It’s the most wonderful time of the year for tasty holiday treats around the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. North Texas is jam-packed with award-winning bakeries, artisanal cookie shops, and some of the country’s best pies, but the month of December brings new seasonal desserts that will disappear come 2026.
Place your orders at for yule logs, sufganyiot, and pastries you never even knew you wanted, including a cake in the shape and colors of a standing Christmas tree and reindeer poop emoji macarons.
Here are 10 local shops baking up holiday goodness this season.
Unrefined Bakery
Whether you prefer to eat vegan, Paleo, or gluten-free, or have allergies or other dietary restrictions, Unrefined has plenty of tasty treats for you. During the holidays, don’t miss out on the fresh, moist gingerbread. It’s free of just about every allergen, including soy, gluten, dairy, and nuts, and if you’re planning to have vegans at your table Christmas morning, you can order the egg-free version. Multiple locations, unrefinedbakery.com/
Emporium Pies
If there’s one dessert North Texas has a corner on, it’s pie, and Emporium Pies stands among Dallasites’ favorites. This holiday season, Emporium is offering a number of special pies, including the Father Christmas pie, complete with cooling peppermint custard inside a chocolate cookie crust. Another standout is the Bonnie & Pie’d: a graham cracker crust cradling coffee-and-chocolate custard and homemade toffee sauce. Multiple locations, emporiumpies.com/
Linnybird Bakeshop & Coffee Bar
Sure, you can make your own Christmas cookies, but who has the time? Besides, they won’t be as tasty or perfect-looking as the Snowflake Cut-Out Cookies from Linnybird. These cookies are fresh-baked and iced in white for a clean, sophisticated look. Other Linnybird holiday offerings include an extensive list of pies, a whiskey cake, Christmas cupcakes, and more. 5006 S. Stemmons Fwy., Lake Dallas linnybirdbakeshop.com/
Jaram’s Donuts
If you have a Chanukah party on your winter calendar, head to Jaram’s and grab a dozen of the traditional Chanukah treats: Sufganiyot, deep-fried jelly-filled donuts. Jaram’s also offers donuts for other December holidays, including snowmen, Christmas trees, and festive Happy New Year donuts. Multiple locations, jarams.com/
Haute Sweets Patisserie
If you want to stand out at the holiday party, bring a box of Reindeer Poop Emoji Macarons from Haute Sweets Patisserie. Not only do they make for lively photos, but they’re filled with a decadent chocolate butter cream. Other fun holiday offerings include salted caramel and chocolate ganache mousse tarts made to look like ornaments, a chocolate butter cream yule log, and a festive Christmas tree brownie. Multiple locations, hautesweetspatisserie.com/
CocoAndré
This chocolatier in Oak Cliff makes some of the prettiest, most innovative desserts in Dallas, and their dozens of holiday offerings are no exception. Order a big chocolate Santa stepping into a chocolate chimney, a chocolate advent calendar, or a whole chocolate Nativity scene. CocoAndré sells funny gifts, too, including a chocolate Scrooge and a chocolate cowboy Santa. 211 S. Edgefield Ave. Dallas, cocoandre.com/
Lubella’s Patisserie
For three holiday seasons, this popular bakery has been selling a delicious Bûche de Noël, also known as yule log, a traditional Christmas sponge cake that resembles an actual yule log. The Lubella’s version, a chocolate sponge cake with chocolate mousse inside, serves 10. Lubella’s also offers a Galette des rois, or King Cake, a French pastry filled with almond cream. 10323 Ferguson Rd., Dallas, lubellaspatisserie.com/
Maria Andree Boutique Bakery
Impress your guests this holiday season with a Christmas Tree Cake, fashioned to look like a fully trimmed, standing tree. Choose between white and green icing, and then choose among seven cake flavors, including red velvet and tiramisu. Alongside the trees, Maria Andree sells a slew of Christmas delicacies, including reindeer Oreo cake pops, macarons that look like wreaths, and mini cupcakes topped with gingerbread men. 6906 Snider Plaza, Dallas, mariaandree.com/
JD’s Chippery
Holiday offerings at this from-scratch bakery include the adorable Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Lady Cookie Cakes. Serve them as a pair alongside other holiday treats from JD’s, like the Christmas Tree Cookie Cake that you can personalize with an icing message, gingerbread mini muffins, and sugar cookies covered in red and green sprinkles. Multiple locations, jdschippery.com/
Kessler Baking Studio
Choose among four holiday options at this bakery, whose baker was nominated for an “Outstanding Baker” James Beard Award: cranberry orange cake, holiday spice cake, pumpkin swirl cheesecake tart, and sweet potato cheesecake tart. Because everything at Kessler is made from scratch, those pumpkin swirl cheesecake tarts even contain fresh pumpkin. 1129 North Beckley Ave., Dallas, kesslerbakingstudio.com/
