1. Overnight Pull-Apart Brioche Cinnamon Roll Bread
Recipe here.
2. Mini Peppermint-Meringue Cups With Ganache
Recipe here.
3. Slice'n Bake Vanilla Bean Sugar Cookies With Whipped Buttercream
Decorating skills not up to par? Ugly cookies still taste good. Recipe here.
4. Red Velvet Cheesecake Cookies
Recipe here.
5. Maple Ooey Gooey Butter Cake Bites
A lot of good things going on here. Recipe here.
6. Dark Chocolate Fudge Merlot Cupcakes
Recipe here.
7. Salted Honey and Chocolate Bark
Recipe here.
8. Hot Cocoa Cookies
Serve with actual hot cocoa, obviously. Recipe here.
9. Gingerbread Magic Cake
Recipe here.
10. Buttermilk Chess Pie with Sugared Cranberries
Better than any pudding pie you've ever had. Recipe here.
11. Eggnog Cupcakes with Spiced Rum
Recipe here.
12. Sticky Toffee Pudding
Recipe here.
13. White Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cheesecake
Recipe here.
14. Gingerbread and Molasses Chocolate Chip Bars
Recipe here.
15. Chocolate-Cinnamon "Babkallah"
A babka-challah hybrid, with chocolate and spice thrown in for good measure. Recipe here.
16. Holiday Fauxreos
Yes yes yes. Recipe here.
17. Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake with Booze and Coffee
Wake up and smell the booze and coffee. Recipe here.
18. Baklava
Come on, rise to the challenge. Recipe here.
19. White Chocolate-Peppermint Cookies with Vanilla Salt
Recipe here.
20. Lemon, Ricotta and Almond Flourless Cake
21. Gingerbread Pear Loaf Cake
Recipe here.
22. Pignoli Cookies
These traditional Italian cookies are naturally gluten-free, made with almond paste and coated in pine nuts. Recipe here.
23. Peppermint Mocha Cupcakes
The best way to eat candy canes is sparingly, atop a mountain of cake and frosting. Recipe here.
24. Glazed Chocolate Layer Cake
This is the closest I'll get to anything resembling a yule log. Recipe here.
25. Russian Tea Cakes
AKA Mexican wedding cookies, snowdrops, Italian wedding cookies, or snowballs. Delicious, whatever you call them. Recipe here.
26. Snowflake-Stenciled Shortbread Cookies
Easier than icing. Promise. Recipe here.
27. Boozy Christmas Fruitcake
Fruitcake is polarizing, but this is the way to do it. Recipe here.
28. Mini Eggnog Cheesecakes
Recipe here.
29. British Mince Pies
Mincemeat is a dried fruit and spice mixture that's traidtionally cooked in suet (beef or mutton fat). If that's too much for you, you can use butter instead. Recipe here.
30. Cocoa Brownies with Brown Butter and Walnuts
Recipe here.
31. Glazed Gingerbread Donuts
Recipe here.