For an impressive grand finale to your holiday meal, serve our best dessert recipes: jaw-dropping cakes, chocolate confections and more fresh-from-the-oven favorites.

‘TIS THE SEASON

FOR SWEETS

Showstopping cakes on beautiful plates and a bounty of freshly baked desserts: Let the holiday sugar rush begin.


TOP HOLIDAY DESSERT RECIPES

BREAD PUDDING BONANZA

Nadia G.'s Bread Pudding

Too much panettone? Nadia G. shows how to turn that extra bread into a moist pudding with decadent creme anglaise.

Get Nadia's Easy Bread Pudding Tips

MORE BREAD PUDDING TWISTS

Become a Cake-Baking Pro

Coconut Frosted Carrot Cake

This beautiful coconut-frosted carrot cake is easier to make than you'd think. Follow our step-by-step guide.

How to Make a Coconut-Frosted Carrot Cake

Watch: Cake Essentials

With-a-Twist Sweets

Dark and Stormy Gingerbread

Pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith turns tradition on its head with these inventive takes on classic holiday dessert recipes.

Dark-and-Stormy Rum-Beer Gingerbread

Must-Try Recipes From Hedy

MORE HOLIDAY BAKING + DESSERTS

CLASSIC CHRISTMAS FAVORITES

Get a taste of tradition with fruit-filled baked breads and more classic recipes.

German Stollen Recipe

EAT YOUR EGGNOG

Eggnog Ice Cream Recipe

Those creamy, eggy, sinfully delicious flavors translate well into dessert recipes, too.

Eggnog Ice Cream Recipe

MAKE IT MINI

Carrot Cake Pops

Downsized desserts are all the rage: Guests will love sampling many sweets.

Carrot Cake Tree Pops

HOMEMADE HOLIDAY GIFTS

Chocolate Caramel Popcorn Bark

Surprise fellow food lovers with salty-sweet and super decadent handmade gifts

Choco-Caramel Popcorn Bark With Bacon + Pecans

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