Looking for some YUMMY recipes for your holiday cookie exchange party or Christmas gift plates for neighbors, teachers and friends?  These darling decadent treats are perfect to fill those goodie bags to pass out proudly!  These are hands down the best of the best MUST MAKES!  Christmas and New Year’s Eve dessert tables and trays won’t be complete without these family favorite (and new twists on traditional) candies, cookies, bars, barks, fudge and brittle recipes.   I hope you’re wearing long sleeves to wipe the drool as you look through these 100% irresistible sweet treats:

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These are a must-try this Christmas! NO-Bake sugar cookies, cream cheese and white chocolate perfection! Christmas Sugar Cookie Truffles Recipe via If You Give a Blonde a Kitchen

“This is the easiest, most foolproof fudge recipe EVER! From an actual worker at See’s back in the day. My go-to fudge recipe every time. Never grainy, always perfect.”  15-Minute See’s Fudge Recipe via Favorite Family Recipes

If you love that seasonal peppermint bark from the big warehouse store – you GOTTA give these a try! Easy Peppermint Bark Recipe via Sugar Apron

“The BEST Cut Out Sugar Cookies from scratch, with step-by-step photos. Cream cheese is the secret ingredient that makes the sugar cookies super soft, even days after they are baked. This is the only cut out Christmas cookie recipe you will ever need!”  Get the Perfect Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies RECIPE via Well Plated

Easy 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Ornaments Christmas Treats Recipe | Easy Peasy Pleasy

Almond Raspberry Shortbread Cookies Recipe | Your Homebased Mom

Need to make one of these yummy treats right NOW and it calls for SOFTENED cream cheese OR BUTTER?  Have no fear – here’s your solution!  How to:  Get Softened Cream Cheese (Not Melted) in Under 10 Minutes Baking Hack – So easy and works like a charm!  – Dreaming in DIY

Old Fashioned PERFECT Peanut Brittle has to be included! Mom’s Best Peanut Brittle Recipe via Real Life Dinner

No Bake “TWIXIE” Cookie Bars – Caramel, Chocolate, Mini Nilla Wafer Cookies…SO YUMMY! CLICK HERE for the EASY RECIPE: via Dreaming in DIY

I’m sure you’ll find out why these are some of her favorite Christmas Cookies to make from scratch when you pop one in your mouth! Candy Cane Kiss Cookies Recipe via Sally’s Baking Addiction

An easy chocolate fudge recipe with a caramel center and chopped pecans. Uh…Yum! Easy Turtle Fudge Recipe via Live Well Bake Often

Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies – 100% irresistible! Get the RECIPE via Cooking Classy

You can’t go wrong with a recipe from Grandma! Grandma’s Shortbread Cookies Recipe via Spend With Pennies

Microwave Hot Chocolate Fudge Recipe via Wonky Wonderful 

These are so moist and yummy – you are never going to want to make another version again.  I’m not even kinda kidding, these are HEAVENLY!  And is that Tiffany Blue frosting pretty or what?    CLICK HERE for the Lightly Lemon Vanilla Greek Yogurt Sugar Cookies RECIPE:  Dreaming in DIY

Grandma’s Divinity Recipe!  What Christmas Gift Plate or Holiday Goodies Treat bag is complete without this yummy candy?  CLICK HERE to get the RECIPE:  Add A Pinch

No holiday gift plate is complete without some form of magic cookie bars, amiright? Oreo Magic Cookie Bars Recipe via Tastes Better From Scratch

Oreo Peppermint Bark Fudge Recipe via Crazy for Crust

Mmmm.. buttery caramel and milk chocolate deliciousness! 10 Minute Skor Bar Brittle Recipe via Simple and Savoury Mom’s SMART Home

“The most pop-able fun to eat cookies out there!” Christmas Shortbread Bites Recipe via Cooking Classy

These are the perfect classic treat for your holiday cookie platter. They are buttery, melt in your mouth perfection! Classic Pecan Snowball Cookies Recipe via Life Made Sweeter

Adorable Melted Snowmen Oreo Balls Christmas Treats Recipe via The Girl Who Ate Everything

THREE INGREDIENT easy, no-bake Chocolate THIN MINT cups Recipe via Chelsea’s Messy Apron

Need to make one of these yummy treats right NOW and it calls for SOFTENED cream cheese OR BUTTER?  Have no fear – here’s your solution!  How to:  Get Softened Cream Cheese (Not Melted) in Under 10 Minutes Baking Hack – So easy and works like a charm!  – Dreaming in DIY

Good luck having some of this leftover to make it to any gift plate! Mint Chocolate Swirl Bark Recipe (aka Creme de Menthe Chocolate Bark) via Love and Olive Oil

“You can whip these up in about 15 minutes with NO candy thermometer and they literally melt in your mouth.”   Easy 4 Ingredient Soft Caramels (no candy thermometer required) Recipe via Creme De La Crumb

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