19 Easy Holiday Desserts to Make For Your Family
Baking is a tradition many adults are able to look back on fondly when reminiscing about the holiday seasons of their childhood. If you want to make baking memories with your own children, you can start when they're young by allowing them to add ingredients, mix batters, and scoop dough. As they get older, they can help even more, but it doesn't hurt to continue to follow easy recipes with steps they can handle independently.
Read through for 19 easy holiday dessert recipes that your whole family is going to love baking and eating together.
Brownie Christmas Trees
Using a boxed brownie mix and a cookie cutter, you can make and decorate these adorable brownie Christmas trees with your little ones.
Loaded Christmas Bark
You can throw basically whatever you want — Oreos, peanuts, pretzels, sprinkles, M&M's, chocolate chips, etc. — into this easy loaded Christmas bark.
Sugar Cookie Hot Chocolate
This sugar cookie hot chocolate combines the two best sweet holiday treats!
Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookie Sticks
These chocolate chip cookie sticks are given a festive twist — crushed candy cane pieces in the icing!
Hanukkah Oreo Cookie Balls
The sweet flavors of Oreos and white chocolate aren't even the best part of these Hanukkah Oreo cookie balls — it's the sprinkles!
Peanut Butter Buckeye Balls
These no-bake peanut butter balls are dipped in chocolate and coated in festive sprinkles.
Molasses Cookies
These soft and chewy molasses cookies are best topped with festive M&M's.
Eggnog Cupcakes
Make these easy holiday cupcakes using a vanilla cake mix and a healthy pour of eggnog.
Cream Cheese Cut-Out Cookies
The secret ingredient that keeps these simple cut-out cookies soft and fluffy is cream cheese!
Baked Cake Mix Donuts
Using your family's favorite cake mix, bake up a batch of these doughnuts and decorate them with holiday colors!
Buttercream Frosting Fudge
This delicious fudge only has three ingredients!
Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookies
The only thing better than a (shatterproof) mug of hot cocoa is a hot chocolate cookie!
Snowball Cookies
Coat these homemade cookies in a generous dusting of powdered sugar to make them look like little snowballs.
Chocolate Peppermint Brownies
Whip up a batch of your family's favorite boxed brownie mix and coat with either homemade buttercream frosting or store-bought (with peppermint flavor added), followed by melted chocolate chips, to create these chocolate peppermint brownies.
Gingerbread Bars With Cream Cheese Frosting
These ooey gooey gingerbread bars can be coated with homemade or store-bought frosting and topped with sprinkles.
Minty Chocolate Cake Bites
These bite-size cake balls taste like the holidays and are the perfect size for little mouths.
Gingerbread Fudge
This gingerbread fudge is easy to make, but know that it has to be refrigerated overnight, so it should be made the night before everyone plans on digging in.
Eggnog Pie
All you need for this eggnog pie is vanilla pudding mix, a store-bought graham cracker crust, eggnog, and whipped cream.
Graham Cracker Toffee
Create this crunchy and sticky toffee dessert using a base of graham crackers, followed by a layer of melted caramel, and topped with melted chocolate.