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Grits and Gouda Top 12 Christmas Recipe Roundup Southern shortcut recipes to make your Christmas holiday merrier!

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Here's my top 12 Christmas Recipe Roundup from GritsAndGouda.com-with 2 bonus recipes for a total of 14 Southern shortcut recipes!

From sides dishes to desserts to food gifts-just click on the images below to go straight to each blog post and recipe. Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Why Top 12? Because I couldn't narrow it down to 10!

top 12 Christmas recipe round up

My Southern shortcut 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 because 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 Christmas shortcut recipe round up.  I'll give you step by step photos and tips along the way.

1. Candied Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Spoonful of candied sweet potatoes lifted from white casserole dish topped with roasted marshmallows

2. Instant Pot Chocolate-Peanut Butter Swirl CheesecakeInstant Pot Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Cheesecake sliced and served on a white plate with a lentin rose in the background

3. Sugardoodles

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

4. Cranberry Apple Jalapeno SalsaCranberry Apple Jalapeno Salsa in a black salsa dish with sweet potato chips in it and around the dish

5. Maple Pecan Tassies mini pecan pies in celophane gift bag

6. Cookies 'n Cream White Chocolate Fudge Cookies n Cream White Chocolate Fudge with one piece on paper wrapper

7. Glazed Nutella Zucchini Bread

chocolate glazed zucchini bread sliced on white platter. topped with hazelnuts

8. Bacon-Wrapped Cheesy Tater Tots

 Bacon Wrapped Cheesy Tator Tots in red bowl with cheer pom poms in background for the big game

9. Coffee and Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies

Coffee and Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies-cooling on a black wire rack.

10. Sausage Squash Casserole (Keto version included)

Sausage squash casserole in blue rimmed square casserole on green silicone trivet. Chopped herbs in background

11. Microwave Cranberry Pistachio Brittle

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

12. 3 Ingredient Cinnamon Sugar Pecans

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

 

Bonus: I've added two peanut recipes I love!

Microwave Peanut Brittle

Peanut Brittle in a wooden cake stand on red poinsettia cloth.

Honey Roasted Peanut Pie

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

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.

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  1. Jean Oden

    went to the Warrior class, loved it. Took my hubby and he enjoyed it too.

    Reply

    • gritsandgouda

      It was so nice to have you both there! Let me know what you make in your Instant Pot.

      Reply

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