It's the holiday season, which means it's time to celebrate with some beautiful and tasty Christmas treats!
The whole family will love the perfect treats - they're the perfect way to enjoy Christmas time and start some family traditions by baking together.
Some options also make great gifts for friends and family. We've rounded up cookie ideas, cakes, bread and baked goods, and appetizers.
Whether you're serving them at a holiday party, on Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day, we hope you'll love these festive treats as much as we do!
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Christmas Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies
One of our favorite holiday treats is this delicious recipe for peanut butter cookies, which are actually gluten-free and vegan. If you like peanut butter, you're going to love this recipe!
Mexican Wedding Cookies
These are the most dreamy cookies! Beautifully round, buttery, pecan-dotted cookies are rolled in a sweet blizzard of snowy white powdered sugar, and they’ll leave you savoring every tender bite. (You may also call them Mexican Christmas cookies)
Gingerbread Cookies
These delicious, healthy gingerbread cookies are a holiday favorite and a classic Christmas dessert!
Gingerbread cookies are the perfect Christmas cookie that the whole family will enjoy. They're so fun to make and definitely bring the holiday magic.
Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
These no-chill sugar cookies Christmas trees decorated with royal icing and an assortment of sprinkles are gorgeous.
Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
These healthier chocolate thumbprint cookies are a holiday favorite! They're ridiculously cute, festive, and taste super chocolatey.
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
These delicious oatmeal chocolate chip cookies have the right combination of crisp on the outside, chewy on the inside, amazingness, and, of course, big notes of chocolate, butter, and just the right hit of salt.
Peanut Butter Blossoms
The quintessential Christmas cookie and trademark of any holiday cookie tray. This classic recipe yields soft, peanut buttery, and easy-to-make festive cookies!
Healthier Sugar Cookies
You are going to love these healthy sugar cookies! They taste great and are fun to make.
They're made with whole grains and sweetened with apple sauce and coconut sugar. Top them with a little sugar drizzle or red and green sprinkles.
Easy Christmas Treats
Pomegranate Dark Chocolate Bites
These festive treats are so easy to make! You'll combine dark chocolate, pomegranates, and sea salt for a simple but gorgeous holiday treat.
They're one of our favorite neighbor gifts, as they look super cute in a clear bag with a ribbon!
Peppermint Bark
This recipe for classic peppermint bark is layers of white and dark chocolate topped with crushed candy canes. It's one of my favorite things to make for parties and gift-giving.
Homemade Peanut Butter Balls
This simple recipe for chocolate peanut butter balls is the best candy for the holidays and is so incredibly easy to make.
Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats
These 3-ingredient healthy rice krispie treats are so easy! They're delicious and one of the easiest and best Christmas treats.
Cinnamon Sugar Popcorn
You only need 4 ingredients to make this simple and sweet popcorn! It is great for movie night or party.
Rolo Pretzel Reindeer
These are the perfect treats for the holiday season, and they're so easy to make! They're delicious treats that only take four ingredients and a few minutes to bake.
White Chocolate Christmas Recipes
White Chocolate Christmas Trees
These adorable trees are made with pretzels and white chocolate for a festive and easy treat!
White Chocolate Bark with Cardamom
White chocolate bark is the quickest (and easiest) way to make an eye-catching dessert that instantly dresses up any occasion.
White Chocolate Chip Cookies
White Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, chewy, and packed full of white chocolate chips! These easy to make cookies are sure to become a family favorite!
Christmas Cakes
Mandarin Orange Bundt Cake
This mandarin orange bundt cake recipe is fruity and delicious. It’s a wonderful winter recipe and makes for a great dessert at a holiday dinner.
Apricot Brandy Pound Cake
This apricot brandy pound cake is incredibly easy to put together, perfect for the holidays, and absolutely delicious—a showstopper of flavors! It's a sweet treat you'll be proud to serve.
Spiced Carrot Cake
This spiced carrot cake is made with all the goodness of the classic, including carrots, cinnamon, walnuts, and cream cheese frosting, but it has a slightly exotic edge with the addition of chai tea and cardamom.
Raspberry Cake
This delicious raspberry snacking cake is absolutely studded with fresh berries! You'll use 2 pints of fresh raspberries to make the cake.
Bûche de Noël
This buche de noel (yule log cake) recipe is a lovely holiday classic for the French, made during Christmas time.
Gingerbread Cake Roll
Deliciously moist and fluffy gingerbread cake roll that is loaded with warm, cozy flavors and filled with spiced whipped cream!
Hot Chocolate Treats & Bombs
Hot Chocolate on a Spoon
These cute Christmas treats are perfect for a cozy family movie night or great to gift to friends. Pop them in some warm milk for a delicious cup of hot chocolate! These are perfect to add to a gift basket or stockings!
Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate
Creamy, rich, and decadent slow cooker hot chocolate made in the crockpot! Put on some Christmas movies and cozy up with a cup of hot cocoa and marshmallows.
Peppermint Hot Chocolate Bombs
These cute spheres of creamy chocolate are filled with hot cocoa mix, marshmallows, and crushed peppermint for an extra dose of wintery joy!
Hot Chocolate Bar
Here's how to throw a hot chocolate bar party with everything that you need and a recipe for the most luxurious hot chocolate that requires you to just toss everything into the slow cooker!
Chocolate Christmas Desserts
Dark Chocolate Christmas Trees
These super cute dark chocolate trees are a sweet and salty treat that will be popular with the whole family.
Chocolate Nut Clusters
Just 4 ingredients in these addicting sweet and salty almond clusters. Toasting the almonds turns them up a notch!
Healthier Peanut Butter Cups
These simple peanut butter cups are made with only a few ingredients and take almost no time to make!
Homemade Peppermint Patties
This easy homemade peppermint patties recipe is the ultimate holiday treat. A creamy peppermint center is surrounded by dark chocolate and finished off with festive sprinkles.
Reindeer Chow
No holiday party is complete without a big bowl of reindeer chow! This Christmas chex mix is loaded with chocolate flavor and is perfect for feeding a crowd.
Easy Fudge Recipe
Fudge is a holiday staple and this recipe for it is so straightforward and foolproof! It only requires 5 ingredients (you could even omit the salt and nuts and make that 3) and everyone loves it!
Cute Christmas Appetizers
Christmas Tree Appetizer
This Christmas tree appetizer made from fruit, cheese, and salami is the easiest and cutest holiday recipe!
Christmas Fruit Wreath
This beautiful Christmas fruit wreath is so easy to make and it looks absolutely gorgeous as part of a holiday brunch or party spread.
Antipasto Christmas Wreath
Bring the holiday cheer with this Antipasto Christmas Wreath - it's the cutest holiday appetizer! It's ready in just a few minutes and is a lot of fun to make.
Christmas Breads & Muffins
Persimmon Bread
This persimmon bread recipe is wonderful and full of flavor! It's a delicious way to enjoy persimmons and a fantastic festive treat.
Five Spice Banana Bread
This banana bread is moist and delicious - it's flavored with Chinese Five Spice so it has a deep, rich flavor.
Cinnamon Sugar Muffins
Donut muffins are a super soft, homemade muffins that are easy to make! These buttery treats taste just like an old fashioned donut rolled in cinnamon and sugar!
Peppermint Bark Donuts
One of our favorite treats, these Baked peppermint bark Christmas donuts are the perfect treat to serve this holiday! They are fluffy and chocolatey and have just the right amount of peppermint.
Christmas Treats Recipes
Try one of our favorite Christmas treats - these adorable dark chocolate Christmas trees will be a hit with the whole family!
Ingredients
- 5 ounces dark chocolate
- 15 pretzel sticks
- holiday sprinkles
- parchment paper
- piping bag
Instructions
- Lay your parchment paper out and get your sprinkles and pretzels open.
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave for 1 to 2 minutes in a microwave-safe container until all the pieces are melted. Stir it every 30 seconds to make sure it doesn’t burn.
- Pour the melted dark chocolate into a piping bag or plastic bag.
- Place the pretzels on the parchment paper with several inches between them.
- Snip the end off of the piping bag or plastic bag. Pipe the chocolate onto the pretzels in a tree shape.
- Add the sprinkles to the trees with a spoon or your fingers.
- Let the trees sit on the parchment paper and harden for 2 hours at room temperature. If you’re in a hurry, place them in the refrigerator to harden in 30 minutes.
- Carefully peel the trees off the parchment paper before serving.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
15Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 162Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 354mgCarbohydrates: 29gFiber: 2gSugar: 5gProtein: 3g
Make your Christmas season special, and be sure to check out our Christmas appetizers and chocolate recipes for Christmas posts as well for more ideas.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours!
Arabella says
These recipes for Christmas treats look amazing! I appreciate the focus on healthier options. Excited to try some this holiday season!
EW says
So glad you like them!