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Our Best Christmas Recipes

Christmas cheer is just one recipe away. No matter how you like to celebrate the holiday, we’ve got all the most festive treats your family and friends are sure to love. If you’re making goodies for your neighbors, check out our always-popular Homemade Chocolate Caramels with Sea Salt. Need a gift idea for your co-workers? We’d recommend our Christmas Cake Pops. Want to be the star of the show at a cookie exchange? Bring these Super Soft Sugar Cookies.

Christmas Cookies

Spread holiday cheer with sugar and spice!

Two Andes Mint Cookies slightly stacked, surrounded by other Andes Mint Cookies and unwrapped Andes Mints.

Andes Mint Cookies

Top view of Super Soft Sugar Cookies frosted and with sprinkles. Two stacked on top of each other with the top one missing a bite.

Super Soft Sugar Cookies

A plate of cookies decorated with chocolate, pretzels, and candies to resemble reindeer faces. The cookies have red noses, white eyes, and pretzel antlers.

Chocolate Reindeer Cookies

A festive green cornflake wreath with red candy decorations arranged on a white surface.

Cornflake Christmas Wreath Cookies

Top view of a Ginger Cookie with Eggnog Frosting.

Ginger Cookies with Eggnog Frosting

Three chocolate-covered round cookies topped with crushed peppermint candy and drizzled with additional chocolate.

No-Bake Ritz Cracker Thin Mint Cookies

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Homemade, Holiday Candy

Make the holidays extra merry with these Christmas candy recipes.

A plate full of broken pieces of Christmas Crack. With a sprig of a pine tree and a Christmas towel underneath the bowl.

Christmas Crack

Broken pieces of Peppermint Bark.

Peppermint Bark

White Chocolate, Christmas Decorated Cake Pops in a mug.

Christmas Cake Pops

White chocolate bark decorated with candy eyes, red candies for buttons, mini peanut butter cup hats, and pretzel sticks for arms, resembling snowmen.

Melted Snowman Bark

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Santa Snacks

Merrily munch on these delicious treats all season long!

A bowl of snack mix with red and green candies, pretzels, peanuts, chocolate chunks, and shredded coconut.

Christmas Trail Mix

A white bowl filled with chocolate muddy buddies, mini peanut butter cups, and red and green candy-coated chocolates.

Christmas Reindeer Chex Mix

A bowl of popcorn mixed with red and green candy-coated chocolates, placed on a red-striped cloth.

Sweet and Salty White Chocolate Popcorn

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Hot Chocolate & Warm Mocktails

Warm up with these delicious drinks!

A mason jar filled with a red iced drink and a red-and-white striped straw. A glass pitcher filled with the same drink is in the background.

Sparkling Red Party Punch

Two mugs of hot chocolate topped with whipped cream are in front of a Crock-Pot on a countertop.

Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate

Two clear glass mugs of hot chocolate topped with whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon on a light-colored surface.

Disneyland’s Hot Chocolate

Two glasses filled with a red drink, each garnished with an orange slice and cranberries.

Warm Cranberry Citrus Drink

Glass pitcher and two mason jar mugs filled with cranberry beverage, garnished with lemon and lime slices, and cranberries.

Cranberry Citrus Party Punch

A glass mug filled with hot chocolate, topped with whipped cream, and drizzled with caramel sauce.

Starbucks Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate

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Holiday Hors d’Oeuvre

Get the festivities started with these delicious appetizers.

Small cheese balls coated with chopped nuts and bacon, each with a pretzel stick in the center, arranged on a white plate.

Holiday Cheeseball Bites

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Grandma’s Holiday Cheeseball

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Tray of baked cranberry bacon jam crostinis topped with cheese, bacon, and parsley.

Cranberry Bacon Jam Crostini

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Broken pieces of Peppermint Bark.

Peppermint Bark

Holiday Gift Guide for the Home Cook

Holiday Gift Guide for the Home Cook

A plate full of broken pieces of Christmas Crack. With a sprig of a pine tree and a Christmas towel underneath the bowl.

Christmas Crack

White Chocolate, Christmas Decorated Cake Pops in a mug.

Christmas Cake Pops

Crockpot Ham (With Maple Glaze) sliced on a serving plate with garnishes in front of a slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Ham with Maple Glaze

A slice of Eggnog Eclair Cake on a plate with a fork.

Eggnog Eclair Cake

Two mugs of hot chocolate topped with whipped cream are in front of a Crock-Pot on a countertop.

Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate

Homemade chocolate caramels with sea salt stacked in a pile.

Homemade Chocolate Caramels with Sea Salt

Bread rolls arranged in a Christmas tree shape, topped with herbs and pomegranate seeds, on a white surface with additional pomegranate seeds and pinecones scattered around.

Christmas Tree Dinner Rolls

Top view of a Ginger Cookie with Eggnog Frosting.

Ginger Cookies with Eggnog Frosting

A stack of waffles topped with whipped cream and cranberries on a white plate, with festive decorations and folded red-striped napkin in the background.

Gingerbread Waffles

A close-up of a plate with several oatmeal cookies. The cookies have a coarse texture and visible oats. The plate is white with a gold rim and is placed on a white surface.

Oatmeal Gingerbread Cookies

Small cheese balls coated with chopped nuts and bacon, each with a pretzel stick in the center, arranged on a white plate.

Holiday Cheeseball Bites

Pieces of Divinity on wax paper topped with crushed walnut pieces.

Easy Divinity

White chocolate bark decorated with candy eyes, red candies for buttons, mini peanut butter cup hats, and pretzel sticks for arms, resembling snowmen.

Melted Snowman Bark

A dozen frosted cookies with white icing and red sprinkles arranged on a white surface with a red and white cloth in the background.

Peppermint Snowball Cookies

Glass pitcher and two mason jar mugs filled with cranberry beverage, garnished with lemon and lime slices, and cranberries.

Cranberry Citrus Party Punch

Top view of Super Soft Sugar Cookies frosted and with sprinkles. Two stacked on top of each other with the top one missing a bite.

Super Soft Sugar Cookies

A white tray filled with irregular pieces of chocolate-covered toffee bark, garnished with chopped nuts.

Saltine Cracker English Toffee

Three green cookies with chocolate chunks on a white plate, with one more green cookie on a cooling rack in the background.

Andes Mint Grinch Cookies

A glass mug filled with hot chocolate, topped with whipped cream, and drizzled with caramel sauce.

Starbucks Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate

A white bowl filled with chocolate muddy buddies, mini peanut butter cups, and red and green candy-coated chocolates.

Christmas Reindeer Chex Mix

Close-up of white chocolate-covered peanut butter balls, one of which is bitten into, revealing the peanut butter filling.

Peanut Butter Snowballs (No Bake Truffles)

Pretzels topped with melted chocolate and red and green candies arranged on a dark surface.

Chocolate Pretzel Bites

Two glasses filled with a red drink, each garnished with an orange slice and cranberries.

Warm Cranberry Citrus Drink

Three chocolate-covered round cookies topped with crushed peppermint candy and drizzled with additional chocolate.

No-Bake Ritz Cracker Thin Mint Cookies

Grandma’s Holiday Cheeseball

Homemade caramel candies arranged on a white surface.

Homemade Caramels

Two Andes Mint Cookies slightly stacked, surrounded by other Andes Mint Cookies and unwrapped Andes Mints.

Andes Mint Cookies

Top view of Soft and Chewy Ginger Cookies.

Ginger Cookies

A festive green cornflake wreath with red candy decorations arranged on a white surface.

Cornflake Christmas Wreath Cookies

A mason jar filled with a red iced drink and a red-and-white striped straw. A glass pitcher filled with the same drink is in the background.

Sparkling Red Party Punch

A close-up of a turtle candy featuring a pecan base, topped with caramel and covered in milk chocolate, on a white surface.

Chocolate Caramel Pecan Turtles

A plate of cookies decorated with chocolate, pretzels, and candies to resemble reindeer faces. The cookies have red noses, white eyes, and pretzel antlers.

Chocolate Reindeer Cookies

A bowl of snack mix containing pretzels, cereal squares, round cereals, peanuts, and red and green candies.

White Chocolate Chex Party Mix

Two brown cookies with white chocolate chips on a white surface, with green sprigs partially visible.

White Chocolate Chip Gingerbread Cookies

Close-up of white chocolate truffles, with the one in the foreground showing a bite taken out, revealing a peanut butter filling.

No Bake Gingerbread Cookie Truffles

Two clear glass mugs of hot chocolate topped with whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon on a light-colored surface.

Disneyland’s Hot Chocolate

A plate of chocolate cookies topped with red and green candy-coated chocolates.

Cake Mix Christmas Cookies

Tray of baked cranberry bacon jam crostinis topped with cheese, bacon, and parsley.

Cranberry Bacon Jam Crostini

A loaf of cranberry bread with two slices cut and a bowl of fresh cranberries beside it. The bread is speckled with cranberries and appears moist and freshly baked.

Cranberry Pumpkin Bread

A spoon holds a scoop of red cranberry sauce above a white bowl filled with the same sauce.

Homemade Cranberry Sauce

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