Kennebunkers love this bakery for owner Cherie Davis' fruit pies, and the holidays bring a special menu of cookie platters, cheesecakes, and tea breads. There's also a wide selection of brunch baked goods like cinnamon rolls, coffee cakes, and danishes.

This downtown Saco bakery and coffee shop offers fruit pies, cakes, and cheesecakes, as well as baked treats for brunch and dinner rolls. The adorable Christmas tree cupcakes or yule logs will surely be the most talked-about desserts at the potluck.

Look for a steady expansion of this popular bakery's holiday menu throughout December — the latest roll out is a buttermilk chess pie topped with cranberries and Chantilly cream. And if you're looking to win best host of the year, brave the cutthroat, early morning scene at the shop for some of its fresh-baked bagels.

Chef Damian Sansonetti and pastry chef Ilma Lopez, the couple behind this Italian restaurant, are offering outrageous-sounding holiday baked goods this year. Call to order maple pie, brown butter sugar cookies by the half-pound, s'mores pie (graham cracker crust, chocolate ganache, toasted marshmallow, and hazelnuts), or chocolate amaretto "tronco di natale," "kind of like an Italian version of a yule log," Lopez explains.

While this India Street bakery is best known for its fruit pies, the holiday menu offers a wide variety of desserts, from the traditional yule log to platters of cookies, whoopie pies (the best in town), and bars.

Why stop at dessert when you can order a whole holiday dinner from this bakery in Brunswick's Tontine Mall? From comforting chicken pot pie to vegan eggnog pudding with chia seeds, you're sure to find something to please all of your guests.

It's no surprise that cannolis reign supreme at this traditional Lewiston bakery; other Italian favorites like tiramisu, limoncello cake, and Sicilian bread round out the holiday menu.

This Main St. shop in Rockland is churning out holiday specials daily, from gingerbread men to cranberry eggnog bread. Midcoast foodies recommend the stollen, a traditional rum-soaked German Christmas bread, and the tourtière, French-Canadian meat pie.