10 Best Christmas Dessert Recipes

These really are the best desserts from around the Blogosphere!

You’ll definitely find some here!

This first one is Carmel Gingerbread Cupcakes

Here’s the ingredients:

½ cup butter, softened
½ cup brown sugar
1 egg
½ cup water
¼ cup sour cream
½ cup molasses
1-1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon allspice
½ teaspoon nutmeg

Go HERE for the frosting and directions.

 

White Christmas Bark

Ingredients:

10 oz white chocolate chips
1-2 tablespoons red and green sprinkles

Go HERE for directions.

 

Melted Snowmen Oreo Balls

Ingredients:

1 pkg. (8 oz.) brick cream cheese, softened
36 OREO Cookies (regular size), finely crushed
16 oz. vanilla candy wafers or melts, melted (these can be found at Wal-Mart, Target, Michaels or other craft stores)
48 Mini OREO Bite Size Cookies
decorations: decorating icing or gel; multi-colored sprinkles

Go HERE for directions.

 

Rainbow Christmas Wreath Cake

Ingredients:

1 Box Betty Crocker, SuperMoist white cake mix,
water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
Red and green food color
1 Container (12 oz) Betty Crocker Whipped fluffy white frosting,
red, green and white candy sprinkles

Go HERE for directions

 

Santa Hat Cupcakes

Ingredients:

1 box chocolate cake mix (plus required eggs, oil)
1 batch buttercream frosting (many recipes listed here)
Red food coloring (I cannot recommend AmeriColor’s Super Red gel coloring enough — buy a bottle, it’s well worth it!)
A large round pastry tip and a small star tip

Go HERE for instructions.

 

3 Ingredient Frozen Peppermint Pie

Ingredients:

2 pre-made Oreo cookie pie crust
1 8 oz. container Cool Whip (whipped cream) or Homemade Heavy Cream
1 (1.5 quart) container Peppermint Ice Cream
Crushed candy canes to top (optional)

Go HERE

 

Rudolf Cupcakes

Ingredients:

Plain vanilla cupcakes
whipped chocolate mouse topping or brown frosting
small round pretzels

Go HERE for directions. Under the first photo, it says How To Make These Yourself.

 

Eggnog Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

3 1/2 C. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 C. butter, softened
1/4 C. Crisco shortening
1 C. sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp. rum extract (optional for an extra “eggnog” zing)
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup sour cream

Go HERE and get this awesome recipe.

 

Swirled Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened (no substitutions, margarine wont work)
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup of icing sugar
1 Tbsp corn syrup
1-2 Tbsp water
1/2 tsp flavoured extract (optional)
Food colouring (optional)

Go HERE for directions.

 

Almond Cupcakes with Fresh Raspberry Frosting

Ingredients:

1 box white cake mix
½ Cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 Cup water
1½ tsp almond extract
½ Cup fresh raspberries, washed and dried
3 Cups powdered sugar
1 stick butter, unsalted, softened
½ tsp vanilla bean paste or extract

Get directions HERE.

 

Have fun baking and have a wonderful holiday! Thank you for stopping by! Do you have a favorite Christmas dessert? I’d love to hear about or see the recipe. You can leave the link in my comments!