The holidays are the perfect time to test out new recipes, and remember why old family favorites have been passed down again and again! Our Favorite Holiday Baking Recipes have to have chocolate, but we're also up for gingerbread, peppermint, and even mocha.
Our Favorite Holiday Baking Recipes
Here are some of our favorite holiday baking recipes that are perfect for gift-giving this holiday season.
Cookies
Chocolate and Peppermint Cookies from Juggling Act Mama: The combination of chocolate and peppermint is perfect for the holidays. They start with a scrumptious pudding cookie recipe that's a cinch to make!
Christmas Snickerdoodles from Juggling Act Mama: If you love crispy edges and chewy, tender centers in your cookies, then these are for you. They are sprinkled with cinnamon and topped with your favorite icing and sprinkles. This is the best Christmas cookie recipe you'll try.
Chocolate Dipped Ritz Cracker Cookies from Juggling Act Mama: These are sweet, salty, and delicious. They start with Ritz crackers and get coated in layers of chocolate and peppermint candy. There's nothing easier or better.
Cake Pops and Truffles
Santa Hat Cake Pops from Juggling Act Mama: These begin with your favorite box cake mix (even gluten free!) and get an adorable glow up with chocolate and fondant. Your guests will love these.
Oreo Truffle Balls from Juggling Act Mama: These might be the best two-bite dessert you'll ever eat. And they're no bake! All the flavor of your favorite cookie in a chocolatey package.
Homemade Brownie Truffles from Juggling Act Mama: These decadent treats start with a boxed brownie mix, and can be decorated to make gifts for just about any holiday. Here, we've topped the chocolate coating with red, green, and white sprinkles.
Mocha Truffles from Juggling Act Mama: These truffles are full of mocha flavor and oh-so-chocolatey. You're going to want to make a big batch of these and freeze them to have all season long.
Tri-Color Christmas Cake Pops from Juggling Act Mama: These cake pops are show-stoppers. They look so fancy, but are actually really easy to make, and will impress guests and hostesses alike. The best part? They start with cake mix!
Brownies & Bars
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bars from Juggling Act Mama: These bars are edible cookie dough topped with rich chocolate ganache and loaded with chocolate chips. They are the the no-bake dessert of your dreams.
Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting from Juggling Act Mama: Homemade fudgy brownies topped with delicious, homemade cream cheese frosting, sprinkles, and candies. These are the best brownies for the bake sale or Christmas party.
Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies from Juggling Act Mama: These pack in the flavor of three different desserts into one dreamy, sweet treat. What could be better than chocolate with a swirl of cheesecake?
Magic Bars Recipe with Shortbread from Juggling Act Mama: These bars are loaded with delicious ingredients like pecans, coconut, and toffee chips along with two kinds of chocolate. If you love Twix bars, these are for you.
Bark
Gingerbread Cookie Dough Bark from Juggling Act Mama: If you love gingerbread, and eating cookie dough, you have to give this bark recipe a try. This is layers of eggless cookie dough sandwiched between gingerbread flavored candy, and topped with fun sprinkles. It's almost too good to be true.
Chocolate Christmas Bark from Juggling Act Mama: This milk chocolate bark is super easy to make and only requires three ingredients. You'll want to make a double batch because you won't be able to resist this delicious snack.
White Chocolate Bark from Juggling Act Mama: This White Chocolate Bark recipe is great for gifting and easy enough for kids to help with. It also makes a big batch.
More Holiday Treats
Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites from Juggling Act Mama: These delicious little bites are the best snack for parties and game-day and they are a cinch to make. Peanut butter, cream cheese, pretzels, and chocolate - a little sweet, a little salty. You will love them.
Old Fashioned Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge from Juggling Act Mama: Homemade fudge like Grammy used to make. This is a rich, decadent family recipe that is always on our Christmas dessert table. It's the ultimate fudge recipe.
Pomegranate Cupcakes from Juggling Act Mama: If you love red velvet cake, you have to give these a try. They are decadent and topped with a rich cream cheese frosting and pomegranate arils. These are perfect for Valentine's Day or holiday parties.
Caramel Hot Cocoa Bomb Recipe from Juggling Act Mama: Hot cocoa bombs are so trendy and these are so delicious. You'll love the mix of salty and sweet in this treat. Just add warm milk!
Hot Chocolate Charcuterie Board from Juggling Act Mama: Who needs a gingerbread house when you can have a charcuterie board? This festive (and delicious!) spread has everything you need to make hot chocolate, and cookies and treats to serve along with it.
Jessica Warner says
My favorite thing to bake for the holidays are Anginetti Italian cookies!
Jillian Too says
I love baking sugar cookies for the holidays.
Andrea Darst says
I love baking Christmas cookies with my mom, sister and daughter!
Sandy Wagner says
I love to bake/make cheesecake
Pat Schwab says
I like to make fudge and cookies.
Elena says
I like to bake gingerbread cookies
Michelle P says
Fudge, brownies, cookies
Danielle says
Love baking all kinds of cookies for the Christmas.
Hard to pick a favorite because my husband makes Snickerdoodles with me and I make other varieties with our daughters and granddaughter.
Love the holidays, Family is my favorite!
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Danielle
Michele C says
I love to make cheesecake during the holidays.
Sara Zielinski says
My favorite thing to bake during the holidays is cream cheese spritz cookies.
Ang Paris says
Oooh those sound awesome!
Kelly D says
I like to bake sugar cookies.
Gail Beam says
I like to make cookies and fudge
Dana Rodriguez says
Those Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies look so good!I love making candy and cookies during the holidays!
Brenda Haines says
I love making cranberry orange bread for my friends and family.
Charity Cram says
Frosted Christmas Sugar Cookies are my favorite Christmas treat to bake!
Karen says
My favorite thing to bake at the holidays is whatever the family requests that year. Pumpkin roll and mini peanut butter chocolate cups are in high demand this season.
Leela says
I love to bake cookies and cheesecakes.
Carol Workman says
Love baking cookies, pies and cheesecakes. Love to give them to family and friends. Thank you
Kristen Osborne says
I love baking pies for the holidays. This year I'm going to try making the red velvet cheesecake brownies. They look so good ????
Jeanna says
Cookies! My daughter and I love baking cookies for the Holidays!
Bryn says
Cut out sugar cookies
Peggy Gibbs says
I enjoy baking fruitcake for the holidays.
Sandy says
Decorated sugar cookies
Beverly Abrego says
My favorite thing to make during holidays is monkey bread.
Tina says
Christmas sugar cookies and pumpkin rolls!
Deborah W. says
I love to bake lots and lots of different kinds of cookies. Yum!
Cheryl Chervitz says
Cookies are my favorite to bake. I make a great sugar cookie.
Stephanie H. says
I love making yummy fudge, cakes, cookies, and brownies.
Nicole says
vanilla cookies
Susan Broughton says
My favorite thing to bake for the holidays is Christmas cookies or pies.
Laurajj says
Oh I love making sugar cookie cutouts and decorating them! We make such a mess...but oh have so much fun!
Kelly M says
I love making sugar cookies!!
MARTHAIA says
Coconut & sugar cookies ...
Sunnymay says
I love to make sugar cookies and then ice them with tinted frosting and doo-dads like sprinkles and cinnamon hearts. My granny let us decorate and eat the traditional shaped cookies and then we put them in shallow boxes lined with wax paper plus wax paper between the layers. The ones we decorated ourselves tasted the best.
sandra says
sugar cookie cut outs
Katie Bellamy says
Cookies! We make lots & lots of cookies!
Barrie says
For the holidays, I love to bake Russian Tea Cakes and cranberry nut bread! Christmas morning I always bake monkey bread!
Kim says
I love making muffins!
Erika Chilton says
My favorite thing to bake for the holidays are Cherry Chip Cookies & Peppermint Sugar Cookies.
Sarah Phillips says
My favorite thing to bake during the holidays is Pumpkin Silk Pie! It's made with gingersnap crust and it's absolutely heavenly. It's like a mixture between a cheesecake and pumpkin pie. I started making it a couple of years ago and it's been an absolute hit. I get requests for it as soon as the holidays begin!
Vickie says
Oh my..we do a lot of baking and cooking too.
Many faves.
Top two both my grandmas 100 year old plus recipes.
Boil chocolate pecan fudge and her real and authentic red velvet cake..yum yum
Kathryn C says
I love making raspberry Lindzer Tart cookies for the holidays!
Kathryn C
Linda W says
Custardy bread pudding with raisins and lemon meringue pie. Both family traditions for the holidays.
Linda Kish says
I bake some breads and cookies mainly.
Cindy B says
I bake Peanut Butter Kisses before Christmas and cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning.
haleigh says
Christmas Cookies!!
Audra O'Hara says
I like to bake sugar cookies with the little round sprinkles.
Melissa Storms says
I make pine nut cookies for the holidays and they are so delicious I look forward to them every year.
gala says
We like to bake Italian cookies
kathy Persons says
Everyone love smy homemade snickers bars
Karen D says
I love to bake Christmas cookies and cheesecake
Mary Beth Elderton says
I like baking pies---my favorite is Sweet Potato
Michelle J. says
Pumpkin roll!