If the days leading up to Christmas have you feeling overwhelmed, take a breather, preheat that oven, and let the therapeutic magic of baking whisk away your stress. In this article, we present a collection of 30 simple treats that not only promise to tantalize your taste buds but also serve as a therapeutic escape from the chaos.
Apple Pie Cookies
These irresistible apple pie cookies will be the talk of the table this holiday season! Made with fresh apples and a sweet, delicious apple pie filling, you will feel like you are eating mini apple pies (without all the hassle)! Its warm, comforting flavor makes the perfect dessert for your November and December gatherings, especially alongside a bowl of ice cream!
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Funfetti Cookies
These colorful funfetti cookies put the “fun” in eating dessert! Made with a sugar cookie base from basic pantry ingredients and crunchy colored sprinkles, they are a soft, chewy treat that all ages will love. With so many color variations to choose from, they are the perfect cookies for your next birthday party, baby shower, or holiday party!
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Chocolate Orange Bundt Cake
I don't know about you, but chocolate and orange together always make me think of Christmas. Guests will love the simplicity and festivity of this orange cake—a tender orange sponge infused with candied orange zest and Christmas spices like cinnamon and star anise. Finally, it's topped with a quick chocolate glaze and adorned with homemade candied orange slices for a celebratory look.
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Triple Chocolate Brownies
Fudgy triple chocolate brownies are a chocoholic's dream and will satisfy any chocolate craving! They have the richest brownie flavor, a quintessential crackly top, three kinds of gooey chocolate chips, and the most amazing dense fudge texture. Utterly irresistible homemade brownies with lots of delicious chocolate!
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Mini Gingerbread Cheesecakes
These mini gingerbread cheesecakes are perfect for Christmas or the holidays. They are creamy, full of flavor, and baked in a muffin pan. These cheesecakes have a cinnamon graham cracker crust, spiced gingerbread cheesecake, and whipped cream. They are topped with a gingerbread men cookie for decoration. These are perfect for a Christmas party.
Get the recipe: Mini Gingerbread Cheesecakes
Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies
These irresistible soft batch cream cheese chocolate chip cookies are so chocolatey, moist, and flavorful that it’ll be hard to resist sinking your teeth into a second or third! Made with just some essential pantry ingredients, this easy cookie recipe is the perfect dessert to serve for special occasions and a casual dessert to keep in the kitchen cookie jar.
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Gingerbread Bundt Cake
Trim your tree, sing some carols then sweeten your holiday with a Gingerbread Bundt Cake. Soft, moist and filled with the perfect mix of festive flavors, this Christmas cake is a delicious way to celebrate the season.
Get the recipe: Gingerbread Bundt Cake
Maple Donuts
Maple donuts are the cozy, sweet, and sticky treat you need to try for Thanksgiving and beyond. If you love maple syrup, you simply have to make this baked maple donut recipe, it is the most delicious breakfast the whole family will look forward to in the morning! The best part? Maple glazed donuts are simple to make and take less than 30 minutes!
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Christmas Cheesecake
Amazing Christmas Cheesecake to make your holiday season as delicious and magical as you imagine! This heavenly dessert is a vanilla bean cheesecake layered with an easy cranberry jam and smooth white chocolate mousse.
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Pecan Snowball Cookies
These sweet, crunchy, and buttery pecan snowball cookies are a delicious way to decorate your dessert table this holiday season! Also known as Mexican wedding cookies or Russian tea cookies, these snowy treats use just a handful of basic pantry staples to create a fun-shaped and eye-catching dessert that all ages will love. It is one of the best Christmas cookie recipes for your December parties and even better when wrapped up as a gift!
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Cinnamon Roll Cake
Cinnamon roll cake- a giant homemade cinnamon roll in cake form, with all the classic cinnamon roll flavors. It features soft, fluffy dough, a cinnamon sugar swirl, and cream cheese icing on top.
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No-Bake Chocolate Pie
This No-Bake Chocolate Pie recipe is the ultimate combination of convenience and elegance! Featuring a rich and velvety chocolate ganache filling nestled within a heavenly Oreo cookie crust and crowned with fluffy Chantilly whipped cream, this delightful dessert is a true masterpiece perfect for any occasion and sure to impress any crowd!
Go to the recipe: No-Bake Chocolate Pie
Christmas Spice Cookies
Classic vanilla cookies with a dash of the best holiday spices for Christmas. Decorate with coarse sugar for a little extra crunch and a touch of sweetness!
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Nutella Cheesecake
This homemade Nutella cheesecake recipe is made from scratch with a graham cracker crust. Super creamy and rich, this delicious cheesecake is even topped off with a Nutella ganache and chopped hazelnuts.
Get the recipe: Nutella Cheesecake
Espresso Brownies
Why go to Starbucks for your brownie fix when you can make these gooey, chocolatey espresso brownies from the comfort of your own kitchen in no time? Ready in under an hour, these easy espresso brownies combine dark chocolate, cocoa powder, espresso powder, and two types of sugar to create a decadent chocolate dessert with a rich coffee flavor that tastes amazing and smells incredible!
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Mocha Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies
Chocolate marshmallow cookies are fudgy, brownie-like cookies with a hint of
espresso and a gooey marshmallow center! These marshmallow-stuffed cookies are easy to make in one bowl with simple ingredients.
Get the recipe: Mocha Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies
Napoleon Cake
Napoleon cake is a perfectly moist and deliciously creamy dessert made of crunchy puff pastry and silky pastry cream that can be a great fit for any occasion. This recipe will show you how to make Napoleon cake that is flaky, elegant, and overflowing with homemade goodness.
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Cranberry Orange Bread
A classic Christmas loaf cake is just what you need to enjoy with coffee and loved ones during the holidays. With classic Christmas flavors of aromatic orange zest and tart cranberries, this is a super easy Christmas cake recipe made in a pound cake tin using classic cake ingredients. It's like a festive take on a moist and delicious banana bread.
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Towering Fruit Pavlova
This “tree” shaped “cake” is made from discs of meringue, baked until crispy/chewy. Then, they are layered with fruit and whipped cream. Customize the fruit to your liking. Much easier to make than it looks - and it will thrill your guests! Get the recipe.
Chocolate Crème Brûlée
Smooth, rich, chocolatey, with a shattering sugar crust. Chocolate Crème Brûlée! Get the recipe.
Night Before Christmas Mice
You need this cookie in your holiday repertoire. Just look at them! Kids love helping to form the tiny critters with their licorice tails and almond ears. Get the recipe.
Chocolate Whiskey Balls
Everyone needs a no-bake treat and these whiskey balls are a classic. Our version is more chocolatey than ever, and super simple to make! These are best if made ahead allowing the flavors to improve. Get the recipe.
Hot Chocolate Cupcakes
This winter, treat yourself and loved ones to some decadent Hot Chocolate Cupcakes. With a moist cupcake that uses real hot chocolate powder and a light, gooey marshmallow frosting, you won’t be able to resist this seasonal dessert!
Get the recipe: Hot Chocolate Cupcakes
Eggnog Cupcakes
ump into the holiday season with these Eggnog Cupcakes, topped with a smooth Ermine buttercream and decorated with pearls to create the perfect holiday cupcakes.
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Gingerbread Cupcake
These gingerbread cupcakes with notes of ginger, molasses, and spices are the most sensational holiday ginger cupcakes you will ever have!! They’re soft and moist with plenty of complex spiced notes and a creamy vanilla and maple buttercream frosting. These holiday cupcakes are perfect for parties, school bake sales, to give as gifts, or to leave out for Santa!
Get the recipe: Gingerbread Cupcake
Soft Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles
These Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles are a perfect cookie for any occassion! They are soft and chewy vanilla sugar cookies with sprinkles mixed into the dough, just like funfetti cake but in cookie form!
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Christmas Butter Cookies
These buttery delights are carefully dipped in luscious melted chocolate and adorned with festive holiday sprinkles, adding joy to each bite. With a straightforward recipe, you can have these delightful cookies ready to share in just about an hour.
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Gingerbread Brownies
These Gingerbread Brownies have soft and chewy gingerbread cookies layered into fudgy chocolate brownies! They're perfectly gooey and so flavorful!
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Cinnamon Cupcakes
Fragrant and sweet cinnamon cupcakes with cream cheese frosting that adds just the right amount of rich tangy goodness. Moist cinnamon muffins with a hint of warmth from the cinnamon spice and topped with a silky smooth cinnamon cream cheese frosting, making these the most irresistibly delicious cupcakes.
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Cranberry Curd Tart
This tart features an easy-to-make almond crust that is filled with a smooth, sweet/tart cranberry curd filling. The torched meringue topping can be applied in whatever decorative way you like! Get the recipe.
More from Spatula Desserts
Our guide for the best cinnamon desserts includes a delicious assortment of lighter cinnamon sugar desserts and more indulgent recipes that feature the delicious warming spice. Cinnamon is either the hero ingredient in these recipes or the hero spice supporting other delicious ingredients such as apples, peaches, pumpkins, etc.
Go to the recipes: Cinnamon Desserts
Different Types of Cookies
All the different types of cookies with pictures in one place! Whether you prefer chocolate chip, oatmeal, drop, thumbprint, or icebox, consider this the ultimate guide to different types of cookies.
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Nutella Desserts
These are the best Nutella desserts to enjoy when you just can't get enough of that smooth chocolate hazelnut taste. If you're a Nutella addict like me, you'll love my list of Nutella dessert recipes.
Go to the recipes: Nutella desserts
This article was originally published as Easy Baking Recipes at Spatula Desserts.
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