If you're anything like me and can't wait to get going on Christmas baking the day after Halloween, it's that time of year and you'll love these recipes! I have put all my family's favorite Christmas baking recipes here, in one spot, for easy access and convenience. This collection of Christmas baked goods has everything from cookies to breads to layer cakes, squares, pie and more! So, if you're looking for Christmas baking platter ideas, recipes for you next Christmas party, or Christmas dessert recipes, you'll find them here~
If Christmas baking is your thing, then get ready to have some baking FUN during the holiday season 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! As far as I'm concerned, these are the best Christmas baking recipes!
Christmas Cookies & Treats
If you're looking for cookies and Christmas treats to bake, you'll love these recipes!
📋 Christmas Pinwheel Cookie Recipe
This Pinwheel Christmas Cookie recipe is the ultimate Christmas Cookie! With the festive red, white and green swirls and a unique almond flavor, these Christmas Pinwheel cookies make a great addition to your holiday baking platter, a cookie swap or an edible Christmas gift!
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📋 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.
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📋 Gingerbread Yule Log Cookies 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!
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📋Chocoholic Chocolate Squares Recipe
These irresistible chocolate squares are every chocolate lover's dream! They are like a super chocolate elevated brownie that's ideal for your holiday baking tray or for bringing along to a gathering. Made with simple pantry ingredients, they are also quick and easy to make!
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📋 Gingerbread Lime Squares Recipe
Gingerbread and lime are a perfect pairing in these delicious gingerbread lime squares. Green sprinkles make these Christmas squares extra festive for your holiday baking tray!
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📋 Gingerbread Snowball Cookies Recipe
Also known as Mexican wedding cookies or Russian Tea cakes, 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!
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Date Slice Recipe (Matrimonial Cake)
This Date Slice recipe, also known as matrimonial cake and date square, is a Canadian classic! A delicious, creamy and not to sweet date filling is nestled between an oatmeal crumble base and topping.
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📋 Red Velvet Christmas Brownie Balls Recipe
These festive and delicious Red Velvet Christmas Brownie Balls can be made from scratch or with a red velvet brownie mix. They are the perfect festive addition to your holiday baking tray!
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📋 Thumbprint Butter Tart 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!
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📋 Terry’s Chocolate Orange Cookies recipe
These Terry's Chocolate Orange Cookies are made with both dark and original Terry’s chocolate oranges, so they are double the chocolate. Shaped like a chocolate orange wedge, they are the ideal holiday cookies for the chocolate orange lover!
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📋 Christmas Biscotti Recipe (with cranberry and pistachio)
This festive looking Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti cookie is the ultimate Christmas Biscotti recipe, makes a great easy edible gift and is perfect for sharing at a holiday cookie exchange. They are also Weight Watchers friendly!
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📋 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.
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📋 Whipped Shortbread Cookies (with cornstarch) recipe
These 4 ingredient whipped shortbread cookies are made with cornstarch, melt-in-your-mouth and are quick and easy! These Christmas cookies are a perfect holiday cookie and addition to your holiday cookie tray.
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📋 White Chocolate Raspberry Jam Cookies Recipe
These White Chocolate Raspberry Jam Cookies are a delectable union of white chocolate and raspberry jam, drizzled with more white chocolate. They are easy to make and are ideal for your holiday baking platter!
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📋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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📋 Best Butter Tart Recipe
This Canadian Butter Tart is the best butter tart recipe you'll ever find because it's and easy butter tart with a delicious gooey filling. It has an easy filling that 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!
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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)!
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Christmas Baked Desserts
📋 Cranberry Sauce Coffee Cake (with leftover cranberry sauce) Recipe
This Cranberry Sauce 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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📋 Black Forest Yule Log Cake recipe
This Black Forest Yule Log Cake (bûche de noël) has a classic black forest filling of cherries and whipped cream, all wrapped up in a chocolate swiss roll cake , and smothered in a creamy, rich chocolate ganache.
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📋 Gingerbread Christmas Fruit Wreath
This healthy holiday gingerbread fruit and nut edible Christmas fruit wreath is a tasty gingerbread cookie layered with chocolate cream cheese, lots of fresh fruit and nuts and makes a wonderful edible holiday gift! It's also Weight Watchers friendly!
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📋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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📋 Blueberry Gingerbread Cake (with Cookie Butter Filling) Recipe
This blueberry gingerbread cake is the ultimate gingerbread lover's cake and the ideal Christmas 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
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📋Cranberry Toffee Christmas Bread Pudding Recipe
This Christmas Bread Pudding is a decadent and easy to make holiday dessert. Made with condensed milk, dried cranberries, toffee bits and topped with a simple store-bought caramel sundae sauce, orange zest and a little whipped cream, it's the perfect Christmas dessert !
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📋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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📋Maple Bourbon Pecan Pie Recipe
This Maple Bourbon Pecan Pie has a rich and creamy maple pecan pie filling topped with a delicious hint of Bourbon whipped cream! It's the perfect dessert for your holiday meal!
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📋 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!
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📋 Easy Sweet Potato Pie with Marshmallows
This easy Sweet Potato Pie with Marshmallows involves no peeling, cooking, chopping or pureeing of sweet potatoes because it uses baby food instead or canned sweet potatoes/canned yams! The Marshmallow Whipped Cream is the crowning glory on this delicious Thanksgiving dessert.
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📋 Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie Recipe
This old fashioned chocolate pie is a classic dessert, ideal for chocolate lovers and perfect for holidays and special occasions. Featuring a rich and creamy chocolate pudding filling, it pairs perfectly a flaky pie crust and a generous whipped cream topping, which adds a light and fluffy texture to balance out the richness of the chocolate. Made with simple pantry ingredients and minimal effort, it's a quick and easy dessert to whip up.
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Christmas Breads, Cupcakes & Muffins
📋 Butter tart Cupcakes recipe
These Butter Tart Cupcakes taste like butter tarts in cupcake form. Decadent cupcakes with a gooey butter tart filling, topped with Maple Brown Butter Whipped Cream Frosting, more raisins and a slice of butter tart, these cupcakes are ideal for your Christmas or Canada celebrations!
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📋Blueberry Gingerbread Loaf Recipe
This award-winning Blueberry Gingerbread Loaf (with Fresh Lime Glaze)won the California Berries Winter Baking contest. 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!
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📋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!
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📋 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.
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📋 Cranberry Cornbread Muffins (with leftover cranberry sauce) 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.
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Christmas Baking Snacks
📋 Holiday Chex Mix (Savory) 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!
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Food safety
- Do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw eggs
- Wash hands after touching raw eggs
- 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, these holiday recipes are my family's favorites and I hope you enjoy these sweet treats!
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