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.

These small no bake cheesecake desserts fits to every occasion. It's easy to prepare, taste wonderful and is a treat for the eyes. Make sure you prepare one or two extra because it is always someone who would like another one.

This popular Swedish cardamom bun is filled with almond paste and whipped cream, and then sprinkled with icing sugar. This is the traditional way of making it, but it is possible to find it with or without cardamon, with vanilla and raspberry filling as well.

These bredele have only one thing in common with snowballs and that is the shape. These are traditional Alsatian Christmas bredel. You can find over hundred different variations of bredele cookies, and every family has their own preferences.

This recipe is a simple version of the famous chocolate chip cookies. It is possible to change the dark chocolate to white- or milk chocolate after preference. If you make the cookies smaller you have more than 20 cookies.

If you have bananas at home which are on the limit to be too old, then you have a perfect excuse to make this cake. It just take a few minutes to prepare. A good idea is to serve the cake to the kids as a treat after school. Instead of making a big cake you can make muffins with this batter.

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.

A homemade French Bûche de Noël (Christmas log) is made of a chocolate sponge roll layers and filled with both white and dark chocolate mousse. The cake is covered in chocolate and decorated as a tree log. The fun part is to decorate the cake with small Christmas decorations.

This French homemade cake made with puff pastry rolls and almond paste filling is a traditional cake served on the six of January. The cake has king crown on top of it and a porcelain figure hidden inside. The tradition is that the person who gets the piece with the figure will be king/queen of the day, and is allowed to decide the activities of the day. You can guess that this cake is very popular among French kids.

This is a homemade lime cheesecake with a thin crusty bottom and a creamy cream cheese filling. The secret to get the cake both high and creamy is to use sweet condensed milk together with cream cheese. But the most important key to it all, is to cook it in the oven and then let it rest for a day before serving it to the guests.