Christmas Recipes to Celebrate a Merry Season
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Christmas Recipes to inspire a merry season! From breakfast recipes to snacks, sweet treats, and ideas for feasting, all to inspire the celebration of the most wonderful time of the year. Here’s to the holidays!
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As the season gets into full swing and the air grows chilly, expectant hopes for a merry and bright season are top of mind.
And perhaps visions of snowflakes or maybe sugar plums are in there somewhere too.
Along with decking the halls and gifts for friends and family, the to-do lists have a way of growing.
So here, in one place, you can find some quick and easy but festive and delicious Christmas recipes to help shorten that list… and celebrate a merry season in the best possible ways!
Christmas Breakfast, Brunch and Snacks
Make Ahead Easy Vegetable Egg Bake Breakfast Casserole
This easy, make-ahead breakfast casserole is perfect for entertaining, serving groups, on holiday mornings, or for brunch. Packed with vegetables, it is always a favorite every time I serve it. It is filled with favorite seasonal vegetables, high-protein eggs, and a punch of savory bacon.
Ginger Pecan Cranberry Scones: Holiday Treats to Share
Ginger Pecan Cranberry Scones, a cozy holiday treat, made perfect with a cup of tea. Or with coffee on Christmas morning. Festive, easy, and delicious. Each bite is like a taste of the holidays.
Cranberry Orange Muffins (Refined-Sugar Free)
These Cranberry Orange Muffins are a healthier, 100% whole grain, naturally sweetened version of a classic holiday favorite. Bursting with cranberry and orange flavors, and warm spices too, these soft and tender muffins are a festive addition to your holiday table!
Fluffy Pancake Recipe for a Thick Delicious Delicious Stack
This fluffy pancake recipe is one you'll want to memorize. It's simple, easy, quick… and utterly delicious! A perfect stack of thick pancakes for weekends or holidays.
5 Minute Christmas Mini Pancake Stacks
These Christmas Mini Pancake Stacks are the quickest, cutest, easiest holiday breakfast or brunch pancake skewers you'll ever make. With ready-made ingredients, fresh fruit, and festive skewers, they are sure to liven up the party for kids and adults alike.
Christmas Granola
This spiced Christmas Granola recipe is an easy, healthy, homemade and festive treat packed with wholesome grains, nuts, and fruit, that tastes like Christmas in every bite. This winter granola recipe is also great for packaging up for Christmas food gifts!
Festive Holiday Breakfast Inspirations to Make Christmas Morning
Festive and hearty breakfasts during the holidays are a must. We’ve gathered some beautiful and inspirational ideas your whole family will love. And the best part is, they work not only for breakfast, but for any meal! Sausage Potato Frittata Put your slow-cooker to work for this dish. “This smoky, savory, and filling frittata is
Easy Christmas Breakfast Charcuterie Board
Set a festive mood with this easy Christmas Breakfast Charcuterie Board that's simple to put together. Filled with delicious holiday treats that are both sweet and savory, including fresh fruit, mini quiche, pastries, yogurt, granola, and more. It's a 5-minute holiday brunch charcuterie board everyone will love.
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Christmas Cookies
There can never be too many Christmas cookies! Here you’ll find cookies galore, perfect for sharing!
Vintage Christmas Cookies to Make Ahead
Get a jumpstart on the season with these Make-Ahead Vintage Christmas Cookies. Add to your holiday cookie plates and boxes with classic vintage Christmas cookies popular over the decades.
Classic Scottish Shortbread for your Christmas Cookie Tray
Mildly sweet, melt-in-your-mouth flaky, easy to make, improves as it ages — a welcome accompaniment to any cookie tray, but for me, it’s absolutely perfect with a cup of tea.
Sugar Cookie Bars with Buttercream Frosting
Sugar Cookie Bars with Buttercream Frosting is a super simple, soft, and utterly delicious buttery bar cookie with a vanilla flavor we can't get enough of. And when you top it with buttercream frosting? Oh my.
Coconut Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies
Cranberry Crumb Bars with Cinnamon and Ginger
Nothing heralds the holidays quite like cranberries. And oranges. And treats. Having both, these Cranberry Crumb Bars with Cinnamon and Ginger certainly ushers in the most wonderful time of the year. The cranberry filling is sweetly spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and the zest of an orange. Every bite, truly, takes like Christmas.
Cranberry Orange Pecan Oatmeal Cookies
These Cranberry Orange Pecan Oatmeal Cookies are a moist and chewy cookie I love to make in the fall and holiday season.
Simple Pecan Tassies Recipe
Tiny, bite-size Pecan Tassies are a delicious, chewy, and decadent pecan-filled pastry with a cookie-like crust. This southern-inspired treat is an all-time favorite, and incredibly simple to make for the holidays, or anytime you’re craving pecan pie.
S’mores Cookies: Utterly Delicious
Gooey and delicious, these S'mores Cookies are everything you love about s'mores in cookie form. Packed with 2 kinds of chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers.
Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Espresso
Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Espresso, a soft and moist, ooey gooey Christmas cookie.
Sweet Iconic Snickerdoodle Recipe
Snickerdoodle Cookie is a sweet, iconic classic that every cookie baker should have in their recipe files. Nostalgic, utterly delicious… and simple to make with a secret ingredient that makes them perfect. Some cookies are so indelibly imprinted in our memory, and so incredibly delicious, they earn the title, “iconic.” The Snickerdoodle is one of
Giant and Soft Ginger-Spice Cookies
These Spiced Ginger Cookies are the perfect fall and Christmas cookie! The richly spiced flavors of ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and molasses are a comforting and familiar blend that evokes memories of warmth and love, and laughter.
Favorite Sugar Cookie Cutouts Recipe
It’s the season for Sugar Cookie Cutouts! Beginning with pumpkin cutouts, followed by turkey cutouts, followed by snowflakes and Santas and trees… and all things Christmas. Then comes Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, and Easter.
Gingerbread Cookies: German Inspired
This is the best recipe for Gingerbread Cookies, inspired by German spices, making soft cookies with molasses and brown sugar. These Gingerbread Cookies are Christmas in every bite, and perfect for decorating!
Scottish Millionaires Shortbread
This deliciously easy Scottish Millionaires Shortbread recipe is a new addition to my holiday baking. It’s a triple-decker combo of buttery shortbread, a sweet caramel made with sweetened condensed milk, and decadent chocolate. It’s already a favorite!
Buckingham Palace Shortbread Cookies
These Buckingham Palace Shortbread Cookies are a recipe from pastry chef John Higgins that's perfect for the holidays or afternoon tea.
Peppermint Mocha Chocolate Blossom Cookies
It’s Christmas time and there’s nothing quite like a Peppermint Mocha to herald in the season. Unless, of course, you’re in the mood for cookies. These Peppermint Mocha Chocolate Blossom cookies are like Christmas in every bite. Densely rich with chocolate and espresso, merry and bright with peppermint, and crunchy with sparkling sugar.
Russian Teacakes: Christmas Snowball Cookies
Russian Teacakes or Christmas Snowballs is a rather simple cookie made with flour, sugar, butter, and nuts. I prefer almonds, but walnuts or pecans are equally delicious. I also add a splash of flavoring to this traditional recipe because, after all, isn’t everything better with vanilla?
Easy Spritz Cookies: Buttery and Delicious
These Spritz Cookies are an easy recipe that makes dozens of sweet bite-size, dense cookies with a delicious buttery vanilla flavor. A quick and simple Christmas cookie for trays, gifts, or tea.
17 Simple Christmas Cookies You Have to Try!
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Holiday Desserts and Treats
These holiday desserts and treats will keep the season extra sweet.
34 Christmas Candy Recipes to Make Ahead
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5 Minute Christmas Crack Chex Mix
Tis the season for sweet and salty, and easy. This simple Christmas Crack can be made in 5 minutes or less — and is incredibly tasty. Does it get better than that?
Figgy Pudding: A Classic Every Christmas Table Needs
Figgy Pudding— the name itself conjures visions of Christmas and sugarplums and family… and tradition. A moist and tender Christmas pudding, redolent with the spices of Christmas, figs, and oranges.
Oh-So-Delicious Easy Cakes of Christmas
‘Tis the season for “Oh-So-Delicious Easy Cakes of Christmas.” And while these show-stopping confections are amazing, they are also relatively easy Christmas cakes to create. Take a look at these very doable Christmas delights! Candy Cane Forest Cake “Twirl up a white cake covered with crushed peppermints and candy canes.” Get the recipe > Gingerbread
Chocolate Bundt Cake: Deliciously Simple Christmas Cake
Rich and utterly divine, this Chocolate Bundt Cake is an easy-to-make, super moist, dense, chocolate pound cake recipe you won't forget anytime soon. Rich but simple with a hint of espresso.
Lighter Christmas Cake with Apple and Fruit
This Christmas Cake is a delicious and moist cake packed with dried fruit, citrus zest, and applesauce. And with every bite, you will taste the holidays.
Christmas Swedish Tea Ring
Christmas Swedish Tea Ring, filled with cinnamon, sugar, and raisins and topped with a simple powdered sugar glaze, is a beautiful and delicious Scandinavian recipe for the holiday season!
32 Holiday Loaves and Christmas Bread Recipes
Spectacularly beautiful and delicious Holiday Loaves and Christmas Bread to bake for the season or special enough to give as holiday gifts.
Holiday Orange and Cranberry Bread
Cranberry Bread is a delicious, buttery, seasonal bread filled fresh cranberries, orange zest and juice. Perfect for gatherings or to gift.
3 Ingredient Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix
This 3 ingredient Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix, with optional espresso, is easy to whisk together, contains no dry milk, and is a fun winter staple or gift to give during the holidays.
Christmas Muddy Buddies Recipe
This Christmas Muddy Buddies Recipe is the perfect quick and easy treat for the holidays. Always a classic favorite, naturally gluten-free, and ready in minutes!
2 Minute Christmas Chocolate Mug Cake
Get festive with this oh-so-simple Christmas Chocolate Mug Cake, in 2 minutes. It's chocolatey and delicious, dense and rich, and perfect for the holidays. Treat yourself to a decadent dessert in minutes. Plenty of time for that Christmas movie you've been meaning to watch!
Dresden Stollen (German Christmas Stollen)
This classic recipe for Dresden Stollen is a buttery German festive favorite, packed with dried fruit and citrus zest before being dusted liberally with confectioners sugar.
Christmas Recipes: A Season of Feasting
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Winter Greens Salad with Pomegranate and Blood Oranges
Winter Greens Salad with Pomegranate and Blood Oranges is a sweet and zesty, crispy salad that is perfect for the holidays.
Festive Christmas Side Dishes for the Holidays
Easy Holiday Cheese Board
This easy Holiday Cheese Board takes minutes to assemble, is a beautiful and delicious display of seasonal finger foods and appetizers that will keep everyone satisfied for parties and gatherings. I’m keeping it super simple with store-bought ingredients and almost zero prep.
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Hosting a Christmas Afternoon Tea
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Simple Lighter Ragu Sauce Recipe
This simple, lighter Ragu sauce recipe is based on a classic Ragu but is made lighter with ground turkey instead of beef. Yet retains the ultimate flavor we love in this simple, classic Italian pasta sauce.
Keeping Christmas
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Decking the Halls with Orange Pomanders
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Christmas Dried Orange Slices
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