Christmas Dessert Recipes

We have the best Christmas dessert recipes for cookies, cakes, cupcakes, pies, candy, and more! And it wouldn't be Christmas without making yule logs, peppermint bark, or fruitcake. If you're looking to make sugar cookies this year, be sure to check out our guide to decorating your cookies with icing and frosting like a pro.
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How to Host a Cookie Swap, the Sweetest of All Holiday Parties
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A Glimpse Inside One of Martha's Famous Holiday Cookie Parties
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23 Delicious and Impressive Recipes to Make for Your Next Cookie Swap
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This Shopping List Has All the Ingredients and Tools You Need to Make Your Favorite Holiday Cookies
Adding the Icing on Baked Christmas Cookies
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14 Cookie Baking and Decorating Essentials You Need This Holiday Season
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How to Store Christmas Cookies So They Stay Fresher for Longer—Plus, 2 Genius Ways to Refresh Too-Dry Treats
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Short on Time? Turn to These Easy, Festive Holiday Baking Recipes All Season Long
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The Christmas Cookie Recipes Our Food Editors Make Year After Year
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15 Wonderful Christmas Cookies to Make for Santa This Year
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12 Clever Ways to Gift-Wrap Your Christmas Cookies
Speculaas cookies
22 Traditional Christmas Cookie Recipes to Make and Share All Season Long
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17 Christmas Bar Cookie Recipes for Cookie Swaps, Open Houses, or Just Because
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20 Classic Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipes to Help You Get in the Holiday Spirit
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16 Homemade Treats That Make Great Holiday Gifts
Snowman cupcake recipe
12 Christmas Cupcake Recipes for Holiday Parties, Potlucks, Open Houses, and Other Festive Gatherings
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Cookie-Press Cookies
Royal Icing for Holiday Sugar Cookies
Sugar Cookies
Gingerbread Snacking Cake
16 Incredibly Delicious Ways to Enjoy Gingerbread This Holiday Season
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Want to Decorate Gingerbread Cookies with Kids? Our Time-Saving and Mess-Reducing Tips Make It Easy and Fun
George & Viv The Night Before Cookie Platte
The Cutest Cookie Plates to Set Out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve
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These Impressive Holiday Trifle Recipes Are Actually Easy to Make
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Kransekake
3 hrs
Springerle Cookies
Springerle Cookies
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Marshmallow Fudge
2 hrs 20 mins
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How Cookies Came to Be the Ultimate Christmas Treat
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Chewy Chocolate-Gingerbread Cookies
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Martha's Favorite Fruitcake Is a Recipe She Learned from Her Childhood Neighbors
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Croquembouche
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Basic Gingerbread Cookies
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Hot Cocoa with Almond Milk
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Cloud Cake
3 hrs 45 mins
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Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
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Speculaas Cookies
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Candy Cane Cocktail
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Noel Nut Balls
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Chewy Molasses-Spice Cookies
1 hrs 30 mins
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Spice-Infused Simple Syrup
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Penuche Fudge
Pavlova Wreath
Pavlova Wreath
2 hrs 50 mins
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Oatmeal Cookies
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Basic Bark
1 hrs 15 mins
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Mixed Fruit-and-Nut Cookies
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Fruit Jellies
20 mins
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Rum Balls
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Checkerboard Cookies
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Rosemary Butter Cookies
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Almond Biscotti
1 hrs
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Scottish Shortbread
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Snickerdoodles
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Chocolate-and-Vanilla Pudding Cake
4 hrs 20 mins
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Basic Vanilla Cookie Dough
15 mins
pfeffernusse cookies
German Spice Cookies (Pfeffernusse)
gingerbread
Gingerbread For Houses
Easy Pistachio-Cranberry Nougat
Easy Pistachio-Cranberry Nougat
2 hrs 15 mins
homemade slice and bake cookies
Brown-Sugar Chocolate-Chunk Shortbread
40 mins
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Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
1 hrs
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Vinarterta
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Peanut-Popcorn Balls
Peanut-Popcorn Balls
1 hrs 10 mins
Chocolate-And-Nut-Crusted Candied Orange
Chocolate-And-Nut-Crusted Candied Orange
25 mins
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Coconut-Key Lime Pie
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Cranberry Cobbler
55 mins