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Bless This Mess › Recipes › Holidays

Holiday Recipe Ideas

These holiday recipe ideas are such a fun way to celebrate! Food has a magical way of bringing people together. I love cooking for holidays, and you’ll find lots of Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and even Valentine’s Day recipes on Bless this Mess.

My favorite Christmas Cookie recipes: Soft Gingerbread Cookies, Easy Mexican Wedding Cookies, and Grandma Lucy’s Christmas Sugar Cookies, which are super, super soft and great with icing.

My favorite Fall recipes: THE Best Caramel Dip and Cranberry Orange Bread.

My favorite Halloween recipes: 5 Easy No-Bake Halloween Treats, Easy Oreo Spider Halloween Snacks (these are a great snack/craft for kids), and don’t forget the Halloween Cheese Board!

My favorite Thanksgiving recipes: Mom’s Jumbo Dinner Rolls, Five Ingredient Sides for Thanksgiving (all healthy and easy!), and my favorite apple pie recipe that finishes off the meal so well.

And every holiday is made better with a sweet covered in this Easy & Extra Fluffy White Cloud Frosting!

There’s so many more holiday recipes below, just scroll down to see them all!

A baking tray with decorated gingerbread cookies in various shapes: hearts, stars, and gingerbread people. Green and red icing for gingerbread cookies with sprinkles. Nearby are bowls of red and green icing and a bowl of sprinkles.

Simple Gingerbread Recipes

The Perfect Icing for Gingerbread Cookies

Assorted festive sugar cookies in the shapes of Christmas trees and stars, decorated with a sugar cookie icing recipe in green, red, and yellow hues, plus colorful sprinkles, resting on a cooling rack.

Cut Out Cookies

Sugar Cookie Icing Recipe for Perfect Holiday Decorating

A jar of dark gingerbread syrup with a spoon above it, next to two cups of coffee with cream. The setup is on a wooden surface with a red plaid cloth underneath.

Simple Gingerbread Recipes

Homemade Gingerbread Syrup: Cozy Holiday in a Bottle

A stack of gingerbread sandwich cookies with white cream filling is arranged on a wooden surface. One cookie is leaning against the stack. A red plaid cloth is partially visible in the background.

Simple Gingerbread Recipes

Easy Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies

Classic Gingerbread Cookies.

Simple Gingerbread Recipes

Best Baking Tools for Gingerbread Desserts: Essential Guide

A collage featuring gingerbread man cookie templates: smiling decorated cookies on a cooling rack, outlined shapes ready for baking, a plate filled with classic gingerbread cookies, and cookies with colorful icing outfits and accessories.

From Scratch Recipes

Free Printable Gingerbread Man Cookie Templates for Holiday Baking

A plate topped with a mound of cranberry salsa on cream cheese, surrounded by square crackers. The setting is on a wooden table with a blue cloth underneath the plate.

Appetizer Recipes

Fresh Cranberry Salsa Recipe | Sweet & Spicy Holiday Dish

one slice of healthy pumpkin pie on a round plate.

Pies, Crisps & Tarts

Healthy Pumpkin Pie Recipe

slice of coconut cream pie with dollops of cream on top.

Pies, Crisps & Tarts

Homemade Coconut Cream Pie

whole chocolate cream pie recipe with dollops of cream and chocolate on top.

Pies, Crisps & Tarts

Homemade Chocolate Cream Pie

red velvet whoopee pies in a small stack.

Cookies

Easy Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies

pumpkin donut holes in a pile on a wooden cutting board.

Dessert Recipes

Easy Pumpkin Donut Holes

pistachio gelato in a steamed fancy glass dish.

Ice Cream

Pistachio Gelato

whole apple cake recipe in a glass pan.

Cakes

The Best Easy Apple Cake

picture of a haunted gingerbread house with marshmallow ghosts.

Halloween Recipes

Halloween Food Ideas for Kids

small dish with watergate salad recipe with nuts and a cherry on top.

From Scratch Recipes

Watergate Salad Recipe

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