Christmas Desserts

[pigletgirl]

What do you typically serve?

I need easy but yummy recipes!

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

Pecan pie in the crockpot - follow the basic recipe on the corn syrup bottle and use a store bought crust (not the frozen one, the one that is usually with the refrigerator biscuits). Put everything in the crockpot and cook on low (can't remember the time but you can find it online) Easy and if for some reason it doesn't set up to where you can slice it like a regular pie it makes a delicious topping for vanilla bean ice cream.

Cranberry and white chocolate pound cake - the recipe is on pinterest, fairly easy.

Store bought cookies - doesn't get any easier than this and my kids don't care. Pillsbury makes a decent frozen sugar cookie dough.

 

[cabanafrau]

I just found a new recipe I'm going to try out for something different this year, gingerbread trifle.

 

[RangerPooh]

Store bought pie.

Growing up it was always a pie from Gizditch Ranch, but we moved out of the area and have yet to find a suitable replacement.

 

[Klayfish]

DW makes these things called "chocolate balls". I don't know exactly how she makes them, as it's a mother/daughter thing...she makes them with DD10. I just eat them.

She puts Oreos in a blender until they're pretty chopped up. Mixes them into cream cheese (I normally HATE cream cheese). Not soft cream cheese in a tub, but the more firm stuff. She then dips them into melted baking chocolate (I think she buys that at Michaels??) and puts them in the fridge. Yum, yum, yum. She's made some with a little peanut butter mixed in too. Not bad, but I like plain ones better.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

I make a Cranberry Mandarin White Chocolate Bread Pudding recipe that comes courtesy of Terri Lim, a pastry chef with the Delta Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon. It is fairly easy to make and uses croissants in place of bread chunks for a "richer" taste. The fresh cranberries make it seem more holiday-ish/festive and it is served with a side of caramel sauce that has a bit of Bailey's in it. The recipe, as I received it, made a restaurant-sized pan of it, so I needed to do a bit of experimentation and finagling to down-size the recipe into a manageable quantity for just our family. It is definitely just a once a year treat for us, but we really look forward to it.

 

[Meriweather]

Cookies....lots of cookies....home made.
Oreo balls, as mentioned above. DD had them at a work function and now I will make them. New "cookie" for this year

 

[Praying Colonel]

DW makes a fresh apple cake that's her grandmother's recipe.

Growing up my mother made a red velvet cake.

 

[DisneyHardin]

On Christmas Eve we always have “dirt cake” (it’s a no bake desert with pudding, cool whip, cream cheese and crumbled Oreos). On Christmas Day my aunt makes a delicious rum cake.

 

[quandrea]

Lots of different Christmas cookies—shortbread, rugalach, gingerbread men, snickerdoodles, spritz, candy cane cookies, caramel toffee squares, Oreo balls, peanut butter chocolate marshmallow squares, white chocolate peanut butter marshmallow mounds....I could go on.

Traditional trifle

Newfoundland cherry Cake, fruitcake

Candy cane ice cream, home made eggnog

 

[NYCgrrl]

Elder sister and I make this for most every Christmas celebration with our own variations: I always use a tube pan, she always uses a Bundt or mini Bundt pans. We both use Duncan Hine Cake mix (either yellow, lemon or orange) cause Nana said that was the only mix with the right type of flour. We swap out vanilla pudding mix for lemon or orange jello since it makes for a firmer cake that better absorbs the glaze. I always use dark anejo rum but sister goes all over the place....it was pretty interesting the year she used Meyer's but not so great the time she tried Gosling's Black Seal:

http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/bacardi-rum-cake-14499

 

[luvpoohandcompany]

Traditional trifle, fresh fruit salad with ice-cream, chocolate yule log
Then if there's still room cadbury's selection boxes, Terry's chocolate orange and after 8 mints lol

 

[Wendy31]

We always serve a Key Lime Cake, &, depending on the year & what the rest of our menu is, in the past, I've done the following in addition to the Key Lime Cake:

Gingerbread Trifle
Coconut Cake
Chocolate Cheesecake
Red Velvet Cheesecake
Million Dollar Pie

One year, we had a Christmas Brunch, &, for "dessert," I served a Cranberry Tart, Egg Nog Coffee Cake, & Hot Chocolate Tiramisu.

One year, we had a sort of a Louisiana-themed menu (because we were serving fish DH had caught during a fishing trip in Louisiana), & 2 of our desserts were beignets & a bread pudding w/ rum sauce.

And we always have an assortment of Christmas cookies.

For Christmas Eve, I make a Strawberry Pretzel Salad to take to my parents' house & to take to DH's parents' house.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Apple pie and chocolate cream pie.

I'm still not sure whether I'm going to bake cookies this year. DD's coming home from college, though, and I think it would be nice for her if I have some to make a colorful plate up. We'll see.

 

[powellrj]

Pecan pie, sugar cream pie, pumpkin pie and Christmas cookies.

 

[QueenIsabella]

Christmas cookies. We make several different kinds that we freeze, then send out to people. We eat the remaining ones on Christmas. So far we've made snickerdoodles, gingersnaps, and Fudge Ecstasies. We'll also make chocolate-oat bars, peanut butter blossoms, spritz cookies, meringues (I don't ship these--too delicate), and candy cane blossoms, which are essentially butter cookies with a candy cane Kiss. I may make fudge, as well. And DH has fruitcake.

After having made all those, and having leftovers in the freezer, is seems silly to make still more desserts.

 

[Snowflakey]

I live by an orchard and every summer I buy one of their cherry pies - which is frozen. I save it for Christmas every year. It is delicious! Plus I bake a TON of cookies every year and make my traditional sour cream coffee cake for Christmas morning brunch.

 

[leebee]

Depends... berry pie, lemon meringue pie, red velvet cake, ice cream sundae bar, baked Alaska, apple crisp. We don't have a traditional Christmas dessert. It'll be whatever we feel like making when I go to the store on the 23rd.

 

[mousefanmichelle]

I always make pumpkin rolls, poppy seed cake and cheesecake. Sometimes i make a carmel apple cake too - all depends on how I'm feeling. I also make ribbon jello and lots of cookies! I might try a yule log this year - we shall see!

 

[Marchand63]

I do cupcakes. Irish Car Bomb & Maple Bacon.