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Christmas Recipes

These Christmas recipes will help you make the season extra special, without the stress. Every recipe in this collection has been tested and approved in my kitchen, so you can count on them to deliver big flavor with no guesswork.

If baking is on your holiday to-do list, you’ll love these easy Christmas cookie recipes and Christmas candy recipes — perfect for cookie exchanges, gifting, or just keeping the cookie jar full. Don’t miss my foolproof Christmas fudge recipes — they’re rich, creamy, and come together with just a few ingredients.

Feeding a crowd? I’ve rounded up the best Christmas party food recipes and Christmas potluck recipes that are festive, easy to prep ahead, and guaranteed to disappear fast. And for the main event, I’ve got reliable recipes for Christmas dinner that take the guesswork out of holiday cooking — from make-ahead sides to the perfect roast.

Here are some of my Favorites: Meringue Christmas cookies, Grandma’s old-fashion fudge, Christmas brownie balls.

A white dish of Ambrosia Salad with Cool Whip.

Ambrosia Salad with Cool Whip

A Spiral han with pineapple and brown sugar.

Instant Pot Ham with Pineapple and Brown Sugar

A serving of the ambrosia watergate salad with a cherry on top.

Ambrosia Watergate Salad

A Crock Pot Brown Sugar Pineapple Ham, adorned with orange slices and encircled by lime wedges, sits enticingly on a white plate.

Crock Pot Brown Sugar Pineapple Ham

A dish of sliced cooked carrots glazed with brown sugar, mixed with small pieces of bacon, served in a white bowl.

Brown Sugar Carrots with Bacon

A bowl of pink Strawberry Fluff Salad is topped with marshmallows, while small bowls of juicy strawberries and extra fluff salad sit invitingly in the background.

Strawberry Fluff Salad

An easy charcuterie board featuring crackers, grapes, strawberries, mozzarella balls, salami, dried apricots, red berries, jam, and cheese cubes.

Easy Charcuterie Board

A hand holds a cracker with Cream Cheese and Crab Dip, poised above a white dish brimming with the creamy baked delight. Chopped green onions adorn the top, while a wooden spoon peeks from the side.

Cream Cheese and Crab Dip

A slice of spinach and feta quiche sits invitingly on a white plate with a fork, set against a pristine background adorned with decorative ceramic containers. Similar to a classic spinach frittata recipe, every bite promises delightful flavors.

Spinach Frittata with Feta

Plate of appetizers with a small dish of mustard in the center, placed on a wooden table with a pink cloth in the background.

Little Smokies Pigs in a Blanket

Homemade Hot Cocoa Mix

Plate of the side dish, garnished with herbs, next to cubes of cheddar and a whole potato, on a striped cloth.

Au Gratin Potatoes with Gruyere Cheese

5 Minute Fudge tied in festive string.

5 Minute Fudge

Two glass bowls of creamy pink strawberry dessert, reminiscent of a Cottage Cheese Jello Salad, are topped with strawberry pieces. They sit on a white wooden surface with whole strawberries and a striped cloth nearby.

Strawberry Cottage Cheese Jello Salad

A pile of chocolate-coated pretzel sticks, reminiscent of chocolate haystacks, is stacked on a white plate against a light background.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Haystacks

Fun Chex peanut butter truffles in a white bowl.

Chex Peanut Butter Truffles

A bowl filled with a delightful Slow Cooker Chex Mix featuring pretzels, cereal squares, and peanuts.

Slow Cooker Chex Mix

A plate of maple-glazed baby carrots, perfectly garnished with fresh parsley.

Maple Glazed Carrots

Snickerdoodles with Cake Mix with a glass of milk.

Cake Mix Snickerdoodles

Dessert are wrapped with twine and adorned with a small pine twig, all elegantly placed on a white surface.

Norwegian Cookies (Brune Pinner)

A crock pot breakfast casserole on a plate.

Crock Pot Breakfast Casserole

A bowl filled with Cookies and Cream Chex Mix showcases cereal squares in shades of white, gray, and light brown.

Cookies and Cream Chex Mix Muddy Buddies

A tray of the hot cocoa cookies.

Hot Cocoa Cookies

Birdseed Ornaments tied with twine hanging on a tree branch.

Birdseed Ornaments

A closeup of the rolo pretzel bites.

Rolo Pretzel Bites

A stack of the coal candy.

Santa’s Coal Candy

A chocolate kiss cookie surrounded by kiss candies.

Chocolate Kiss Cookies

Salami Roll Ups crafted with rolled salami slices filled with smooth cream cheese grace a white plate, accompanied by vibrant green olives.

Cream Cheese Salami Roll Ups

A stack of three sugar-dusted welsh cookies.

Welsh Cookies

Crab stuffed portobello mushrooms topped with parsley and breadcrumbs rest elegantly on a white plate.

Shrimp and Crab Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

Three boursin cheese stuffed mushrooms filled with spinach and topped with breadcrumbs, served on a white plate. Parsley garnish in the background.

Spinach and Boursin Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms

A veal marsala meatball topped with a mushroom cap, held together with a toothpick, is drizzled with savory sauce and artfully presented on a white plate.

Veal Marsala Meatball Bites

A tasty Roast shrimp cocktail.

Roasted Shrimp Cocktail

A garlic herb butter log with two slices cut, rests on a wooden board, garnished with fresh herbs. Garlic bulbs linger in the background.

Garlic Herb Butter

Whipped Ricotta Dip with Honey in a top shot surrounded by crusty bread.

Whipped Ricotta Dip with Honey

A closeup on the cranberry mimosa decorated with berries.

Cranberry Mimosas

Caramel and Nut turtle cookies on a platter.

Turtle Cookies

Close-up of a sliced Orange Jello Salad mold on a plate, with a mandarin orange slice elegantly garnishing the side.

Orange Jello Salad

Vintage Lime Cottage Cheese Jello Salad on a white plate.

Vintage Lime Cottage Cheese Jello Salad

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