Make Christmas a sweet one with these 25+ Christmas Dessert Recipes that family and friends are guaranteed to love. From these red velvet chocolate chip cookies, yule log cake, or impress everyone with this show-stopping cranberry curd tart.

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If you’re anything like me, you have most of your entire menu planned for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. But if you don’t, this collection of 25+ Christmas Dessert Recipes will give you the inspiration you need for your dessert table.

This cranberry meringue tart is a seasonal favorite that guests will flip for. Make a double batch of chocolate fudge or buckeyes for a quicker no-bake option– giving your oven the break it deserves!

meringue stars and toppings on a cranberry tart.

For a festive treat, add some holiday sprinkles to these cake batter chocolate chip cookies or on top of these oreo balls. Making soft ginger cookies is always a favorite or decorate these cutout sugar cookies.

stacked cake batter cookies with red and green sprinkles.
overhead view of oreo balls in a white bowl coated in white chocolate and oreo crumbs.

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25+ Christmas Dessert Recipes

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soft-baked peppermint mocha cookies topped with peppermint crunch.

Peppermint Mocha Cookies

These soft-baked peppermint mocha cookies are thick, chewy with slightly crisp edges, just like a brownie! With the perfect ratio of peppermint and rich mocha flavor, these are are guaranteed to be a hit for the holidays.
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Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies

You will love these cake batter chocolate chip cookies! These are a cross between chocolate chip cookies mixed with funfetti vanilla cake.
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oreo balls in a white bowl coated in white chocolate and sprinkled with oreo crumbs.

How To Make Oreo Balls (Truffles)

These easy Oreo balls are a delicious 3-ingredient chocolate treat for when you need a last-minute dessert. Choose your favorite flavor of Oreo cookies, combined with brick cream cheese, and dunked in chocolate. Keep plain or top with sprinkles, chocolate drizzle or crushed Oreos. This no-bake Oreo ball recipe is guaranteed to be hit no matter the occasion!
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stacked fudge squares on a plate.

Easy Fudge Recipe

This easy fudge recipe requires only 4 ingredients– chocolate, condensed milk, salt, and vanilla extract. It comes together in just 10 minutes, and you'll have decadent, rich fudge in no time! There's no doubt that fudge is the perfect make-ahead Christmas treat!
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Square image of a heart-shaped soft cut-out sugar cookie with pink sour cream icing.

Soft Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipe

Best-ever recipe for soft sugar cookies you can roll and cut out with cookie cutters! Easy to make, no chilling required, and they don’t spread into shapeless blobs as they bake. Made with a secret ingredient that gives them the most incredible flavor, and topped with a cool sour cream icing.
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Buckeye recipe, prepared and presented on a distressed wood surface.

Buckeye Recipe

This buckeye recipe is so easy to make with just 5 ingredients! Peanut butter & chocolate candies that are so good to eat or give as gifts!
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Brown Butter Pecan Cookies

Brown Butter Pecan Cookies

Taking classic butter pecan cookies up a notch with these brown butter pecan cookies. With soft centers, slightly crispy edges, a hint of vanilla and a nutty flavor from the brown butter, there’s no doubt that these will be the star of the dessert table no matter the occasion!
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Red velvet chocolate chip cookies with white and dark chocolate chips.

Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Cookies

Red velvet chocolate chip cookies that bake up so incredibly soft & tender, and stay that way! With a hint of tangy cream cheese & cocoa.
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Brown sugar cookies piled high on a pink glass plate.

Brown Sugar Cookies

Regular sugar cookies get an upgrade! These soft brown sugar cookies are made with dark brown sugar, for a more warm, caramel-y flavor.
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Chocolate crinkle cookies with a dish of powdered sugar and a red kitchen towel.

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Chocolate crinkle cookies: a total classic for the holidays! With a deep, rich chocolate flavor & a soft, fudgy middle. So pretty to look at!
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Gingerbread Cookies

Making gingerbread cookies this holiday? This is the recipe for you! These cookies have a wonderfully traditional molasses and spice flavor, a tender texture that’s not too hard, and the dough is a dream to work with. No spreading in the oven! Keep your cute shapes and neat edges.

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Old-Fashioned Gingerbread

This old-fashioned gingerbread cake is a great way to celebrate the season! Made in just one bowl, with plenty of molasses, ginger, & cinnamon.
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Overhead image of pizzelle on a wire cooling rack with whole anise seeds and powdered sugar.

Thin & Crisp Pizzelle

The thinnest, lightest, most crisp pizzelle recipe ever!  They're just as light as air, & this recipe is truly authentic, with plenty of sweet anise flavor.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch Bars

Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch Bars

Made from just 8 ingredients, these no-bake chocolate peanut butter crunch bars are chewy, crispy, and irresistible. These are a delicious treat anytime of the year. No oven required! Warning: these bars are incredibly addicting.
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Square image of a slice of tiramisu on a white plate over a dark blue background.

Authentic Tiramisu Recipe

This tiramisu recipe is absolute heaven! Made the classic Italian way, with mascarpone, espresso, and marsala wine. So fluffy, creamy, and full of rich flavor!
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Classic cream puff on a wire rack with strawberries.

Cream Puff Recipe

Perfect Cream Puff Recipe: These bake up light as air every time! Filled with sweet whipped cream & dusted with powdered sugar. The ultimate!
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Biscotti cookies served with a cup of espresso.

Almond Biscotti Recipe

Make this perfect biscotti recipe! Crisp, light, crunchy, and infused with sweet almond. So nice with a cup of coffee!
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Chocolate truffles stacked in a pottery dish with tins of crushed nuts in the background.

Chocolate Truffles

How to make homemade chocolate truffles! Super-easy recipe with just 2 ingredients. Endlessly versatile, and so melt-in-your-mouth delicious!
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Brownie recipe, baked, cut into bars, and arranged in a tall stack with a blue kitchen towel in the background.

Simply Perfect Brownies from Scratch

Gooey, fudgy brownies, with the deepest, darkest, most intense chocolate flavor EVER! Easy, one-bowl recipe, from scratch, pantry staples, no mixer needed.
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Small glass bowls of chocolate mousse with whipped cream on an antique silver tray.

Easy Chocolate Mousse Recipe

This easy chocolate mousse recipe whips up in just 15 minutes! So airy & light, with a rich, deep chocolate flavor. Fancy, yet so quick & simple!
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Yule log cake garnished with greens & berries, on a white platter.

Yule Log

This chocolate yule log recipe will make your whole holiday! Chocolate cake spiraled around a fluffy chocolate filling & frosted with whipped ganache.
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soft-baked peppermint mocha cookies topped with peppermint crunch.

Peppermint Mocha Cookies

These soft-baked peppermint mocha cookies are thick, chewy with slightly crisp edges, just like a brownie! With the perfect ratio of peppermint and rich mocha flavor, these are are guaranteed to be a hit for the holidays.
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Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

This chewy chocolate chip cookies recipe produces soft, BIG, thick and chewy chocolate chip cookies cookies. Bonus: There’s no mixer required!
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Close up image of a stack of pecan sandies rimmed in chopped pecans.

Pecan Sandies

Make this easy slice and bake pecan sandies recipe! So buttery and tender they practically melt in the mouth, with tons of crunchy toasted pecans.
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A stack of soft ginger cookies on a small white plate with red and white baker's twine.

Soft Ginger Cookies

These classic cookies are soft and a little chewy, and just bursting with warm ginger spice! A perfect recipe for your Christmas cookie exchange.

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Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies

Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies

These soft chocolate chip cookies are BIG. Using my tips and tricks, I’m know this will be your favorite soft chocolate chip cookie recipe.
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Iced Oatmeal Cookies

Iced Oatmeal Cookies

These classic iced oatmeal cookies are the old-fashioned style that you know and love from your childhood.
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Chocolate Cream Pie with chocolate crust, whipped cream, and chocolate shavings. A slice is taken out of the pie so the fluffy chocolate mousse filling is visible.

No-Bake Chocolate Cream Pie

Make this easy chocolate cream pie for your guests! With a chocolate crust and a fluffy dark chocolate mousse filling, it will be the hit of the party!
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Best Snickerdoodle Recipe

Soft Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

Searching for the best snickerdoodle cookies ever? Look no further! This easy recipe bakes up soft, thick, and fluffy, with plenty of cinnamon sugar!
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Soft & Thick Monster Cookies

Soft & Thick Monster Cookies

These monster cookies are filled with peanut butter, oats, chocolate chips, and M&Ms. These monster cookies are easy to make and produce a soft and thick cookie. And there’s no dough chilling!
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An assortment of buttery spritz cookies, on a red and green plate with holiday greenery in the background.

Spritz Cookies

Light, crisp, and so buttery, these spritz cookies are a beloved holiday tradition. So good with a warm cup of tea, coffee, or cocoa!
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cranberry curd tart topped with meringue and cranberries.

Cranberry Curd Tart Recipe

This cranberry curd tart will make a striking addition to your holiday dessert table. With a tart, sweet, and smooth custard filling on top of a buttery shortbread crust. Dress it up with toasted meringue and sugared cranberries.
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Chocolate Peppermint Bundt Cake

Make this chocolate peppermint bundt cake this holiday season! It’s rich and moist, and full of deep chocolate and cool mint flavor.

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  • Allie is the creator and owner of Baking a Moment. She has been developing, photographing, videographing, and writing and sharing recipes here since 2012.

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