95 Holiday Desserts You Absolutely Have To Make This Winter

If eggnog itself weirds you out (we get it, drinking eggs is a little strange), but love the idea of its flavors—cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, cream wrapped in white chocolate—then we think you’re gonna love these truffles.

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Peppermint bark is THE Christmas candy we cannot wait to get our hands on every holiday season. Luckily for you, you can make a batch in just 10 minutes flat.

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You may be most familiar with these cookies as a beloved Delta in-flight snack. In fact, Biscoff’s partnership with the airline is what first introduced American consumers to the cookie in the 1980s. We love eating them all year long, but especially around Christmastime. So we decided to celebrate speculoos with this showstopping holiday trifle.

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It's time for ice cream to take center stage for the holidays, specifically this peppermint ice cream. It's delicious served plain, topped with chocolate sauce, or layered into a Christmas sundae with brownies, whipped cream, and shards of peppermint bark.

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Bûche de Noël cakes are a French Christmas tradition dating back to the 19th century. Rolling up a warm cake in a towel might seem crazy, but it's the best way to ensure the cake won't crack when you frost it.

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The crunchy exterior and creamy interior of a cannoli is one of the world’s best bites. Unfortunately, that bite is usually a messy thing to navigate, with the shell and filling going in all sorts of directions. That’s where these one-bite wonders come in!

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Cookie brittle is a particularly great hack for the holidays or any time you’re entertaining when you don’t have time or the oven space to bake multiple trays too. Think of it like a faster, easier way to make a big batch of chocolate chip cookies. 😍

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With bright pops of cranberries, almond- and clove-scented custard, and a sweet icing made with orange zest, this wintery bread pudding is impressive enough to serve for dessert at a dinner party, and not to sweet to serve as breakfast.

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Rich, decadent, and topped with fluffy marshmallows (of course), hot chocolate is a fan-favorite winter drink we can always get behind. We love it so much, we decided to take the flavors of this classic bev and incorporate them into one of our other favorite holiday treats: fudge.

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Large domed boxes line grocery and bakery shelves during the holiday season. Have you ever wondered what it could be all about? Inside those boxes lies the magic of panettone, which is nostalgic and symbolic of Christmas. It’s a rich, fruity, bread-like cake studded with citrusy essence, with bits of chocolate that melt in your mouth and orange peel brightens the bite.

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The easiest way to make sugar cookies for a crowd? Turn them into cookie bars! Somewhere between a blondie and cookie, these are thick and soft with buttercream spread on top (think Lofthouse, in bar form).

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Building a gingerbread house from scratch might sound like a huge undertaking when you can just reach for a kit—but it's not! We've got the best tips for assembly, so you can get creative and focus on the decoration.

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Short for time on baking all of your holiday cookies this year? Think of these cake mix cookies as your magical helpers, here to save the day. These sprinkled cookies use vanilla cake mix to create the softest, fluffiest cookie you've ever had.

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Craving a sweet pick-me-up at the end of a meal? These tiramisu truffles are for you. Luscious espresso and mascarpone white chocolate ganache is coated in a crisp chocolate shell for a dreamy bite-sized dessert that’s sure to delight every coffee lover.

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To make Italian struffoli, little balls of dough are flavored with citrus zest and a splash of wine, deep-fried until crispy and light, and tossed in honey to sweeten the deal. As if this isn’t already enough of a delight, the balls then get shaped into a wreath and covered in rainbow nonpareil sprinkles.

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Nine layers of breath-taking beauty! This Christmas tree cake is perfect for when you really want to show off this holiday season. We recommend using a homemade cake recipe, like our chocolate or yellow cakes, but boxed cake mix will work too.

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For us, gingerbread should have a lot of ground ginger, a bit of cinnamon, and a tiny amount of cloves. It's the perfect Christmas formula. But if you don't have cloves (or really loathe them), you can just leave them out. As for the ginger, it's necessary but negotiable. Feel free to use less.

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Mexican hot chocolate is very much unique. It’s rich in chocolate, not too sweet, and the added spices will surprise yet comfort you. Inspired by that classic drink, these brownies are reminiscent of those iconic flavors with a little something extra.

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The filling of this pie tastes like a combination of coconut panna cotta, cranberry curd, and raspberry sorbet. The crust, made of crushed Biscoff, is the perfect foil for the sweet-tart filling. Plus, it tastes like cookie butter.

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Bake off your favorite cupcakes, pipe a tall swirling mound of red frosting on top, then add a little white around the edges and top. You'll have the cutest Christmas dessert in no time, and everyone will be obsessed.

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