40 Cute Christmas Food Ideas
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This roundup of 40 cute Christmas food ideas is filled with simple, cheerful snacks and desserts that kids and adults will adore. Perfect for parties, gifting, or adding a little extra magic to your holiday season!
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Key Takeaways
- The article presents 40 cute Christmas food ideas, including simple, cheerful snacks for all ages.
- These treats are perfect for holiday parties, gifting, or adding festive joy to the season.
- The roundup encourages making desserts with friends and family, creating new holiday traditions.
- It includes favorite baking and candy-making tools to help prepare these treats.
- Readers can also explore over 60 additional creative Christmas cookie ideas.
40 Cute Christmas Food Ideas
These are easy holiday treats that’s perfect for gifts and parties. Christmas is upon us and that means all those fantastic and amazingly delicious desserts will be here soon! Start a new tradition and make these with your children or friends! We can enjoy these Christmas desserts now!
I have put together a mouthwatering roundup featuring fun desserts that everyone is guaranteed to enjoy starting right now!
I really love this time of year because it means lots of yummy goodies that I can make to share with my friends and family. Christmas is a time for sharing and giving, and I like to give sweets. But, I want recipes that are just as easy to make as they are delicious.
Yahoo for the Christmas season! One of my absolute favorite things about Christmas is enjoying all the different varieties of treats. Are you looking for a list of the cutest and most fun-to-make dessert recipes? If so, I have the perfect list right here for you!
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Cute Christmas Food Ideas
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Reindeer Cupcakes {Rudolph Cupcakes}
Quick and easy reindeer cupcakes, homemade with simple ingredients, candies, pretzels.
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Gingerbread Cookies
Spicy, sweet Gingerbread Cookies are made festive for the perfect holiday snack to share with family and friends.
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Piñata Candy Cane Forest Ice Cream Cone Oreo Cookie Balls
The holidays are all about sharing and there’s nothing better than sharing America’s favorite cookie.
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Martha Washington Candy
Martha Washington Candy is a classic candy made with chocolate, coconut, and pecans. I simplified the recipe without losing any of that classic taste!
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No-Bake Christmas Cornflake Wreath Cookies
These No Bake Christmas Cornflake Wreath Cookies are festive holiday treats with their adorable shape and red hot candies for the holly berries. Enjoy
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Bûche de Noël or Yule Log
A Yule Log or Bûche de Noël is a traditional French Christmas dessert, filled with chocolate mousse and iced with chocolate ganache.
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Reindeer Cookies
Learn how to make easy Reindeer Cookies that make an adorable addition to the holiday dessert table or Santa’s cookie plate!
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Poinsettia Christmas Cookies
These poinsettia Christmas cookies are easy to make and are super pretty!
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Reindeer Cookie Pops (gluten-free vegan)
The cutest and tastiest reindeer cookie pops!
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OREO Cookie Ball Santa Hats
Festive, Christmas Santa Hats made with crushed Oreos, cream cheese, and candy melts. Tasty and adorable!
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Gingerbread Cupcakes
Simple recipe for gingerbread cupcakes. Filled with gingerbread flavor and it all starts with a boxed cake mix to save you time
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Reindeer Cupcakes
These Reindeer Cupcakes steal the show at every party and with a red nose they can be Rudolph Cupcakes!
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Christmas Mouse Cookies | Hungry Happenings
Top egg-shaped sugar cookies with the most adorable modeling chocolate mice. These Christmas Mouse Cookies will make your cookie platters sweeter.
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Melting Snowmen Cookie Balls
These adorable no bake Melting Snowmen Cookie Balls are sure to be a hit on the holiday treat trays. Easy and delicious, made with Oreo cookies.
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Christmas Tree Brownies
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure. It’s only one week after Thanksgiving and I just couldn’t hold off any longer…my first Christmas recipe of the year! This is such a fun and easy recipe/craft project to do with the kids. Okay…secretly…I had a ton of fun decorating my own too and …
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Rudolph Reindeer Truffles Recipe
Super cute Rudolph Reindeer Truffles recipe for the holidays! These chocolate treats are easy to put together and are perfect for Christmas parties.
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Nutter Butter Snowmen
Tasty Nutter Butter cookies are dunked into creamy white chocolate and decorated to look like adorable snowmen. These little guys are perfect for holiday neighbor plates!
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Snowmen Cake Pops
Whew! Christmas is over. No more shopping (except after-Christmas sales). No more parties (until New Years). No more holiday desserts (except on this blog)…maybe things won’t change tha…
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Melted Snowmen Oreo Balls (VIDEO+)- The Girl Who Ate Everything
Most people know these as Oreo Truffles but whatever you call them, these Melted Snowmen Oreos Balls are always a hit.
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Christmas Light Cookies – Fork and Beans
The older I get, the more I realize that people fall into 2 categories: 1. Those that love Christmas. 2. Those that hate Christmas. I have yet to meet someone who is in between and could take or leave it either way. No, there are clear lines that divide the population and by age 30ish,…Read More
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Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups
These Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups made with sugar cookie dough are filled with hot chocolate ganache, have a pretzel handle and mini marshmallows on top!
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Peanut Butter Cup Christmas Trees
Peanut butter cup Christmas trees are no bake candy stacks with icing garland and sprinkles. They’re cute to make, easy to gift and perfect for holiday dessert trays.
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Whimsical Reindeer Cookies with Cookies with Character {Guest Post}
What happens when a former Disney animator becomes a cookie artisan? Amazing things, is all. I fell in love with Krista, of Cookies with Character a few years ago. Besides being amazingly perfect, her cookies
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Melting Snowman Sugar Cookies – My Frugal Adventures
Have you seen these melted snowman cookies? I love them! I saw them last year from a Polish blog called My Pastries. Her cookies are so adorable and I knew I just had to make them this year. Now I have no patience whatsoever with frosting cookies so if I can make these cookies, anyone…Read More »
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Candy Cane Cookies
Today we have my other favorite Christmas cookie…..Candy Cane Cookies!!!
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Santa Cupcakes
Santa cupcakes are the perfect holiday treat with marshmallow beards, red frosting hats and candy faces. They’re easy, fun and always a hit.
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Grinch Oreo Balls
Grinch Oreo Balls are an easy-to-make, no-bake festive treat recipe made with simple ingredients and perfect for holiday parties!
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OREO Cookie Balls Snowmen
OREO Cookie Ball Snowman are creamy, delicious, and fun to make.
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Snowman Cupcakes
These delicious chocolate snowman cupcakes are perfect for the holiday season, super festive, delicious, and so easy to make! They’re loved by all.
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Santa in Chimney Cupcakes
Every holiday season, I remember the first time I made these Santa in Chimney Cupcakes with my family. The laughter, the floury hands, and the pure joy of creating something together made the experience truly
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Snowman Cake Pops
This snowman cake pops recipe is a great treat or gift for the holiday season. They’re so cute, so tasty, and so much easier than you think!
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Christmas Tree Cupcakes
Christmas tree cupcakes are vanilla cupcakes topped with green buttercream “trees”. These easy Christmas cupcakes are tasty and festive!
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Reindeer Cookies
Reindeer cookies are soft chocolate cookies with candy faces and pretzel antlers. This is the best and easiest Christmas cookie recipe!
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Christmas Red Velvet Snow Globe Cupcakes
Colorful marzipan Christmas figurines on a blanket of frosted cream cheese snow make these red velvet snow globe cupcakes a magical Christmas treat! Red velvet cupcakes have a really Christmassy feel to them! Frosted cream cheese on a red velvet mound with little Christmas figurines of marzipan in a shiny gelatin globe. The kids will…
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Chocolate Pine Cone Cupcakes Tutorial & Tips – Sweets & Treats Blog
Today marks day three of our buffalo plaid filled, lumberjack party sweets! These chocolate pine cone cupcakes are all things winter are they not? With the snow falling all around…
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Chocolate Pine Cone Cupcakes Tutorial & Tips – Sweets & Treats Blog
Today marks day three of our buffalo plaid filled, lumberjack party sweets! These chocolate pine cone cupcakes are all things winter are they not? With the snow falling all around…
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Red Velvet Peppermint Thumbprint Cookies
I don’t know if I should apologize for the amount of sweets and goodies on my blog lately, or if I should be saying you’re welcome! 😉 Things on here lately haven’t been very healthy but that’s okay since it is the holiday season. And in my head, that means lots of yummy treats! IContinue Reading
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Soft Cut Out Sugar Cookie Recipe
This Soft Cut Out Sugar Cookie Recipe is going to be your new go to Christmas cookie. They are easy to make, soft, delicious, and hold their shape every time.
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Christmas Tree Peanut Butter Blossoms
A twist on a classic, these Christmas Tree Peanut Butter Blossoms are ready to celebrate the holiday dressed up like a Christmas tree!
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What a grand collection. This will have me smiling all day long. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Weekend Potluck.
do we have an easy xmas cake
These are all so cute! Thanks for including my Rudolph chocolate bars 🙂
Thanks!!! I think I saw them in our pinnig share. SOOOO cute!!!
Paula, these are some of the cutest ideas I’ve seen this year! I’d love it if you shared these at Holiday Best at Tumbleweed Contessa. Have a great holiday!
Linda