Christmas Dessert Recipes Introduction
One of the best parts of the Christmas holiday is walking into a house that smells like someone has been baking all day. The sweet aroma of spice, apple, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cookie dough wafts around the house like a new type of air freshener.
Christmas desserts are a favorite part of any family Christmas gathering. What makes it even more special is that many Christmas dessert recipes are passed down from generation to generation. Maybe your grandmother had some great Christmas dessert recipes that have been passed down to you that you haven’t tried yet. Why not try them this year?
Typical Christmas desserts are: brownies, cupcakes, muffins, hard candy, chocolate candy, and cookie bars. Cakes involving candy canes, peppermint, or any other type of mint as an ingredient, garnish, or topping are often prepared for Christmas as well. In addition, any cake recipe can be adapted for Christmas with a little bit of creativity. Fudge and puddings also make wonderful Christmas desserts.
But before, after and during Christmas dessert you also need some Christmas candy. That Christmas candy jar on the coffee table should never be empty. Christmas candy is the ice breaker when visitors come to your home. Hard candy, soft candy, citrus peel candies, truffles, brittle, and the like are all interesting treats to nibble on during Christmas. You will find plenty of Christmas candy recipes on our site as well.
Marcus Wareing makes his take on a Christmas Dessert for the Great British Christmas Menu. He serves the judges a warm chocolate truffle cake with Christmas spices.
Nick Nairn makes his take on a Christmas dessert – hot marmalade pudding with whisky liqueur custard. Plus Nick travels to the Isle of Skye to find the marmalade and the recipe for the pudding.
Learn how to make an easy Christmas cookie vanilla icing recipe in this free holiday dessert video.
Biba Caggiano shares one of her favorite holiday dessert recipes — butternut squash and cheese pie.