Christmas Treats: Bite-Sized Delights for a Festive Season
Christmas is a time for family, festivities, and of course, delicious food! Adding to the merriment are delightful treats that are as fun to make as they are to eat. Here are some recipe ideas to bring a touch of sweetness and cheer to your holiday table:
1. Reindeer Chow: This no-bake snack mix is a holiday classic, perfect for kids and adults alike. Combine popcorn,pretzels, candy canes, M&Ms, and peanuts for a crunchy, festive mix. Drizzle with melted white chocolate and decorate with sprinkles for an extra Christmasy touch.
2. Gingerbread Cookies: The warm aroma of ginger and cinnamon filling your kitchen is pure Christmas magic. Whip up a batch of gingerbread cookies using cookie cutters in festive shapes like Christmas trees, snowmen, and stars.Decorate with icing and candies for a personalized touch.
3. Peppermint Bark: This easy yet elegant treat is sure to impress. Melt white and dark chocolate separately, then pour them onto a baking sheet in layers, swirling them together for a marbled effect. Sprinkle with crushed candy canes and let cool before breaking into pieces.
4. Grinch Kabobs: Get creative with these fun and healthy snacks! Thread grapes, green mini marshmallows, and pretzel sticks onto skewers to create adorable Grinch kabobs. Dip them in melted green chocolate for an extra touch of Grinch-y goodness.
5. Snowman Pancakes: Start your Christmas morning with a playful breakfast. Make fluffy pancakes, then use whipped cream and fruit slices to create snowman faces. Add chocolate chips for eyes and buttons, and you’ve got a breakfast that’s as cute as it is delicious.
6. Hot Chocolate Cookies: Warm up from the inside out with these decadent cookies. These chocolate cookies have a secret center filled with melted hot chocolate, making them the ultimate cold-weather treat. Dust them with powdered sugar for a snowy effect.
7. Christmas Tree Brownies: These fudgy brownies are not only delicious but also festive! Cut brownies into triangles and arrange them on a plate to resemble a Christmas tree. Decorate with frosting, sprinkles, and mini candy canes for a charming holiday dessert.
8. Rudolph Pretzels: Get the kids involved in making these adorable treats! Dip pretzel rods in red melting chocolate and add candy eyes and a pretzel nose to create Rudolph the reindeer. Sprinkle with edible glitter for a touch of sparkle.
9. Candy Cane Blossoms: These festive treats are simple yet stunning. Wrap mini marshmallows in candy canes and secure with melted chocolate. Arrange them on a plate and watch them “bloom” as the chocolate hardens, revealing the fluffy marshmallow centers.
10. Eggnog Truffles: Give eggnog a sophisticated twist with these creamy truffles. Mix eggnog with rum, cream cheese,and white chocolate for a rich filling. Roll in chopped nuts and coat in melted chocolate for a delightful holiday treat.
These are just a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing. With a little imagination and these delicious recipes, you can create a Christmas treat spread that will be the star of the holiday season!
Remember, safety first in the kitchen! Always supervise children while cooking and baking, and be mindful of food allergies when choosing ingredients. Most importantly, have fun and enjoy creating these festive treats with your loved ones!
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Recipe Listings: Want to save this Recipe? Enter your email below and get it sent straight to your inbox. Along with recipes & tips every week! The form can be filled in the actual website url. Appetizer and dessert dips are super easy to whip up when you need an appetizer or dessert very quickly.… Read more: Cadbury Mini Eggs Cheesecake Dip - Cadbury Mini Eggs Cheesecake Dip
Want to save this Recipe? Enter your email below and get it sent straight to your inbox. Along with recipes & tips every week! The form can be filled in the actual website url. Appetizer and dessert dips are super easy to whip up when you need an appetizer or dessert very quickly. Keep this… Read more: Cadbury Mini Eggs Cheesecake Dip - How to make the perfect smacked cucumbers – recipe | Felicity Cloake’s How to make the perfect …
This cool, crunchy Sichuan salad, drenched in garlicky dressing and fiery chillies, is now a global favourite. The secret? Make sure you bruise the cucumbers, rather than actually smash them Though I suspect many of us first find ourselves drawn to this Chinese “cold plate” by the faintly surreal overtones of vegetable-based violence suggested by… Read more: How to make the perfect smacked cucumbers – recipe | Felicity Cloake’s How to make the perfect … - Vegetarian lunch box ideas for fussy eaters | Kitchen aide
Feed picky nippers with dips and chips made from veg, perhaps some crackers, cheese, eggs – anything with some colour to attract the eye Where there are picky eaters, there needs to be a gameplan. For Alissa Timoshkina, author of Kapusta, that means slipping vegetables into an existing favourite, be that pasta, pancakes or muffins.… Read more: Vegetarian lunch box ideas for fussy eaters | Kitchen aide - Football Stadium Cake
FYI: Want to save this Recipe? Enter your email below and get it sent straight to your inbox. Along with recipes & tips every week! The form can be filled in the actual website url. Looking for an awesome football dessert for cheering along for your favorite team, during the big game, a football birthday… Read more: Football Stadium Cake - Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for beetroot and celeriac gratin with goat’s cheese and walnuts | Quick and easy
A dish that layers creamy and crunchy textures for a sustaining midweek vegetarian main course or a colourful side I make variations on beetroot gratin all the time, and this one with celeriac, dill and goat’s cheese is an absolute winner. You’ll want to use a mandoline (very carefully) for the celeriac, to make sure… Read more: Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for beetroot and celeriac gratin with goat’s cheese and walnuts | Quick and easy - Football Stadium Cake
Recipe Listings: Want to save this Recipe? Enter your email below and get it sent straight to your inbox. Along with recipes & tips every week! The form can be filled in the actual website url. Looking for an awesome football dessert for cheering along for your favorite team, during the big game, a football… Read more: Football Stadium Cake - Nigel Slater’s recipes for potatoes with sherry, and lemon and bergamot curd
Two kinds of zesty citrus celebration to brighten any winter’s day The kitchen is aglow with citrus fruit. The lemons came with their wide, glossy leaves intact. Oranges, their skin flashed with viridian at the stem and sporting thin, pointed leaves, smelled of their own blossom. A box of wrinkled green makrut limes, warty and… Read more: Nigel Slater’s recipes for potatoes with sherry, and lemon and bergamot curd - A Healthy But Hearty Winter Crunch Lentil Salad Recipe
ICYMI: Look, I love a good salad, but who wants to deal with sad, limp greens that leave you hungry an hour later? This Winter Crunch Lentil Salad is different. It’s hearty. It’s packed with plant-based protein. It’s loaded with texture, and it has just the right balance of salty, sweet, and tangy. Meal-prepping for… Read more: A Healthy But Hearty Winter Crunch Lentil Salad Recipe - 30 St Patrick’s Day Food Ideas
FYI: Over 30 best St Patricks Day Food ideas appetizers includes finger foods, mains, desserts, green treats and party foods. Continue reading 30 St Patrick’s Day Food Ideas at Recipes From A Pantry.http://dlvr.it/THJh8g - Football Stadium Cake
Want to save this Recipe? Enter your email below and get it sent straight to your inbox. Along with recipes & tips every week! The form can be filled in the actual website url. Looking for an awesome football dessert for cheering along for your favorite team, during the big game, a football birthday party,… Read more: Football Stadium Cake - A Healthy But Hearty Winter Crunch Lentil Salad Recipe
Look, I love a good salad, but who wants to deal with sad, limp greens that leave you hungry an hour later? This Winter Crunch Lentil Salad is different. It’s hearty. It’s packed with plant-based protein. It’s loaded with texture, and it has just the right balance of salty, sweet, and tangy. Meal-prepping for the… Read more: A Healthy But Hearty Winter Crunch Lentil Salad Recipe - 30 St Patrick’s Day Food Ideas
Recipe Listings: Over 30 best St Patricks Day Food ideas appetizers includes finger foods, mains, desserts, green treats and party foods. Continue reading 30 St Patrick’s Day Food Ideas at Recipes From A Pantry.http://dlvr.it/THHzR3 - Cocktail of the week: Three Sheets’ cherry americano – recipe | The good mixer
A negroni-style premix that you can prep ahead so it’s ready to rustle up on a Friday night This premix is brilliant for a crowd, and it’s also a celebration of every right-thinking bartender’s favourite garnish: the glorious maraschino cherry. Fabbri makes the best, but if you can’t find those, Luxardo is a good alternative.… Read more: Cocktail of the week: Three Sheets’ cherry americano – recipe | The good mixer - 30 St Patrick’s Day Food Ideas
Over 30 best St Patricks Day Food ideas appetizers includes finger foods, mains, desserts, green treats and party foods. Continue reading 30 St Patrick’s Day Food Ideas at Recipes From A Pantry.http://dlvr.it/THGyq5 - Grasshopper Pie Recipe
Recipe Listings: Want to save this Recipe? Enter your email below and get it sent straight to your inbox. Along with recipes & tips every week! The form can be filled in the actual website url. This Grasshopper pie recipe is for all my pie-loving friends. I love any type of pie, be it the… Read more: Grasshopper Pie Recipe - Squash time! Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for zucchini and corn slice
This simple slice of summer topped with cheddar and fresh tomatoes is a favourite in the cookbook author’s household. Serve it hot or straight out of the fridge * Check out more Alice Zaslavsky recipes * More summer essentials * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast This little slice of… Read more: Squash time! Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for zucchini and corn slice - Grasshopper Pie Recipe
Want to save this Recipe? Enter your email below and get it sent straight to your inbox. Along with recipes & tips every week! The form can be filled in the actual website url. This Grasshopper pie recipe is for all my pie-loving friends. I love any type of pie, be it the more intricate… Read more: Grasshopper Pie Recipe - How to make chips without potatoes | Kitchen aide
Parsnips, beetroot and cassava all make great chips, say our culinary experts It’s hard to deny the allure of a big ol’ pile of hot, fat, crisp, salty chips, but with the festive season finally over, now is a time to ring the changes. And if that means swapping your spuds for another veg, so… Read more: How to make chips without potatoes | Kitchen aide - Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for tamarind chickpeas with cavolo nero | Quick and easy
A hearty, sweet-and-sour vegetarian curry that’s ready in half an hour Tamarind chickpeas – a little sweet, a little sour – are my absolute favourite, and I never run out of ways to cook them. This version is simply boosted with chilli, cumin and sugar, so there’s no long list of spices, either. Fresh tomatoes… Read more: Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for tamarind chickpeas with cavolo nero | Quick and easy - Nigel Slater’s recipes for baked apple Bircher muesli, and date and raisin loaf
Sweet and comforting midwinter specials bring fruity warmth to dark days In the tall cupboard next to the fireplace sits a row of fat glass jars, like those in an old-fashioned sweetshop. Jars that contain rolled oats and golden raisins, pumpkin seeds and flaked almonds. There’s a screw-capped pot of chia seeds as grey as… Read more: Nigel Slater’s recipes for baked apple Bircher muesli, and date and raisin loaf - Georgina Hayden’s recipe for brothy braised chicory and beans
This is real winter comfort food: creamy white beans offset by chilli spice, salty anchovies and bitter chicory When I want something wholesome and comforting, cooking beans this way is my go-to. The dish consists mostly of ingredients I always have in the cupboard or fridge, and I mix up the vegetables depending on what’s… Read more: Georgina Hayden’s recipe for brothy braised chicory and beans - Cocktail of the week: Story Cellar’s flintlocke – recipe | The good mixer
A rum punch with a sparkling edge If you’re planning on serving this to a crowd, make up a batch of the rum base mix in the morning, then chill it. To serve, simply measure into glasses on the night and top with the fizz. Jonathan Kleeman, group beverage manager, Story Cellar, London WC2 Continue… Read more: Cocktail of the week: Story Cellar’s flintlocke – recipe | The good mixer - Spaghetti Recipes are Best for the Kitchen Table
Be fulfilled with a pan of desirable taste of spaghetti pasta radiating on your dining table this evening with a scrumptious loaf of bake oven bread. - Party starters: how to jazz up your Christmas leftovers | Kitchen aide
The remains of Christmas dinner are excellent stuffed into pastry, pasta or lettuce cups, while any uneaten selection box chocolates get a second life as brownies “Pastry and cheese are the best food groups,” says Sarah Rossi, author of What’s for Christmas Dinner? Happily, those two worlds collide in her brie and cranberry bites, AKA… Read more: Party starters: how to jazz up your Christmas leftovers | Kitchen aide - Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for scallop, leek and mushroom gratins | Quick and easy
A brilliantly simple canapé of scallop and mushroom topped with herby breadcrumbs and served in half-shells You can serve these in one of two ways: three scallops, each in large half-shells or small ramekins as a dinner party starter, or if you are lucky enough to have 18 small shells, serve them as canapes –… Read more: Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for scallop, leek and mushroom gratins | Quick and easy - Nigel Slater’s recipes for bean, cabbage and coconut-milk soup, and poached quinces
A vivid spicy bean soup and slow-cooked quinces supply midwinter sweetness and sustenance The year will start with soup. Soup has been the first meal of the year for as long as I can remember, eaten for lunch or maybe later in the day. Something hot in a deep bowl, to revive and restore. This… Read more: Nigel Slater’s recipes for bean, cabbage and coconut-milk soup, and poached quinces - Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for leek, pistachio and jalapeño galette | The new vegan
A French-style tart stuffed with a zippy pistachio paste and covered in soft leeks Whenever I think of galettes, I think of my friend Henrietta Inman, who left London to set up Wakelyns bakery in Suffolk. Ever since she showed me how to make them, galettes have been my go-to when I need to whip… Read more: Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for leek, pistachio and jalapeño galette | The new vegan - Cocktail of the week: Gothic Bar’s red nose gimlet – recipe | The good mixer
A festive and fancy gin and lime with hints of cinnamon, a hit of apricot brandy and a sherbet-frosted rim There’s a bit of prep involved here – you need to make the syrup a day ahead, for instance – but this is a great drink for impressing guests. If you opt to rim the… Read more: Cocktail of the week: Gothic Bar’s red nose gimlet – recipe | The good mixer - Georgina Hayden’s recipe for Bombay chilli cheese ciabatta
Had enough of Christmas fare? Liven up your tastebuds with this Indian street food-inspired spiced cheese toastie In the run-up to Christmas, I like to (mostly) embrace tradition, but as soon as Boxing Day hits, a veil is lifted. I need spice; I need fresh flavours; and I need all the excess cheese to be… Read more: Georgina Hayden’s recipe for Bombay chilli cheese ciabatta - How to feed a jaded Twixmas crowd | Kitchen Aide
Take it easy between Christmas and New Year with pre-prepped dishes and the joys of soup, says our panel of practical wizards There’s a knack to feeding a crowd, so before we talk specific dishes, let’s nail down a few golden rules. First, be practical: “Most people have a single oven, so you don’t want… Read more: How to feed a jaded Twixmas crowd | Kitchen Aide - Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipes for jewelled winter salad and chocolate orange pudding | Quick and easy
A colourful and filling warm winter salad with roast squash, butter beans and pomegranate, plus a barnstorming chocolate-orange brioche pudding to finish This wonderfully filling salad is perfect as part of a festive spread, or an easy, feed-a-crowd lunch with some crusty bread alongside; it really is worth getting hold of a jar of butter… Read more: Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipes for jewelled winter salad and chocolate orange pudding | Quick and easy - José Pizarro’s recipe for crisp roast brussels sprouts with a manchego crust
Honey, smoky pimentón and cheese add a golden, crisp twist to the familiar Christmas side These crisp roast sprouts with a manchego crust bring a creative twist to a classic side dish. Tossed in olive oil, smoked pimenton and honey, the brussels are roasted until caramelised and crisp, which helps to balance the smoky and… Read more: José Pizarro’s recipe for crisp roast brussels sprouts with a manchego crust - Cocktail of the week: The Counter’s kehribar – recipe | The good mixer
Grape and grain combine with festive chocolate and maraschino to create a warming fireside sipper This drink draws its inspiration from the rich colour of amber, or kehribar in Turkish. The blend of whiskey, cognac and cherry evokes the warm hues of this gemstone, and of cosy nights in front of the fire. Kemal Demirasal,… Read more: Cocktail of the week: The Counter’s kehribar – recipe | The good mixer - Healthy Grab & Go Breakfast Muffins
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