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Festive Flavors:Emphasizes the seasonal tastes
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items Looking to add something special to your Christmas dinner? These Glow Up mini recipes are smart ways to introduce some extra sparkle to old favourites, from a sage and nutmeg garlic butter to flavour the turkey with to orange and hazelnut chilli oil ...
Ever made Walnut Crescent Cookies, Russian Tea Cookies or Mexican Wedding Cookies?This is a great Christmas cookie recipe not just because they’re traditional, pretty, and tasty. This is a great “make ahead” recipe.
Vanilla Kipferl Cookies
I’m pretty excited about this recipe for Moravian cookies.Moravian Molasses Cookies are a new holiday cookie. I hope it makes it into your holiday baking!
Moravian Cookies
Czech Bars are thick bar cookies with a fruit jam layer in the middle, sandwiched between two layers of a simple, buttery, nutty crust. An Old World recipe, these bars are full of flavor, sweet, and perfect for any occasion.
Czech Bars with Jam and Walnuts – The Bossy Kitchen
Brunkager are Danish Christmas cookies with a delicious spiced flavor and a wonderful crunch. Perfect to add to your cookie plate.
Brunkager (Danish Christmas cookies) - Caroline's Cooking
Traditional Danish Fedtebrød – Coconut Cookie Slices with Rum Glaze – beautifully short buttery cookies packed with desiccated coconut and topped with a rum glaze.
Danish Fedtebrød, Coconut Cookie Slices with Rum Glaze
These simple danish butter cookies are easy to make with children and brighten up everyone's holiday.
Danish Butter Cookies (Vaniljekranse)
Pfeffernusse are traditional European snowball cookies, crunchy and robustly spiced. Despite the literal "pepper nuts" translation of the name, these tasty holiday cookies are nut-free!
Pfeffernusse Spiced Snowball Cookies - Comfortably Domestic
Despite their name, Finsk Brød (Finnish Shortbread) is a traditional Danish shortbread cookie topped with a chopped almond and sugar glaze. This classic cookie is usually made at Christmas.
Finsk Brød (Finnish Shortbread)
Lebkuchen or German gingerbread cookies, as some people may call them which is a Traditional German gingerbread cookie
Lebkuchen Recipe
"Zimtsterne or German Cinnamon Stars are light, gluten-free cookies which I discovered in Germany at the Christmas markets. You can make them in your own kitchen; they're so good!"
Zimtsterne: German Cinnamon Star Cookies
Classic Scottish shortbread cookies are buttery, soft, and melt in your mouth! This easy recipe is shortbread at its purest, containing nothing but butter, flour, sugar and a pinch of salt.
Classic Scottish Shortbread Cookies
Chocolate Sandwich Cookies with Earl Grey Ganache are an elegant treat, perfect for any occasion. The delicate citrus notes of bergamot in Earl Grey tea elevate these cookies to a luxurious dessert experience. If you haven't tried the pairing of choc...
Chocolate Sandwich Cookies With Earl Grey Ganache – The Bossy Kitchen
This Greek Baklava recipe has walnuts and cinnamon layered between flaky phyllo dough brushed with melted butter then baked and drizzled with a sugar and honey syrup to create a crispy, sweet, and impressive dessert!"
The BEST Greek Baklava Recipe - House of Nash Eats
Greek Christmas honey cookies (melomakarona)
"Gooey, sticky traditional Greek Christmas honey cookies with delicious festive flavors. There's no way you'll be able to eat just one!"
Greek Christmas Honey Cookies (Melomakarona)
Mandelhörnchen are gluten-free almond crescents from Germany. This recipe from The Hebridean Baker, AKA Coinneach MacLeod, is the perfect biscuit for a Christmas baking session in the kitchen.
Almond antlers biscuits (mandelhörnchen)
Torrone (Italian nougat) has a pleasantly yielding bite. It’s essentially a honey meringue mixture filled with nuts and cooked to the point it becomes a chewy sweet. This version includes pistachios, almonds, dried apricots and candied peel to create...
Bejewelled festive torrone (Italian nougat)
This flavour-packed Mexican roast pork leg with adobo is enjoyed at Christmas.This pork dish is super popular during Christmas celebrations.
Pierna mechada (Mexican roast pork leg)
A classic Swedish potato dish traditionally made with cream and ansjovis (cured sprats). The perfect festive side dish.
Christmas Jansson’s temptation
This tamarind and herb-stuffed lamb leg with baked jollof rice recipe is a celebratory Senegalese-inspired one-pot by award-winning author and chef Lerato Umah-Shaylor – see Know-how for more about the background of the dish.
Herby tamarind lamb with baked jollof rice
This traditional Greek honey biscuits usually made at Christmastime, is a Ginger, honey and citrus are a marriage made in heaven.
Melomakarona (Greek Christmas biscuits)
Bicerin is a hot drink from Turin, Italy. A layer of espresso is topped with a layer of melted chocolate followed by a layer of whipped cream. Heaven.
Bicerin (Italian coffee and chocolate drink)
These golden, sweet dumplings are a Christmas favourite in Hungary and Romania. Serve the warm, yeasted buns with a jug of vanilla sauce.
Sweet golden dumplings with ginger sauce
Cozonac is a traditional Romanian sweet bread, served at both Easter and Christmas.Cozonac can be served on Christmas morning or for dessert at the end of the feast with black coffee
Cozonac (Romanian Christmas and Easter bread)
A pakhlava lies at the heart of Armenian baking, from a dish to bring a little joy on Lent days to one carried in large trays to the table at weddings and festive gatherings. The fragrant cloves are believed to symbolise the gifts the Three Wise Men ...
Armenian pakhlava with pomegranate syrup
This chic and delicate traditional Romanian mill wheels, little meringues sandwiched with chocolate cream, is a Christmas treat baked in many countries throughout Eastern Europe in different shapes and under many names.They bring a charming elegance ...
Romanian mill wheels (chocolate and hazelnut meringues)
A majestic, yeasted gugelhupf studded with dried fruit is a festive must-bake in many Central European countries.
Orange gugelhupf with cranberries
In Romania, these pretty swirled biscuits are enjoyed with coffee or cherry liqueur, and are popular at Christmas.
Cocoa and vanilla cookies
This Puerto Rican slow-roasted pork (usually leg or shoulder) is often served at Thanksgiving or Christmas. The roast pork is poised to collapse into a glistening pile of fall-apart meat.
Pernil (Puerto Rican slow-roasted pork)
James Cochran’s pork stuffing gets a lift from scotch bonnets and the smoky, toasty flavours of jerk seasoning. Try it with glazed ham, mash and pickles or roast turkey.
Jerk-spiced pork stuffing
This is a classic French dish, Coquilles St Jacques. A creamy scallop and prawn gratin is served in the scallop shells, edged with golden swirls of mashed potato.
James Martin's Coquilles St Jacques