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Yule Log Recipe is a Christmas Roulade cake, common in French speaking countries and it’s neighbors. The Yule Log is better known as Bûche de Noël in French and both names will tell you that the cake looks like a wooden tree branch. So, how do you easily make a Yule Log look like a tree […]
5+ German Christmas Cookies you need to try!
German Christmas Cookies are counted as some of the best in the world and there is a choice of cookies out there, but of course there are German Christmas cookies that you must try before any other! Want to know which ones? Find out further below which are the most popular cookies in Germany right […]
Classic Lebkuchen Recipe – German Christmas Cookies [EASY ❤]
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This Lebkuchen Recipe is an essential if you love spiced cookies! Lebkuchen are some of the most popular and well known Christmas cookies in Europe. The spiced cookies are similar to gingerbread cookies from the English speaking countries. Find the Lebkuchen recipe with step by step recipe instructions and pictures further below. A Lebkuchen […]
Chocolate Spritz Cookies Recipe – How to Press Cookies [+Chocolate Dipped variety]
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Chocolate Spritz Cookies are classic cookies that shouldn’t be missed in any cookie exchange. These melt in the mouth short crust piped or pressed cookies are easy to make if you follow the instructions with the proper tools further below. Learn how to make chocolate Spritz cookies with the how to step by step instructions, […]
Glühwein Recipe – How to make Spiced Austrian & German Mulled Wine
Glühwein is a spiced hot mulled wine, commonly prepared during winters in my country, Austria and as well as in Germany. The alcoholic beverage is a must in Christmas markets as well as in après ski parties as it warms your cold body from within! Learn how to make Gluehwein easily from scratch with the mulled […]
Chocolate Pepper Cookies Recipe {Gluten-free}
Make these Chocolate Pepper Cookies for Christmas this year, if you are looking for a different kind of recipe. The cookies include fine pink pepper flavors and chocolate notes. This easy and quick to make gluten-free cookie is a real treat! Learn how to make chocolate pepper cookies further below. I came across the idea […]
Best of Sweet Christmas Recipes | Masala Herb
Christmas cookies, bread, cakes and drinks from Europe and India; that’s what you will find in this collection of special best of sweet Christmas recipes. Next year I will post a collection of best of savory Christmas recipes but today let’s tackle the sweet side of life. If you have been following the free newsletter, […]
Ragi Poppy Seed Cookies
In the past few months I have been surrounded by ragi flour, it has been literally popping in to my life at different times. Ragi cake on a friends page, ragi roti made with love by my mother in law (flat bread), Ragi flour bags in my friendly neighborhood grocery store and so on. Wherever […]
Zimtsterne Recipe – German Cinnamon Star Cookies [Gluten-Free]
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Zimtsterne are another variety of popular Christmas cookies in the German speaking regions, prepared Gluten-free with cinnamon as a main ingredients and cut out into stars. Learn how to make this Zimtsterne Recipe from scratch with the step by step recipe instructions further below: Cinnamon is a favorite spice during the colder winter days in […]
Christmas Cookie Collection 2013
I believe one can never have enough cookies for Christmas. Various Christmas Cookie types, such as traditional and colorful new style cookies are a must in my house and I have to tell you Christmas is for sure not the same without the cookies. In my first years in Goa, I didn’t miss the familiar […]
Bethmännchen Cookies
We have a massive collection of Christmas Cookie recipes in Central Europe. Seriously, you would be surprised by the amount of different cookies our ancestors were able to create in time. From spiced Lebkuchen, to soft Coconut Cookies and Sugar Baiser, the choice is endless! Coming from a rich Christmas Cookie tradition, I am still […]
The Austrian Linzer Augen cookies – pate sablée sweet short crust pastry
The Linzer Auge is one of the cookies, that is always easy recognizable thanks to its two sandwich style cookie disks filled with jam, the three cut out holes and its round “flower style” shape. The Linzer Augen (roughly translated as Linzer Eyes) are a typical Austrian Christmas cookie, that originated in upper Austria in […]