The Christmas cookies called bredele are small and sweet delicacies from the region Alsace in France. They are small dry cookies and every cookie sort has its own special taste. You can find hundreds of different sorts of bredeles and new sorts are produced each year. This particular bredele has a taste of hazelnuts, almond, citron and clove.

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.

A delicious creamy New York Cheesecake just like the one in any coffee shop in New York. Made with Philadelphia cream cheese and condensed milk.

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 a homemade recipe of the classical Alsatian Christmas cookies bredele with hazelnuts. They are so easy and delicious, so it is almost impossible not to prepare twice as many the next time you make them. You can make them in any shape you like but the flat round ones are the typical way to make them.

This Red velvet cake has a wonderful color combination of red and white. It is a three layer cake and has a hint of chocolate taste. There is a cream cheese frosting on the top and between the layers. You can add strawberries to the topping making it a nice decoration. The cake taste delicious but is not so photogenic.

A wonderful light and refreshing sorbet made with strawberries. It is both simple and quick to do. To use fresh strawberries gives the sorbet a wonderful red color. It is possible to make the sorbet with or without an ice cream maker.

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.

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.

To make soft saffron buns in Sweden is very typical between first of advent and Christmas. These buns are filled with almond paste, vanilla and butter. Preparing the dough in two steps will make the buns very fluffy and tasteful. These buns are best enjoyed together with cup of coffee or a glass of milk.

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