Christmas Appetizer & Dessert Recipes

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Yuletide Coconut Cherry Cookies

Yuletide Coconut Cherry Cookies – crispy on the outside, tender on the inside. The perfect cookies for a holiday party!
The cookies are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, they’re made with cream cheese and they’re rolled in coconut flakes and topped with a yummy maraschino cherry. These cookies were among the first to disappear. They look very festive and are the perfect Christmas cookie!
https://www.jocooks.com/baking/cookies/ ... y-cookies/

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Thumbprint Cookies

These Thumbprint Cookies are the perfect holiday cookies. Cookie dough balls are coated in walnuts then topped with raspberry jam. An old fashioned cookie but a classic and incredibly delicious!
Thumbprint cookies are known as Hallongrotta which is a Swedish pastry. Translated it means “Raspberry Cave“. Thumbprint cookies are really old fashioned but a classic in my book.

There’s not a Christmas that goes by that I don’t make them. These cookies are a staple at my house for the holidays and everybody just loves them.
These cookies are great with toasted walnuts or pecans, however, you can use whatever nuts you prefer, but the nuts are a must. The jam is also a must. I prefer a seedless raspberry or strawberry jam, but feel free to use whatever jam you like.
These cookies are perfect for freezing. Simply store them in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 3 months. I always start my cookie baking at the beginning of December and store them in the freezer until the night before serving them. Simply take out the container from the freezer and thaw them on the counter overnight.

These cookies should make it to your holiday table because they sure are a crowd favorite.
https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/thumbprint-cookies/

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Berry Brioche Bread Pudding

This decadent Berry Brioche Bread Pudding is crammed full of blueberries, raspberries and butterscotch chips. An indulgent dessert that is a favorite with everyone!
First important ingredient in a good bread pudding is the bread and I find that brioche is my bread of choice when it comes to making an incredible and outstanding pudding. Brioche bread is rich and a bit sweet and it’s perfect for soaking up all that cream like a sponge. Of course, brioche is not the only bread you can use.
https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/berry-b ... d-pudding/

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Strawberry Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing
Strawberry Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing – perfect for a weekend breakfast or brunch. Delicious sweet rolls with scrumptious strawberry jam and rich cream cheese icing.
These dreamy rolls are perfectly paired with a nice hot cup of coffee and and generous dose of sunshine. They are also so easy to whip together, just a handful of diced strawberries, some sweet jam, and tender dough are all you need. Seriously. So let’s get rollin!
There’s just something about strawberries, they’re so sweet and amazing, one of my favorite berries. For the dough I used the cinnabons recipe which I cut in half here and used margarine instead of butter because so many people asked me before if it would be any different with margarine vs butter. To tell you the truth, it tastes the same to me, they’re just as flaky with margarine as with the butter. Some people might not want to use margarine for health reasons so feel free to use butter instead.
https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/strawbe ... ese-icing/

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Easy Sausage Pesto Ring

This Easy Sausage Pesto Ring makes for the perfect snack or appetizer. Take country biscuit dough, filled with Italian sausage, pesto and loaded with cheese and butter. Absolutely delicious!
These biscuits are loaded with flavor from the yummy Italian sausage that’s cooked together with Italian seasoning and pizza sauce, to the delicious pesto and finally to the mozzarella and emmental cheese.
But the best part about this ring is that pesto, at least I think so because I love any sort of pesto and I’m crazy enough to put pesto on anything. Talk about flavor galore here!
This dish is absolutely perfect for sharing! Tell everyone to roll up their sleeves and get in there, they’ll be completely enamoured by this dish and once you start hearing all that praise, you will be too! So let’s get into it, you’ll be dishing it out to friends and family alike soon enough.
https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/easy-sa ... esto-ring/

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Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bite

Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites – Perfectly seasoned chicken pieces, wrapped in glorious bacon, rolled in brown sugar and baked to golden perfection. Need I say more?
Bite size pieces of chicken wrapped in bacon, B-A-C-O-N my friends. They are then rolled in brown sugar and finally baked to perfection. Can you say YUM!

Let’s talk about these puppies because they are too good to be true. The bacon, the brown sugar, the chicken; this recipe has to be the motherlode of all appetizers! They are full of flavor, sweet from the brown sugar, salty from the bacon, plus I generously seasoned them with some fresh cracked pepper.
https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/sweet-c ... con-bites/

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Crockpot Buffalo Chicken Meatballs with Blue Cheese Dressing
These Crockpot Buffalo Chicken Meatballs with Blue Cheese Dressing are spicy and delicious, yet super healthy. Perfect for an appetizer or a snack.
I don’t make chicken meatballs often because most of the time I think they’re tasteless but this is why we have Buffalo sauce. If you can’t handle too much spice I would cut down on the Buffalo sauce otherwise, go nuts. Even the picky hand model devoured these meatballs, and where I normally encounter grunts and complaints, this time all I encountered was silence, which is a good thing. Trust me.
https://www.jocooks.com/type/healthy-ea ... -dressing/

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White forest meringue roulade

Try this ultimate make-ahead dessert for Christmas: meringue, white chocolate, cream and cherries are combined to make a luscious centrepiece
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/whi ... ue-roulade

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Christmas pudding ice cream

Impress your guests with this showstopping Christmas dessert, which can be made up to one month ahead

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/786 ... -ice-cream

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Rocky road cheesecake pudding
We've blended two tempting sweet treats – rocky road and cheesecake – to create this irresistible make-ahead dessert, perfect for festive entertaining

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/roc ... ke-pudding