Favorite Christmas dessert?

[MamaLema]

I am in charge of desserts for our Christmas party.

I’m making apple pie, Tres Leches cake, and mini cheesecakes?

Can you suggest other desserts you think would be popular?

 

[mumto3girls]

I make a Brownie Trifle every year. Super easy and very popular.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

I’m making homemade ice cream and we’ll have lots of toppings. Everybody loves it.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

I make this peppermint chocolate cake every year and it's delicious! I've also made these chocolate pretzel squares for a few parties in the past and people have loved them.

 

[Southernmiss]

For our gathering, we must have chocolate chip cookies and oreo balls. Easy to eat for a party.

 

[tcufrog]

My Christmas go-to is snickerdoodles.

 

[kcool]

https://www.food.com/recipe/quick-cinnamon-roll-cake-372295?photo=307786
This is so good and very easy. I also like to throw in store bought candy on dessert trays, makes them look so colorful and festive.

 

[moniqueand2]

Yes, on those cheesecakes!
Another fav. are those peanut butter and Hershey Kiss cookies.
Maybe a tray of brownies and rice krispie treats.

 

[disykat]

We do a chocolate fountain every year on Christmas with all sorts of things to dip in it.

 

[slo]

My peanut butter balls, Oreo balls and Eclair Cake

 

[TwoMisfits]

I am in charge of desserts for our Christmas party.

I’m making apple pie, Tres Leches cake, and mini cheesecakes?

Can you suggest other desserts you think would be popular?

You have to have Christmas cookies...it doesn't even matter what ones, although have 3+ types on a nice tray...

At my house, the would be chocolate crackles/snowballs (used to have Heath, but now we're Heath free), snickerdoodles, and jam cookies drizzled with (fake) white chocolate...

And if this is a big party, I'd have a gluten free-diabetic friendly fool - you can use this one, and just cut the sugar back to the min - https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/9592-strawberry-fool I do a dairy/tree nut free pineapple coconut fake fool, but that's a little harder to make and set, and I could eat other things...PS - you can serve it in individual glasses and decorate with dark chocolate shards or mint (not both)...

 

[RUDisney]

I make tiramisu for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's the only time of year I do this.

It's easy to make and is so much better than anything you'll have in a restaurant.

On Thanksgiving, my Dad said that he isn't crazy about tiramisu. I told him to try mine... he raved about it and had seconds.

 

[fly girl]

Our family always has homemade fudge for Christmas. Chocolate and Peanut Butter.

I go back and forth on which is my favorite, but I think PB has a very slight edge.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

I am in charge of desserts for our Christmas party.

I’m making apple pie, Tres Leches cake, and mini cheesecakes?

Can you suggest other desserts you think would be popular?

I prefer Cherry pie to apple.

Christmas cookies.

 

[Moliphino]

I'd just be eating all the tres leches cake.

Our main Christmas dessert is cookies. Linzer cookies, chocolate crinkles, caramel filled chocolate cookies, peanut butter cups, eggnog cookies, etc.

 

[ronandannette]

We do a chocolate fountain every year on Christmas with all sorts of things to dip in it.

Nice idea and if you’re serving a variety of desserts, at least one should be chocolate. Having fruit to dip also gives an option for anybody who’s eating light to just grab a piece or two.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

I make a Cranberry Mandarin Bread Pudding most years. We just have a small gathering, usually no more than five to eight people, so I only make one dessert that everyone enjoys.

 

[Princessclab]

Our family (30 people) Christmas dinner was usually a big dinner with many dishes etc.
So, for our dessert we would serve Christmas shaped ice cream (here we can get mint green trees or santa shaped) on a dish.
Then people can choose from the cookie platters to add to the dessert. Our cookie platters would contain about 20 different kinds of cookies, for a good variety. Yes, we are overacheivers in the cookie department.
We have a big cookie exchange in the family so lots of cookies are made.
The dessert can be as big or as small as they wish.

 

[Meriweather]

Okay.....I'm trying to figure out one dessert for the family dinner..........I already decided on the gluten free one for DD (brownie cheesecake).
We have our cookie tray for Christmas Eve dinner (about 15 kinds of cookies and candies).

So.....no cookies, no pies (they had 4 for Thanksgiving).
Not another cheesecake. No fruit based ones (now dealing with dislikes), no nuts, not mint, no caramel.

 

[TwoMisfits]

Okay.....I'm trying to figure out one dessert for the family dinner..........I already decided on the gluten free one for DD (brownie cheesecake).
We have our cookie tray for Christmas Eve dinner (about 15 kinds of cookies and candies).

So.....no cookies, no pies (they had 4 for Thanksgiving).
Not another cheesecake. No fruit based ones (now dealing with dislikes), no nuts, not mint, no caramel.

Since you'll have leftover cookies and you're already doing brownies, it sounds like you have the makings of a beautiful ice cream/sorbet sundae bar - I'd have vanilla ice cream (and raspberry sorbet, but you said no fruit, so then I'd probably just get chocolate, even though the brownies are chocolate) and then get whatever sauces and whip cream you want...

Barring that, I'd make cupcakes b/c I think that works for all the requirements and they are single serve...I'd stick to a vanilla or snickerdoodle or gingerbreadesque/spice cake profile, so you aren't doing double chocolate...