Make your holiday feast a little easier with these Christmas Crockpot Recipes. From tasty main courses and sides to sweet treats and more, these recipes are sure to make your holiday cooking a breeze.
Christmas Slow Cooker Recipes
The Christmas season is full of shopping, parties and most of all a lot of cooking. With all the hustle and bustle, preparing a Christmas menu to feed a large family can seem overwhelming. But that’s where the magic of these crockpot Christmas recipes come in! These recipes are like little helpers that make your cooking much easier during this busy time.
The best part is, with such a wide variety, there’s a holiday crockpot recipe for every meal! Whether you’re looking for juicy holiday ham and turkey, comforting soups, or indulgent desserts these dishes are guaranteed to add extra deliciousness to your Christmas season.
Why We Love These Christmas Crock Pot Recipes
Easy recipes: Each of these recipes are easy to prepare, making cooking your Christmas feast a little bit less stressful.
Saves oven space: Holiday meals can require a lot of oven space. Using a crockpot frees up the oven for other dishes.
Perfectly portable: Crockpot dishes are great for Christmas potlucks and parties because when they’re done, you just lock the lid and they’re ready to go.
Crockpot Christmas Appetizers
1. Crockpot Lil Smokies
Made with just four simple ingredients, these Crockpot Smokies are certain to be a hit. The combination of Worcestershire, brown sugar, and ketchup create quite a flavorful trio!
Crockpot meatballs are a simple recipe that combines basic ingredients you have on hand to make an easy dish that’s tender, juicy, and a fan favorite! Serve them as a meal or as an appetizer for a party – you’ll have everyone asking for more!
This crockpot spinach artichoke dip is an insanely easy and delicious dip recipe. Made with spinach, cream cheese, and a few other ingredients, it makes the ultimate game day or holiday party appetizer that can easily be made in advance!
This deliciously creamy and savory slow cooker pumpkin soup recipe is chock full of flavor, with herbs, spices, carrots, and more veggies. It’s the perfect appetizer before any holiday main course.
Made with fresh garlic, herbs, lemon peel, and a variety of olives, this Slow Cooker Marinated Olives recipe is sure to be a hit with your guests! Simply toss everything in the slow cooker and you’ll have an easy and delicious appetizer that’s perfect for entertaining!
Free up your oven on Thanksgiving and make this Slow Cooker Bone In Turkey Breast. Perfectly seasoned and always juicy, it's perfect for a smaller crowd or family dinner.
This Crockpot Chicken Pot Pie is a fast and simple way to make a hearty meal the whole family loves. The chicken is perfectly baked in a creamy sauce with healthy vegetables and topped with buttery biscuits. It literally makes itself in the crockpot.
This heirloom, vegetarian recipe for creamy tomato basil Christmas Soup is a family tradition. Make this slow cooker soup for your Christmas Eve dinner.
Prepare a whole chicken while you’re gone all day with this deliciously, juicy slow cooker whole chicken recipe! It's even better than oven roast chicken!
Delicious turkey legs made right in the slow cooker, smothered with homemade BBQ Sauce! Easy to make and delicious, this will be your new go-to easy weeknight or holiday meal.
Slow Cooker Red Wine Short Ribs are fall off the bone tender, juicy and full of flavor. These short ribs make the perfect romantic dinner paired with your favorite mashed potatoes and fresh vegetable.
21. Melt in Your Mouth Crock Pot Cinnamon Roll Casserole
Crock Pot Cinnamon Roll Casserole is where every bite tastes like the soft sweet center of a Cinnamon Roll. Just like Crock Pot Cinnamon Rolls but gooey and melt in your mouth good!
This brown sugar cinnamon applesauce is a simple & easy recipe made in the slow cooker. It’s naturally gluten-free and vegan, & can be customized for paleo.
Healthy and delicious, beets are a great addition to any diet. This recipe is the easiest way to roast beets that can be used in an endless number of ways.
Yes, you can still enjoy stuffing! This flavorful recipe for gluten-free stuffing made in your slow cooker will leave you missing nothing while saving precious space in your oven on Thanksgiving.
Bourbon Candied Yams recipe. Yams or Sweet Potatoes candied in brown sugar cinnamon spiced bourbon sauce. Take your mom’s candied yams recipe to the next level with bourbon and black walnut bitters.
These Crockpot Mashed Potatoes have the skin on, but you can peel them if you want. Making mashed potatoes in the slow cooker is perfect for the Christmas holidays!
When you make this Slow Cooker Barley & Chickpea Risotto, your crock pot does all the work for you! Slow cooked whole grains with chickpeas and vegetables.
33. Honey Roasted Baby Carrots and Brussels Sprouts
Upgrade your side dish routine with this simple recipe for honey roasted baby carrots and Brussels sprouts. It goes with almost any entrée and is a great way to get your family to eat more veggies during the holiday season.
This crockpot cobbler with cake mix is one of the easiest and best tasting cobblers you’ll ever make. It’s an incredibly rich and decadent dessert recipe that lets the slow cooker do all the work for you. This treat is so rich and delicious, with a warm and sweet berry filling and a gooey and buttery topping baked to a perfect golden brown.
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