Whether your family hosts a traditional Hanukkah feast filled with dishes passed down from generation to generation or gathers around a table full of modern twists on the classics, no holiday meal is complete without dessert. That’s why we’ve rounded up some of our favorite sweet treats for this special time of year. You’ll find Festival of Lights staples like jelly-filled sufganiyot as well as some fun, Hanukkah-inspired treats — decked out in plenty of blue and white decorations. One of our favorites? These beautiful dreidel cookies. Each one is inscribed with a different letter from the Hebrew alphabet and, when arranged together, they represent the phrase, "a great miracle happened there." The simple shape of a dreidel is especially striking for slice and bake cookies; the key is to keep the colored dough frozen and firm and the uncolored dough soft but still chilled. You can bake the cookies right away or keep the entire log wrapped in the freezer, then slice off and bake cookies as needed!

These orange-scented fried dough balls are a fun and delicious way to celebrate Hannukah, plus the warm honey sauce they’re doused in makes them a lovely and fitting dessert for Rosh Hashanah.

Hanukkah is known as the festive of lights, which commemorates the miracle of the small amount of holy oil that lasted the eight days it took for more to be found. During these eight days of Hanukkah it is customary to eat lots of sweet and savory foods fried in oil and there is no better or more delicious way to honor that tradition than by making and eating these sweet, pillowy, lemon-scented sufganiyot, or jelly doughnuts, which are typically filled with raspberry, strawberry or apricot jam.

These sweet Hanukkah treats come together quickly and are easy to transport to a party or school event. The bars are quite gooey so be sure to let them cool completely before cutting. There are a lot of fun holiday sprinkle blends available online or you can make your own.