Christmas dessert showstopper

Better Homes and Gardens' best Christmas dessert recipes, from classic puddings and pavlova to cheesecakes, trifles and ice cream.

A collection of 10 Showstopper desserts for your holiday table that you must try! There is something for everyone in this collection!

Cooking a full festive feast doesn’t always leave time for preparing an extravagant dessert, too. Luckily these super-easy Christmas dessert recipes are here to help you pull off a showstopper with the minimum of effort.

Gingerbread bundt cake is a flavorful and festive dessert. This cake is full of gingerbread flavor and topped with rich cream cheese frosting. Looking for a showstopper of a cake? This homemade gingerbread bundt cake recipe is your answer. Not only is the cake fluffy, tender and full of flavor, but is has a rich cream cheese frosting and sugared cranberries for garnish! The perfect Christmas dessert. It serves a whole family, plus more. The cake is almost too pretty to eat!

Indulge in layers of rich chocolate cake, creamy whipped topping, and sweet cherries with this festive Black Forest Trifle. The perfect showstopper for your Christmas dessert table!

This Ferrero Rocher Trifle is a showstopper! Consisting of 6 layers of pure decadence, this trifle is beautiful, impressive and totally Instagrammable.

Scrumptious Christmas desserts make stunning centrepieces for our Christmas table decorations. And luckily stunning does not mean super complicated concoctions. Many of the 50 stunning Christmas dessert recipes I have here are a cinch even

Simone Anderson (Forsyth) on Instagram: "Christmas Wreath Meringue I tried @inrhispantry’s Christmas wreath meringue kits for Friendsmas dinner last night, and it was INCREDIBLE! It’s a showstopper dessert that took just minutes to throw together. Highly recommend one of her kits to ease the stress of Christmas dessert this festive season."

Food & Wine's best Christmas desserts include peppermint bark, holiday trifles, a bûche de noël, a pavlova wreath, and gingerbread, plus more holiday treats recipes we love.