What would be Christmas without Christmas baking? I have posted several recipes for sweets, snacks and cookies over time. It’s time for a roundup so that you have one place where you can find all the best ideas. These recipes are perfect to treat yourself before Christmas or serve as delightful small gifts for family, friends, teachers or neighbors!

We all have a lot to do at the end of the year. It is also a time when we want to be close to our loved ones and spend time together. What better way to do it than bake together and later enjoy the lovely homemade treats?

So without further ado, here are 10 great ideas for holiday treats to serve on your own Christmas table or give away as a gift to the people that are important to you.

10 Recipe Ideas for Christmas Treats

1. Baci di Dama Biscuits

Smooth and melt-in-your-mouth biscuits with the hazelnuts’ crunchiness and creamy chocolate filling Baci di Dama are sophisticated and delicate and lovely.

2. Spicy Caramel Almonds

These spicy, sweet and wonderfully crunchy almonds just might be my favorite wintertime snack of all time.

3. Pinwheel Cookies

Pinwheel cookies are delicious, beautiful-looking and real simple to make. A lovely treat to make together with the kids.

4. Ricciarelli Cookies

Super easy (they come together in literally a few minutes) lemony Italian biscuits, Ricciarelli are soft and crumbly and addictively delicious. They are also gluten-free!!

5. Chocolate Chip Cookies

Crispy and chewy simultaneously, these chocolate chip cookies are positively addictive.

6. Classic Chocolate Truffles

Truffles are probably the most decadent chocolate dessert that exists. They are also marvelously easy to make at home!

7. Dark Chocolate & Avocado Truffles

These vegan bites are even easier to make and have a unique freshness to them that makes them even more addictive than the classic version!

8. Cinnamony Chocolate & Almond Cookies

An intense chocolate cookie with soft melt-in-your-mouth center, a light crunch on the edges and a lingering hint of cinnamon.

9. Meringue kisses

Aren’t these just the prettiest little drops of sweetness?! Beautiful, elegant and easy to make, they make perfect edible gifts for the kids teachers or for neighbors.

10. Gingerbread Cookies

Crunchy gingerbread cookies bring Christmas around with the first bite! These delightful, sweet and spicy Christmas biscuits are a classic and with good reason!

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