Gluten Free Christmas Recipe Roundup

 

Not sure what to put on your Christmas dessert menu this year? I've rounded up my favourite Christmas Recipes that are sure to impress!

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Recipe: Gluten Free Gingerbread Blondies

Blondies get a Christmas makeover with this Easy Gluten Free Gingerbread Blondies Recipe. With all of the flavours of gingerbread in a chewy white chocolate chip studded blondie, these are sure to be a holiday hit!

Is anyone else finding themselves slowly transforming their house into Christmas mode?

Whilst usually I'd get everything done in the one weekend, we're still working on some home to-dos before baby arrives - and at 9 months pregnant, I totally don't have the energy to decorate our house all in one go - so Christmas is slowly starting to appear.

One tree is up, another two are going up today, the lounge room is decorated and our kitchen has a sprinkling of Christmas magic too.... but most importantly, Christmas scents have been filling our house with treats baking away in the oven.

With a newborn arriving in just two weeks, I don't know how much time (or energy) i'll have for Christmas baking, so I've been baking and enjoying Christmas treats while I still can!

These Gingerbread Blondies are a new favourite we've been enjoying with a cup of coffee. They have just the right amount of sweetness, are full of Christmas flavour and are dense and fudgy like any good blondie should be.

Better still? You can totally make the recipe your own. Throw in nuts or stir through chocolate chips (just don't make the mistake I did with the last batch and stir them through when the mix is too hot - notes below!) or frost them with your favourite frosting and Christmas sprinkles. 

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Recipe: Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies (Gluten Free & Vegan)

Combining traditional gingerbread flavours and rich chocolate, this Easy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies Recipe will become a new family fave - and it's gluten free, egg free and vegan too! Makes a small batch that is perfect for Christmas gifting. 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....... especially in our home!

You see, once November rolls around, I decide it's officially a-okay to begin celebrating Christmas. The cookies baking in my oven are most likely Christmas cookies, Alexa is playing Christmas radio, the Christmas decorations start appearing and we are in full on holiday mode.

So I thought I'd kick off November's recipes with a Christmas themed one - and what better recipe that one that combines Christmas spices AND chocolate!

I love gingerbread cookies, but chocolate gingerbread cookies are next level delicious. 

Filled with all of the traditional spices but with a sweet chocolate kick, these are one of my favourite Christmas cookies - and they're so easy to make!

The recipe makes a smallish batch, but be warned that you might find yourself doubling or tripling the measurements because these cookies will disappear before your eyes!

Don't love gingerbread or cinnamon and ginger spices? You can make chocolate cookies by leaving the cinnamon and ginger out altogether. Instead of a spicy kick, you'll have a sweet chocolate cookie that kids and adults will adore.

I keep things simple by drizzling these with chocolate, but you could easily decorate them with icing, sprinkles or whatever takes your fancy.

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Recipe: The Best Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies (Gluten Free and Egg Free!)

You would never guess these Melt in Your Mouth Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies were so easy to make, nor gluten free and egg free! A delicious shortbread/jam drop cookie with a crunchy sugar crust and strawberry jam filling. 4 Ingredient Recipe!

I know that it's only October, but I'm in a Christmas baking mood already.

You see, during lockdown I haven't really felt like baking at all (especially because it's just the two of us at home), but all of a sudden, I want to bake ALLLLL the Christmas cookies.

So I've started with the Christmas Cookies that could pass as "regular" cookies - and to be honest, I might have started with the best ones.

Thumbprint Cookies are always a favourite of ours. They're buttery and melt in your mouth and have sweet, chewy jam filled centres - but I have a little secret that makes them even better.

You see, these shortbread cookies are soft and fluffy - but they're dipped in sugar before baking to give them the perfect amount of crunch.

I've also got a little trick for perfectly baked thumbprint cookies without overbaking the jam - because no one wants jam filled cookies that are dry or burnt. 

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21 Last Minute Christmas Recipes

 

Still not sure what to make for Christmas? I've rounded up 21 last minute Christmas Recipes that are sure to impress!

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Recipe: Very Berry Rocky Road (Gluten Free!)

This Very Berry Rocky Road Recipe is easy to make, gluten free and the perfect homemade gift alternative to store-bought candy for Christmas, Easter or Valentine’s Day. White chocolate, marshmallows, craisins and freeze dried strawberries combine to make this simple no bake treat. 

Rocky Road is one of my go-to Christmas treats. It's quick and easy to make, can be customised to suit your gift recipient's tastes and it's always a hit!

But whilst I love my more traditional Kid Friendly Rocky Road Recipe, I love playing around with different flavours and ingredients and so far have 5 rocky road recipes I alternate between. 

On the blog already are my Cookies and Cream Rocky Road Recipe, Easy S'mores Rocky Road Recipe and last year's Christmas fave, the Peppermint Crunch Rocky Road Recipe.

This Very Berry Rocky Road Recipe is yet another twist - and a delicious one at that.

Combining creamy white chocolate with tart berris, fluffy marshmallows and cookie chunks, it's sure to be a hit - and sure to impress as an addition to your Christmas dessert spread!

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Recipe: Easy White Christmas Slice (Gluten Free!)

A traditional Australian favourite, this Easy White Christmas Slice Recipe is gluten free, egg free and so delicious. Puffed rice cereal, white chocolate, coconut, cream, pistachios, cranberries and raisins combine for a delicious no bake dessert recipe!

Up until last year, I'd never actually eaten White Christmas.

Was it available? Yes! But for some reason, I was convinced it was disgusting. Possibly because my parents weren't fans - or maybe I'd heard someone say it was gross - but I had it stuck in my head that it was gross.... until I tried making it myself.

Now? I feel like I've missed out on 20 something years of deliciousness!

This White Christmas Slice Recipe is anything but disgusting. 

It's full of flavour, creamy white chocolate, crunchy pistachios, tangy cranberries and coconutty goodness. It's the best of everything in one slice and it's so easy to make. 

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Recipe: Easy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies (Gluten Free!)

Does anyone else find Christmas treats so much more enjoyable than "everyday" treats? Because I most certainly do.

As soon as the Christmas carols are playing in stores, you'll find me in the kitchen - apron on, Christmas carols playing, flour everywhere and Christmas cookies being made.

Each year I like to add a few new recipes to our rotation of old favourites, and this year, my new favourite may be these Chocolate Crinkle Cookies.

They're almost like a brownie, with crisp edges and a pillowy sweet powdered sugar topping.

Better still? Whilst they look impressive, they are SO easy to make - and gluten free too!

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Recipe: Easy S'mores Rocky Road (Gluten Free!)

Easy S’mores Rocky Road Recipe with toasted marshmallows - A gluten free treat that is the perfect homemade gift to share with friends. This Easy S’mores Rocky Road combines blow torch roasted marshmallows, crunchy graham cracker pieces and creamy milk chocolate for a delicious dessert or foodie gift idea. Perfect for Valentine’s Day, birthdays or a handmade Christmas gift idea. Also makes the best hostess gift wrapped in pretty packaging.

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Rocky Road is one of my favourite foodie gifts of all time.  It’s easy to make, easy to customise, easy to gift and seriously impressive to boot. 

All you’ve got to do is melt, mix, chill and slice - only this time I’ve added one extra step. 

And oh what an epic step it is. 

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This S’mores Rocky Road is seriously delicious. You’ve got toasted marshmallows, crunchy biscuit pieces and creamy milk chocolate, creating the ultimate sweet treat. 

With Valentines Day just days away, it’s the perfect treat to make for your sweetheart.

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Recipe: Easy Florentine Slice (Gluten Free & Egg Free)

Chocolate Dipped Gluten Free Florentine Slice Recipe - inspired by Florentine Biscuits, this easy gluten free slice recipe is the perfect treat to share with friends and family. The perfect homemade Christmas gift and so much easier than baking a batch of cookies, this slice combines dried fruit with crunchy corn flakes, almonds and a caramel coating.

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Christmas carols are playing in the stores. Christmas decorations fill the store. Calendars are filled with dinners with loved ones or Christmas parties. Christmas trees are twinkling. Christmas treats are out in full force.

And ohhhhh, what a wonderful time of year it is. 

Christmas time is my favourite eating time of the year - and it's also my favourite baking time of the year.

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With so many Christmas parties and get-togethers planned each year throughout December, I love experimenting with new recipes and coming up with new treats to share with loved ones.

Whilst I definitely have my classic favourites I bake every single year (My top five? My Easy Four Ingredient Gluten Free Fruit Cake Recipe, Super Simple Kid Friendly Rocky Road Recipe, Gluten Free Snowball Cookies Recipe, Vegan Peppermint Bark Cookies and these Unique Chocolate Bark Recipes) - but every year, you'll find me scribbling ideas in a notebook and coming up with new recipes.

This year, I decided I wanted to put an easy twist on the classic Florentine cookie recipe.

Combining chewy dried fruit with crunchy nuts and a chewy, caramel coating which is then dipped in chocolate, Florentines are the perfect indulgent cookie that just feels fancier than your average chocolate chip or shortbread cookie.

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Recipe: Easy Gingerbread Cookie Bars (Gluten Free!)

Easy Gluten Free Gingerbread Cookie Bars Recipe | So much easier than making a batch of homemade gingerbread cookies, this recipe is a simple melt and mix recipes that results in soft and chewy cookie bars the whole family will love. Topped with a buttercream frosting and festive sprinkles, they are the perfect treat to share over the holiday season.

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Christmas baking is my favourite kind of baking. I love the flavours of gingerbread, the texture of shortbread snowballs covered in powdered sugar, the smell of Christmas pudding boiling away on the stove or the sweetness of melted chocolate.

You know how on an iPhone it tells you your screentime each week? I can almost guarantee that in December every year, my "kitchen time" would increase by 600% because I am constantly coming up with new ideas and baking new Christmas treats to share.

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These Gingerbread Cookie Bars were this year's creation. 

With crisp chewy edges and a delicious buttercream frosting, they're like a sugar cookie crossed with gingerbread and blondies. 

So much easier than baking (and rolling and cutting) a batch of gingerbread, all you have to do is melt, mix, bake and frost.

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Recipe: Christmas Crack Snack Mix

The Ultimate Christmas Crack Snack Mix Recipe - this gluten free snack mix combines salty pretzels, sweet white chocolate, crunchy cereal, minty candy canes and chewy marshmallows to create the best Christmas Chex mix recipe. In Australia and don’t have Chex? Swap them for cornflakes. Don’t like M&M’s, swap them for chocolate chips. This recipe is easily customised to suit exactly what ingredients you have at home! 

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I love cooking all the time, but especially at Christmas.

I don't know what it is about them, but Christmas treats are just so much more fun. Maybe it's the flavours, or the colours, the sharing with loved ones - or simply the fact that they tend to use more chocolate (🍫 = 💗) , but each December you'll find me in the kitchen coming up with new Christmas creations to share with family and friends.

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This year's recipe addition? Christmas Crack.

Now, Jesse did tell me I couldn't call this Christmas Crack on the blog... buttttt the name stuck and this snack mix is seriously addictive, so we're going to roll with the name.

This snack mix combines crunchy cereal (I used Gluten Free Chex Cereal for the pictured version, but we've also made it with Gluten Free Cornflakes and it is 🥰), pretzels, melted chocolate, candy canes, m&ms or whatever mix-ins your choose. 

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Recipe: Easy Pecan Pie Cookies (Gluten Free!)

Easy Gluten Free Pecan Pie Cookies Recipe. Made like a thumbprint cookie to hold the gooey caramel pecan pie filling inside, this easy cookie recipe is perfect for Christmas Cookie Swaps or a quick Thanksgiving Dessert and are sure to impress! Forget messing around with pie crusts and pastry, these cookies are so much simpler and so quick to make!

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Thursday is Thanksgiving, and since marrying an American, it has become one of my family's favourite traditions! 

We have a Southern style Thanksgiving with all of Jesse's favourites because he's the reason we're celebrating. There's usually ham, turkey, green bean casserole (SO good!), baked mac and cheese (this baked vegan mac and cheese is actually our fave!), pumpkin pie, pecan pie and a whole lot of deliciousness.

But truth be known, whilst I love pecan and pumpkin pie... I often miss out because I get lazy and buy a storebought pie crust instead. Pie crusts are NOT my friends, people. I'm lazy, I hate waiting for dough to chill or rolling it out and getting sticky fingers or cracks and sheesh. I'm getting frustrated just thinking about dough..... 

So this year, I decided to come up with an easier solution.... and dare I say, a more delicious solution too. 

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These Pecan Pie Cookies are INSANELY delicious - and so easy to make. 

The cookie is soft and buttery, with crunchy edges and soft insides - and the pecan pie filling takes it over the top.

Biting into these cookies is like a party in your mouth. You've got buttery cookie, crunchy pecans and sweet caramel-y goodness.

But be warned - they are SO good that you can't stop at just one.... but that's okay, because this recipe makes 32.

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There's a secret to making these cookies as perfect as can be - and that's to think of them like a thumbprint cookie.

When you're putting the dough on your trays, you want to create a well in the centre. This is where you're going to add your pecan pie filling - and that well is going to create some magic.

You see, as the cookies bake, they will start to flatten out and rise up - but the well is going to keep all of your pecan pie filling in the centre, creating a rich gooey centre that you'll wish never ends.

But enough chatter, trust me when I tell you that you NEED to make these cookies ASAP!

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Recipe: Peppermint Crunch Rocky Road (Gluten Free!)

Easy Peppermint Crunch Rocky Road Recipe - Traditional Rocky Road gets a Christmas twist with this gourmet mint rocky road. Combining classic milk chocolate, white chocolate and marshmallows with candy canes and mint slice biscuits, this slice will become your new family fave. Also makes the best homemade gift idea. 

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Our Disneyland vacation is sadly over, but I timed it strategically because it's not all sad.... CHRISTMAS IS COMING!

When you're reading this, we should be back in Australia and by 12pm, I can almost guarantee that you will find me pulling boxes of Christmas decorations out of the roof because the Christmas celebrations start now.

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Christmas is my favourite time of year. I love the decorating, I love the food, I love getting to spend extra time with family friends, I love the traditions, I love the music, I love the excitement - I love pretty much every single thing about Christmas.

But especially the treats.

This Peppermint Crunch Rocky Road Recipe is one I came up with last Christmas, but one that quickly became a family favourite. It's so easy to make, but the kind of recipe everyone will ask for because it's seriously delicious. 

Even better? It makes the perfect homemade Christmas gift to share with friends, whether they're coming to your house or you're visiting theirs. Simply grab a jar and a pretty Christmas ribbon, fill it with your rocky road, tie it with a bow and you're ready to gift.

But first, let me share the recipe with you! >>