45 Easy Christmas Baking Recipes

Nothing says Christmas like making delicious and easy Christmas baking recipes.  These Christmas baking recipes for cookies, cakes, and more will bring the holiday season into your home. Some are even easy enough for kids to make!

These delicious peppermint pudding cookies are loaded with yummy chocolate and would be perfect for a cookie exchange or bake sale!

Christmas Pudding Cookies with Peppermint

These rich, tender, and buttery cakes are bursting with holiday flavors. The tart cranberries perfectly balance the sweet oranges for bright and festive cakes that make for great gifts or tasty treats.

Cranberry Orange Pound Cakes

Crème Brulée Gingersnap Cookies are a great Christmas tradition! Your kids will enjoy using a kitchen torch to make the Crème Brulée (parental assistance is advised)!

Creme Brulee Gingersnap Cookies

These Gingerbread Cookie Bars are chewy, sweet and taste just like gingerbread! These cookie bars make the best holiday treat! It’s a perfect Christmas recipe for baking this year!

Gingerbread Cookie Bars

This spin on the traditional yule log features a fluffy chocolate sponge cake filled with a cranberry-raspberry mascarpone cream and coated with chocolate ganache resembling bark for a delicious and beautiful Christmas centerpiece.

Cran-Raspberry Yule Log Cake

These Peppermint Bark Cookies bring together everything you love about shortbread AND peppermint bark in one bite! It’s a perfect Christmas recipe for baking this year!

Easy Peppermint Bark Cookies

These Christmas cherry balls are so easy to make and great for making with small children or with a glass of wine….or three…. with friends.

Traditional Cherry Balls

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