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50 Fun And Fanciful Foods For a Creative Christmas Celebration

Tulips_thumb By gratefuldaisy 283 days ago Updated 281 days ago 7671 Views 6 Comments
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Introduction

These imaginative holiday foods are fun to make and are sure to guarantee that your Christmas celebration will be a memorable one. For recipes and complete instructions on how to create them, please visit the website links provided.

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Tree-shaped Crescent Veggie Appetizers

www.pillsbury.com/products/rolls/refrigerated/cre…

Bits of broccoli, peppers, and cucumbers decorate this tree with a base of Pillsbury Crescent Rolls.

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Easy Fiesta Christmas Tree

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

Serve this spread made from cream cheese, salsa, orange marmalade, and other ingredients with crackers or tortilla chips.

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Holiday Tree-Shaped Cheeseball

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

Garland is formed with bell peppers and pine nuts on this parsley-covered, Christmas tree cheeseball.

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Candy Cane Cupcakes

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1710_1.js

Cupcakes all in a row and striped with M&M's candy make this clever candy cane.

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Fun With Santa Cookies

www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=164…

Sugar cookies in simple crescent, star, and round shapes can be used to make these cute santas--no special cookie cutter required.

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Candy Choir

www.brightideas.com/christmas/family/f_1356_1.jsp

Make these fun carollers and others from a base of round cookies and sugar cones.

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Chocolate Pretzel Wreath

www.brightideas.com/christmas/family/f_683_1.jsp

Pretzels dipped in melted Dove chocolates and decorated with M&M's candy make this colorful treat.

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Reindeer Cookies

www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=375…

Who could resist these cute peanut butter reindeer cookies with their cherry noses, chocolate chip eyes, and pretzel antlers?

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Miniature Snowmen

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1362_1.js

Coconut snow, hats made from Dove brand miniatures and malted milk balls, and M&M's buttons are all part of these cheery snowmen.

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1-2-3 Gingerbread Houses

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

Kids will love to decorate these treats with cereal and candies.

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No Bake Santa Cookies

www.thriftyfun.com/tf32862352.tip.html

Store bought Nutter Butter Cookies are transformed into Santa cookies with icing, red sugar, chocolate chips, miniature marshmallows, and red candies.

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M&M's Tasty Ornament Treats

www.brightideas.com/christmas/decorating/d_25_1.j…

Balls formed from Rice Krispies treats and studded with M&M's candy make these bejewelled ornaments.

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Kris Kringle Cookies

familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/feature/famf1202…

A heart-shaped cookie cutter forms Santa's face with a coconut beard and fur-trimmed hat.

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Gift Wrapped Cake

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1475_1.js

MILKY WAY® Brand Milk Chocolate Covered Caramels line the bottom of this cake decorated with a big red Starburst Brand Fruit Chews bow.

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15
 

Christmas Stocking

www.brightideas.com/christmas/family/f_1024_1.jsp

Rectangular shaped snack cakes are decorated with colorful candy for these edible Christmas stockings.

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Holly Jolly Snowmen

www.brightideas.com/christmas/decorating/d_1708_1…

Popcorn ball snowmen dressed up in their finest candy fashions.

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Candy Cane Coffeecake

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

Apricots and cherries mix together to make the fruit filling for this delicious braided candy cane coffeecake.

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Christmas Holly Cookies

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1476_1.js

These easy-to-make cookies will add a pretty and festive touch to your Christmas table.

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19
 

Yummy Reindeer Cookies

www.brightideas.com/christmas/family/f_1082_1.jsp

These chocolate-dipped cookies on craft sticks that are decorated with sprinkles and candy are sure to please every age.

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Cheerios Christmas Trees

www.brightideas.com/christmas/family/f_1082_1.jsp

These edible Christmas table decorations are created from Cheerios cereal, marshmallows, gumdrops, and cinnamon candies.

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Tasty Table Lights

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1363_1.js

"Light" up your Christmas dessert table with these fun cookie treats.

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Sweet Santa Cookie Pops

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1469_1.js

Miniature marshmallows make a beard for this santa with M&M's candy features.

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Snow Globe Cookie

www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=163…

This giant sugar cookie is made from refrigerated cookie dough and then decorated with a detailed wintry scene.

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Cinnamon Christmas Tree

www.pillsbury.com/Recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=156…

Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls shaped like a tree and decorated with red and green cherries would make a sweet breakfast for Christmas morning.

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Delicious Holiday Wreath

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1_1.jsp

Make this decorative wreath with Rice Krispies cereal and marshmallows for the base that is then covered with M&M's candies.

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Frosted Snowman Face

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1022_1.js

This cake is sure to delight anyone's sweet tooth. The snowman's hat is layered with Twix Brand miniatures candy bars.

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27
 

Christmas Tummy Yummies

www.brightideas.com/christmas/family/f_1714_1.jsp

Crushed candy canes are stirred into melted Dove chocolates and then cut into Christmas tree shapes for these minty treats.

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28
 

Sweet Tortilla Snowflakes

jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=4058

Tortillas are snipped as if they were paper snowflakes and then baked and dusted with powdered sugar.

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Holiday Candy Trains

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

Brighten your Christmas buffet table with this fun to make train composed of various types of wrapped candies.

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Christmas Tree Cake

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

Easy to make from a cake mix, decorate this Christmas tree cake with gumdrop lights, green colored sugar, and a peppermint stick trunk.

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Brownie Snowmen

jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=4075

After cutting snowmen shapes from a pan of brownies, dust the tops with confectioner's sugar and add candy features.

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Starburst Brand Candy Cane Star Light Cookies

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_2_1.jsp

Melted candy cane centers make these cookie stars look like stained glass.

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33
 

Rudolph The Red Nosed Cookies

jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=4077

The red noses on these cookies will guide you right to them. Pretzel antlers and candy features are added to reindeer faces cut from chocolate sugar cookie dough.

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34
 

Santa Hats

jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=5049

Crispy meringue santa hats are sprinkled with red sugar.

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35
 

Stuffed Stockings

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

You won't be able to resist these raspberry and chocolate filled treats.

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36
 

Santa's Candy Sleigh

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

For cute party favors or place setting decorations, make these Santa candy sleighs from various kinds of wrapped candy.

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37
 

Doughnut Snowmen

jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=4100

Your kids will love building these snowmen no matter what kind of weather you have outside.

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38
 

Enchanted Forest Table Top Decorations

www.brightideas.com/christmas/decorating/d_16_1.j…

Trees made of sugar cones, green frosting, and strings of M&M's candy lights will spring to life in this forest perfect for your holiday centerpiece.

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Candy Cane Cookies

www.bettycrocker.com/Recipes/Recipe.aspx?RecipeId…

Twist a rope of red dough and a rope of white dough together to create these Candy Cane Cookies.

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Christmas Tree Brownies

www.bettycrocker.com/Recipes/Recipe.aspx?recipeId…

Pretzel nuggets become tree trunks on these Christmas tree brownies.

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Reindeer Cupcakes

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

Chocolate sprinkles, marshmallow eyes, and a red gumdrop nose all are added to cupcakes to create these reindeer.

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Snow People

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

Marshmallow snow people with gumdrop hats sit atop pretzel rods to make these fun treats.

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43
 

Gingerbread Cut-outs

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

Traditional gingerbread men are a Christmas classic standby.

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44
 

Cookie Tree

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1359_1.js

This giant Christmas tree cookie will be fun for the whole family to make and share.

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45
 

Reindeer Chocolate-coated Pretzel Rods

www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID…

These comical reindeer pretzels are real kid-pleasers.

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Holiday Cookie Ornaments

www.bettycrocker.com/Recipes/Recipe.aspx?recipeId…

Candy canes are baked in hooks for these sugar cookie ornaments.

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47
 

Snowman Cookies

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1080_1.js

Bake up a batch of these brightly colored snowmen cookies to take to the next Christmas get-together.

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Silent Night Cupcakes

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_640_1.jsp

These cupcakes serve as candleholders for candy bar candles that have an almond M&M's candy for a flame.

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Golden Star Cookies

www.rd.com/content/golden-star-cookies-recipe/

A creamy citrus filling provides a sharp contrast to the crisp cookie in these taste tempting Christmas concoctions.

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Holiday Ornament Dessert

www.brightideas.com/christmas/recipes/r_1717_1.js

Pound cake baked in a round pyrex bowl becomes a perfect centerpiece for your table when it is iced and decorated as a giant Christmas tree ornament.

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Great list! Thanks for all the links. I think I'll make some chocolate pretzel wreaths. Those are way too cute!
Birdman_thumb freeluluposted 282 days ago
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Thanks for the grate(fuldaisy) ideas! I'll show them to the cook...LOL
Pam-oml-avatar-2_thumb Pamposted 282 days ago
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I am SO hungry! (7 pm and no supper!) Sooo, your list is wonderful!
I particularly think # 28, the tortilla snowflakes, has a lot of potential.

I hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
You were missed. I am glad to see you back. :-)
K_sunglasses_thumb kathybelleposted 282 days ago
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Thanks Kathybelle. We were on vacation. It was a bit of a shock to the system leaving Orlando with temperatures in mid and upper 70's behind to return back home to Ohio with a temperature of 32 degrees and snow flurries, but we're back. We had fun, but it's still good to be back home. Weatherman is predicting a major ice storm for us tomorrow or Sunday so we are bracing for that. Hope we don't lose our power! There's no place like home. ;-)
Tulips_thumb gratefuldaisyposted 282 days ago
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This is a delicious list! And now...i'm hungry.
Lucky_thumb luckiedogposted 281 days ago
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If you are going to have an ice storm, home is the place to be. Stock up on groceries and you can get all of your holiday baking done....if the electricity stays on.
Then you have a grill, then a blow torch.
You know that after the "chicken from hell" recipe, I'll bet even a gingerbread house could be made on the grill.
K_sunglasses_thumb kathybelleposted 281 days ago
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