Find 20+ recipes to bake your spirits bright and make your holidays extra sweet! Additionally you’ll find some easy no-bake treats and food gift ideas too.
I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and have plenty
of leftovers to enjoy over the holiday weekend.
I’m kicking off the holiday season with my Baking Spirits Bright 3rd Annual Giveaway!
There’s nothing like the aroma of sugar, vanilla and orange zest wafting
in the air to put you in the Christmas spirit!
Whether you’re looking for a sweet treat to fill a cookie tin or a
quick bread to share with family or neighbors, you’ll find something to
satisfy your sweet tooth, including some easy no-bake treats!
Click on the links in red for the complete recipe. You’ll find the baking giveaway details at the bottom of this post.
Melted Snowmen Cookies
These Melted Snowmen Cookies are fun to ‘build’!
Use your favorite cookie as a base. Add melted white chocolate chips or almond bark for ‘snow’.
Mini peanut butter cups provide a snowman top hat with
mini chocolate chips eyes and an orange sprinkle for a carrot nose!
Melt-in-Your-Mouth Snowball Cookies
Snowball Cookies are melt-in-your-mouth tender and buttery,
filled with finely chopped pecans and covered with a blizzard of confectioners’ sugar.
Christmas Wreath Macaroons
Christmas Wreath Macaroons are as fun to decorate as they are to eat!
Only four ingredients plus sprinkles for this recipe.
Like all macaroons, as they’re flourless, they’re gluten-free.
The ultimate chewy, chocolate chip cookies, packed
with sweet and salty mix-ins for a smorgasbord of flavor!
Shortcut Red Velvet-Chocolate Chip Cookies
An easy and festive Christmas cookie that uses a short cut!
Red Velvet Peppermint-White Chocolate Thumbprints
Red Velvet = Christmas to me! These festive red velvet cookies are infused
with a burst of peppermint flavor and white chocolate centers.
Bourbon-Pecan-Gingerbread Cookies
These spirited cookies combine the flavor of gingerbread and bourbon
in a fluffy muffin like texture. Make the dough ahead and chill 4 up to 12 hours.
These Easy Owl Cookies are a hoot to make!
Use your favorite sugar cookie recipe to make a parliament of owls!
Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies
White chocolate, dried cranberries, pecans and oats make this a satisfying and delicious cookie
to add to your holiday baking! Drizzle with additional melted white chocolate if desired.
Nigella Lawson’s Christmas Chocolate Cookies
These chocolate shortbread cookies have a chocolate glaze with with decorative sprinkles.
They’re easy to whip up or in Nigella-speak, a “doddle” to make. :)
Cinnamon Swirl Apple Fritter Bread
A reader favorite recipe and a deliciousto enjoy or give for the holidays!
Cranberry-Orange-Pistachio Loaves
The red and green from the cranberries and pistachios make these mini loaves of bread merry and bright,
as well as sweet, tart and nutty. A perfect little loaf to give or enjoy for the holidays!
Cranberry-Chocolate Chip Bread with Orange Glaze
Welcome cranberry season with Cranberry-Chocolate Chip Bread with Orange Glaze.
The crunchy streusel topping and orange glaze makes this quick bread a moist
and flavorful treat anytime you slice it!
And some no bake treats. . .
Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Fudge
Fudge fans and peanut butter lovers will enjoy this 3-ingredient recipe
that comes together in under 5 minutes!
Ready to enjoy or gift with 2 hours of chilling time.
5-Minute Cranberry-Pistachio-Orange Peel Fudge
Cranberry-Pistachio-Orange Peel Fudge is equal parts sweet, tart, creamy, chewy
and comes together in the microwave in 5 minutes.
Ready to enjoy or gift with 2 hours of chilling time.
No-Bake Coconut Orange Snowballs
I made countless dozens of these cookies in my former life and they are always a crowd-pleaser!
They can be made ahead and stored in the refrigerator or freezer until ready to gift and serve.
An Easy No-Bake Treat: Christmas Peanut Butter Bars
An easy, no-bake treat that is both naughty and nice!
Nice, since they’re so easy to make and naughty, because they too hard to resist!
Easy Christmas Santa and Snowman Bark
This easy no-bake treat comes together in under an hour to enjoy,
gift and share with friends and family.
Chocolate Cherry Merry Mice
Serve up sweet treats and smiles with a no-bake, fun addition to your holiday cookie tin.
Warning: Friends and family may think they’re too cute to eat!
Easy and Irresistible No Bake Peanut Butter-Chocolate Swirl Bars
Calling all peanut butter and chocolate lovers, these no-bake bars come together in 15 minutes
to make anirresistibledessert and easy foodgift.
Reindeer Corn Snack Mix
An easy, no-bake treat that’s perfect for last-minute gift giving and holiday snacking!
You can whip up a batch in about 20 minutes, almost as fast as you can say
“On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer and Vixen . . .”
Spicy Dark Chocolate Nut Clusters
An easy sweet treat that’s no-bake and comes together in 5 minutes!
Perfect for sharing with neighbors, teachers, friends and gifting for the holidays.
Pecan Bourbon Balls
An easy no-bake Southern treat to enjoy with a cup of tea or for Christmas gift giving!
Candy Cane Cocoa Mix
Quick and easy for seasonal sipping and ideal for gift giving!
Homemade Vanilla Extract!
It comes together in five minutes and is ready to use in two months, improving as it ages.
‘Tis the Season to bake and give and I’m sharing some Christmas baking love with a giveaway!
To help bake your spirits bright . . .
One baker will receive a 3 piece brownie baking set with pan, two spatulas and
red and white chevron stripe kitchen towel and fancy decorative sprinkles.
A second baker will receive a Bake Shop 17-inch cookie sheet,
cooling rack, spatulas and fancy sprinkles.
A third baker will receive a Gingerbread Man Pan, mini silicone spoon and spatula,
fancy sprinkles and ‘Let’s Bake and Watch Christmas Movies’ kitchen towel.
A fourth baker will receive a 9-inch loaf pan and an ‘O ChristmasTree’ kitchen towel
A fifth baker will receive a mini loaf pan, mini springform pan, spatula,
Lauren oven mitt and ‘Winter Blessings’ kitchen towel.
A sixth baker will receive a set of Christmas spatulas, set of 10 Christmas cookie cutters,
decorative sprinkles, Lauren oven mitt and ‘Winter Blessings’ kitchen towel.
A seventh baker will receive an 8 piece set of Christmas cookie cutters,
set of 24 baking cups with party picks, fancy sprinkles and Merry Christmas kitchen towel.
An eighth baker will receive a plaid mitten spatula with cookie cutter,
set of 50 baking or snack cups, Lauren plaid oven mit,
fancy sprinkles and red & green plaid kitchen towel.
A ninth baker will receive a set of 24 baking cups with gingerbread house party picks,
set of 2 silicone spatulas with gingerbread man cookie cutter, decorative sprinkles and an
‘O ChristmasTree’ kitchen towel.
And a tenth baker will receive a set of baking cups, set of 4 cooking cutter stamps,
spatula with 2 cookie cutters, fancy sprinkles and a
‘Let’s Bake and Watch Christmas Movies’ kitchen towel.
To enter this giveaway for a chance to win and bake your spirits bright:
🎄 Leave a comment telling me your favorite Christmas cookie or recipe to bake for the holiday season.
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This giveaway is open to those living in the continental U.S. through midnight December 1st..
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THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
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