45 Christmas Baking with Kids ideas

These Snow Globe Sugar Cookies aren’t only adorable, but they’re super easy to make. Have fun customizing them with your favorite characters and serving them during the holidays!

These Chocolate Christmas Tree Cupcakes bring festivity and fun to the table, making them a delightful project with youngsters. Crafted from chocolate cake mix and topped with homemade vanilla buttercream frosting, their visual appeal matches their mouthwatering taste, tempting you to admire them before you indulge.

Made with molasses and brown sugar, these soft gingerbread cookies are an ultimate Christmas sweet treat recipe that’s both delicious and fun to make with the family. These cookies are perfectly flavored with ground ginger, cinnamon, and cloves.

Make these yummy White Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies with your kids this Christmas! They're easy to make and so delicious!

Rich Chocolate Brownies are sliced into tree-shaped triangles, frosted with vibrant green buttercream icing, and topped with colorful sprinkles with an optional candy cane tree trunk.

These delicious but easy Christmas sour cream sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting are the perfect Christmas sugar cookie recipe! They are perfect for cutting into festive shapes with cookie cutters, and the frosting is easily dyed red and green.

This easy Saltine Cracker Toffee, with white chocolate and milk chocolate, on buttery toffee crackers, is so easy and fun to make that it is a great recipe for getting the kids involved.

These easy chocolate chip sprinkle cookies are such a fun treat to make with your kids! Make them and then package them to hand out to neighbors and friends!

Christmas shortbread cookies are so easy and delicious! Change out the sprinkles and make for other occasions and holidays!

This easy chocolate Bundt cake recipe, with a soft and moist texture, rich chocolate flavor, and indulgent chocolate ganache glaze, is an amazing dessert that anyone can make at home. There're many ways you can decorate it to fit your special occasion.

Crispy Clementine Cookies are delicious buttery, clementine-infused cookies with a crispy sugar glaze. Perfect for Christmas. and easy enough for kids to make with a little supervision.

These easy Grinch brownies are perfect to bake for your holiday movie nights. Here is how to make them! 

Vanilla Kipferl Cookies are a traditional Austrian/German Christmas cookie. These light and crisp cookies are always shaped like a crescent and dusted with vanilla sugar. 

These German cinnamon stars are so much fun to make, but also super tasty and stay fresh for weeks!

Hershey kiss Christmas cookies are easy to make. Fun for kids to bake at the holidays with sprinkles and a kiss in the middle.

Kids love shortbread, and they can learn about how popular this Scottish biscuit is. It’s the perfect bake for Christmas, but never out of season!

Whipped Shortbread Drop Cookies - tender, buttery and delicious is the only way to describe whipped shortbread drop cookies.

Chocolate Ginger Crinkles are the best cookies for the Christmas season! Made with real chocolate, a spicy touch, and an amazing fudgy interior, it will be hard to stop eating after the first bite.

These Chocolate Peppermint Brownies are a quick and simple one-bowl recipe and the perfect treat this festive season! Top with buttercream and crushed candy canes, or keep it simple and lightly top with confectioner sugar.

English Lemon Shortbread Strips are incredibly tender, buttery, and moreish. The lemon in the shortbread and glaze is absolutely perfect.

These mouthwatering Oatmeal Cookies will transport you straight back to your mom's or grandma's kitchen. With quick oats, they're irresistibly soft, chewy, and bursting with that scrumptious buttery and oat flavor.

Easy Cherry Dump Cake Recipe made with 4 ingredients- yellow cake mix, cherry pie filling, butter, and almond extract.

These 3-ingredient peanut butter blossoms are a fun and tasty holiday treat! With only a few simple ingredients, they're easy enough for kids to make!

Take your rocky road to the next level and make it festive. This vegan recipe is made with crushed candy canes, green candy-coated chocolates, and dairy-free white chocolate.

Cranberry and white chocolate cookies are perfectly soft and chewy, with delicious crisp edges. Only ten ingredients are needed, so it's easy to get the kids involved.

This pistachio bread is sure easy to make with kids, thanks to a cake mix and pistachio pudding. It’s a lovely and tasty addition to your holiday dessert table, and also makes a fantastic handmade gift!

The kids will love poking the holes and filling them with jello for this easy Christmas poke cake recipe!

Always a family favorite, these Christmas Cookie Bars are easy to make and packed with festice red and green M&Ms! Plus, they are much simplier to make than typical cookies sonce they all bake up in one pan.

An easy recipe for gingerbread house cookies to bake with kids on Christmas. My family has been using it for years! Easy to make, comes with Royal Icing Recipe!san

An heirloom recipe dating back more than half a century, with lots of steps kiddos can help with!

Easy Russian Vatrushka Recipe: Delicious, fluffy, and healthy farmer’s cheese individual sweet buns look impressive and take a bit more than an hour to make! They make for a great tea-time treat, dessert as well as Thanksgiving or Christmas breakfast treat.

Kids will love making these crockpot peanut clusters! And eating them too!!

These incredible Brown Butter Meltaway Cookies have only 6 ingredients with no mixer needed! The best easy Christmas cookie recipe you will try!

Healthy Cinnamon Sweet Potato Rolls recipe, perfect for Christmas breakfast or brunch. These rolls are delicious, moist, fluffy, and easy to make!

Cut these Red Velvet Sugar Cookies into fun Christmas shapes, then decorate them with chocolate or eggless royal icing!

Not only is this Christmas sugar cookie fudge easy, but so fun too!! A quick stir, adding sprinkles, and a delight for all ages is made!

Kids will love making this melted snowman cookie! No special decorating skills are required to make this EASY Christmas cookie!

These festive Stacked Cookie Christmas Trees feature frosted sugar cookies stacked to look like a tree. It’s a quick and easy semi-homemade dessert that’s fun for kids to make and oh-so-delicious!

Classic Mincemeat Tarts have a spiced fruit filling with notes of citrus baked in a rich, buttery, flaky crust. They’re aromatic and festive, and make a lovely holiday dessert. These mini mince pies are baked in a muffin pan, so they’re individually sized, perfectly portioned, and fun to make with kids around the holidays!

Set an afternoon aside this holiday season for some baking with family! Our Christmas spritz cookie recipe is a no-fail crowd-pleaser (and extra fun to make).

These easy and delicious Christmas Wreath Cookies require no baking & few ingredients. Perfect to make with kids!

These Easy Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies are simple cookies with colorful flair! The perfect Christmas cookie to make with kids, these sweet treats are a dessert that anyone can make!

Nutella Stuffed Gingerbread Muffins – Moist and fluffy muffins that are perfectly spiced with warm, festive flavors and have Nutella centers. These taste just like gingerbread cookies in muffin form!

These melt-in-your-mouth Christmas Sandwich Cookies feature pastry cookies with a sweet and creamy filling. They’re a vintage treat that’s sure to become a family favorite!