85 christmas baking recipes

Italian Christmas bread for the bread machine: an egg-rich, raisin-studded sweet loaf with an egg wash crust. A holiday panettone-style bake with minimal hands-on time.

Bobalky are traditional Slovak Christmas bread balls made from soft yeast dough, baked golden, doused in boiling water, then tossed with poppy seeds and melted butter. A cherished holiday tradition.

Christmas treasure nugget cookies: chewy oat and cereal drop cookies, each topped with a whole blanched almond like a buried treasure. A crunchy holiday cookie tin classic that bakes up fast.

Stained glass cookies, a no-bake chocolate log studded with mini marshmallows and walnuts, rolled in flaked coconut and sliced to reveal a mosaic window pattern. A classic Christmas cookie tray favorite.

Panforte is the dense, chewy Sienese Christmas cake packed with toasted hazelnuts and almonds, dates, cherries, cocoa, and warm spices, bound by hot honey caramel. A traditional Italian holiday confection.