Christmas/Holiday Foods

What are you’re special/favorite foods for the season? My mom taught me to make Springerle cookies for Christmas. An old German recipe. They are made with Anice seeds and have a licorice flavor…


Recipe:

 

Ham, got to have ham

 

Gumdrop cake

https://www.rockrecipes.com/gumdrop-cake-a-holiday-or-birthday-favourite/


The type of gumdrop is important, and like the recipe says, can be hard to find. My family just sent me some from the east coast. Hopefully will be here this week so I can make some this weekend.

 

Whoopie Pies - my Mom’s recipe from the time before all ingredients were declared poisonous

 

My mom made gingerbread whoopie pies for Christmas. So good.

 

Those look delicious!

 

Thanks

That particular batch came out perfectly. I think atmospherics has a lot to do with how breads, cakes and pizza turns out!

 

Is that a stock image?


My special food is a Hungarian Nut Loaf. Basically a sweet bread dough, rolled out to about 1/8", sprinkled with minced pecans and sugar and then rolled up like cinnamon rolls. Haven't made it in years, but I want to with this being the first Christmas in our first house.

 

That’s a photo of me making the cookies. My wife loaded it on Instagram and that’s the post picture.
That bread you describe sounds delicious

 

Huh. I thought Springerle was 1/8" to 3/16" thick at most? And do you not put designs on the top?

 

I baked 2 batches, the photo was the first which were about 3/8” thick. The 2nd batch were about 3/16” thick.
The dough roller has the designs in it. If you zoom in on the photo you can see the design on a few of the cookies. I’m making another batch this weekend. I’ll try to press harder to see the design…

 

Nah, mate. Just curious on how you make them. I thought maybe you made them that way because that's how a different region of Germany makes them.

 

Assembled candy

 

Breakfast for Christmas Morning- Sausage balls- cheese, spicy deer sausage, biscuit mix, maybe some oil, mix together and bake.

Christmas Stollen- especially with marzipan in the middle.

Tamales for Christmas Eve

Chocolate covered cherries

 

How about posting up recipes for all this awesome stuff ya'll's posting up in here?!?

 

Done. See 1st post