Over 50 Cheap Christmas Desserts You’ve Gotta Try!

A family favorite in our home, this no-bake recipe can be made with fresh cherries or canned cherries for a cheaper dessert. The festive red cherries are perfect for the holiday season and the taste is out of this world! You'll love it!

This easy Christmas dessert recipe is always a winner!

These chocolate mint cookies definitely belong in your Christmas cookie assortment this year!

There are very few combinations better than chocolate and mint. Both are favorites of mine so mixing them together for this Sprinkled Chocolate Mint Cookies Recipe is sure to be a winner! These cookies are pretty easy to make and perfect for beginners or novice bakers.

Check out this Frosted Cranberry Orange Bread Recipe! The fresh cranberries paired with subtle orange citrus work well together to create a wonderful blend of flavors.  Topped with a delicate sweet drizzle, this recipe is a favorite during the holidays and all year round!

This classic Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe is a no-fail, no refrigeration needed recipe you will FALL IN LOVE WITH! The results are so tasty you'll find yourself turning to this recipe all year round but especially for those classic rolled sugar cookies!

This festive dessert is something we make every single year.

The easiest dessert to make for Christmas. A crowd-pleaser, this simple no-bake dessert is made with biscuits, condensed milk, whipped cream, and vanilla extract.

White chocolate salami has only 5 ingredients and is so easy to make. A delicious Christmas treat or give it as an affordable and unique gift.

Festive and delicious Christmas Poke Cake. Delight your friends and family with this beautiful and yummy cake.

Quick and simple Christmas Cake Batter Dip for a wonderful dessert for Christmas or for holiday parties. Serve with your favorite animal crackers or Gingerbread Men.

With a box cake mix, two types of Jello, and whipped cream, this red and green Jello Poke Cake is the perfect dessert for your Christmas get-together. It’s flavorful, super moist, and festive!

Homemade brownies, chocolate buttercream frosting and candy canes bring Rudolph to life! Christmas Reindeer Brownies is an easy recipe that will quickly become a holiday tradition.

This must-make holiday Christmas Crack sweet treat can be made in just 15 minutes! It’s a tasty combination of sweet and salty plus caramel and chocolate that’s topped with red and green candy-coated chocolate M & Ms for a festive touch.

An easy homemade cookie dough is tinted with holiday colors and rolled into pinwheels. Just roll, slice and bake. So much fun for the holidays!

These are super cute and easy to make!! Everyone will love the candy bar surprise in the middle!! Great to place in baggies and give them to your neighbors, co-workers, teachers, friends, and family!!

This traditional treat is made even more special with colorful layers. Layered Rice Krispies Squares is fun for the holidays with its pretty red, white, and green layers.

Poire Belle Helene is a classic French dessert that’s perfect for holiday entertaining. Poached pears with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge sauce make this an easy, yet affordable dessert.

Ginger Star Cookies that remind you of the spice cookies Grandma used to make. Perfectly flavored, buttery and so good -- they don't need frosting.

These are reindeer cupcakes with pretzels ears and cherry noses using store-bought mixes.

These old-fashioned Cherry Christmas cookies are a family recipe that can be made for under $10.

These Whipped Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies have only four simple ingredients and they are easy to make! A delightful gift to package up for friends and family.

With just 4 simple ingredients, you can wow your holiday party guests with this delicious candy cane puff pastry recipe!

This delicious mixed berry galette is an inexpensive, delicious, and quick dessert - what more can you ask for?! Uses storebought pastry and frozen berries, and only requires 15 minutes of active prep time.

These sweet/tart Sugared Cranberries (aka Candied Cranberries) have a hint of vanilla flavor and a ton of sparkle! They’re very easy to make and a fun project to do with kids around the holidays.

Mini Eggnog Cream Pies are a fun and festive easy Christmas dessert recipe perfect for the holiday season. You only need four ingredients to make these super simple and simply dreamy mini cream pies with a crescent roll crust and one of everyone’s favorite Christmas flavors!

Gingerbread Caramel Candy is a fun and festive twist on classic soft and chewy caramel candy. If you’re looking for homemade soft and chewy caramel recipe with no corn syrup, this is the recipe for you and it’s easier to make than you might think!

Easy to make and adorable to look at, these kid-friendly gingerbread cookies use m&m candies to make the “ornaments” on the tree. The dough is very forgiving, which means you can re-roll the scraps over and over, wasting none of it!

Pistachio bread is a simple yet festive dessert made with cake mix and pudding mix—perfect for holiday gatherings or gifting!

Arroz con Leche (or Mexican Rice Pudding) is a delicious and affordable Mexican dessert made from simple ingredients including rice, milk, cinnamon, and sugar. It can be served hot or cold and is guaranteed to satisfy any sweet tooth during the Christmas holidays.

Poor Man’s Pudding, or pouding chômeur as it was originally known, is a quintessential French Canadian dessert. It originated in the Belle Province early during the Great Depression and can be literally translated by “pudding of the unemployed”.

These chocolate peppermint Christmas crinkle cookies are perfect for the holidays. These cookies are sure to be your new favorite!

Quick and easy 3 Ingredient Fudge recipe made with raspberry is the perfect colorful Christmas fudge recipe. Make it for your guests or give it as an edible gift.

For a festive holiday dessert, you cannot go wrong with a 2-ingredient Peppermint Bark recipe. It's delicious with creamy white chocolate and cool classic peppermint together in a dessert that is easy to make & easy on the wallet.

Transform the traditional rice crisps treat recipe into a gorgeous holiday wreath. This Christmas Rice Krispies Treats Wreath is sweet, crunchy, & almost too pretty to eat.

Ensalada Navideña is a sweet Mexican fruit salad made during the holidays. It consists of a mixture of apples and nuts all dressed in a rich cream sauce. An incredibly yummy Christmas dessert that doesn’t break the bank.

Easy Orange Balls are a simple sweet dessert that is perfect for sharing at holiday gatherings, just like grandma used to make.

Looking for the perfect holiday cookie that is super easy to make? These gingerbread cookies pack a spicy gingerbread flavor with a delicious sweetness from the brown sugar and molasses. You won’t be able to stop eating them!

These festive Christmas Pretzel Hugs are melted just enough to press an M&M on the top. Let the chocolate set back up and then package them for neighbor gifts, or place them on a plate for the perfect salty-sweet treat!

Cranberry Toffee Bread Pudding is a decadent and easy to make holiday dessert. Made with condensed milk, dried cranberries and topped with a simple store-bought caramel sundae sauce, orange zest and a little whipped cream, it's the perfect Christmas dessert.

Gingerbread brownies are the best and easiest chocolate Christmas dessert! Start with a box brownie mix then add some Christmas spices for a fudgy spiced brownie!

This Christmas Cake recipe is from 1942 and was designed to be “cheap but rich” so as not to hinder the war effort.

Crescent-shaped vanilla almond cookies, with tender and melt-in-your-mouth texture. Perfect to celebrate Christmas and other special events. These cookies would look so pretty if you create festive cookie boxes to gift to family and friends.

An almost homemade Mint chocolate bundt cake recipe using a boxed cake mix and pudding. This chocolate mint bundt cake is an easy way to impress with dessert at Christmas.

Four ingredient red velvet crinkle cookies. Moist and rich cookies rolled in powder sugar. An easy recipe using a box of red velvet cake mix.

Tres Leches Cake - with eggnog - is a delicious twist on a classic and the perfect recipe for the holidays!

Looking for an easy peanut butter fudge recipe? Then you have to try this no-bake microwave fudge! It is super creamy and melts in your mouth!

These Melt Away Christmas Cookies are simple sweet cookie with a tangy cream cheese frosting that melts in your mouth every time you take a bite. They might possibly be the best Christmas Cookies ever!

Mince pies are a mini sweet pastry pie from England. Puff pastry filled with mincemeat (a dried fruit and spice mix). Serve for an affordable dessert with brandy cream or custard.

Bread pudding with bourbon sauce is a rich dessert popular around the holidays. You'll love this classic cheap Christmas dessert with a boozy twist! This delicious dessert recipe uses stale bread, milk, eggs, and bourbon.

You only need 6 common ingredients to make these adorable and festive melted snowman cookies.

Spread some holiday cheer with this colorful Grinch Popcorn that is soooooooo easy to make. You need just 3 ingredients to whip up this festive treat.

These snowman-shaped vegan meringue cookies will be a hit at your next wintertime gathering. They are sweet, crisp, airy and completely adorable!

Super creamy and very flavorful are all I can say about these chocolate pandan panna cotta. From everyday dessert to elegant Christmas dessert ideas, this unique panna cotta recipe can satisfy all your needs with a minimal budget but still deliver that rich chocolate flavor you crave.

Gingerbread Cake Roll – Deliciously moist and fluffy gingerbread cake roll that is loaded with warm, cozy flavors, and filled with spiced whipped cream!

Make this fun, colorful Stained Glass Jello Salad in a fraction of the time with this recipe's shortcuts. Also called Broken Glass Jello Dessert, this small batch recipe is made with prepared gelatin cups you can get at the dollar stores.