20 Peppermint Dessert Recipes Perfect for the Holiday Season

Recipe: Peppermint Pinwheels

For a super-festive cookie tin, swap out red and green food coloring in your batches.

Recipe: Chocolate Peppermint Cake

This centerpiece-worthy, three-layer cake is fluffy, tender, and ultra-rich. Chocolate cake layers and minty Italian meringue are topped off with soft peppermint candies for a fun and festive holiday look.

Recipe: No-Bake Dark Chocolate-Peppermint Sandwich Cookies

Store-bought wafers get a serious upgrade with peppermint cream filling and a melted chocolate coating. The result? Homemade, holiday-worthy cookies that no one will believe didn't require a single minute of baking.

Recipe: Peppermint Divinity

Making this vintage candy recipe should become a Christmas tradition for you and your kids or grandkids.

Recipe: Peppermint Cake with Seven-Minute Frosting

How gorgeous is the pink buttercream layer on this festive cake?

Recipe: Chocolate-Peppermint Cheesecake

This decadent cheesecake can be made up to two days in advance, which makes it the ultimate make-ahead dessert for the busy holiday season.

Recipe: Peppermint Meltaways

These festive cookies live up to their name and “melt away” in your mouth, leaving behind a rich and delicate peppermint sweetness.

Recipe: Christmas Buttermints

We’ll have a tray of these pretty vintage candies out for guests all holiday season.

Recipe: White Chocolate-Peppermint Blondies

This festive bar recipe has a high yield, so everyone on your Christmas list can get a few.

Recipe: Duke's Peppermint Fudge Brownies

Mayonnaise is the secret to the fudgiest brownies you've ever baked. Add a crushed peppermint topping, and you'll have a holiday dessert that will put any peppermint bark to shame. 

Recipe: Chocolate-Peppermint Swirl Sandwich Cookies

These adorable cookie sandwiches will spruce up any dessert table this Christmas.

Recipe: Chocolate-Mint Whipped Cream Cake

This stunning layer cake is pretty enough for the dressiest Christmas party of the season.

Recipe: Chocolate-Peppermint Crackle Cookies

We think Santa would be thrilled to see these crackle cookies by the tree on Christmas Eve.

Recipe: Mint-and-White-Chocolate Milk Punch

This wintry drink recipe will be a mainstay cocktail on your holiday bar.

Recipe: Mint Chocolate Chip Ice-Cream Cake

This dreamy ice-cream cake is the ultimate make-ahead dessert.

Recipe: Milk Chocolate-Peppermint Bark

As if milk chocolate morsels and peppermint candies weren't perfect enough a mixture, we added rich cream-and-mint-filled chocolate sandwich cookies and salty pretzel sticks to our peppermint bark. This recipe is great for giving as gifts, but be sure to save a few pieces as a holiday treat for yourself.

Recipe: Triple Mint Cookies

These brownie-like bites are filled with mint flavor and make more than two dozen cookies for your biggest Christmas crowd.

Recipe: Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

Our Test Kitchen’s secret for keeping cookies crisp on the outside and gooey on the inside? Adding a bit of corn syrup to the batter.

Recipe: Red Velvet Peppermint Cake

Transform a classic red velvet cake into a festive holiday dessert by adding peppermint extract to the rich cream cheese frosting and garnishing the cake with peppermint candies.

Recipe: Chocolate Ganache Thumbprint Cookies with Crushed Peppermints

The kids will love to make these fun thumbprint cookies on an afternoon when they’re off school.