23 Recipes for Cozy Christmas Baking
by meike peters
I’m sitting at our dining table, listening to Jingle Bells, wrapping Christmas presents, and waiting for the snow to fall. It’s the last weekend before Christmas, the last chance to fill the kitchen with the tempting smell of cinnamon, cloves, and citrus fruits, cardamom, chocolate, and candied nuts, so what am I going to bake? I picked 23 recipes from the last four years of cozy Christmas feasting on Eat In My Kitchen and I love each one of them. Just a look at the pictures and my taste buds get excited. I can remember the woody notes of my Rosemary and Lemon Heidesand Cookies, the citrusy-buttery sweetness of my Mediterranean family’s Maltese Lemon Christmas Cookies, the elegance of my mother’s classic, her Linzer Cookies, and of course, my annual highlight, the best Vanilla Kipferl in the world. You can find a variation of this famous German cookie in my Eat In My Kitchen book, wonderfully fragrant Cardamom Kipferl. So, happy baking, treat yourself to a cozy weekend with the ones you love and indulge in the pleasures of Christmas baking!
Click on the titles for the recipes:
Chocolate, Orange and Cardamom Stollen
Rosemary and Lemon Heidesand Cookies
Ginger Chili Double Chocolate Cookies
Espresso Meringue Cookies with Spiced Chocolate Ganache
Maltese Lemon Christmas Cookies
Ginger Spice Cookies with Cinnamon Oat Crunch
Persimmon Hazelnut Thumbprint Cookies
Bittersweet Chocolate Spice Cookies
Claire Ptak’s Pecan Caramel Sandwich Cookies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Maltese Essijiet Vermouth Cookies
Strawberry Pistachio Cookies with Oats and White Chocolate
Dark Chocolate and Apricot Sandwich Cookies
Great round-up Meike! Merry Christmas!
Thank you, Mary! Have a wonderful Christmas!