The holidays are about many things. Spreading peace and joy, spending lots of time with our loved ones, and arguably the most important thing: eating delicious food. From cookies to cakes to kringles to cheese balls, Christmas is a wonderful time to indulge in all of your favorite festive sweets and scrumptious savory dishes. But we don’t want just any cake or charcuterie board gracing our Christmas tables. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! So we should go all out with tree-shaped boards, reindeer-shaped cupcakes, cookies that could pass for snowmen and slices of fruit that look far too adorable to eat.

Down below, we’ve gathered some of the most beautiful and impressive holiday food selections that might inspire you to get a bit more creative with your culinary selection this week. While some of these items are best left for the experts, plenty of them can be recreated by an amateur chef with just a bit of patience and attention to detail.

Enjoy devouring this delicious list, and be sure to upvote all of the creations you’d like to feast your eyes (and your tummy) upon this weekend. Then let us know in the comments what whimsical, festive treats you plan on whipping up this holiday season! And if you’re interested in finding even more inspiration for your gorgeous Christmas table from Bored Panda, you can find jolly food ideas that Santa himself would approve of right here!

#1 Christmas Mood Cake! Hand-Drawing On The Mirror Glaze

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#2 My Wife’s Chai Coconut Christmas Cake! She Says There’s “No Way The Internet Will Care About This,” But I Think It’s Really Well Done

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#3 Gingerbread House My Dad Made For Christmas

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#4 Home-Made Christmas Cake My Dad Made

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#5 My Mom Always Makes Christmas Cookies That Are (Almost!) Too Pretty To Eat

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#6 My Gingerbread House This Year. I Won First Place At My City’s Festival Of Gingerbread. This House Is Based Off Of An Old Long Gone Detroit House

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#7 My Little Buttercream Christmas Penguin Cake. I Just Think He’s The Cutest

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#8 My Wife Made This Beautiful Gingerbread House For Christmas

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#9 First Christmas As A Single Dad. I Did My Best And She Enjoyed Herself I Think

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#10 I Made From Scratch A Gingerbread Semi Truck For A Friend. Though Y’all Would Like It. We Appreciate You! Merry Christmas And Stay Safe

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#11 A Snowy Winter Landscape Composed In A Cake

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#12 Home-Made Knit Hat Cake For Christmas Eve

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#13 Matcha Cookie Christmas Tree Stacks

I just stack up the matcha shortbread cookies, sprinkle them with powdered sugar, top with an almond, and wrap them up for inexpensive little Christmas gifts. One batch of dough makes 10 Christmas tree stacks.

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#14 Home-Made Reindeer Christmas Cake

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#15 Gluten-Free Christmas Focaccia

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#16 Christmas Tree Snack Board

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#17 Home-Made Apple Pie For Christmas

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#18 Home-Made This Year’s Christmas Gingerbread Creation

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#19 Been Making Cookies For About A Year Now. I’m A Junior In College And Do This On The Side For Fun And Just Started Seriously Selling Them

Here are my 2019 Christmas cookies!

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#20 Christmas Cookies Are The Best Cookies

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#21 Home-Made Christmas Cupcakes

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#22 Cookies I Made For Christmas

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#23 First You Chose Dinosaurs, Then You Chose Robots… What Will My Christmas Cookie Theme Be This Year?

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#24 The Christmas Cookies I Made This Year

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#25 Did Some Christmas Baking Over The Weekend

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#26 Made This Cake For My Sister-In-Law’s Christmas Party Tomorrow

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#27 I Am A Full-Time Cake Maker (From My Home) And Thought You Guys Might Be As Excited As I Am For My Christmas Selection This Year

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#28 Made A Christmas Pizza At Work, And The Boss Actually Approved

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#29 This Past Christmas Was A Blur And Didn’t Feel Christmassy Enough, So I Tried To Evoke The Spirit Of The Season In Cake Form

Chocolate cake with Nutella ganache filling and vanilla buttercream decor.

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#30 Home-Made Some Candy Cane Sugar Cookies I Made For Christmas Last Night

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#31 Home-Made Cheese Stuffed Garlic Pull Apart Christmas Tree

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#32 This Bread My Sister Made For Christmas

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#33 Pesto Puff Pastry Tree

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#34 Ugly But Cute Sweaters

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#35 Home-Made Gingerbread Carousel I Made For Christmas

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#36 Merry Christmas From Norway – Viking Boat Gingerbread We Made

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#37 Home-Made Christmas Sugar Cookies With Home-Made Buttercream Icing

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#38 Christmas Tree Focaccia

Second time making Samin Nosrat’s Ligurian Focaccia but my first time decorating it. Subbed agave for the honey in the recipe and decorated with flat-leaf parsley, cherry tomatoes, red onions, and a banana pepper star. Very pleased with the result!

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#39 White Chocolate Christmas Cake

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#40 Christmas Village Cake

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#41 So You Guys Like Gingerbread Structures?

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#42 Home-Made Christmas-Wreath-Inspired Meat And Cheese Board

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#43 All About The Details

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#44 Home-Made Christmas Tree Macarons

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#45 My Friend Made The Charcuterie Board For A Christmas Event

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#46 Home-Made Royal-Iced Christmas Sugar Cookies

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#47 Such A Nice Christmas Twist On One Of My Favorite Fruits

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#48 Sicilian Cannoli For Christmas

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#49 Home-Made Christmas Charcuterie Board

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#50 Very Simple Little Cones, Which Will Also Be Fun To Make With The Kids

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#51 I Was At My Local Hispanic Bakery And I Saw This Christmas Tree Made Entirely Of Conchas

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#52 Made An Apple Pie For Christmas, Wanted Someone To See It

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#53 Christmas Cake I Made For A Holiday Baking Competition At My Office

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#54 The Finished Product! 2 And A Half Hours And A Cramped Hand Later! I Think My Idea Of A Christmas Sweater Came Through

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#55 My Christmas Trifle

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#56 Joy Cookies

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#57 I Thought I’d Post Things I Baked During The Christmas Season

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#58 Linzer Wreath For Christmas With Pistachio, Raspberry, Bourbon, And Vanilla

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#59 My 16-Year-Old Daughter’s First Batch Of Christmas Cookies For The Year! She Wanted To Try Something Different And I Am Obsessed With These

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#60 Madeleine Tree. For The 12th Box Of The Advent Calendar

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#61 Christmas Baking

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#62 I Made The Cutest Darn Cookies

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#63 Home-Made Christmas Chocolate Bonbons, Cookies And Cream And Gingerbread And Speculaas

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#64 Home-Made Sweet Potato Christmas Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

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#65 Tear And Share Christmas Tree Dish

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#66 Raspberry Chantilly Mascarpone Log. A Simple Recipe To Make, Accessible For All, And You Won’t Need A Particular Mold

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#67 Tasty Christmas Cake

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#68 Home-Made The United States Of Christmas Cookies

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#69 This Year’s Christmas Cookies

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#70 Merry Christmas Eve! Red Velvet With Ermine Frosting

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#71 I Made 20,144 Lbs Of Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls For Family And Friends This Christmas

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#72 Is There A Word For A Chocolate Charcuterie-Style Tray? I Made This For My Annual Christmas Party This Evening

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#73 Home-Made Christmas Sugar Cookies

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#74 Christmas Tree Charcuterie

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#75 Home-Made Sea Salt Caramels For Christmas

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#76 Christmas Cookies Done

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#77 Home-Made Eggnog Frozen Custard With Christmas Cookie Crumbles

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#78 My Mom’s Hand-Painted Christmas Cookies

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#79 Obligatory Christmas Cookies

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#80 My Gingerbread “House” Contribution This Year

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#81 Wanted To Share My Family’s Take On Christmas. Meet The Shrimp Tree

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#82 My Friend Who Runs A Baking Business Gave Me Hot Chocolate Bombs For Christmas

I’m a social media manager, so I decided to do a little photoshoot for her socials! I think they came out pretty rad.

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#83 Home-Made Christmas Cake

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#84 Maple Glazed Christmas Ham

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#85 Home-Made Cookies For My Daughter’s Kindergarten Christmas Party

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#86 My Incredible Coworker’s Charcuterie Board For Our Christmas Party

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#87 Christmas Cookies

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#88 Home-Made Christmas Light Cupcakes Or Stranger Things If You Are A Fan

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#89 Since They Are Always Sold Out, I Decided To Make My Own Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes. Happy Holidays Everyone

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#90 Nightmare Before Christmas Cupcakes. She Was My Favorite

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#91 First Day Of Christmas Cookie Baking

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#92 Marie Callender Sugar Cookies, Ready To Ruin Christmas

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