30 Festive Christmas Desserts

This classic Christmas pudding is a stunner! Top this bittersweet spongy pudding in a dreamy, creamy butter sauce and prepare to be amazed. It's 100 percent worth the effort and the perfect Christmas dessert to impress everyone around the table.

Here’s a holiday cookie we just can’t say no to. These Hot Chocolate Cookies taste just like the holiday drink! The cookie batter channels just the right flavor of the liquid chocolate: it’s textured with sugar crystals and studded with chocolate chunks. The best part? A marshmallow center ties it all together, forming a melty lake of gooey bliss. These are divine.

What's a better Christmas dessert than Peppermint Ice Cream? It tastes just like a peppermint stick, flavored with both extract and crushed candies. The texture is lusciously creamy, and the candy shards of red and white give it the perfect festive look. It’s fun to whip up at home and will wow everyone! 

Here’s the perfect easy Christmas dessert: try gingerbread cake! This soft, moist version of the iconic cookie is so easy to whip up: no rolling or cutting out dough required! You don’t even need a mixer. Stir up the batter and bake it into this beautiful moist and spiced cake. The rich molasses flavor tastes like a soft and fluffy version of the cutout cookies, and it’s made in a big pan to feed a crowd.

Chocolate and peanut butter are one of those classic flavor combinations that will never go out of style. Here’s our one of our favorite easy treats starring these flavor besties: peanut butter balls. They’re simple to make, requiring no special equipment and under 30 minutes of your time. Whip up a batch and enjoy that crunchy chocolate coating covering an irresistibly creamy and chewy peanut butter interior.

These molasses cookies...they're something special. This recipe makes soft and chewy cookies with a sugar-crisp exterior, infused with cozy, bold spices. Each one is fractured into picture-perfect crinkles, and when you sink in your teeth for the first bite, it's like being enveloped in a warm hug.

When it comes to Christmas desserts, this one takes the cake: Linzer cookies! This classic Austrian sandwich cookie is a delight: buttery almond shortbread sandwiches a layer of fruity preserves, making a treat that’s nuanced and just sweet enough. A fun cutout window in the sandwich shows the jam peaking through.

This chocolate bark recipe is sweet and salty, with a confetti of colorful ingredients and absolutely irresistible. It’s the best fun treat that makes a great gift. For a festive look use cranberries, pistachios, coconut and sea salt for the toppings, but it’s totally customizable based on your preferences. 

Here's an easy and tasty Christmas dessert: apple cranberry crisp! The tartness of fresh cranberries melds with sweet, comforting crisp apples in a cinnamon-spiced fruit layer. The berries add not just a zingy flavor but a beautiful bright red hue to the fruit, and it shines topped with golden buttery crisp crumbles.

These almond thumbprint cookies are total crowd pleasers. They're topped with a homemade jam made of real fruit, and the base is perfectly chewy, made mostly of almond flour. Drizzled with 1-minute powdered sugar icing, they're perfectly festive!

What's more classic of an easy Christmas dessert than gingerbread cookies? These are made with almond butter and applesauce to keep them soft. They're topped with chunky turbinado sugar for an all-natural glitter!

These Iced Applesauce Cookies are so moist and irresistible, you’ll forget about everything else as you savor each chewy bite. (Sorry, not sorry.) The applesauce makes them ultra moist, and they taste like an oatmeal cream pie! Top them with festive red and green icing for the holidays.

A dessert charcuterie board is perfect for Christmas! This genius presentation combines all of your favorite treats into the easiest dessert ever. Load it up with cookies, candies, and fruit for the perfect sweet ending. via Britney Breaks Bread

Here’s a warm and cozy Christmas dessert drink you won’t be able to stop sipping: the Peppermint Patty! This hot chocolate is spiked with not one but two liqueurs, adding both mint and chocolate flavors to the rich body of this drink. The amount of cozy flavor here is unreal. 

If there's a cake that's ideal for Christmas, it's this red velvet marble cake!  Vanilla and red velvet flavors are swirled together in a perfectly tender, moist, and absolutely decadent pound cake. This one will turn heads for sure! via Grandbaby Cakes

What's cozier than the flavor combination of brown butter and chai spices? This deliciously cozy cookie is easy to make and perfect for Christmas! These cookies are slightly crisp with a chewy and soft center. Enjoy with a cup of hot chocolate! via Britney Breaks Bread

This Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake is a classy Christmas dessert made to impress! It's filled with chocolate and bursting with peppermint flavor. The peppermint candies on top make for a festive look. Via Grandbaby Cakes

The ideal Christmas dessert? Cut out cookies! This simple dough is fun to work with for the best festive cookies. Via Handle the Heat

Try Snickerdoodle Whoopie Pies for Chrismtas! They're a delicious treat of a soft and moist cinnamon-flavored cookie filled with a velvety whipped cinnamon buttercream. This spin on the classic cookie brings in the cinnamon flavor with the texture of decadent, cake-like whoopie pies. via Britney Breaks Bread

This moist and spiced buttered rum eggnog cake gets jazzed up with a sensational buttered rum sauce that soaks into every bite! It's a classic Christmas dessert that will impress everyone around the table. Via Grandbaby Cakes

These fun and festive easy Peppermint Oreo Truffles require no baking and just 6 ingredients. The chocolate exterior is smooth and snappy while the filling is thick, rich, slightly chewy. A Christmas favorite! Via Handle the Heat

How fun are these Gingerbread Brownies? they've got a thick and fudgy spiced brownie made with crumbled gingerbread cookies and topped with adorable mini gingerbread men. It's a deliciously festive Christmas dessert. via Handle the Heat

This Chocolate Pound Cake is calling your name! It's the most decadent, moist and delicious chocolate cake. Paired with a silky ganache glaze hinted with peppermint flavor, it's the ideal holiday dessert to impress everyone. Via Grandbaby Cakes

Here's a unique crinkle cookie for Christmas: Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies! These are thick and fudgy with just a hint of cocoa flavor. The ideal treat for Christmas! via Handle the Heat

Here's a fun Christmas dessert that works for anytime too: Butterscotch Pie! It's got a spiced Biscoff cookie crust, homemade butterscotch pudding filling, and is topped with creamy whipped cream. via Handle the Heat

What's better than gingerbread flavors at Christmastime? These Gingerbread Cookie Bars are ultra thick, soft, and chewy. They're topped with a generous layer of tangy frosting! via Handle the Heat

Why settle for Pecan Pie when you can have Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie? This one is packed with indulgent chocolate, spiced bourbon, and a deliciously sweet and gooey pecan filling. It's a showstopper of a Christmas dessert. Via Grandbaby Cakes

No Christmas dessert tray is complete without Turtles! Make this no bake treat at home: they've got chewy rich caramel, buttery pecans and creamy milk chocolate. The perfect salty-sweet treat! Via Grandbaby Cakes

Last up in our Christmas dessert ideas: are you a Baileys lover? This Baileys Chocolate Bundt Cake is moist and chocolatey and it's filled with a surprise: an Irish Cream flavored cream cheese filling. Via Grandbaby Cakes

This sticky toffee pudding is soaked and filled with glorious gooey and sticky butterscotch sauce, then topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. A traditional Christmas dessert that everyone will rave about! via Immaculate Bites