8 Festive Bakes to Make Your Home Smell Like Christmas

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Get a head start on your holiday baking with these festive desserts! This collection features popular cranberry-orange flavors and timeless Christmas classics that will fill your home with the delicious aroma of the season.

There’s nothing quite like the smell of fresh-baked treats filling your home during the holidays. Bake these 8 festive desserts to share with friends and family while making your home smell like a dream!

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baked orange cranberry cake on a table
Orange Cranberry Cake
Remember our viral Red White and Blueberry Cake? It got a Christmas makeover! Check out the new Orange Cranberry Cake recipe, with that same sugar shell topping with cranberries, orange juice and orange zest for a fresh, festive flavor!
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Cranberry Upside Down Cake
Move over, pineapple! This Cranberry Upside Down Cake is moist, bursting with flavor, and makes the perfect breakfast or dessert for Christmas day.
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pieces of gingerbread cake with molasses frosting
Gingerbread Sheet Cake
This molasses-rich cake is perfect for gingerbread cookie fans! It's an easy homemade sheet cake with delicious molasses cream cheese frosting.
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Cinnamon Sugar Roasted Pecans
The most fragrant, delicious, easy Christmas treat you'll ever make! These Cinnamon Sugar Roasted Pecans take just 5 minutes in the oven and fill your home with the best aroma!
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Molasses Christmas Cookies
Soft, chewy gingerbread cookies with no eggs needed! These cookies have buttermilk and molasses that give them an irresistible flavor and texture.
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a sliced loaf of cranberry orange bread with glaze
Cranberry Orange Bread
The perfect Christmas quick bread recipe, with fresh cranberries, orange zest, and a sweet orange glaze.
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Grandma’s Christmas Cookies
Classic sugar cookies are a Christmastime staple! Our recipe yields soft and tender cookies that pair perfectly with homemade vanilla buttercream frosting.
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Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake
Make this for Christmas morning breakfast and your family will thank you! This easy Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake Recipe is quicker than homemade cinnamon rolls but results in a delicious cinnamon cake with all the same flavors.
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About Julie Clark

I'm Julie Clark, CEO and recipe developer of Tastes of Lizzy T. With my B.A. in Education and over 30 years of cooking and baking, I want to teach YOU the best of our family recipes.

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