Christmas Dessert Recipes

'Tis the season to satisfy your sweet tooth. Whether you're looking for an impressive cake for company or cookies to deliver as gifts, we've got you covered.

Cover Cakes of Christmas Past

It’s up to us to create a cake that’s unique, doable, delicious, and has the “wow” factor for our December cover cakes. Read on as we share the backstories.

Sugar-and-Spice Cake
Photo: Jennifer Davick

Sugar-and-Spice Cake

2008
Readers have told us over and over that they like the convenience of cake mixes, but when we doctored a mix for the revered cover cake, we received a barrage of phone calls and emails. How dare we take a shortcut? What was the world coming to when the Southern Living Christmas cake was made from a mix? Lesson learned.


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