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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!

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A plate of Peppermint Snowball Cookies dusted with powdered sugar sits on a table beside a bowl of powdered sugar, unbaked cookies, bottles of milk, and peppermint candies, all arranged on a red-striped cloth.

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Christmas cookies shaped like gingerbread people, Christmas trees with green icing, and snowflakes with white icing, arranged on parchment paper. Website text BLESSTHISMESSPLEASE.COM at the bottom.

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A white plate filled with andes mint chocolate cookies topped with chopped nuts sits on a green checkered cloth, with a baking tray of cookies and two bottles of milk in the background.

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A mason jar filled with layered baking ingredients for peppermint chocolate brownies, topped with crushed peppermint, chocolate chips, and marshmallows, decorated with a red ribbon and a recipe card labeled “Peppermint Brownies.”.

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A slice of crumb-topped gingerbread coffee cake on a white plate with a fork, with a baking dish of the same cake and another plated slice in the background, all on a green checked cloth.

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Frosted gingerbread bars cut into squares, topped with white icing and festive red, green, and gold holiday sprinkles, are arranged on a green plaid surface.

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