15 Easy Southern Christmas Recipes

Easy Southern Christmas recipes with shortcuts right here in one roundup! From side dishes to desserts to food gifts, these are my favorite simple holiday recipes you can make for your family.

Candy, pecans, Christmas dip, peanut brittle in collage for recipe roundup with text overlay.

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Why Top 15? Because I couldn't narrow it down to Top 10!

My Southern shortcut Christmas recipes will have you in and out of the kitchen this Christmas sooner than later!

Do you love the traditional Southern recipes you grew up with but don’t have the time to make them? Does it seems like your Mom or Grandma made everything from scratch starting with growing their own green beans and decorating cut-out sugar cookies?

I’ve got you covered with this roundup of easy Christmas recipes. I'll give you step by step photos and tips for each recipe.

Easy Southern Recipes for Christmas

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1. Cookies and Cream Shortbread Cookies

Stack of red and green cookies and cream shortbread cookies tied with silver white ribbon.

2. Mint Oreo Cookie Truffle Balls

Oreo cookie balls coated in white chocolate with bite out. Stack of cookies in background.

3. Sugardoodles

A plate full of Sugardoodles-A cross between a sugar cookie and a Snickerdoodle.

4. Best Easy Candied Bacon

Candied bacon stacked upright in a green vase with a Christmas tree branch in background

5. Maple Pecan Tassies

Four Maple Pecan Tassies wrapped in a clear bag with an orange bow

6. Cookies 'n Cream White Chocolate Fudge

Squares of Oreo cookies and cream fudge with one on a paper liner.

7. Bacon-Sausage Strata Breakfast Casserole

bacon sausage strata baked in stoneware dish on blue placemat

8. Little Debbie Christmas Tree Dip

Red and White striped bowl of white dip with Little Debbie Christmas tree cakes on surface.

9. Honey Roasted Peanut Pie

peanut pie slice on white plate with whole pie in background and stack of plates

10. 3 Ingredient Cinnamon Sugar Pecans

3 Ingredient Cinnamon Sugar Pecans in a Santa belt motif rectangle dish on red napkin wtih green trim

11. 2 Ingredient Peanut Butter Fudge

Stack of peanut butter candy on white plate with white background. Gift tag tucked under plate.

12. Microwave Cranberry Pistachio Brittle

Cranberry Pistachio Brittle in a red bowl. one broken piece on brown parchment

13. Microwave Peanut Brittle

Pieces of peanut brittle on a pewter rectangle platter.

14. Instant Pot Ham with Pepper Jelly Glaze

bone in ham with slices cut on the ham. jar of jelly

15. Puff Pastry Cookie Butter Christmas Trees

Close up of a hand holding a puff pastry christmas tree with others in the background.

Bonus recipes!

Shortcut Frosted Mini Brownie Cups

Close up of brownie cup in foil liner with silver and white sprinkles on frosted top.

Cast Iron Pecan Pie

Cast Iron skillet with pecan pie slice cut out. Red and green towel wrapped around handle.

Sheet Pan Omelette

A square of sheet pan omelet being pulled from the pan with cheese pulling as its lifted.

I’m as Southern as they come and love homemade, from-scratch recipes and avoid processed, packaged food, if I can.

But! I also have a busy schedule just like you, so I’m constantly finding shortcuts to my homemade recipes and I share them with you here on GritsAndGouda.com.

For more holiday recipes, check out my Top 10 Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup.

Updated December 5, 2023