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    Christmas Baking Recipes

    Whether you want to make a classic white fruitcake or mincemeat tarts made with either homemade mincemeat or storebought, this roundup of Christmas baking recipes will get you ready for the holidays and put you in a festive mood!

    • Homemade jam-filled shortbread cookies with little cutout windows shaped like hearts and stars.
      Jam Shortbread Cookies
    • Freshly baked mincemeat cookies served with a glass of milk.
      Mincemeat Cookies
    • Gingerbread cookies shaped like people decorated with white royal icing.
      Cutout Gingerbread Cookies
    • A piece of gingerbread cake with cream cheese frosting and lemon curd served on a dessert plate.
      Moist Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Lemon Curd
    • Hot cross bun on a pink plate split open and served with butter.
      Hot Cross Buns With Raisins
    • Freshly baked molasses cookies coated in turbinado sugar on a parchment-lined sheet pan.
      Molasses Sugar Cookies
    • Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies
    • Chocolate crackle cookies arranged on a black plate.
      Chocolate Crackle Cookies
    • A plate of round gingerbread cookies with crunchy turbinado sugar edges served with a cup of coffee.
      Easy Gingerbread Cookies (slice and bake)
    • Toffee Chocolate Coconut Butter Cookies
    • Nanaimo bars cut into squares and served on a marble surface.
      Nanaimo Bars
    • A platter of reversed Nanaimo bars with a chocolate custard filling and a white chocolate topping.
      Reversed Nanaimo Bars with White Chocolate
    • A plate of chocolate sugar cookies and a glass of milk.
      Chocolate Sugar Cookies
    • A small glass of eggnog topped with freshly grated nutmeg and a shot of rum to mix into it.
      How to Make Homemade Eggnog
    • Freshly baked ginger cookies on a cooling rack.
      Ginger Cookies with Molasses
    • A round braided boule of Christmas fruit bread on a board, sliced.
      Fruit bread
    • A plate of ginger cookies with white chocolate chips.
      Ginger Cookies with White Chocolate
    • Transferring homemade gingerbread granola to jars to give out as gifts at Christmas time.
      Gingerbread Granola
    • A plate of fruitcake cookies ready to be served.
      Icebox Fruitcake Cookies
    • Rugelach cookies, freshly baked, lined up on parchment paper to show the beautiful swirls of cream cheese cookie dough and cinnamon walnut filling.
      Cinnamon Rugelach with Walnuts and Dried Cranberries
    • raspberry champagne granita
      Raspberry Champagne Granita
    • Slices of light fruitcake served on dessert plates.
      Light Fruitcake with Marzipan
    • A sheet pan of freshly baked pinwheel cookies.
      Chocolate Pinwheel Cookies
    • A dish of Christmas trifle with layers of cake, cranberries, pastry cream, and whipped cream.
      Christmas Trifle
    • A Christmas muffin split open on a plate, served with butter.
      Cranberry Gingerbread Muffins
    • A platter of icebox cookies with pieces crystallized ginger in them.
      Easy crystallized ginger cookies
    • Star-shaped shortbread cookie on cooling rack with mini sifter of powdered sugar to sprinkle on top of the cookies
      Egyptian shortbread
    • A plate of shortbread cookies with flecks of cocoa nibs.
      Buckwheat Shortbread Cookies with Cocoa Nibs
    • Eggnog bundt cake served on black plates.
      Eggnog Bundt cake with Rum Glaze
    • Cutting and wrapping homemade soft caramels
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    • Rum raisin tea cake
      Frosted rum raisin tea cake
    • Slices of chocolate babka bread
      Dark chocolate babka for Easter
    • Cinnamon buns on parchment paper being frosted with cream cheese frosting using an offset spatula
      Crock-Pot cinnamon rolls
    • Serving cranberry chocolate chip brioche buns with tea.
      Chocolate cranberry bread
    • Homemade mincemeat pies on a black plate, ready to be served.
      Mincemeat tarts
    • cardamom snowballs
      Vegan snowball cookies
    • french toast
      Easy cranberry french toast muffins
    • Day 4 - cardamom crescents
      Walnut crescent cookies
    • A gold plate of sugar cookie stars.
      Cut out sugar cookies
    • whoopie pies
      Candy cane chocolate whoopie pies
    • Spiced stollen swirl buns are the perfect make-ahead treat for breakfast Christmas morning
      Overnight spiced stollen swirl buns
    • Chocolate biscotti with pistachios
      Chocolate biscotti

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