Are you heading to a Christmas potluck this holiday season? We’ve got delicious dessert ideas for you, including festive chocolate crackle wreaths, yummy Christmas treats for kids, and peppermint muddy buddies. Below, we are showing you how to whip up a quick and easy (but elegant) potluck dessert tray.
Christmas potluck dessert tray
We went to a pajama and gift exchange holiday party recently with friends, but blew everything off until the last minute, because it’s the holidays and life is busy. We bought pajamas and gifts to exchange, but a couple of hours before leaving the house, I realized we hadn’t thought about a dish to take. Off to the grocery store we went; I had my partner drop me at Marshalls so I could grab gifts for co-workers while he went to find a pre-made tray of something to take with us. There were no trays.
So, while at Marshalls, I popped into the food aisle and grabbed everything I could that looked decadent and festive. Just 10 minutes at home, and I had a beautiful tray ready to go that was so much more elegant and beautiful than anything we could have found at the grocery store.
What I included on our dessert tray
- Shortbread
- Gingerbread cookies
- Meringue
- Chocolates – salted caramel and pistachio
- Jumbo white peppermint pretzels
- Wafers
- Macarons
Here are a few more ideas:
- Chocolate-covered anything
- Cake balls
- Truffles
- Homemade bark
- Peanut brittle
- Peppermint sticks
- Miniature desserts
How to assemble a dessert tray
The best way I’ve found to assemble a dessert tray is start along the outside, and gradually move toward the center.
Take not of the size of the items you are going to include and how many are in each package. For example, I only had four large peppermint pretzels, so I made sure to space those out around the tray for little pops of color.
Fill in gaps at the end with smaller foods such as meringue and chocolate-covered fruit and nuts.
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