88 Best Sweet Baked Goodies and Dessert Recipes for the New Year Holidays

These sweets are the perfect way to get into the festive spirit and enjoy the fun Christmas atmosphere!

Danish Christmas bread

Julekage is a Danish Christmas cake with hints of cardamom and cinnamon, filled with dried fruit, nuts, and candied orange peel. Don't let the long list of ingredients intimidate you; you probably already have many of them, and the rest can be found at your local grocery store.

Traditional sugar cookies

It's hard to imagine the winter holidays without traditional sugar cookies in the form of festive figures decorated with colorful sugar or sprinkles.

Ginger cake with curd cream

Like gingerbread cookies, this cake only gets better with age. Freshly baked, it has a light, sponge-like texture. Wrapped and left to rest for a day, it will be moist, and the warm, spiced flavor will intensify. Either way, this delicious homemade dessert is perfect for any holiday table. And if you don't have gingerbread cookies for decoration, don't worry: this cake is impressive on its own.

The best peanut brittle

This sweet and salty peanut brittle turns out glossy and crunchy. With a little patience, you can serve this delicious treat to guests at a party or give an edible gift for the holidays.

Scandinavian Christmas dessert

Kransekake is a spectacular Scandinavian Christmas dessert, its name translated as "wreath cake." A tower of ring-shaped cookies, decorated with royal icing, is worthy of taking center stage at any festive meal.

Festive biscotti

Giada De Laurentiis loves the color of these cookies, which are perfect for any holiday season.

Pear tart with chocolate truffles

This tart will be the centerpiece of any holiday party. Spiced pears are wrapped in puff pastry and filled with melted chocolate.

Chocolate fudge with cinnamon

Giada De Laurentiis loves the combination of cinnamon and chocolate. She uses common baking ingredients to make this simple and inexpensive treat.

Mini Linzer Cookies

Aina's elegant cookies are based on a shortcrust pastry made from flour, sugar, and a generous helping of butter. A layer of raspberry jam adds a touch of elegance.

Gingerbread house

Once you've built your gingerbread house, decorate it with colorful candies of your choice, gluing them on with icing.

Mint Meringue Pie

This festive pie features a crystal-clear mint filling, a flaky chocolate crust, and a fluffy mint meringue. It's light and refreshing—a perfect dessert for entertaining.

Edible holiday cookie plate

Spice up your holiday menu with these unique edible "plates." Fill them with your favorite cookies and try to resist making plate-licking jokes.

Amazing Red Velvet Cake

The name says it all: this cake is amazing! With two moist layers and a fluffy vanilla cream filling, this dessert will become a family favorite.

Fig and Raspberry Cookie Wreath

This festive wreath will delight rugelach lovers: the beautiful dessert is filled with sweet cream cheese, figs, and jam. Serve with coffee or tea, and invite guests to break off individual cookies from the wreath.



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Chestnut Candies

Who doesn't love nature-inspired sweets? In this case, it's peanut butter truffles dipped in chocolate, reminiscent of chestnuts.

The best dough for braided crust

This dough is perfect for braided crust for many reasons. The combination of shortening and butter makes it very pliable, easy to cut and braid. Plus, the vodka in the dough provides a soft, rich flavor that's perfect for a variety of fillings.

Spiced Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Anne adds tart Granny Smith apples, raisins, and walnuts to spiced nutmeg-cinnamon cake layers, then tops the cake with a rich cream cheese frosting.

Christmas Tree Cupcake Cake

Try something fun this holiday season: cupcake cake! This recipe is easy—you can bake your favorite cupcakes or use store-bought ones.

Bread pudding with eggnog

Rachel soaks cubes of panettone, a sweet Italian Christmas cake, in eggnog cream and bakes them in muffin tins.

White chocolate bars with mint candies

These 3-ingredient bars contain double the mint and make an affordable Christmas treat.

Iris with salt fleur-de-sel

Make sweet and salty toffee at home with Aina's step-by-step guide.

Gingerbread cookies with royal icing

Sandra makes quick gingerbread cookies using a trick: she takes store-bought sugar cookie mix and adds pumpkin pie spice, ginger, and molasses.

Chocolate fudge

Homemade fudge makes the perfect gift. Pack the candies in a decorative jar; they'll stay fresh for up to a week.

Apple crumble with vanilla caramel sauce

Melissa's apple dessert is perfect for a holiday party: it's easy to make, features seasonal ingredients, and is perfect for a crowd. Drizzle the crispy oatmeal topping with vanilla-caramel-cardamom sauce when you remove the hot crumble from the oven.

Cookies with grape-lemon glaze

These Hanukkah-inspired donut-shaped cookies have a subtle sweetness thanks to a jam and lemon juice glaze. They're perfect with tea or coffee.

Crème brulee

This classic dessert is sure to be a hit at a holiday dinner. Make the custard ahead of time and caramelize the crust with a blowtorch at the table. This will ensure a special presentation, and the sugar won't get soggy.

Four Flavor Holiday Cookies

With just one recipe, you can fill a dessert plate with four different types of sweets. All you need is a few packages of store-bought pastry dough and some chocolates.

Classic Apple Tart

During the Christmas season, Melissa loves to make a French-style tart instead of apple pie, as a slice of tart looks neater and more elegant on the holiday table. Take the time to arrange the apples: the dessert will look like it came straight from the bakery!

Ginger cupcakes with mango cream

Bobby masterfully concocts unusual flavor combinations. His original cupcakes are rich and rich; the mango cream is light and refreshing, perfectly complementing the warm flavor of the gingerbread.

Chocolate Coconut Macarons

Decorate your holiday dessert table with these elegant coconut macarons. Unsweetened coconut flakes provide a distinctive texture, while melted semisweet chocolate adds a touch of elegance.

Nutty shortbread cookies with chocolate

Simple shortbread cookies make a great gift when dipped in melted chocolate.

Cinnamon buns with hazelnuts

Giada makes an Italian twist on classic cinnamon rolls: she adds hazelnuts to the cinnamon-sugar filling and mascarpone cheese to the powdered sugar glaze.

Baked Alaska Ice Cream Cake

Top the cake with three of your favorite ice creams and a generous dollop of Swiss meringue. Brown the topping just before serving—this stunning dessert will be warm on the outside and cool on the inside.

White Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

Alex assembles a sandwich of brownie-like cookies and a caramelized white chocolate filling that adds richness and a toasty flavor that perfectly complements the chocolate.

Crème brulee

Vanilla and Grand Marnier liqueur are added to the classic cream. Aina lets her friends add the finishing touch by caramelizing the topping with a kitchen torch.

Almond biscotti with white chocolate

Giada adds sliced ​​almonds to her biscotti, which enhance the citrus flavor and nuttiness of the white chocolate coating.

Giant Peanut Butter Cookie

Impress everyone at your party with this giant cookie dessert with a chocolate center.

Chocolate Mint Pie

Refreshing mint adds a unique flavor to this rich, moist cake. Serve with whipped cream and chocolate sauce, drizzled with mint syrup.

Croquembouche

Make a wonderful holiday treat with our step-by-step guide.

Nutty cookies with chocolate

Giada's take on chocolate chip cookies uses rolled oats, English toffee, and roasted hazelnuts. The crunchy ingredients create a contrast with the soft, chewy dough.

Fig and Brown Butter Tartlets

These exquisite tartlets are filled with fig jam.

Chocolate Cannoli

For a simple, semi-homemade holiday treat, use store-bought cannoli tubes.

Hanukkah gelt

These homemade Hanukkah gelt can become your new holiday tradition! All you need is mini muffin tins and some gold sprinkles. We love the richness of bittersweet chocolate, but you can substitute any chocolate you like.

Chocolate candies with hazelnuts

This chocolate-hazelnut treat is inspired by Chestnut candies. Ground toasted rice flakes add a light and crunchy texture.

Holiday cinnamon rolls

Ina fills store-bought puff pastry with cinnamon, brown sugar, raisins, and dried cranberries for a festive take on sweet rolls that take less than an hour to make.

Gingerbread Spice Mix

Add this wonderful seasonal spice blend with aromatic ginger and cinnamon to pancakes, muffins, and other holiday baked goods.

Mint Chocolate Cheesecake

This recipe combines the richness of cheesecake with the refreshing mint chocolate of Grasshopper Pie. Serve in individual portions or cut into miniature pies for an elegant dessert.

Marshmallow cookies with chocolate and nuts

These cookies contain mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, rice cereal, and pecans. They're topped with marshmallows and chocolate.

Chocolate fudge with peanut butter

Two beloved flavors, chocolate and peanut butter, combine in a rich, creamy fudge.

Chocolate cake with fruit

This fruit cake is sure to please everyone.

Caramel bars with peanuts

Trisha says the secret to this peanut butter's light and crunchy texture is baking soda. Act quickly: once you've added the baking soda, it's time to pour the mixture onto a baking sheet to harden.

Coconut roll with rum cream

For a stunning dessert, roll and slice this simple roulade. The rum-infused cream pairs perfectly with the airy coconut cake and topping.

Almond cake with white chocolate cream

This simple yet elegant dessert combines almond cake with white chocolate and cream cheese frosting.

Unsweetened Buttermilk Biscuits

Using just four ingredients, Trisha makes fluffy cookies using her father's recipe. They're a perfect addition to any holiday table, but also a treat on their own.

Banana-coconut cake

This stunning cake features moist banana bread-like layers, coconut cream, banana slices, and toasted coconut flakes.

Chocolate toffee

This almond treat with crispy toffee and bittersweet chocolate makes a wonderful holiday gift.

Oatmeal bars with dried apricots

Dried fruits and nuts are a popular holiday combination, and they're also a healthy treat. Jada makes these sweet, fiber-rich oatmeal bars with dried apricots. Each bite is packed with dried apricots, walnuts, and jam.

The best butter pie dough

This butter dough turns out flaky and tender thanks to chilled vodka and a simple kneading technique. The dough pieces are layered several times—the effort is well worth it for the flaky texture you get. You'll want to make this dough all year round, for any kind of pie.

Chocolate truffles

The winter holidays wouldn't be complete without rich, nut-covered truffles gracing the table. Alton proves that making them from scratch isn't all that difficult. Boxed truffles make a wonderful gift for the hostess.

Marbled Chocolate Pound Cake

This pound cake is the perfect use for leftover hot chocolate mix. Add 1/2 cup chocolate chips if desired.

Pumpkin cheesecake

This creamy cheesecake is full of pumpkin pie flavors, but it's lighter in fat, using low-fat cream cheese and Greek yogurt.

Almond Snowball Cookies

Rachel's almond cookies are covered in coconut and topped with a cherry, giving the easy treat a festive look.

Low-calorie chocolate chip cookies

These crispy, light cookies are just as good as regular ones. The chefs add ground oats to whole-wheat flour, use less oil, and stir in agave syrup: the cookies contain less fat and calories without sacrificing flavor.

Apple crisp with granola

Substituting toasted granola for the traditional topping allows you to reduce the sugar content while still adding a crunchy texture to the apples.

Carrot muffins

Grated carrots and crushed pineapple add a naturally sweet flavor to these muffins, which contain whole-wheat and all-purpose flour. They're perfect for breakfast or an afternoon snack during the holiday season.

Chocolate Truffle Cheesecake

Most of the cream cheese in a traditional cheesecake is replaced with 1% fat cottage cheese. Cocoa powder and a little melted chocolate are then added. The result is a silky, rich chocolate dessert.

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with nuts and dried fruits

Ellie's cookies are a little bit of everything: dark chocolate, walnuts, oatmeal, dried apricots, and dried cherries, as well as whole-grain pastry flour.

Festive meringues

With simple decorations, this light and airy treat becomes a festive dessert. Meringues are saturated fat-free, with only 32 calories per serving.

Gluten-Free Blueberry Muffins

These blueberry muffins are a hit with gluten-free guests and everyone else, whether you're planning on having them for dessert or breakfast.

Sugar cookies

Make the perfect sugar cookies with our favorite recipe.

Oatmeal muffins with chocolate for tea

In Scotland, oatmeal muffins are the perfect complement to afternoon tea. In this version, chefs add chocolate and hazelnuts and bake the dessert in mini muffin tins, resulting in beautifully crafted muffins in convenient portions.

Gluten-free chocolate chip cookies

These chewy cookies are a rich dessert for those on a gluten-free diet, but everyone will love them too. Coconut oil, cane juice, and applesauce make the dough incredibly moist.

Christmas cookies

Decorate your dessert table with Ree's truly festive cookies. The sour cream in the dough makes these melt-in-your-mouth cookies, and the cinnamon candies resemble holly berries—the perfect finishing touch.

Chocolate-almond bars with mandarin zest

These exquisite bars combine four classic holiday flavors: chocolate, dried cranberries, citrus, and nuts. Best of all, they only take 5 minutes to prepare.

Sweet S'mores Ravioli

These dessert ravioli use a graham cracker-based dough and a chocolate and cream cheese filling.

Peanut Butter Layer Cake

This recipe is for peanut butter lovers. Spread a few spoonfuls of raspberry jam on each layer of the cake along with the peanut butter.

White chocolate fudge with mint candies

This simple, creamy fudge is a great way to use up leftover Christmas candy. If you're not a fan of mint candies, try substituting sprinkles, nuts, or dried fruit!

Chocolate eggnog roll

Eggnog and chocolate are a heavenly combination of flavors during the Christmas season. A chocolate cake rolled into a roll with malted milk French cream will win over even those who don't care for eggnog.

Eggnog-flavored meringue cake

Bake the meringue on a thick crust with egg yolks: this special cake doesn't require a fancy topping. Although a white chocolate buttercream sandwiched between the layers wouldn't hurt.

Panettone Ice Cream Cake

Turn traditional holiday cake into a stunning ice cream cake. Spread slices of panettone with brandy-infused cream, layer them with vanilla ice cream, and top with fluffy whipped cream.

Peppermint Candy Cake

Peppermint lovers will love the look and taste of this giant "candy." For the ultimate resemblance, wrap the cake in plastic wrap.

Caramel Pretzel Cookies

Pretzel sticks, caramel sauce, and honey give these cookies a sweet and salty flavor.

Hazelnut roast: Croccante nights

Give this hazelnut brittle as a gift to your friends and family.

Ginger trifle with lemon curd and blackberry sauce

Bobby's Trifle is perfect for any holiday party. The gingerbread cake adds a touch of Christmas warmth, perfectly complementing the fruity flavors of lemon and blackberry.

Apples in puff pastry

To simplify the preparation, Trisha uses store-bought scone dough. Sour apples, wrapped in the dough, are baked with a lemon, sugar, and butter sauce until golden brown.

Whole grain scones

Whole wheat flour makes these buns filling and hearty, while buttermilk provides a rich, airy texture.

Pumpkin Pie for the Keto Diet

This keto-friendly pumpkin pie will be a hit with everyone at the holiday table. Almond and coconut flour create a nutty crust, while a touch of molasses in the filling adds the warm brown sugar notes of classic pumpkin pie.







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