Christmas cake recipes to celebrate the season
Get ready to sleigh your holiday celebrations with every scrumptious bite of these Christmas cake recipes.
Tis the season to indulge in delightful sweetness, and what better way to spread holiday cheer than with a slice of cake that brings joy to your taste buds?
Whether you’re a seasoned baking pro or just discovering your inner baker, these Christmas cake recipes span all skill levels.
From easy-peasy cakes using cake mix to sweet show-stoppers, from traditional fruitcakes to gingerbread goodness, you’re about to be whisked away into a sugary wonderland where Christmas magic takes the form of delectable, festive treats.
Christmas cake recipes
This small gingerbread cake is a moist and fluffy 6 inch cake that tastes like Christmas in every bite. It's perfect if you've having a Christmas dinner for two and don't want leftovers into the New Year!
This Amaretto Christmas cake is packed full of juicy Amaretto soaked fruit for a perfect festive celebration cake.
Brandy aged fruitcake is so rich & delicious. Brandy softens the fruit and mellows the cake part of the fruitcake and it acts as a preservative. You’ll become a fruitcake convert with this recipe.
This beautiful Christmas layer cake will be the favorite holiday dessert this year. It's a from scratch Funfetti style cake that is moist and packed with holiday cheer.
This Christmas tree cake is made using a 9″x13″ pan, doesn’t require any special tools, and has the most delightfully airy orange (or vanilla or almond) cake base with cream cheese frosting.
This isn’t your typical Christmas tree cake – it’s made up of individual cupcakes. You can turn any batch of cupcakes into an adorably festive holiday treat with this creamy whipped frosting and Christmas tree decorating guide.
Cranberry Christmas cake, with the perfect balance of sweet and tart, is a rich scratch-made butter cake studded with fresh cranberries and topped with an almond-flavored powdered sugar glaze.
Cranberry Christmas cake is easy to make with an incredible combination of sweet and tart flavors. Think hints of vanilla and almond contrasted with fresh cranberries.
Cranberry orange cake is made with a fresh cranberries, oranges, and a delicious cream cheese frosting. Sugared cranberries top this beautiful and easy to make cake that’s perfect for the holiday.
Cranberry ricotta cake is a deliciously moist Italian cake recipe that only takes 10 minutes to put together.
Crema de fruta is made of delicious layers of soft fluffy cake, rich creamy custard, and fruit blanketed in gelatin. Fun and festive, it definitely deserves a place in your celebrations.
This dreamy white forest cake combines festive red cherries with a lovely white cake to create a show stopping Christmas dessert.
This easy eggnog Christmas cake is for all the eggnog lovers out there. It’s super quick to make with yellow cake mix and a jug of eggnog.
This vegan red velvet cake is rich and moist with a creamy dairy free cream cheese frosting.
This easy French apple cake contains mascarpone cheese and fresh apples. Dusted with powdered sugar (to look like a snowflake!) or cinnamon sugar, it’s the perfect holiday recipe.
Indulge in a slice of joy with this fuzzy mitten-shaped cake! Soft and fluffy, it's the perfect Christmas treat.
Moist, old-fashioned gingerbread cake is classic Christmas dessert recipe. Make this easy recipe, and you’ll never buy a boxed mix again.
This gingerbread Bundt cake with a tart lemon glaze and sugared cranberries is incredibly rich & flavorful, super moist and packed with the flavors of ginger, cinnamon, allspice, and molasses.
Simple gluten free gingerbread cake is a gorgeous and moist 3-layer cake that’s shockingly easy to make. It’s frosted with cream cheese frosting and decorated with sugared cranberries.
This fruitcake with chocolate and meringue is gluten-free, lectin-free, and low in sugar compared to other classic fruitcakes and made with only wholesome, healthy ingredients. It tastes and smells like holidays.
This Jamaican vegan fruit cake is filled with fragrant spices and blended dried fruit that's been soaked in rum and port wine. It can also be made alcohol-free.
This is the easiest Christmas cake recipe around as there is absolutely no need to decorate it with marzipan or icing. In fact, doing so would spoil this last-minute Christmas cake.
This old fashioned fruit cake is a family recipe. It is easy to make and makes a fantastic Christmas cake for the festive season.
This dried fruits & raisins panettone is a classic Christmas cake.
This eggless Stollen cake is an aromatic Christmas cake recipe which your family and friends will enjoy.
Red velvet cake roll with chocolate and peppermint butter cream frosting
Red velvet cake rolls aren't just for Valentine's Day. This Christmas dessert will dominate your holiday dessert table every single year.
This festive cake is a delicious red velvet cake decorated and shaped like a wreath with green frosting.
This super moist cake is made with brown sugar and dates and has a rich toffee sauce on top for the ultimate Christmas dessert.
Flavorful and tangerine cake layers, covered with a thin layer of tangerine curd, with sweet cream cheese frosting: these winter flavors come together perfectly in a beautiful cake. It's topped with sugared cranberries and candied oranges for the ultimate holiday look.
A traditional British Christmas cake is made in advance for stress-free holiday entertaining.
Perfect for your ugly sweater party, make this fun holiday cake with a basic 9x13 pan and every guest will be talking about it.
This classic Old English-style vegan fruitcake is rich, easy to make, and perfect for the holiday season.
This Italian pear almond cake is sweet and nutty with juicy ripe pears and real almonds scattered throughout.
(And there’s more! Check out these Christmas Bundt cake recipes and Christmas chocolate cake recipes for more cakey goodness).
These Christmas cakes are a way of making sweet memories that will warm your heart long after the last crumb is gone.
So put on your Santa hat, crank up the holiday tunes, and sprinkle some magic into the kitchen by whipping up these Christmas cake recipes.
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