Top 15 Christmas Cakes and Cookies 🍰
Winter is on its way, which means Christmas is almost here❄️ If you haven't sorted out your Christmas cakes and Christmas cookies yet, now is the time.
When the day comes, the bakeries may already be fully booked, because this season is busy with gifts, souvenirs and sweets.
No idea what to order yet? This article gathers 15 festive favourites to inspire you, so let's take a look.🍪
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15 Popular Christmas Cakes and Cookies for Santa Claus Lovers
Today, ordering Christmas cakes and cookies no longer means queuing outside a bakery like in the old days.
You can stay at home, take your time choosing a cake from a shop you like through an app, and order your Christmas cake online. Here are the 15 most popular sweets of the season.
1. Christmas Pudding
It is called a pudding, but it is really a soft cake that is steamed rather than baked. Its main ingredients are fruit and brandy, which make it fresh, fragrant and sweet.
Because the cake is a deep brown colour, it is usually decorated with a sprig of holly, bright green and red, which makes it even more tempting. Holly is a symbol of Christmas, and green and red are the colours of Christmas Day.
2. Ginger Cookies or Gingerbread
The key ingredient of ginger cookies, or gingerbread, is ground ginger, brought from Asia by the Crusaders. Europeans baked it into firm cookies shaped like children, walking canes and holly leaves.
Christians in Europe love them. During the festive season people eat and drink a lot, and the sweet, gently spicy taste of gingerbread helps digestion and eases that heavy, bloated feeling.
3. Yule Log
The history of this Christmas cake begins in France, before it became popular all over the world. France has a cold climate, so people liked to gather around the fire.
But Christmas brought very heavy snow, and the French government ordered chimneys to be closed to keep the cold out of homes. People missed the logs they used to sit around together, so they made a log-shaped cake to remember them.
It is also a lovely way to bring the whole family together around the table.
4. Fruit Cake
A dense cake with the sweet and slightly tangy taste of many kinds of dried fruit, mixed with rich, crunchy nuts.
It is often made to share with loved ones at Christmas, because adults and children alike enjoy it. It is not too sweet or too rich, and goes perfectly with tea, coffee or hot chocolate☕
5. Pavlova
The Christmas cake of New Zealand and Australia, inspired by the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed in both countries in the 20th century. Her grace gave birth to the pavlova.
It is covered in white whipped cream, layered with bright red strawberry sauce, crisp on the outside and soft inside like a meringue. Its beauty is even compared to a Snowy Star Christmas snowflake.
6. King Cake
A Christmas cake enjoyed by Christians in England since before the Victorian era. It is filled with many kinds of fruit and usually shaped like a crown or a ring.
Three small sugar figures sit in the middle, representing the three kings who visited Jesus on the day he was born.
In 1640, the Crusaders brought very expensive spices from Asia, so costly that the English sometimes traded silverware for them to put in the cake: cloves, ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon.
Later, in the prosperous Victorian era, sugar was used generously. It was sprinkled over this cake to look like falling Christmas snow, and shaped into candy canes for decoration.
7. Japanese Christmas Cake
This cake from Japan first appeared in 1922, when the Fujiya shop started selling it for Christmas, but it did not catch on at the time. In 1975 the Christmas cake became hugely popular again.
Its signature look is snow-white whipped cream topped with bright red strawberries: simple, elegant and eye-catching. White and red are also lucky colours in Japan, which makes it a great Christmas gift cake.
8. Christmas Stollen
The German Christmas cake, dating back to the 14th century, was first made from just a few local ingredients: oats, water and flour.
The recipe later grew to include dried fruit, candied fruit, butter, spices and nuts, so it looks a lot like a fruit cake. The difference is that stollen is dusted with white icing sugar, like Christmas snow.
9. Christmas Tree Cookies
Sweet, rich cookies in a modern style, with spices and nuts mixed into the dough. They taste like gingerbread without the heat, because there is no ginger, only a gentle spice aroma.
They stand out with their pine tree shape and shiny sugar glaze. Today you can also find them shaped like Santa Claus and reindeer, for even more choice.
10. Christmas Butter Cookies
Modern cookies made mainly with fresh butter, fragrant straight from the oven and crunchy. They are coated in chocolate and sprinkled with red and green sugar, the colours of Christmas.
They come in shapes like Santa's Stars, a sign of the twinkling hope of Christmas night.
11. Christmas White Chocolate Cake
A Christmas cake inspired by Christmas snow. It is coated in white chocolate and dusted with a layer of white sugar, soft and gentle like being surrounded by snow.
Inside is a sweet and tangy strawberry sauce. It is topped with thin slices of white chocolate and a green sugar pine tree, or a red sugar Santa Claus if you prefer.
12. Christmas Cupcakes
Minimalist cupcakes full of ideas: rich chocolate sponge with a sweet, fragrant cream piped into a green pine tree and crowned with a golden sugar star.
They are sprinkled with colourful star-shaped sugar, and also come in Santa Claus and gingerbread designs.
13. Mince Pie
A hugely popular Christmas treat in England, a sweet every family has to have. Children leave mince pies out to welcome Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
If they wake up and find a bite missing, Santa has come by and accepted their welcome. Mince pies were originally filled with meat, but today the meat is left out, leaving only fruit, nuts and brandy.
14. Panettone
The Christmas cake of Milan, Italy. It is made with raisins, candied fruit, dried fruit and honey, with a soft, light and beautifully fluffy texture.
It is fragrant and sweet, dusted with icing sugar and served with bright red berries around the plate. People enjoy it on festive evenings with a glass of sparkling white wine.
15. Pashka
A Russian cake for celebrating Christmas night. It looks similar to an English pudding, but the inside is made from cheese.
It is a rich cheesecake mixed with the sweet and tangy taste of dried fruit, baked into a dome shape and coated with icing sugar.
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All the Christmas cakes and cookies above are popular sweets for Christmas Day. And beyond these desserts, the Christmas season is full of many more delicious dishes😋
You can order savoury food, desserts, and decorations for Christmas Day online with home delivery. That is all it takes to fill your home with twinkling stars 🍰🎅
Add plenty of delicious food, and enjoy this happy time to the fullest with your family and the people you love💓