Christmas parties and family gatherings are upon you again. What better way to celebrate than to impress the gang with your newfound cooking skills? These treats are easy to make and look super cute!
1) Face Reveal
Okay, so this is Marshmello, but he is just as cute. All you need are cupcakes, marshmallows and a few accessories to pull these off. Those pretzel sticks are just waiting to become arms.
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Cooking Classy
2) Stocking Bark
You thought that chocolate Santas were simple stocking stuffers up until this moment. Now you know you can dress up some almond bark by adding them on top as the bark cools.
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Sprinkles Bakes
3) They Look Homemade
Anyone can make cookie cutter cookies, but it takes a real connoisseur of taste to make these vanilla bean dreams. The icing is whipped buttercream and the cookieโs texture is perfect!
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4) Fun to Work With
After working with marzipan on these trees, youโll fall in love and start making snowmen, santa hats, and reindeer. Itโs like fondant only it actually tastes good!
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O Happy Day
5) Pre-Slicing Optional
Although having a pie plate that presliced the brownies for you is convenient, it isnโt necessary, so donโt worry about it. What you do need are reindeer antlers and rudolph red M&Ms.
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Kitchen Fun with My Sons
6) Donut Leave These for Santa
Guess what flavor these delicious donuts are! Gingerbread. So yeah, extra Christmassy and tasty. Why Krispy Kreme doesnโt sell them in the winter, weโll never know.
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A-Kitchen-Addiction
7) Easy Peasy Strawberry Squeezy
All you need for these are cool whip and strawberries, simple as that. Even adding the eyes is optional, but you can do so with candy eyes or icing. Get it, โeye-cing?โ
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8) Peppermint Dreams
If you want to impress the peppermint lovers in your life, then these cookies are for you. They are just like the ones you get at Walmart only much more peppermint.
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9) Time to Decorate
If you can pipe a cupcake, you can make these trees. You can even buy the icing in a piping bag, candy stars, and pre-made cupcakes. No one will ever know.
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I Knead to Eat
10) Feeling Exotic?
If you like pine nuts, and yes, you do, then youโll love these little cookies. They are called Pignoli Cookies and they are an Anne Burrell creation, straight from Italy.
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Food Network
11) Itโs Not Paper
All you need are tortillas and powdered sugar to make the same paper snowflakes you made as kids. Only this time, they are edible and not just by your little brother. He ate glue too.
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12) Shake It Up
Thereโs something about snowglobes that are so magical and itโs not all those Christmas movies about them. These snowglobe cookies are one of my favorites and should be yours too.
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Cookie Connection
13) Ore-Uh-Oh
If you love Oreos and you love peppermint, then this is your cookie. They are easier than they look and they store great, unlike a few other treats on our list.
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Serious Eats
14) Are You Listening?
Do you feel like youโre in a winter wonderland yet? All these white chocolate Reeseโs are making me want peanut butter and see the magic of a white christmas.
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i Heart Naptime
15) No Cookie Cutters!
Feel free to use cookie cutters if you have them, but if you donโt then go ahead and try to make trees with a simple kitchen knife. Then buy a whole bunch of different green sprinkles for variety.
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16) Spend Money, Not Time
If you want to make an impact without putting in any work, then you can just buy this kit online. Or you can make it yourself with Ritz crackers, peanut butter, and chocolate.
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Something Swanky
17) Snack Packs
These little snowmen are so cute! And who doesnโt love truffles? The best part though is buying the 90 calorie packs of Oreos and placing them on Frostyโs head, just like the song.
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18) Itโs Magic
Make these eggnog cupcakes adult treats by spiking the frosting with rum or leave it out for the kids. Either way, they taste amazing, if youโre totally into eggnog.
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Bakers Royale
19) Oh Christmas Wreath
What house is complete without a wreath on the door? None! So make some rice crispie wreaths so everyone feels at home. We all know how easy rice crispies are to make!
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20) Disney+ Christmas Party
You can get a Mickey Mouse cookie cutter for next to nothing or you can shape your own with three circles. Either way, the best part is decorating them to spread the holiday spirit.
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The Partiologist
21) Do the Meringue
The only time of year when Meringue is better than Salsa. Adding peppermint to your meringue cups then topping them with chocolate ganache makes you look like Martha Stewart. Waitโฆthis is actually a Martha Stewart recipe!
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22) For the Kids
These chocolate covered marshmallows are so easy, a kid could make them. Meaning, they are perfect for that party your kid is throwing that you are totally unprepared for!
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23) Fill the Tins
If you donโt make this holiday popcorn and put it in metal tins to give out to in-laws and co-workers, then are you even celebrating Christmas? Didnโt think so.
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24) Like Willy Wonkaโs
The only thing better than peppermint ice cream or apple cider in a cup, is drinking it in an edible one. Just make sure the drink isnโt too hot or it will melt the cup!
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25) Peppermint Bark
This one is done every year by at least one person at the Christmas party and that someone is you this year. Never a disappointment! People will be sticking pieces of this in their purse to smuggle home.
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26) Oh, That Cream Cheese
Peppermint again? Not so fast! These are imposters who look like candy cane cookies but are actually the super tasty red velvet cheesecake cookies. Youโre welcome, picky eaters.
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Two Peas and Their Pod
27) Donโt Forget Your Friends
Remember Hannukah this Christmas season as you most likely have Jewish friends who will be celebrating. Instead of sending them Christmas trees, send them these marshmallow dreidels!
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28) Youโre a Mean One
These cookies are cranky and crinkled just like the old Grinch, but they are also super tasty and warm. We donโt know what to say about that one, I mean we donโt know him personally.
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Simplistically Living
29) Ho Ho Ho!
These Santa hats are totally adorable and super easy. You can buy the mini brownies pre-made at almost any grocery store and top them with whipped cream and strawberries!
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Erica Sweet Tooth
30) Merry Barkmas
This puppy chow isnโt for pups but to make a tasty muddy buddy snack for your Christmas party. With peppermint and a sugar glaze, youโll be snacking on this all day long.
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Sally's Baking Addiction
31) Gingerbread Party
These rice crispie gingerbread men will be sure to make your guests smile. Their happy faces and colorful buttons are everything! Plus, you can use Cocoa Pebbles!
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Clean and Scentsible
32) Feeling Ambitious?
This seven layer cookie is not for those who donโt want to put any effort into their dessert, but it is for those willing to take a change. To be honest, itโs pretty easy and looks top notch when youโre done.
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33) Bring the Tree to Life
All you need to make this tree is a little Christmas magic and a lot of Christmas cookies. Keep stacking until you are completely satisfied with your tree. Then itโs time to decorate.
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Get Creative Juice
34) Rollo, Rollo, Rollo with a Dab of Pretzel
Pretzels never fail with it comes to reindeer antlers. But they also make a great base to set him on too. These little guys never fail. Replace the red M&M with a brown one for regular reindeer.
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I Heart Naptime
35) Magical Men
These sugar sprinkles look magical on cupcakes, regardless of the snowmen mini chocolate chips. Although if you can find orange ones, you have yourself the perfect Christmas cupcake.
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One Little Project
36) Easiest Tree Treat
Make green rice crispie treatss, cut them apart and build this tree in nothing flat. It is by far the easiest tree and the easiest rice crispie โtreatโ that you can make.
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Cookies and Cups
37) Oh Snap!
If you want gingerbread cookies but donโt have the cookie cutter, try these cookies out. Dip half of them in white chocolate and decorate with a bit of holly for extra holiday spirit.
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Cooking Classy
38) Just Chocolate
Kiss, Reeseโs, youโre done. What more is there to life? Even the icing here is option. Just add a star and you are good to go. Perfect for Christmas calanders.
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One Little Project
39) We Love Cake Pops
Everyone loves cake pops. If youโve never made them before, donโt worry, this is the best time to learn. These snowmen will thank you and so will your guests.
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40) Itโs Time To Embrace the Culture
These little tea cakes are made in Italy, Mexico, and Russia. So why not start making them in America too? They taste amazing with a glass of milk! Or eggnog!
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Crazy for Crust
41) Let Them Help
These may look messy but thatโs just because they are made with love. Make some krispies for your kids, let them help shape and do all of the decorating themself!
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42) Trust the Process
Thereโs no better topping for brownies than cream cheese, trust us. So spread that cream cheese frosting on those triangle brownies and you have yourself a holiday treat.
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43) Literally No Work
This cookie in a jar makes a great gift and yet you donโt have to do any cooking at all. Now if thatโs not a win-win for everyone then I donโt know what is.
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Make-It-Do
44) Use the Muffin Tin
Gingerbread houses are not easy to make. Unless you use graham crackers! Add all the decorations to a muffin tin and let your little ones go to Christmas town!
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45) For the Sophisticated Dinner
If you donโt have time for tiny snowmen and Santa hats then make these brownies that will impress your boss, in-laws, and those at the Christmas ball.
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Sally's Baking Addiction
46) A Halloween Special
In the Midwest, everyone and their cousin give out popcorn balls for Halloween. Letโs move that tradition to Christmas with these peppermint popcorn lollipops.
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Mom on Time Out
47) Rice Crispie Treet
Those mini Reeseโs make perfect tree trunks and the tree is so wonderfully decorated. Think you can do better with these Krispie Trees? We think so too, so have at it!
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OMG Chocolate Desserts
48) Gumdrop Forest
Gummy worms, gumdrops, fruit by the foot, and more! Try to switch it up with fruity candy this season and see how far you get. These snowmen are a great blacke to start.
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49) Chocolate Bark
Not everyone loves white chocolate or almond bark. For those people, make a batch of regular chocolate bark with snowmen for contrast.
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50) Celebrate the Eight
If you donโt celebrate Christmas, donโt worry, all you need are Tootsie Rolls and yellow Jelly Bellys to make this Hanukkah creation. The kids will thank you!
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51) Just Like Wally Used to Make
You either love these cookies or youโre wrong. They may be good when bought at the store but they are even better when you make them yourself.
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Sprinkle Bakes
52) Itโs Up to You
This can be as easy or as difficult as you want. Get Oreos, Mini-Oreos, and store bought truffles or marshmallows for this or make your own truffles if you think you can.
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53) Make a Brownie and Youโre Done
Easier than easy. If you donโt want to ice them, you can just use Twizzlers and licorice to decorate! And break away that checkered pretzel for the belt buckle.
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iHeart Naptime
54) Ugly Sweater Party
Break out every single decoration you have for these Christmas sweaters. Make a simple sheet cake and start decorating. Itโs easy and itโs even better if itโs not perfect.
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Mom Loves Baking
55) Pizza Night
With the holiday season so busy, you may want to have a few pizza nights. Do so by tricking your kids to eat spinach with these Christmas tree slices.
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56) Baby, Itโs Cold Outside
Who needs mini-marshmallows when you can have a snowman floating in your hot chocolate. Mini chocolate chips and a dash of orange is all you need to make him come alive.
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I am a Food Blog
57) Truffleopagus
These truffles are so festive and cute. They are a breeze to make as the shape of the trees are so natural to form. People will be asking for these for years to come.
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Love from the Oven
58) Dip Them, Decorate Them
These are very versatile. Cover them in chocolate or dip them for a winter wonderland on a starry night. You can even let the kids each decorate their own!
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Its Always Autumn
59) Another Oreo Treat
You can buy white chocolate covered Oreos around the holiday season. Add chocolate ears and M&M noses for impressive treats with very little effort.
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Everyday Dishes
60) Use That Star Bit
Itโs hard to find a use for that piping star bit. Now you can use it to make little Christmas trees on anything from Ritz crackers to chocolate brownies. Donโt forget the ornaments.
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Erica Sweet Tooth
