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Bûche de Noël - Yule log

Saffron mud cake

Salmon terrine with cream cheese

Scallops with artichoke and orange sauce

Bûche de Noël - Yule log

Preparation : 00:40

Cooking : 00:05

Recipe description :
This homemade classic French Christmas dessert is made with both white and dark chocolate mousse. It looks like a log but is wonderfully creamy with chocolate. You can always decorate the cake with some extra nice Christmas decorations.

Saffron mud cake

Preparation : 00:05

Cooking : 00:20

Recipe description :
A homemade mud cake with saffron and white chocolate taste delicious together with some whip cream on the side. This cake is quick to prepare and fits all occasions.

Salmon terrine with cream cheese

Preparation : 00:30

Cooking : 00:00

Recipe description :
A creamy homemade salmon terrine with cream cheese and dill. Easy to make and taste delicious together with a salad and lumpfish roe. The dish is served cold, and you can keep it in the fridge for a few days.

Scallops with artichoke and orange sauce

Preparation : 00:20

Cooking : 00:30

Recipe description :
If you're out of ideas for the end of the year celebrations dinner, this recipe will impress your guests. With this recipe you will have tender seared scallops together with a creamy and refreshing artichoke puree served together with a sweet orange sauce. It might not be the most common way of serving scallops, but it gives a combination of salt and sweet at the same time.

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Christmas sweets

Christmas season is soon here and that means family gatherings and for that you need sweets to treat your guests with. Here are some suggestions from around Europe that might help you.

Gingerbread mousse

Uploaded on : 2018-Nov-09

This homemade gingerbread mousse is a perfect dessert around Christmas times. It is a sweet delicious mousse with crunchy bites of gingerbread cookies inside. The mousse is easy and fast to prepare and can be kept in the fridge for a few days.

German Christmas cookies- Vanillekipferl

Uploaded on : 2015-Nov-12

This is a homemade recipe of the traditional German Christmas cookies vanilla crescent. This half-moon shaped cookies are easy to do and will melt in your mouth. The cookies originate from the region Bavaria in Germany, but you can find similar cookies in Austria and France.

Bredele with coconut and chocolate (Alsatian Christmas cookie)

Uploaded on : 2015-Oct-20

Bredele- Alsatian Christmas cookies can be found in many variations of both the shape and taste. Most of them are made with baking powder, egg, flour and sugar as a base. Even though this version it is made with both coconut and chocolate it is not too sweet.

Saffron squares with white chocolate

Uploaded on : 2016-Jan-02

A soft saffron cake with white chocolate topping. This cake is hard to resist so it is good to cut it in mall squares so you can take several pieces. It is a perfect winter dessert. It is a perfect ending of a party dinner as for example for the end of year parties.

Bûche de Noël - Yule log

Uploaded on : 2018-Jan-03

This homemade classic French Christmas dessert is made with both white and dark chocolate mousse. It looks like a log but is wonderfully creamy with chocolate. You can always decorate the cake with some extra nice Christmas decorations.

German Christollen

Uploaded on : 2018-Feb-04

A homemade German Christollen is a Christmas sweet bread filled with dried fruits and nuts, covered with a thick layer of icing sugar. It´s most common to start the Christmas season with this cake.

Gingerbread balls

Uploaded on : 2018-Oct-28

These small delicious balls taste like gingerbread cookies but are soft and surrounded with a layer of grated coconut. Easy and fast to make together with children and can be frozen and ready to take out when the guests arrive.

Syrup and cardamom cookies

Uploaded on : 2016-Apr-05

Really delicious crispy syrup and cardamom cookies. These cookies are easy and quick to prepare. It will be hard to just eat one if you serve them at the coffee break. You can eat the cookies warm or cold.

Swedish Saffron balls

Uploaded on : 2018-Oct-18

In Sweden it is common to bake cakes and buns with saffron between the first Sunday of advent and Christmas. The cakes and buns are served as Swedish fika often together with coffee or tea. This is traditional chocolate balls but made with saffron instead.

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Cinnamon snowballs bredele

Uploaded on : 2018-Dec-13

These homemade Christmas cookies are crispy due to the cornflakes and taste like cinnamon. They are very easy and quick to prepare, which makes them perfect to prepare as a family activity together with the kids.

French cheese cake

Uploaded on : 2018-Dec-08

A traditional French cheese cake is made with a pie bottom and has a high fluffy cream cheese filling. This pie crust is made with some cacao powder which makes the cake different from its original.

Vanilla snowball bredele

Uploaded on : 2018-Nov-27

These are small Alsatian Christmas cookies with a chewy inside and a slightly crispy outside. They taste vanilla and almond and resemble small snowballs in the shape and color. You can prepare them a month before Christmas, keep them in a thin box covered with baking paper and they will still taste newly baked.

Traditional Swedish sandwich cake

Uploaded on : 2018-Nov-19

If you think of Swedish sandwich cake or as it is called Smörgåstårta in Swedish, this version is the most common one to eat. It might take a while to make it yourself but all the hard work is worth it when you take the first bite.

Chocolate chip muffins

Uploaded on : 2018-Nov-18

Traditional chocolate chip muffins with a twist of hazelnuts taste. You can choose to make the muffins big or small dependent on how you like them. The most important is that the muffins are moist and have crunchy chocolate bites inside.

Dulce de leche cookies

Uploaded on : 2018-Nov-12

These Small delicious cookies topped with dulce de leche and walnuts are small treats that both children and adults will love. If you can’t find dulce de leche you can use caramel fudge sauce instead, and if you don’t like walnuts you can change them to almonds or pecan nuts instead.