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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

The chocolate bites in this classical banana cake gives it a delightful flavor combination. Instead of throwing away your overripe bananas you cane use them to make this moist sponge cake. Some say banana cake some say banana bread, whatever the name it is a good cake !

Traditional Swedish kanelbullar is perfect for every occasion. The children love to drink milk to freshly baked cinnamon buns.

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.

These small Alsatian bredele makes a nice addition to your Christmas cookie jar. There are many different bredele so it is tricky to find just one favorite, but maybe these small coffee cookies will become your new favorite. You can bake them a few weeks before and keep them in a thin box with a baking paper until it's time to serve them.