These homemade Alsatian Christmas cookies are fun to make with the kids. Everyone can make the cookies in the size and shape they prefer. To make them even more different from each other you can use more than one sort of chocolate to dip them in.

A homemade inverted pie with a different filling made out of melon and meat. This particularly combination of ingredients might not be a combination you think of when you looking for inspiration to make a pie. Surprise your guests with this different but this tasty mini pies.

A homemade ham and cheese cake might not be what comes to mind when you hear the word cake. Also knows as savory cake or cake salé. Resembles more a bread than a cake, and is perfect on a cold winter day. Fits perfect as appetizer, starter, mingle food, or to bring on a picnic.

This is one out of hundreds different varieties of the Alsatian bredele cookies you that you will find in Alsace during the Christmas holidays. These hazelnuts cookies have a crispy surface and a slightly chewy interior. The best part is that the cookies can be prepared in advanced, though they can be kept for weeks in a cookie box.

This is different kind of salad from the region Alsace in France, made with Cervelas which is a kind of sausage, cheeses and tomatoes. Takes only a few minutes to prepare and can be served as a starter, light lunch together with a baguette, or as part of a cold buffet in a warm summer day.

A fresh cold potao salad. It is good to to serve as a side dish especially when doing some BBQ. It is possible to add some mor ingredients like feta cheese, shrimps, cheese, ham and etc.

French cake that is served on the 6th of January. The person who gets the figure will be king or queen of the day.

This is a sponge roll with a different jam made of the mini plums named Mirabelle. They are typical fruits of the region Lorraine in the north east of France. These plums are mainly eaten as fruit but also very popular for jam or other dessert due to their sweetness.

This is a homemade recipe of the famous French almond macarons. They have a crispy surface and a chewy inside. Together with the dark chocolate filling these macarons are delicious. The macarons can be a bit tricky to make but it is worth it when you taste them. These cookies can be stored in the fridge for two- three days.

These bredele resemble snowballs both in the appearance and color. These cookies are dry and crumbly with a taste of vanilla. To make the cookies even more tasteful you can use real vanilla. You can keep the dough in the freezer up to two month, this way you can make them again.