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Easy, Family-Friendly 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!

Sugar cookies decorated like Santa grouped together.

Santa Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookie with white frosting and green and red sprinkles. 2 other sugar cookies with sprinkles off to the side.

Super Soft Sugar Cookies

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

Cake Mix Christmas 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

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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

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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Gingerbread Delights

Get into the festive spirit by baking and decorating our delicious gingerbread recipes!

A loaf of gingerbread topped with white frosting and peppermint candies is sliced, with two slices in the foreground and a partially eaten slice on a plate in the background.

Frosted Gingerbread Pound Cake Recipe

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

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

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 Recipe

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

White Chocolate Chip Gingerbread Cookies

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Crazy About Cranberries

These cranberry recipes allow you to cook up all kinds of holiday spirit!

Cranberry Punch poured in mugs and pitcher

Cranberry Citrus Party Punch

A close-up of two glass bowls containing a pink creamy dessert topped with dark cherries and small white marshmallows.

Fluffy Cranberry Salad Recipe

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

Dips, Sauces, + Seasonings

Homemade Cranberry Sauce

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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

homemade slow cooker hot chocolate

Homemade Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate Recipe (5 Ingredients)

eggnog eclair cake

Eggnog Eclair Cake Recipe

Homemade chocolate caramels with sea salt stacked in a pile.

Homemade Chocolate Caramels with Sea Salt

christmas tree dinner rolls

Christmas Tree Dinner Rolls Recipe

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 Recipe

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

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

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

Cranberry Punch poured in mugs and pitcher

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

Sugar cookie with white frosting and green and red sprinkles. 2 other sugar cookies with sprinkles off to the side.

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 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)

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

No-Bake Ritz Cracker Thin Mint Cookies Recipe

A tray of pretzel treats topped with melted chocolate and red and green candies.

Chocolate Pretzel Bites

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

Warm Cranberry Citrus Drink

A cheese ball coated with crushed nuts, partially sliced and surrounded by assorted crackers, is displayed on a white surface.

Grandma’s Holiday Cheese Ball Recipe

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

Andes Mint Cookies

Homemade caramel candies arranged on a white surface.

Homemade Caramels

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

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

White Chocolate Chip Gingerbread Cookies

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

White Chocolate Chex Party Mix

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

A close-up of two glass bowls containing a pink creamy dessert topped with dark cherries and small white marshmallows.

Fluffy Cranberry Salad Recipe

A close-up of several small bread slices topped with melted cheese, a jam or relish, and garnished with chopped herbs, arranged on a white surface.

Cranberry Bacon Jam Crostini Recipe

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

A loaf of gingerbread topped with white frosting and peppermint candies is sliced, with two slices in the foreground and a partially eaten slice on a plate in the background.

Frosted Gingerbread Pound Cake Recipe

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