Christmas baking with kids doesn’t have to be complicated! These simple Christmas cookies, cakes and sweet treats are perfect for little hands to help with — and they make the whole house smell festive too. 🎄✨
So pop on some Christmas tunes, grab your aprons, and get ready to bake up some seasonal magic together.
🎅 Gingerbread Christmas Tree Cookies
Nothing says Christmas like the smell of gingerbread! These Gingerbread Christmas Tree Cookies are simple enough for kids to cut out and decorate, and no cookie cutters are needed. The dough doesn’t need melting or fancy steps, and the decorating part is where the real fun begins — think icing, sprinkles, and edible glitter galore. These are perfect for a cookie exchange.
🍪 Our Favourite Sugar Cookies
These Sugar Cookies are perfect for cutting into stars, bells or snowflakes. This sugar cookie recipe uses simple ingredients you already have at home, and little ones can help roll, cut, and decorate them with icing and sprinkles. Perfect for leaving out for Santa on Christmas Eve! 🎁 Make a batch of sugar cookie dough ahead of time and pop it in the refrigerator.
🦌 Reindeer Cookies
A clever twist on a classic — turn gingerbread men upside down to make Reindeer Cookies! Use icing eyes, mini Smarties for noses, and melted chocolate for antlers. They’re cute, funny, and a guaranteed hit this holiday season with kids (and adults).
🌲 Christmas Tree Cupcakes
Bring the wow factor to your festive table with Christmas Tree Cupcakes. Kids will love piping green frosting “treess” and topping their cupcakes with edible stars and sprinkles. A fun, messy, and delicious activity for a cosy afternoon at home. Our top tip is to use parchment paper on the table to catch all the rogue sprinkles.
👶 Jelly Baby Jesus Cakes
These Jelly Baby Jesus Cakes are adorable little edible nativity scenes — chocolate nests topped with a Jelly Baby wrapped in icing. They’re easy to make and perfect for introducing little ones to the Christmas story through baking.
🍫 Three-Layer Peppermint Bark
If you need a quick no-bake idea, try Three-Layer Peppermint Bark. Kids can help crush candy canes and layer the chocolate. It makes a brilliant homemade gift for teachers, neighbours, or anyone who loves a minty treat.
☕ Snowman Soup
This one’s a cosy favourite — Snowman Soup isn’t really soup at all! It’s a fun hot chocolate kit with marshmallows, chocolate buttons and candy canes. Print the free labels, bag everything up, and you’ve got an easy edible gift kids can make for friends.
🍿 Festive Popcorn Boxes
For a quick treat that’s perfect for Christmas movie nights, make Festive Popcorn and Printable Boxes. Kids can mix up the spiced sugar, drizzle with chocolate, and decorate their own paper popcorn boxes.
🍮 Classic Christmas Pudding (with a Twist!)
Older kids can help make this Traditional Christmas Pudding — it’s a family recipe with a modern update. Let everyone take turns stirring the mixture and making a wish before it steams away to perfection.
🍪 Melted Snowman Cookies
These Melting Snowmen Cookies are a super-fun winter bake — soft sugar cookies topped with icing “snow” and marshmallow snowmen that kids will love decorating (and eating!). ⛄🍪
More Festive Fun
If you loved these, you might also enjoy:
- Tea Cup Candles – perfect handmade gifts
- DIY Bath Melts that Foam – to unwind after baking marathons
- Homemade Christmas – for even more family-friendly crafts and activities
Tip: Turn your baking day into a memory-making afternoon — play carols, wear Christmas jumpers, and let kids go wild with icing. These simple bakes aren’t just about the treats; they’re about the giggles, sticky fingers and shared joy of Christmas. ❤️
