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Home » Recipes » Holidays and Events Recipes » Christmas Recipes

Christmas Baking Collection

Published: Dec 9, 2021 by Terri Gilson · Modified: Dec 10, 2021 · As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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If you're anything like me and can't wait to get going on Christmas baking the day after Halloween, you'll love these recipes! I have put all my baking recipes for Christmas here, in one spot, for easy access and convenience. This collection of Christmas baked goods has everything from cookies to breads to desserts and more!

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If Christmas baking is your thing, then get ready to have some baking FUN with these recipes. I not only have everything you need to create an amazing baking tray or edible gifts for family and friends, I've got you covered for Christmas dessert too!

Christmas Cookies & Treats

If you're looking for cookies and Christmas treats to bake, you'll love these recipes!

📋 Christmas Pinwheel Cookie Recipe
These Pinwheel Christmas Cookies are the ultimate Christmas Cookies! With the festive red, white and green swirls, they make a great addition to your holiday baking platter, a cookie swap or an edible Christmas gift!
Check out this recipe
4 Christmas pinwheel cookies on a white plate with 3 cookies in a ribbon in the background
📋 Raspberry Jam Cookie Recipe
These simple and delicious Raspberry Jam Cookies are classic thumbprint cookies filled with raspberry preserves and baked to perfection. This recipe uses brown sugar for a depth of flavor like no other jam cookie you've ever had. The taste will transport you right back to your childhood.
Check out this recipe
raspberry jam cookies on a white plate
📋 Gingerbread Yule Log Cookie Recipe
Featured in Taste of Home's "Ultimate Cookie Swap" , this soft gingerbread cookie is a delicious combination of gingerbread, Nutella and lime (and no molasses) all rolled up in a festive Yule Log cookie! They are perfect as an edible Christmas gift and ideal for a Christmas cookie exchange!
Check out this recipe
Gingerbread Yule log cookies in a red and white Christmas cookie tin
📋 Gingerbread Lime Bars Recipe
Gingerbread and lime are a perfect pairing in these delicious gingerbread lime bars. Green sparking sugar makes these lime squares extra festive for your holiday baking tray!
Check out this recipe
lime squares with powdered sugar on a cutting board with powdered sugar and space where one has been removed
📋 Gingerbread Snowball Cookie Recipe
Also known as Mexican wedding cookies, these Easy Gingerbread Snowball Cookies are a simple light, buttery and cakey ball shaped cookie covered in powdered sugar. They are quick to prepare, making them the ultimate snowball Christmas cookie and the perfect edible gift or addition to any holiday baking tray!
Check out this recipe
Almond Snowball cookies in a blue Christmas cookie tin, with ribbon around it
📋 Red Velvet Brownie Bites Recipe
These festive and delicious Red Velvet Brownie Bites can be made from scratch or with a red velvet brownie mix. They are the perfect festive addition to your holiday baking tray!
Check out this recipe
red velvet brownie bite split in half with dish of red velvet brownie bites in the background
📋Butter Tart Thumbprint Cookies
These Butter Tart Thumbprint Cookies are filled with ooey gooey rich butter tart filling, nestled in a pecan sugar cookie. If you don't love raisins, you can easily substitute pecans in the filling. But if you love butter tarts, you will love this scrumptious cookie with an easy butter tart filling!
Check out this recipe
butter tart cookies on a piece of parchment paper (on cutting board) with 1 cookie split in half
📋 Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti- Christmas Biscotti Recipe
This festive looking Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti cookie is the ultimate Christmas Biscotti, makes a great edible gift and is perfect for sharing at a holiday cookie exchange. They are also Weight Watchers friendly!
Check out this recipe
Christmas coffee mug with piece of biscotti on top, spoon on the side and ribbon in the background
📋 Mocha Eggnog Cheesecake Bar Recipe
These Mocha Eggnog Cheesecake Bars are a delicious combination of eggnog, toffee bits, coffee and cream cheese, paired with a scrumptious Oreo cookie crust! They are the perfect addition to your holiday baking tray.
Check out this recipe
eggnog cheesecake bars on paper holders, on a white platter
📋 Whipped Shortbread Cookies Recipe
These 4 ingredient whipped shortbread cookies are made with cornstarch, melt-in-your-mouth and are quick and easy! A perfect addition to your holiday cookie tray.
Check out this recipe
4 ingredient whipped shortbread piled on a plate with red background
📋No Chill Gingerbread Cookie Recipe
These No Chill gingerbread cookies require no chilling - just roll, cut and bake! This is an easy gingerbread cookie recipe that's the ideal gingerbread man recipe for preschoolers, younger kids or when you have limited time because there is no waiting around for cookie dough to chill!
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3 gingerbread cookies (a reindeer, dancing gingerbread girl and a gingerbread man) on a white faux wooden surface
📋 Best Butter Tart Recipe
This Canadian Butter Tart is the best butter tart recipe you'll ever find because it's simple, delicious and can be made in under 20 minutes with store-bought tart shells (or homemade no fail pastry). And if you like butter tarts without raisins then there is a pecan butter tart option too! 
Check out this recipe
Canadian butter tarts on a wire cooling rack
Best gingerbread house recipe (used for the large gingerbread house in this post)
This recipe for a gingerbread house is the best because it is not only sturdy and nearly unbreakable, it's really delicious (does not contain cloves or molasses)!
Check out this recipe
Gingerbread house - condo

Christmas Baked Desserts

📋 Leftover Cranberry Sauce Coffee Cake Recipe (with Coffee Glaze)
This Cranberry Coffee Cake is made with leftover cranberry sauce, pecans, sour cream, a delicious vanilla coffee glaze and sparkly candied cranberries for the perfect show-stopping holiday dessert!
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a slice of cranberry Christmas cake on a black plate with the remainder of whole cake in the background on a black cake serving platter
📋 Gingerbread Fruit Christmas Wreath
This healthy holiday gingerbread fruit and nut edible Christmas wreath is a tasty gingerbread cookie layered with chocolate cream cheese, lots of fruit and nuts and makes a wonderful edible holiday gift! It's also Weight Watchers friendly!
Check out this recipe
gingerbread fruit wreath on a white cardboard cake platter on a brown faux wooden surface
📋Cranberry Bread Pudding Cheesecake Recipe
Have your bread pudding and cheesecake too! This Cranberry Bread Pudding Cheesecake is a union of tasty bread pudding, cranberry cheesecake, cream cheese, ricotta cheese, citrus caramel sauce, with an unexpected and welcome toffee crunch. It's a bread pudding lover's cheesecake dream!
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cranberry bread pudding cheesecake on a white plate with a fork and remainder of cheesecake in background
📋 Gingerbread Cake Blueberry Cookie Butter Filling Recipe
This gingerbread cake is the ultimate gingerbread lover's cake. Layers of spicy classic gingerbread filled with cookie butter whipped cream, lime zest and fresh berries, then topped with more fresh blueberries and gingerbread cookies make this every gingerbread fan's dream cake!
Check out this recipe
classic gingerbread cake with cookie butter filling
📋Cranberry Toffee Bread Pudding Recipe
Cranberry Toffee Bread Pudding is a decadent and easy to make holiday dessert. Made with condensed milk, dried cranberries and topped with a simple store-bought caramel sundae sauce, orange zest and a little whipped cream, it's the perfect Christmas dessert !
Check out this recipe
cranberry toffee bread pudding in a red bowl with a spoon
📋Grand Marnier Cheesecake Recipe
This baked Grand Marnier Cheesecake with Chocolate Glaze is a rich and delicious combination of milk chocolate, dark chocolate, orange and Grand Marnier liqueur on a chocolate Oreo crust.
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grand marnier cheesecake on white plate with slices of orange and mini bottle of grand marnier in the background
📋 Butter Tart Cake Recipe
This Butter Tart Cake has butter tart filling swirled into a delicious butter bundt tart cake, then smothered in a creamy brown butter maple glaze. It's a delicious butter tart in the form of a cake. The perfect dessert for your Christmas dinner!
Check out this recipe
whole butter tart cake on a white plate with gold Christmas ornaments in background

Christmas Breads, Cupcakes & Muffins

📋Blueberry Gingerbread Loaf Recipe
This award-winning Blueberry Gingerbread Loaf (with Fresh Lime Glaze)won the California Berries Winter Baking contest in 2014. Made with a blueberry muffin mix, no molasses and a fresh lime glaze, this loaf is like a warm gingerbread hug on a cold winter day!
Check out this recipe
gingerbread loaf on a cutting board with blueberries and limes in background
📋Strawberry Gingerbread Pancake Cupcakes Recipe
Healthy Cupcakes for breakfast! This breakfast gingerbread "pupcake" is a kid-friendly pancake cupcake hybrid recipe with strawberry Greek yogurt topping that is both healthy and fun!
Check out this recipe
Pancake cupcake with Greek yogurt and strawberry topping, on loosened muffin liner wrapper, with other cupcake pancakes around it
📋 Bread Machine Kolach Ukrainian Bread Recipe
This Kolach Bread is a traditional braided Ukrainian Bread made right in your bread machine! Three loaves, stacked on top of each other, are an essential part of the Ukrainian Christmas Eve Supper.
Check out this recipe
Kolach Ukrainian Christmas Bread on black platter with Ukrainian candle in the middle and Christmas decorations in the background
📋 Cranberry Cornbread Muffin Recipe
These sweet and savory Cranberry Cornbread Muffins are the perfect holiday morning muffins using up your leftover cranberry sauce! They come together quickly, but can also be made ahead and frozen for an easy and festive breakfast or brunch. They make a great on-the-go breakfast and lunchbox snack as well.
Check out this recipe
cranberry cornbread muffin split in half, with more cranberry cornbread muffins on a white plate, and a dish of cranberry sauce, in the background

Christmas Baking Snacks

📋 Holiday Chex Mix Recipe
This savory Holiday Chex mix is the best Chex Mix recipe and perfect for Christmas with festive red tortilla chips, green pistachio and dill sprinkles added to the mix. It also makes a great edible gift,  although this nuts and bolts recipe is perfect for any time of the year!
Check out this recipe
Christmas Chex Mix in a white bowl with a festive Christmas bag in the background

Food safety

  • Cook to a minimum temperature of 165 °F (74 °C)
  • Do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat
  • Wash hands after touching raw meat
  • Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
  • Never leave cooking food unattended
  • Use oils with high smoking point to avoid harmful compounds
  • Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove

See more guidelines at USDA.gov.

If you're looking for baking recipes for Christmas, I hope you enjoy this collection of Christmas baked goods!

And be sure to check out this Holiday Home Gift Guide! (affiliate link) It has all the things any baker could want for Christmas!

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