Christmas Baking Recipes

S’mores Pull-Apart Slab
Soft graham cracker pull-apart bread baked with marshmallow seams, graham crumble, chocolate chips, and finished with a chocolate drizzle for a warm s’mores-inspired dessert.

This Biscoff poke cake has cookie butter baked into the cake, melted into a rich soak, and whipped into a light, fluffy topping for the ultimate cookie butter dessert.

The final episode of my Milk & Cookies series, where all four layers come together. This post walks through the final assembly, glazing, and finishing steps to create a smooth, sliceable milk-and-cookies dessert.

A light, cloud-like chocolate chip cookie dough mousse with real cookie dough flavor and chewy cookie dough chunks. Episode 3 of the Milk & Cookies series, perfect layered or spooned straight into dessert cups.

A silky, milk forward sweet cream pastry cream made with condensed milk, paired with a crisp chocolate chip cookie crumble. Perfect for entremets or simple dessert cups.

Brown Butter Milk Cake This brown-butter milk cake is the base of my Milk & Cookies Entremet — a soft, slightly dense sheet of cake that supports layers of cookie dough mousse, pastry cream, crumble, and silky milk-chocolate ganache. The flavor is pure comfort: warm…

Old-fashioned gingerbread doughnuts with a crisp, crackly shell, fluffy center, and the warmest gingerbread spice.

Soft, fluffy cinnamon rolls filled with thick chocolate chip cookie dough chunks and topped with cookie-dough frosting and cookier crumble. These bake tall, tender, and melt-in-your-mouth delicious — the dreamiest cookie-meets-cinnamon-roll mashup.

A rich, custardy croissant chocolate bread pudding baked into a soft cake. This is Episode 1 of my Croissant Chocolate Marshmallow Cake series — and it’s incredible all on its own or as the base of the full cake.

Thick, chewy brown-butter cookies speckled with toffee bits and sandwiched around silky brown-butter cream-cheese frosting. Finished with white-chocolate drizzle and toffee crunch — cozy, nostalgic, and irresistibly buttery.