This homemade sponge cake with melted chocolate in the middle is called chocolate lava cake. When you take the first bite of this cake it will overflow with melted chocolate that resemble hot lava. The cake is cooked in small oven molds and later placed on the plate together with vanilla sauce or ice cream.

This version of the Christmas cookies bredele is a bit different than the most common ones that you will find in the region Alsace in France during Christmas time. Every family have their own tradition of which cookies are to be consider as classical for them. These pumpkinseed cookies can be made six to eight weeks before Christmas. This way they can be kept in a tin box, to let them get the right consistence before they will be eaten.

This is the famous Choucroute recipe with sauerkraut, sausages and pork. This dish is mostly served in the winter period because it is heavy. It is traditionally made with sauerkraut, three different kind of sausages and smoked pork, served together with boiled potatoes. If you are still hungry after this meal, than you didn't eat a real choucroute.