2025 Typefoodie Holiday Dessert Box

Four delicious recipes ready for the holiday season to be baked and gifted to your loved ones! There is something in here for everyone, festive sprinkles, spiced ginger molasses, one of my most popular brownie recipes and a lightly minty chocolate treat.

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Holiday goodie boxes filled with seasonal cookies are taking over my Instagram feed, and I have a list of important people I want to gift some of my favorite desserts to. While I love the extravagant boxes I see all over social media, sometimes including up to a dozen different recipes, I wanted to share a more realistic option - and inspired by the actual assortment I plan to gift this year! It's four, simple and delicious favorite recipes of mine that got a little bit dressed up for the holidays. I know typically we see cookie boxes, but I felt like a brownie option would add a nice variety to the assortment and I can tell you they are always very well received! I included brownies last year and they were a big hit.

I always keep a set of disposable boxes at home for easy treat gifting, since I often have a lot of desserts to give away, and without them I would have no tupperware left. These make the perfect package for your holiday dessert gifting - there is a smaller size and a medium size. The photo you see above is using the medium size box, but the small size fits the perfect amount of goodies if you're gifting to one person.

While I'll share how to "dress up" each of these recipes, the non-dressed up versions (minus the sprinkles, sugar coatings, and drizzles) would work perfectly too for a holiday gift. They will taste just as delicious in their original form or with some of the dressed up options. I picked each of these recipes because they're some of my favorites, and also because they have a longer shelf life which makes them all perfect desserts for gifting. I also shared some guidance at the end of each recipe description for doubling recipes and freezing options where it's possible, so read to the end if you're interested in that information for your holiday baking.

Let's get into the fun part!

Here are the four recipes included in our 2025 Holiday Dessert Box:

1. Minty meringues (mini or full size)

2. Sprinkle cookie dough brownies

3. Festive chewy vanilla sugar cookies (mini or full size)

4. Sugar rolled ginger molasses cookies (mini or full size)

Minty meringues

For your minty meringue cookies, one batch makes about 25 minis or 12 larger cookies. This recipe requires a stand mixer, but it comes together so simply with just a few ingredients. There is guidance in this recipe to add mint extract and a drizzle of peppermint stick white chocolate on top for a festive twist, but if you'd like to keep these classic with just chocolate chips and no minty additions, they will still be perfect. I like these best with mini chocolate chips, but finely chopped chocolate also works great as a mix-in.

I love this recipe because it leaves behind two egg yolks that you can use in your ginger molasses cookies, or any other recipe requiring extra egg yolks!

Quantity 

Servings for one batch, large: 12

Servings for one batch, minis: 25

Carb details

Carbs for full recipe with drizzle: 261

Carbs per serving (mini with drizzle): 10

Carbs per serving (large with drizzle): 22

Additional guidance for your meringues

• Doubling the recipe: You'll have no problem doubling this recipe, especially for the steps in your stand mixer. Just be sure to move with patience when you add in your chocolate chips to ensure they get evenly dispersed without too much mixing.

• Preparing ahead of time: Sadly, the batter for these can't be made ahead but there are a few other things you can do early. If you're making any dough earlier than the meringues that uses an egg yolk, you can always measure out the leftover egg white and freeze it to be defrosted later when you're ready (or egg whites can last for up to 4 days in the fridge). For your minty drizzle, you can also break up your peppermint sticks early so that they'll be ready to go for your white chocolate topping.

Sprinkle cookie dough brownies

This is one of my favorite brownie recipes. Normally the cookie dough balls have chocolate chips in them, but for the holidays I swapped out the chocolate chips for 1/4 cup of festive sprinkles. I also used clear vanilla extract in the cookie dough instead of regular vanilla extract for a bit more of a sugar cookie taste, but either will work great.

You could also do half chocolate chips and half sprinkles (or all chocolate chips if your family is like mine and loves chocolate more than sprinkles). The bake time is exactly the same and if you want to cut into 24 smaller brownies, cut them first into four long strips and then cut each strip into 6 rectangles, making 24 snackable, rectangular brownies.

Quantity

Servings for one batch, standard: 16

Servings for one batch, minis: 24

Carb details

Carbs from sprinkles: 36

Carbs in full recipe*: 489

*accounting for sprinkles instead of chocolate chips in the cookie dough

Carbs per serving (1 of 24): 20

Carbs per serving (1 of 16): 31

Additional guidance for your cookie dough brownies

• Doubling the recipe: This recipe can easily be doubled, but I still recommend baking in two 9x9 square pans. For the best results, you can double the recipe for the cookie dough and brownie batter and use a food scale to evenly split in half between the two pans.

• Preparing ahead of time: This is a great bake ahead recipe, and this can be done in a few different ways. You can make the cookie dough bites up to a week ahead and freeze them. Place on a cookie sheet and freeze for 24 hours and then once fully frozen you can transfer to a plastic bag or airtight container. Remove them from the freezer once you start working on the brownie batter and they'll be defrosted by the time you're ready to add them in. If you want to bake the full recipe ahead, brownies and all, they do stay quite fresh if stored in the fridge or freezer so you can also bake these first and store cold until you're ready to slice and gift (up to a few days unsliced in the fridge and up to a week sliced in the freezer for the best bake ahead results).

Festive chewy vanilla sugar cookies 

I recently updated my chewy vanilla sugar cookie recipe and I knew I had to include them in this year's holiday boxes. To make them a bit more festive, I baked them as minis using a 1 1/2 tablespoon scooper and rolled them in sprinkles. I liked them best with sprinkles coating just the sides but this is absolutely baker's choice.

To add sprinkles, follow the recipe as written (and scoop your desired size). Once you get to the step of rolling the cookie scoops in your palms, you can coat with sprinkles however you'd like. Finish chilling your dough and then bake. I found that the minis took about a minute or two less to bake, but bake one tester to see how they do in your oven first before baking them all.

Quantity 

Servings for one batch, large: 9

Servings for one batch, minis: 20

Carb details

For these, reference the carb details at the bottom of the full recipe (304 for one full batch) and then add to this the number of carbs based on the amount of sprinkles you use and divide by the number of cookies you bake to get the final carb counts.

Additional guidance for your chewy vanilla sugar cookies

• Doubling the recipe: Be sure to measure and mix your dry ingredients separately before getting started and you'll be good to go. Since the original recipe is a fairly small quantity and already uses a stand mixer, this is a great recipe to double!

• Preparing ahead of time: This dough freezes great, especially if you are skipping the sprinkles. Follow the chilling and dough shaping guidance and then instead of baking, keep the dough on a lined cookie sheet and place into the freezer for 24 hours, and then you can transfer to a plastic bag or airtight container and follow the guidance at the end of the full recipe for baking from frozen (know that minis will take a few minutes less to bake). For gifting, I would recommend doing this no more than a month ahead. For home baking purposes, they should be okay for about 2-3 months.

Sugar rolled ginger molasses cookies

My ginger molasses cookies are absolutely perfect for the holidays. Baked in full size or as minis, and as is or rolled in t sugar, you cannot go wrong!

These cookies taste even better the day after they're baked which makes them a perfect bake ahead gifting cookie, and since the recipe uses two egg yolks, it pairs perfectly with our meringue recipe which requires two egg whites.

To bake these as minis, you'll use a 1 1/2 tablespoon scooper and roll the dough in your palms to ensure smooth scoops. If you'd like, you can roll in turbinado sugar for a classic holiday look but they taste amazing baked without too as the recipe calls for. When baking minis, I find they baked a couple of minutes less than the full size but be sure to bake a test and see.

Quantity 

Servings for one batch, large: 8

Servings for one batch, minis: 18

Carb details

Carbs in full recipe (no turbinado): 275

Carbs per serving, minis (1 of 18): 14

Carbs from turbinado (1/3 cup): 64

Carbs per serving, minis rolled in turbinado (1 of 18): 19

Additional guidance for your ginger molasses cookies

• Doubling the recipe: For your cookies, be sure to measure and mix your dry ingredients separately and you'll be good to go. I do recommend using a stand mixer if you double this recipe just to ensure everything gets incorporated evenly (though I've doubled it and still mixed by hand and they turned out great too).

• Preparing ahead of time: These really do stay fresh for up to five days or more after baking even at room temperature if stored in an airtight container. But if you need to make the dough early, follow the chilling and dough shaping guidance and then instead of baking, place the dough on a lined cookie sheet into the freezer for 24 hours and then you can transfer to a plastic bag or airtight container and follow the guidance at the end of the full recipe for baking from frozen (know that minis will take a few minutes less to bake). For gifting, I would recommend doing this no more than a month ahead. For home baking purposes, they should be okay for about 2-3 months.

Note: Carb information is calculated based on the specific ingredients I used to cook with to help guide my own insulin to carb ratio when dosing before I eat my home cooked recipes.