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Best Holiday Sweet Recipes

Holiday sweets are the perfect way to end your festive celebrations on a high note. From classic Gooey Cinnamon Rolls to rich Shortbread Cookies, these treats are loved by all and will become part of your treasured holiday traditions.

Each recipe is easy to make, family-tested, and guaranteed to bring smiles around your table. These desserts are not just favoritesโ€”theyโ€™re the sweet memories that make your holidays unforgettable!

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Slice of chocolate chip bundt cake with fingers of frosting and whole cake in background.

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Nothing Bundt Cake Recipe

Chilled frosted Crumbl Sugar cookies on wire rack.

Crumbl Pink Sugar Cookies Recipe (Copycat)

Layered mud pie ice cream cake, with a few pieces removed to show the decadent layers.

Oreo Mud Pie Recipe

Scotch shortbread fingers, buttery, crumbly and light.

Easy Traditional Shortbread Recipe (Scottish Recipe)

Pizzelles being dusted with powdered sugar.

Italian Waffle Cookies

Silver spoon with creamy, thick vanilla sauce dripping into jar.

Vanilla Cream Sauce

Biscoff Stuffed Cookie butter cookies.

Best Biscoff Stuffed Cookie Butter Cookies Recipe

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Best Pumpkin Muffin Recipe with Streusel (Panera Copycat)

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Cranberry Oranges scones with orange glaze on a cooling rack.

Cranberry Orange Scone Recipe

These homemade Cranberry Orange Scones are melt-in-your-mouth tender with a golden, crispy exterior and bright pops of cranberries. Finished with a silky orange

Metal spatula holding a slice of baklava over the baking dish of the rest of the baklava.

Homemade Baklava

Learn how to make perfectly crisp and honey-sweet Baklava, with layers of spiced walnuts between delicate phyllo sheets! This classic recipe creates a

Puppy chow served in a white bowl on a cloth with chocolate chips on it.

Puppy Chow Chex

Looking for a Muddy Buddy recipe (aka Puppy Chow) thatโ€™s truly next level? This version has everythingโ€”crispy cereal, creamy peanut butter, rich chocolate, and

Creme brulee in a small white ramekin, garnished with berries and a mint leaf.

How to make Creme Brulee

Learning how to make Crรจme Brรปlรฉe doesn't need to be intimidating! This recipe keeps it simple while sticking to the easy, tried-and-true techniques that make

Two snickerdoodle cookies on top of a stack of wooden coasters with one cookie missing a bite.

Best Recipe for Snickerdoodles

The moment this Snickerdoodle Cookies Recipe hits the oven, that sweet, cinnamon sugar smell will fill your kitchen and make everything feel cozy. These aren't

Whole baked sweet potato pie sitting on a wire rack.

Homemade Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

This Sweet Potato Pie recipe is rich and velvety, taking the traditional Southern recipe to a whole new level. Roasting the sweet potatoes brings out extra

Cookie Butter Snicker doodles on a plate with a jar of cookie butter in background and stacks of cookies one with a bite taken out to reveal a gooey, chewy center.

Chewy Cookie Butter Snickerdoodles

Love snickerdoodles? Youโ€™ll go crazy for these chewy Cookie Butter Snickerdoodles! Made with creamy cookie butter and a touch of whole wheat flour, theyโ€™re

Christmas Reindeer Chex mix in bowl with a pretty scoop.

Christmas Muddy Buddies (Puppy Chow) + Free Gift Tags

Ready in minutes my Christmas Muddy Buddies are the perfect sweet treat. It is also called Christmas Puppy Chow recipe, but I like to call it a big bowl of

A pan filled with mini cinnamon rolls slathered with a cream cheese frosting.

Easy Mini Cinnamon Rolls (Cinna-Minis)

This easy recipe makes several dozen Mini Cinnamon Rolls, perfectly soft and chewy bite-size cinnamon rolls. Cinna-minis are my

A pie plate filled with 6 cinnamon rolls, frosted.

Easy Small Batch Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting

Whip up a batch of bliss with our Small Batch Cinnamon Rolls! Six soft, fluffy treats oozing with cinnamon goodness and topped with cream cheese frosting.

Crookies, or cookie croissants baked and on a serving platter.

TikTok Cookie Croissant Recipe (Crookies)

Cookie Croissants or Le Crookies have been all over TikTok and other social media, and it was time I tried it! They're delicious! A Parisian and American mashup

Easter Sugar Cookie Cake with two pieces removed.

Easy Easter Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe (Cadbury Eggs)

Ready for the oven in minutes, this make-aheadย Easter Cookie Cakeย is an easy dessert. Easy and chewy, it's a a giant sugar cookie - Cadbury mini egg cake! I

Lemon blueberry cookies on baking sheet with slices of fresh lemon and fresh blueberries.

Lemon Blueberry Cookies (Soft and Chewy)

Chewy lemon blueberry cookies are a burst of sunshine in every bite! These soft, no-chill lemon sugar cookies are packed with fresh or frozen blueberries and

Footed glass bowl filled with three scoops of creamy Baileys Irish Cream Ice Cream.

Homemade Baileys Irish Cream Ice Cream Recipe

Rich, creamy, and easy Baileys Irish Cream Ice Cream Recipe is a fun, chocolate Bailey's ice cream. An adult treat perfect for St. Patrick's Day โ€“ And any other

Gooey, chewy blondies stacked on top of each other.

Best Blondies Recipe

Why Are Your Blondies Dry? The #1 culprit is overbaking! This blondie recipe has been my go-to for decadesโ€”gooey, chewy, and packed with caramel flavor. After

A stack of two pink brownies sits by strawberries on a paper sheet.

Easy Strawberry Browniesย Recipe with Frosting

Got 5 minutes? Make these easy Strawberry Brownies with luscious strawberry frosting โ€“ I think of these more as strawberry blondies, soft, fudgy brownies but

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Caramel Peanut Clustersย Recipe

Learn how to make caramel peanut clusters with this fun, no-bake recipe! Perfect for holidays or anytime you want an easy, sweet-and-salty treat. Get my simple

A thick slice of peanut butter Oreo pie decorated with peanuts, chocolate shavings, and Oreos on a plate.

Easy Oreo Peanut Butter Pie Recipe (No Bake)

A 5-ingredient Oreo Peanut Butter Pie no-bake dessert! A decadent Oreo crust layered with an easy salty peanut butter layer, then topped with a simple chocolate

Chunky chocolate chip cookies high altitude on cooling rack one broken in half with a a bite.

Best High Altitude Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

These chewy chocolate chip cookies are thick, deliciously chunky, and practically perfect in every way! A reader favorite since 2017, with over 200,000 saves,

Red Velvet Donut with bite taken out of it.

Easy Red Velvet Cake Donuts Recipe

Ready for the oven in minutes, these easy Red Velvet Donuts are topped with an incredible Irish Cream Cream Cheese Glaze. Red velvet cake donuts are baked, not

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