12 Best Christmas Baking Recipes (I Make #6 Every Year)
Get ready for the best Christmas baking recipes imaginable. If one of your favorite parts of the holidays is making baked treats, you’ll want to save this collection of recipes for later.
From Christmas tree brownies to fluffy gingerbread cinnamon rolls and orange cranberry scones, you’ll surely find a recipe you’ll want to bake every year as a new holiday tradition.
Christmas Tree Brownies
These homemade Christmas tree brownies are just about the cutest thing ever. You’ll have so much fun decorating them.
Get the Recipe: Christmas Tree Brownies
Cranberry Orange Scones
Forget the bakery; make a batch of these orange cranberry scones at home for way cheaper. The orange glaze goes perfectly with the tartness of the cranberries.
Make a double batch, one for gifting and one to enjoy for yourself.
Get the Recipe: Cranberry Orange Scones
Gingerbread Cinnamon Rolls
Baking these gingerbread cinnamon rolls will make your kitchen smell like the holidays. Made entirely from scratch, everyone will love the gingerbread flavor and cream cheese frosting.
Get the Recipe: Gingerbread Cinnamon Rolls
Cake Mix Christmas Cookies
Using cake mix to make cookies is a great way to cut down on the amount of ingredients you need to buy.
These delicious cookies are loaded with M&M’s, pretzels, marshmallows, and more. They’re the perfect sweet and salty treat.
Get the Recipe: Cake Mix Christmas Cookies
Gingerbread Loaf
A moist and fluffy gingerbread loaf makes a great seasonal treat to enjoy during the holidays. With a thick cream cheese frosting smeared over the top and a burst of gingerbread in each bite, this recipe is a keeper.
Get the Recipe: Gingerbread Loaf
Red Velvet Poke Cake
This recipe is made by poking holes in a red velvet cake and adding a heavenly cheesecake pudding mixture that drips down into the cake.
I brought this cake to a Christmas party last year, and everyone thought it was so good.
Get the Recipe: Red Velvet Poke Cake
Chocolate Rudolph Cupcakes
These decadent cupcakes are made with a dark chocolate fudge cake mix and other ingredients. You’ll have so much fun decorating these to look like reindeer, and it’s easy enough to have kids help out, too.
Get the Recipe: Chocolate Reindeer Cupcakes
Chocolate Peppermint Biscotti Recipe
This chocolate peppermint biscotti is yummy to serve with your Christmas morning coffee. It’s topped with white chocolate and crushed peppermint, yum!
Get the Recipe: Chocolate Peppermint Biscotti
Cinnamon Monkey Bread
This is hands down the best monkey bread you’ll ever try, and it’s made with homemade bread dough. The glaze is so tasty with the cinnamon and brown sugar flavor.
Serve it on Christmas morning for a treat no one will be able to forget.
Get the Recipe: Cinnamon Monkey Bread
Melted Snowman Cookies
These melted snowman cookies will be wildly popular at your Christmas cookie exchange! The licorice scarf is such a cute idea.
Get the Recipe: Melted Snowman Cookies
Chocolate Chunk Pecan Pie
Jazzing up pecan pie with chunks of chocolate is such a wonderful idea, and it will score big with any chocolate lover.
One recipe reviewer said the taste closely resembles the popular chocolate pecan pie from Cracker Barrel.
Get the Recipe: Chocolate Chunk Pecan Pie
Cranberry Coffee Cake
This moist coffee cake is filled with fresh cranberries and finished off with a homemade brown sugar cinnamon streusel. Serve it for breakfast, or enjoy it while watching Christmas movies.
Get the Recipe: Cranberry Coffee Cake
