Kid-Friendly Christmas Recipes
28 Festive, Fun Ways to Feed Your Family Over Christmas!
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This Christmas, extend your kids' surprises from under the tree all the way into the kitchen. We've found 28 festive, fun, seasonal recipes that make Christmas sweets and eats so much more special. Scroll through, and find your favorite way to celebrate — morning, noon, and night!
1 Festive Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Using all of your holiday cookie cutters, whip up these festive cream cheese sugar cookies and let kiddos help you to frost them.
2 Cinnamon Cashew Milk
When you've had more hot cocoa than any one person can handle, try All For the Boys' clever (and dairy-free) alternative — Cinnamon Cashew Milk. It's delicious served hot or cold.
3 Melting Snowman Cookies
Quick! Gobble up these melting snowman cookies before it's too late!
4 Snowmen Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes never looked so fun! These Snowmen Causitas are more than just mashed Yukon Gold potatoes. They have a bit of Peruvian kick with lime juice and chiles mixed in!
5 Christmas Pudding Truffles
Truffles always make a nice present, and these ones can be dressed up to look like mini Christmas puddings. If you don’t have time to decorate them, then just dust the truffles with cocoa. Put each truffle in a minimuffin case, and sit in a small box, tied with a ribbon. Store in the fridge.
6 Muddy Reindeer Cookies
These gingerbread reindeer cookies are dipped in chocolate to make it look like they ran through a bit of mud on their Christmas Eve travels.
7 Santa Bread
How cute are these yummy Santas just waiting to be pulled apart? A great activity for kids who are waiting for guests to arrive, Santa bread will be a hit with everyone at the dinner.
8 Sugar Cookie Hot Cocoa Cupcakes
These cupcakes sure have a lot going on — sugar cookie bottoms, hot cocoa chocolate cake tops, vanilla marshmallow (candy-cane-colored) swirl frosting, and a candy cane stick dipped in frosting and silver sprinkles!
9 Fruity Penguins
These chocolate-covered penguins make the most adorable seasonal dessert.
10 Rudolph Potatoes
A great Christmas recipe for turning a baked potato into a delicious mouthwatering treat — and it is guaranteed to bring a smile to everyone’s face!
11 Christmas Tree Brownies
The only thing better than a Christmas tree in your living room is Christmas tree brownies in your belly.
12 Christmas Tree Cupcakes
13 Ornament Ding Dongs and Christmas Tree Twinkies
These clever desserts use Twinkies and Ding Dongs as the base, candy melts as decoration, and popsicle sticks to ease the transition from plate to little mouthes.
14 Peppermint Biscotti
The perfect treat to dip into a mug of hot cocoa, these peppermint biscotti are dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with crushed candy cane.
15 Slow Cooker White Hot Chocolate
Topped with snowman marshmallows and crushed peppermint candies, Following In My Shoes' slow cooker white hot chocolate is perfect after a long day of playing in the snow.
16 Holiday Pancakes Pan
For the realist who doesn't have time for free-form creations, check out the NordicWare Holiday Pancake Pan ($48), which allows you to mold picture-perfect pancakes for the kiddos on Christmas morning.
17 Marshmallow Snowman Cupcakes
These adorable cupcakes will be hard to keep away from marshmallow-loving kiddos (and adults)!
18 Christmas Pizza
If the kids just won't be satisfied without some pizza on their plate, make it a Christmas pizza. Have them help decorate it (pepperoni and basil make nice Christmas-themed color additions) before popping it in the oven!
19 Christmas Pancakes With Candy Cane Chocolate Syrup
These spectacular red and white Christmas pancakes drizzled with chocolate syrup are not only beautiful — they're delicious too! Stir in some crushed candy canes into the chocolate syrup for a taste of peppermint.
20 Snowman Pancakes
Kiddos will love the idea of snowman-shaped pancakes on Christmas Day. Use blueberries for the eyes, nose, and buttons — and bacon as a scarf! If you have marshmallows handy, place them under the pancake to look like snow.
21 Reindeer Dogs
You won't feel like a slacker heating up frozen corn dogs for dinner if they're transformed into reindeer, now, will you?
22 Snowman Cupcakes
These Christmas cupcakes are fun for children to make themselves. You can line boxes or tins with shredded cellophane or tissue paper and nestle your decorated cakes inside to give as edible gifts.
23 Candy Cane Pancakes
Peppermint sweetness! Prepare some candy cane pancakes for your little one of Christmas morning — with some peppermint oil blended into the batter. Yum!
24 Christmas Pancakes and Waffles
Pancake stars and waffle Christmas trees will dazzle the entire family. So creative — and delicious!
25 Reindeer Pancakes
Some food coloring and a little artistic flare can result in some supercute reindeer pancakes for all to enjoy on Christmas morning.
26 Cranberry Granola
This delicious granola is very versatile. You can have it for breakfast with milk. This Christmas recipe is also very good on its own as a snack or layered with yogurt, honey, and fruit.
Wholegrain cereals are a good source of iron. However, it is difficult for our bodies to absorb iron from a nonmeat source (red meat provides the most easily absorbed form of iron). To improve the absorption of iron from breakfast cereal you will need to give your child vitamin-C rich fruit, like kiwi or berry fruits, or vitamin-C rich juice, like orange or cranberry juice.
27 Santa Pancakes
Ho! Ho! Ho! Pancakes as cute as this jolly old Saint Nick — with a marshmallow beard — will have kiddos jumping for joy as they unwrap their Christmas presents.
28 Ginger and Pumpkin Gingerbread Man Pancakes
A healthy sweet alternative! Ginger, pumpkin puree, and whole wheat flour are the main ingredients for this very special Christmas breakfast.
