great idea for holiday gift-giving as well.

These four-ingredient Chocolate Pecan Caramel Turtles are so simple, delicious, and at a fraction of the cost of the fancy candy shops!

10. Red Velvet Cookies

4 Ingredient Red Velvet Cookies! Easy to make, super soft, chewy, and perfectly delicious

4 Ingredient Red Velvet Cookies! Easy to make, super soft, chewy, and perfectly delicious.

11. White Christmas Cookies

White Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and buttery while perfectly thick and sweet. These are everything a good cookie should be.

White Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and buttery while perfectly thick and sweet. These are everything a good cookie should be.

12. Christmas Butter Cookies

Christmas Butter Cookies are the perfect Christmas cookie recipe! Butter cookies are easy to make and they’re melt-in-your-mouth delicious!

Christmas Butter Cookies are the perfect Christmas cookie recipe! Butter cookies are easy to make and they're melt-in-your-mouth delicious!

13. Snowman Eggnog

Give this comforting drink some extra personality with whipped cream, a few chocolate chips, and a dried apricot. With the kids’ help, you can make this adorable snowman.

Snowman Egg Nog - Give this comforting drink some extra personality with whipped cream, a few chocolate chips, and a dried apricot. With the kids' help, you can make this adorable snowman.

14. Holiday Ice Cream Punch

This is the perfect party drink and feels really festive. It only has 4 ingredients and itโ€™s an instant hit!

Ice Cream Punch - This is the perfect party drinkย and feels really festive. It only has 4 ingredients and itโ€™s an instant hit!

15. Christmas Tree Brownies

Cut up brownies to create a fun holiday treat. In just a few added steps, you can share these sweet Christmas tree brownies with everyone you love. Kids can even help make these extra special! Theyโ€™ll have fun decorating their own Christmas brownie with a pretzel trunk and ornaments made of sprinkles.

Cut up brownies to create a fun holiday treat. In just a few added steps, you can share these sweet Christmas tree brownies with everyone you love. Kids can even help make these extra special! Theyโ€™ll have fun decorating their own Christmas brownie with a pretzel trunk and ornaments made of sprinkles.ย 

16. Button Cookies

Little Button Cookies are fun to make and fun to eat! These sugar cookies adorned with Bakerโ€™s twine are impressive looking, yet, surprisingly easy to bake.

Button Cookies Recipe

17. Easy Homemade Toffee

It’s an unbelievably easy, no-fuss, homemade toffee recipe. So addictive you wonโ€™t want to share!

Easy Homemade Toffee

18. Snowball Cookies

Our Snowball Cookies are a Christmas favorite! They have a buttery vanilla flavor surrounded by soft and snowy powdered sugar. These melt-in-your-mouth cookies are a beautiful addition to your holiday cookie plates and dessert tables.

Our Snowball Cookies are a Christmas favorite! They have a buttery vanilla flavor surrounded by soft and snowy powdered sugar. These melt in your mouth cookies are a beautiful addition to your holiday cookie plates and dessert tables.

19. Lofthouse Christmas Cookies

Homemade Lofthouse Christmas Cookies are even better than the delicious ones you buy at the grocery store bakery. They are fun to make and decorate for the holidays! 

Homemadeย Lofthouse Christmas Cookiesย are even better than the delicious ones you buy at the grocery store bakery. They are fun to make and decorate for the holidays!ย 

20. Pretzel Christmas Trees

Christmas Trees Made with Pretzels- fast and fun Christmas treats or gift idea.

Christmas Trees Made with Pretzels- fast and fun Christmas treats or gift idea

22. Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

These chocolate chip cookie squares are soft and chewy and full of gooey chocolate made with vanilla, sugar, eggs, and butter. Whip up the cooking dough, toss the dough in a baking dish with parchment paper, and the oven does all the work.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars - These chocolate chip cookie squares are soft and chewy and full of gooey chocolate made with vanilla, sugar, eggs, and butter. Whip up the cooking dough, toss the dough in a baking dish with parchment paper, and the oven does all the work.

23. Tiramisu Mousse

Quick and easy Tiramisu Mousse is a soft and creamy chocolate dessert with hints of coffee flavor. This cake-less and cookie-less tiramisu mousse is an elevated dessert that is surprisingly simple to whip up quickly!

Quick and easy Tiramisu Mousse is a soft and creamy chocolate dessert with hints of coffee flavor. This cake-less and cookie-less tiramisu mousse is an elevated dessert that is surprisingly simple to whip up quickly!

24. Red Velvet Cookie Bars

These red velvet cookie bars have a light crunchy outside with a soft and chewy inside making them the perfect balance! They make a great treat to eat on their own or add an extra layer of depth with this cream cheese icing.

These red velvet cookie barsย have a light crunchy outside with a soft and chewy inside making them the perfect balance! They make a great treat to eat on their own or add an extra layer of depth with this cream cheese icing.ย 

25. Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies

Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies are filled with M&M’s, chocolate chips, pretzels, marshmallows, potato chips- everything but the kitchen sink!

Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies are filled with M&M's, chocolate chips, pretzels, marshmallows, potato chips- everything but the kitchen sink!

26. Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are just like the luxe Levain Bakery recipe! Candy canes in the dark and rich chocolate dough make this an extra special Christmas cookie. Every bite gives you that warming, holiday feeling!

Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are just like the luxe Levain Bakery recipe! Candy canes in the dark and rich chocolate dough make this an extra special Christmas cookie. Every bite gives you that warming, holiday feeling!ย 

27. Sugar Cookie Cocktail

This drink might become your favorite to ring in the holidays! Itโ€™s also a very fun treat to enjoy while Christmas music is playing and youโ€™re decorating the Christmas tree or making Christmas cookies!

Sugar Cookie Cocktail

28. Coffee Cake Cookies

Coffee Cake Cookiesย are soft, buttery cookies topped with a cinnamon-sugar streusel crumble and a sweet glaze.ย 

Coffee Cake Cookiesย are soft, buttery cookies topped with a cinnamon-sugar streusel crumble and a sweet glaze.ย 

29. Hot Chocolate Rice Pudding

Hot Chocolate Rice Puddingย is a rich, creamy, warm version of ordinary rice pudding. This recipe transforms traditional cold rice pudding into a delectable hot chocolate version.

Hot Chocolate Rice Pudding is a rich, creamy, warm version of ordinary rice pudding. Transform cold rice pudding into a hot chocolate version.

30. Brownie Cookies

Chocolate Brownie Cookiesย combine the rich, fudgy flavor of brownies with the soft, chewy texture of cookies.ย 

Chocolate Brownie Cookiesย combine the rich, fudgy flavor of brownies with the soft, chewy texture of cookies.

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  1. What a fantastic collection! Thank you so much for sharing my Cracked Top Ginger Cookies, White Chocolate Peppermint Pretzel Fudge, and Chocolate PB Protein Balls! That was such a wonderful surprise!! Hope you’re having a great weekend! ๐Ÿ™‚

  2. Thanks so much for including my cranberry cupcakes and mini bundt cakes! That Coca Cola Cake is so fun, stopping over to check it out now!