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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Trees are sparkling with lights, kids are anxiously waiting for Santa, and you are planning tasty festive food ideas for everyone to enjoy this holiday season. If you are in the middle of planning your festive snacks, meals, and drinks you NEED to consider adding some of these holly jolly Santa recipes everyone will love! We’ve included fantastic desserts, appetizers, as well as come tasty drinks that are sure to hit the spot! Check out our Delicious Santa Recipes below!
Delicious Desserts and Appetizer Santa Recipes
Cookies, cakes, cheese boards, pancakes, and so much more! The best part of these recipes? How much fun you will have making them! Plan a fun evening with your kids and create some holiday magic by making some festive Santa goodies! Who could honestly resist a Santa hat cupcake or a cheeseboard shaped like Santa. All these delicious recipes are prefect for holiday parties, classroom parties, or even just a fun Christmas movie night with snacks!
The holiday season is fast approaching which means it’s time to start planning fun festive holiday dishes to serve at parties! Find the perfect dish to bring to your next holiday party with this fun smiling Santa charcuterie board. Easy to make and sure to bring a smile to everyone at your gathering. Not only is it simple to put together, but it’s also a creative dish to make with some bored kids over Christmas break!
With the holiday season just around the corner it’s time to start planning some tasty snacks to bring to parities or just to have on hand. One fun recipe we can’t rave about enough is our Santa Claus Trail Mix! It combines sweet, salty, and a few sweet surprises that is sure to be a huge hit this Christmas season! All the classics plus some delicious homemade granola and red velvet cookies.
These stuffed Santa strawberries are easily the cutest little treat you will ever eat! While you may have seen Santa hat strawberries before, this recipe gives you the entire jolly good fellow, including his little face!
Bring in the Christmas spirit with these adorable Santa hat cupcakes! With a delicious cupcake base, vibrant red frosting, and topped with a cute pom pom of white frosting, these are the festive cupcakes to light up any holiday table. Dive into the magic of Santa Claus and Christmas time with this easy Christmas dessert!
Impress your little ones with these delicious Santa Hat Donuts. Not only are they easy to make, but they are also adorable to look at and such a tasty treat to enjoy between meals or as an after-dinner snack.
Imagine walking into a room filled with the aroma of freshly baked cookies, the glow of twinkling lights, and the sight of a magical treat that captures the essence of Christmas. Enter the Santa Hat Christmas Buttercream Board!
These adorable Santa in the chimney cupcakes (or upside down Santa cupcakes) are perfect for holiday parties or as a sweet surprise for your family on Christmas morning.
This Santa Dessert Board is perfect for your holiday party! It includes a variety of festive desserts, including a Santa cheeseball that will wow your friends and family! You can never go wrong with a board filled with sweet treats for holiday parties, gift-wrapping parties, or even to enjoy while watching your favorite Christmas movies this holiday season!
Santa Candy Charcuterie Board for Christmas parties. The best Santa-themed candies from lollipops to mini milk chocolates.
These cute Santa Hat cupcakes are a quick and easy Christmas treat that everyone will love. It’s a great recipe for making with kids or just eating with them! So grab some cupcakes, ice cream cones, and marshmallows because it’s time to make these yummy Christmas cupcakes!
Santa Nutter Butter Cookies are the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie exchange. Peanut nut nutter butter cookies are dipped in chocolate and made to look like Santa! It’s a cute treat the kids love!
Turn strawberries and marshmallows into the cutest Santa Hat Strawberries. They’re perfect for your Christmas charcuterie board.
Vanilla Buttercream on top of a delicious cupcake with the most adorable (and healthy) santa hat on top! Perfect for any Christmas party you are attending or hosting.
Even the Grinch would agree that these Mini Santa Belly Cakes are the cutest Christmas treat ever!!
Santa Hat Rice Krispie Treats are easy to make and fun to eat! Kids and adults will love these old-school treats with a fun holiday twist. Make these for your next Christmas party or holiday celebration!
Santa's favorite cookies are packed with white chocolate chunks, festive M&M's, pretzels, chocolate chips, and sprinkles to make a perfect stocking stuffer for your friends and for Santa this holiday season.
These Father Christmas cookies are crisp, light and gently spiced, then decorated with sugar paste to create very fun, very tasty and very festive treats.
This adorable holiday breakfast idea for bite size Santa Pancakes is super easy to make and ultra kid friendly.
This vegan Christmas trifle has layers of vanilla cake, macerated strawberries, egg-free custard and whipped dairy-free cream. It's the perfect centerpiece for your holiday table!
These Santa cookies are perfect for Christmas! Make these sugar cookies – that look like jolly St. Nick – for holiday gifting or parties.
You’re going to love these easy Santa cupcakes. It’s always fun to make a Christmas cupcake recipe and this one is simple. The holiday cupcakes look so cute! They’re made with boxed cake mix, frosting and little candy decorations. These shortcuts mean you can make the Christmas cupcakes in record time with hardly any effort.
Is it time to start planning the Christmas party already?! These yummy Santa Hat Cheese Cakes are sure to bring a smile to any guests face while you’re hosting over the festive season. This is an easy to make, no bake dessert that looks pretty impressive with the fun Santa theme. Kids of all ages will absolutely love these!
These adorable Santa Rice Krispie Treats are the perfect Christmas dessert for hosting, school parties, or as a fun holiday gift idea for neighbors. They're made with sweetened shredded coconut, white chocolate, and vibrant red decorating sugar. Serve them with my Reindeer Rice Krispie Treats for an extra festive Christmas celebration!
How cute are these? Delicious chocolate brownie covered in decorative icing to make the perfect Christmas treat.
These melt in your mouth, Meringue Cookie Pops are the perfect treat to take to your next holiday party! You will have all the kids and adults asking you for more!
Santa Themed Drinks
Every good Santa themed food item needs a delicious cocktail or mocktail to go along with it! We’ve gathered a few of both to help you kick of the season just right! Make a batch of boozy drinks for your friends and family and a kid friendly mocktail so everyone can enjoy a Santa themed festive drink! It’s sure to put everyone in the ultimate festive spirit! Check out amazing collection of drinks below! Happy Holidays!
The holidays are coming, yay! And along with them a hoard of children hopped up on copious amounts of sugar. Take your elf on the shelf experience to the next level with this adult beverage.
Santa’s Late Night Cocoa is not like anything you’ve had before! If you leave this for Santa instead of regular milk on Christmas Eve, he might get a little tipsy and forget what he is doing! It’s incredible flavors of Crown Royal, cinnamon, allspice seasoning, and hot chocolate are perfection.
A festive and easy holiday drink, these Tipsy Santa Shooters will have you feeling jolly in no time! Made with two simple ingredients!
Santa jello cups take cups of delicious strawberry jello and dress them up as Santa with printable Santa belts, whipped cream, and sprinkles.
A fun signature cocktail is always a welcome treat, especially during the holiday season. This Santa’s hat coconut rum cocktail is an ideal way to get into the festive spirit. The flavour is tart, sweet and fruity all at once, while the shredded coconut adds a contrasting exotic touch to the holiday drink. Serve these Christmas cocktails anytime over the holidays. It might become one of your favorite cocktails for this time of year.
Santa’s Rum Spiked Milk is delicious treat for a hard-working gift giver. Vanilla ice cream, coconut milk, rum and cinnamon are blended and garnished with grated nutmeg. If you like spiked eggnog, this is an easier recipe but just as good because it is made with vanilla ice cream, a North Pole cocktail.
Made with just 4 ingredients, these Santa Hat Jello Shots are a quick and easy Christmas jello shot for your upcoming holiday party. Made with jello, marshmallow vodka, strawberries, and whipped cream, they’re sure to be loved by all adults!
Time to get the party started with these tasty chambord shots! These red and white shots are perfect to enjoy at Christmas and you only need three ingredients! Sweet and creamy, these Santa shots take minutes to make and are sure to be a hit!
Let the kids in on the Christmas drink fun with this festive Santa's Hat Shirley Temple! With it's bright red color and coconut rim, it'll be the hit of the holiday season with the little ones.
More Festive Food to Try
- Christmas White Chocolate Peppermint Pretzel Rods
- Peppermint Chai Latte Christmas Cookie Recipe
- Delicious Holiday Twist: Multi-Color Christmas Bread Loaf Recipe
- Vegetable Christmas Wreath Platter
