25 Best Christmas Desserts
Make your holiday season even sweeter with my top Christmas dessert recipes! I’ve compiled the 25 best Christmas desserts for the ultimate Christmas baking inspiration. From Christmas cookies and cakes to easy no bake treats, you’ll find a showstopping dessert that will make your holidays merry and bright!
CHRISTMAS COOKIE RECIPES
BEST Gingerbread Cookies
These are the BEST gingerbread cookies because they’re thick, soft and chewy and last that way for days. The flavor is also incredibly rich, using tons of molasses and spices to bring in that cozy holiday feel. It will definitely be your new go-to recipe!
Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
This is the best sugar cookie recipe for Christmas! These cream cheese sugar cookies bake into a deliciously soft and buttery texture, but still hold their shape when baked. The dough only chills for one hour, or it can be prepped the day before and chill overnight. Spread some cream cheese buttercream on top for easy decorating. It dries firm, so these cookies can be stacked and stored – a must for a big batch of Christmas cookies!
Blossom Cookies
All four of these blossom cookie flavors are made using one dough! Classic peanut butter, gingerbread, chocolate and sugar cookie blossom cookies all in one batch. It’s perfect for a cookie exchange or Christmas cookie boxes!
Turtle Cookies
These turtle cookies are just like the candy version, but made on top of a buttery slice of shortbread! Slice and bake cookie dough is topped with pecan halves before baking. Then, each cookie is topped with a dollop of homemade soft caramel and a swirl of melted chocolate. Finish with flaky sea salt for a perfectly balanced cookie!
Peppermint Bark Cookies
These peppermint cookies have all the delicious flavors of peppermint bark with a rich and soft peppermint brownie cookie baked with a pool of white chocolate on top. Sprinkle with crushed candy canes to make these cookies extra festive!
Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies
These are the BEST sugar cookies. They are dense, doughy, and slightly chewy on the outside. It’s like making bakery-style sugar cookies in your own kitchen.
Chewy Spice Cookies
These chewy spice cookies are bursting with flavor, baked with warm spices and rich molasses.
Slice and Bake Cookies
With 2 doughs, this slice and bake cookie recipe makes 4 different flavors. It’s perfect for anyone who needs a really simple Christmas cookie recipe or wants to ship cookies to their friends and family!
CHRISTMAS CAKE RECIPES
Chocolate Peppermint Pudding Cake
This no bake chocolate peppermint pudding cake is the dreamiest holiday dessert! A simple no bake chocolate peppermint pudding is layered with chocolate graham crackers and topped with magic whipped cream. Leave it overnight to chill the crackers soften into a cake-like consistency that makes every bite soft and creamy!
Gingerbread Cake with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting
This fun and festive gingerbread cake is soft, moist, and covered in coconut cream cheese frosting! The warm spices of gingerbread combined with the light freshness of coconut is an unexpected pairing that works so well together.
New York Style Cheesecake
This New York Cheesecake is dense, creamy, crack-free, and absolutely delicious. It’s also baked low and slow for the most incredible texture! If you’re a beginner, this recipe is full of tips to help you along the way.
Spice Cake With Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
This extra moist spice cake is perfectly spiced and coated in a silky brown butter cream cheese frosting.
Sugar Cookie Cheesecake
This sugar cookie cheesecake is baked with a creamy vanilla filling loaded with homemade sugar cookie dough bites. It’s all baked on top of a buttery shortbread crust and topped with sour cream frosting and festive sprinkles! It’s the perfect dessert for any holiday party.
Gingerbread Cupcakes
These adorable gingerbread cupcakes are the perfect Holiday dessert recipe! They’re full of flavor and topped with a delicious cinnamon cream cheese frosting.
Christmas Bars and Brownies Recipes
Christmas Sprinkle Sugar Cookie Bars
These Christmas sugar cookie bars are the perfect festive holiday dessert! Not only are they decorated with a frosting Christmas tree, but they’re also so soft and tender with just the right amount of sweetness.
Fudgy Peppermint Brownies
These extra fudgy brownies are topped with a peppermint cream cheese buttercream, chocolate ganache, and crushed candy canes.
Gingerbread Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Gooey and chewy cookie bars baked with a gingerbread base and topped with globs of chocolate chip cookie dough
NO BAKE CHRISTMAS DESSERT RECIPES
Gingerbread Tiramisu
This gingerbread tiramisu is a fun twist on a classic dessert! It’s made with a gingerbread mascarpone filling, gingerbread coffee soaked lady fingers, and a layer of gingerbread cookies in the very center.
Salted Peanut Butter Christmas Trees
These no bake peanut butter bars sliced into Christmas trees! They’re salted, chewy, crunchy, creamy, and have a hint of caramel flavor.
Gingerbread Marshmallow Treats
These gingerbread rice krispie treats are so easy to make but so fun to decorate! Topped with a layer of chocolate cookie butter, these bars are sliced into little gingerbread houses and decorated with white chocolate icing.
Rich Dark Chocolate Mousse
This dark chocolate mousse is made with real dark chocolate for a thick and rich consistency. Using coconut cream, sunflower seed butter, and maple syrup, this recipe is also completely gluten free and vegan!
JENNA’S FAVORITES
The BEST Gluten Free Cinnamon Rolls
These gluten free cinnamon rolls are so good that they taste JUST like regular rolls! They’re soft and pillowy with a gooey cinnamon sugar filling and a sweet vanilla bean cream cheese icing on top. This recipe also only requires one flour mix and they don’t come out gritty or mushy AT ALL! It’s simply an absolutely delicious cinnamon roll.
Easy Candied Nuts
I’m bringing you a short and sweet recipe today because these Candied Nuts are SO easy to make for the holidays! Bake them for your friends, family, or all for yourself. But fair warning, one bite and you won’t be able to stop eating them: they’re the ultimate gluten free sweet / savory snack!
Salted Caramel Cheesecake
This salted caramel cheesecake is seriously the best cheesecake recipe ever. It’s silky smooth, extra creamy, and covered in a delicious homemade salted caramel.
Classic Cut Out Sugar Cookies
This is going to be your new go-to sugar cookie recipe. These cut out cookies hold their shape when baked, but still remain soft and tender.
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I’m the creator, baker, and photographer behind Butternut Bakery. Here I share desserts for every diet because I believe everyone should have a chance to indulge!
