By Rajlakshmi Dastidar
Updated:Dec 13, 2025
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Every holiday season, social media feeds are flooded with viral Christmas recipes. From simple sweets to crowd-pleasing sides, these internet classics are full of flavour, require little effort, and are ideal for holiday cooking. Here’s a collection of 4 popular Christmas recipes that you can easily recreate at home.
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The end of the year is a flurry of holidays, weird hours, and a lack of sense of time, which is just when viral recipes take over. Between Christmas and New Year’s, routines vanish, and festive meals are determined by whatever the internet is obsessed with. In this bizarre in-between week, time seems surreal, leftovers reign supreme, and social-media-famous Christmas recipes become the simplest, most soothing response to the question–what should we eat this Christmas? Instagram, Facebook and several such platforms introduce new cooking trends daily, and some spark a new revolution. Similar trends have been hyped on the internet and are already in line with the Christmas celebrations. Try out these 4 viral and trending Christmas recipes, which, for once, truly work and taste even better!
Reese Witherspoon’s Mudpie Truffle
Making Reese Witherspoon’s nostalgic, Southern-style dessert for Christmas is a fun, simple, and, most importantly, instant classic! If you enjoy Mississippi mud pie, with its rich, chocolatey crust and light-as-air chocolate ingredients, Rees Witherspoon has recreated it as a truffle. What a fun and nostalgic take! It’s as simple as assembling chocolate cake, velvety chocolate custard, crumbled Oreos and whipped cream. The genius of Reese’s recipe is that you don’t have to create any of these ingredients from scratch. The most labour you’ll have to do is crush some Oreos, which you probably don’t mind doing at all. Gather all of the ingredients. Choose a clear glass bowl or individual cups to make the layers apparent. Begin by layering cake crumbs and lightly pushing them down, then add chocolate custard, crushed Oreos and whipped cream. Repeat the layers until all of the cream is used, followed by a top layer.
Popcorn Bucket Cookie
These candy-studded cookies incorporate all of the fun of your favourite concession stand players and bake them directly into and on top of a simple sugar batter. Toffee chunks play a supporting role, never overshadowing the stars–popcorn and candy, of course. If you use gummy candy, make sure to save it for the top; otherwise, the cookies will spread too much when baking. Feel free to experiment with the ingredients, but make sure your popcorn is freshly popped for a crispier and more even coating. Chocolate-coated and hard-shell candies (such as M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces are ideal for mixing into the dough. Gummy candies, such as gummy bears and Sour Patch Kids, should not be added to the dough. Instead, press it into the tops of freshly baked cookies, as it will melt and cause the cookies to spread unevenly. Movie-theatre-style microwaveable popcorn is recommended for its salty, buttery flavour and freshness, but stovetop or store-bought popcorn also works nicely.
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