415 christmas cake recipes

Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Raisin and Walnut recipe

They are absolutely the greatest cookies in the world. They are buttery, flakey and chocolaty. Delicious treats at Christmas or at any occasion.

The Pennsylvania Dutch settlers made these at Thanksgiving and stored them in a stoneware crock until Christmas. The cookies can be made at any time, but allowed to age for 4-6 weeks.

Old-fashioned Christmas Rocks cookies bursting with candied fruit, dates, figs, pecans, raisins, and currants in a cocoa-spiced batter with a hint of coffee. Dense, chewy, and built to last.

Peanut butter bears: cinnamon-spiced peanut butter cut-out cookies shaped like teddy bears with detailed dough faces. A holiday baking project that's as fun as the cookies are good.

Vienna crescents are flaky yeast-leavened butter cookies filled with sweet pecan meringue and shaped into delicate crescents. A traditional Christmas cookie from Austrian and Hungarian baking.

Nutcracker sweets, peanut butter sheet cookies layered with creamy peanut butter frosting and a chocolate drizzle, cut into squares. The Christmas cookie tin classic that combines bar cookie ease with three-component flavor.

Jelly Christmas Eyes are sandwich cookies with a window cutout showing raspberry or strawberry jelly through the center, coated in sugar. A festive holiday cookie plate classic.

Mazurka cookie bars with an almond shortbread base topped with a fruity filling of apricots, figs, raisins, walnuts, and candied orange peel, finished with powdered sugar icing.

Pumpkin drop cookies with warm spice, chocolate chips, and toasted walnuts. Soft, cakey fall cookies for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and everything in between.

Award-winning thumbprint cookies with buttery dough rolled in finely chopped nuts, pressed with your thumb, and filled with ruby raspberry jam: elegant holiday baking that won first place.

Celebrate Christmas with this gum drop filled German fruit cake that kids love.

Cranberry nut bundt cake studded with whole tart cranberries, dates, and nuts, then drenched in a hot orange glaze that soaks deep into the warm cake. The Thanksgiving and Christmas dessert that gets better the longer it sits.

"A tall, impressive cake that showcases the flavors and smells of the holidays. A three-layer extravaganza with a touch of molasses and shredded apple to keep it moist. It fills the house with a fragrance that beats the most expensive holiday-scented candle. It will be talked about long after the party is over." Source: The Pastry Queen Christmas, by Rebecca Rather

Eggnog layer cake is a tender, nutmeg-scented two-layer cake made with dairy eggnog and topped with cooked-custard eggnog buttercream spiked with rum. A Christmas showpiece cake.

Kransekake, a traditional Scandinavian tower cake made from ground almonds, powdered sugar, potato flour, and egg whites. A gluten-free celebration cake for Christmas and weddings.