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Easy Christmas Recipes

Enjoy more time with your loved ones and less time in the kitchen this Christmas season. My budget-friendly and easy to prep Christmas recipes will help you make delicious and festive treats to celebrate this magic time of year.

Stock up on my make ahead holiday breakfast recipes, simple Christmas cookie ideas for baking with your kids, and all the best party appetizers and treats to bring to your office potluck. You can plan the easiest Christmas dinner ever with a slowcooker and simple sides. Let's dig in!

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A white bowl filled with cranberry jalapeño meatballs has chopped green onions sprinkled over the top for garnish.

Cranberry Jalapeño Meatballs

A bowl filled with a light and fluffy white dessert dip with red and green sprinkles has a wafer cookie dunked in it and a peppermint striped spoon stirring it.

Little Debbie Christmas Tree Dip

The spiral ham is on a roasting rack so it can be broiled to make the brown sugar glaze crispy.

Crockpot Spiral Ham with Brown Sugar Glaze

The finished gingerbread house has been assembled and decorated by a young girl with gumdrops, candy canes, and sprinkles.

How to Make a Homemade Gingerbread House

A platter of chocolate crinkle cookies show the Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookie recipe finished.

Foolproof Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies

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POPULAR CHRISTMAS Recipes

Christmas Treats

A Christmas platter is filled with squares of fudge in small festive cupcake wrappers for serving.

Original Fantasy Fudge

A white bowl filled with chocolate dip that has marshmallows and chocolate chips on top. A chocolate cookie is being dunked into the dip.

Hot Cocoa Cheesecake Dip

A blue plate has several squares of cranberry bliss bars ready to serve.

Cranberry Bliss Bars

A red polka dot container has Christmas Chex Mix with red and green sprinkles over the top.

Buddy the Elf's Chex Mix for Christmas

A Christmas holly plate has a pile of choclolate covered saltine cracker toffee.

Saltine Cracker Toffee {Christmas Crack}

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CHRISTMAS TREAT RECIPES

Christmas Potluck Party Recipes

A platter has a brick of cream cheese with cranberry sauce spooned over the top. Chopped pecans are used for garnish and crackers and fresh rosemary circle the dip.

Cranberry Cream Cheese Dip

A white baking dish with golden brown hot crab dip has a spoon serving up a portion. There are butter crackers all around the dish.

Make Ahead Hot Crab Dip

A white platter filled with Bisquick sausage balls made with just three ingredients

Bisquick Sausage Balls {3 Ingredients!}

A photo collage shows several sweet Christmas party dips for cookies along with savory dips for veggies.

30 Christmas Party Dip Recipes

Saucy little hot dogs are in a slowcooker being stirred by a spoon.

Crock Pot Little Smokies

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A small plate has a pile of coconut-rolled Swedish chocolate balls.

Swedish Chocolate Balls {Chokladbollar}

The funeral potatoes recipe has been baked and a spoon has scooped out a serving from the baker.

Cheesy Cornflake Potatoes {Oven or Crock Pot}

The spiral ham is on a roasting rack so it can be broiled to make the brown sugar glaze crispy.

Crockpot Spiral Ham with Brown Sugar Glaze

A parfait cup of creamy cranberry fluff has a spoon resting on the side.

Make-Ahead Cranberry Fluff

A skillet is filled with Swedish meatballs and creamy gravy.

Swedish Meatballs in Gravy

A chocolate cake with green mint frosting and chopped Andes candies on top.

Grasshopper Poke Cake

A platter of puffy lemon doodle cookies has sliced fresh lemons on the side.

Lemon Doodles

A white bowl is filled with seasoned saltine crackers.

Alabama Fire Crackers

The lemon cookies are cooling on a baker's rack, they have a lemon icing drizzle over the top and fresh lemon slices on the side.

Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies

A plate of lemon scones with sugared topping has sliced lemons on the side.

Lemon Scones

A platter of peppermint brownies has York candies next to it.

Easy Peppermint Patty Brownies

A white platter has 3 sugar cookie bars with white frosting and colorful sprinkles on top.

Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars

4 jars of the homemade spice mix have red and white bows for gifting. One jar is on its side with some spice spilling out.

Homemade Gingerbread Spice Finishing Sugar

The turkey gravy is being served in a china gravy boat with fresh sage for garnish.

Easy Homemade Gravy for Beginners

A gravy boat filled with chicken gravy on a white platter.

Make Ahead Roasted Chicken Gravy

A festive holiday nut bowl is filled with rosemary roasted cashews.

Rosemary Cashews

A white platter has a pile of fluffy whole wheat breadsticks dusted with grated parmesan cheese over the top.

Whole Wheat Breadsticks

A platter of golden brown apple turnovers.

Air Fryer Apple Turnovers

A baking dish filled with the finished sweet potato casserole with pecan topping.

Make Ahead Sweet Potato Casserole

A stuffed pork tenderloin has cranberries and blue cheese peeking out of the roll. A bunch of fresh thyme is on the platter.

Cranberry Blue Cheese Stuffed Pork Tenderloins

A blue baking dish filled with mac and cheese with bread crumb topping. A serving spoon has removed a portion to show the creamy elbow noodles.

Make Ahead Mac and Cheese

A pot of fresh cranberries is cooking with a wooden spoon to stir.

Cranberry Sauce with Grand Marnier

A platter of sausage swirl appetizers is ready to be served.

Sausage Crescent Roll Swirls

A bowl of creamy Snicker salad has apples, marshmallows, Snickers tossed together.

Authentic Snicker Salad

A slice of cherry cake is on a plate with a fork beside it. In the back is the metal cake pan the 9x13-inch cake was baked in. You can see the slice has been removed and there are maraschino cherries on top of the cake.

Cherry Cake with Almond Icing

A platter of cranberry turkey sliders show the melted cheese and poppy seeds on top.

Cranberry Turkey Sliders

A scoop of golden brown Crock Pot stuffing is served on a small white plate. The slowcooker power knob is seen in the back.

Make Ahead Crock Pot Stuffing

A baking dish with cornbread dressing in it has a serving scooped out. Fresh sage leaves are on top.

Corn Bread Dressing

The sliced bread is on the cutting board next to a bread knife.

Cornmeal Stuffing Bread

The pan of stuffing is coming out of the air fryer.

Air Fryer Stuffing

The cubed bread is in a baking dish next to a sprig of fresh thyme.

Stuffing Bread

A finished loaf of Bavarian Christmas bread from the bread machine. The loaf has a drizzle of white glaze in a criss cross pattern over the top and a red and white striped towel sits next to it.

German Christmas Bread

A spatula is lifting a rosemary pull apart roll from the 9x13-inch baking pan it was baked in.

Easy Rosemary Pull Apart Rolls

A loaf of bread machine Italian bread sits in a basket next to a few sample wedges near a plate of olive oil for dipping.

Bread Machine Italian Bread

The steakhouse brown bread sits in a dish covered by a napkin with a knife on the side.

Steakhouse Brown Bread

A focaccia bread on parchment paper with several squares cut and scattered.

Bread Machine Focaccia

A baking pan filled with the finished cinnamon pull apart bread sits on a cooling rack.

Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread

A baking pan filled with finished orange rolls sits on a blue towel.

Bread Machine Orange Rolls

A platter filled with cranberry brie bites has a sprig of rosemary in the back.

Cranberry Brie Bites

A brick of cream cheese has caramel and chopped pecans on top. Sliced apples are all around it on the platter.

Caramel Apple Spread