December 2025 - Risa's Family Kitchen

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Month: December 2025

Here are our favorite Christmas cookie and candy recipes from 2025. With toffee, bark, cookies, and Christmas desserts, we have lots of ideas to share for your Christmas baking and gifting this year. In this overhead image, the cookies and candy are arranged in a 6 container wooden box.

Christmas Cookies Box Ideas

Peppermint Bark Pretzels

he chocolate and toffee need to set for at least 2 hours or up to overnight. You can speed up this process by placing the toffee in the fridge if desired. Place a spatula or bench scraper under the toffee and place it on a cutting board (it’s okay if it breaks a little with this process). Cut with a sharp knife to break into pieces and serve or store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to two weeks. In this image, the toffee is placed in a tin in the center of the image, surrounded by Christmas greenery, ribbon and ornaments.

Chocolate Butter Toffee with Pecans

These Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing are soft, citrusy, and sweet. Filled with tart dried cranberries, crispy chopped pecans, and bright citrusy orange zest, then rolled in orange sugar and drizzled with orange icing, they are a beautiful and delicious holiday treat. This image is an overhead shot of the iced cookies close together on a plate.

Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing

This Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark is the ultimate sweet-and-salty treat. The combination of the creamy chocolate base, crunchy and salty pretzels and peanuts, and a rich buttery caramel topping finished with a sprinkle of salt is an irresistible treat. Easy to make with just a few ingredients, its a fun holiday treat, perfect for packing in tins or sharing on a plate. In this image, a piece of the Caramel Pretzel Bark is leaning in front of a stack of the bark in the center of the frame with pretzels, peanuts and other bark pieces in the foreground and background.

Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark