N.Calvin
At Christmas, do you usually receive the family at home or do you go to someone’s house? If you receive the family at home, you need to think about the menu, and if you go to someone’s house you can’t get there with “waving hands”, right?! And in these situations, a good alternative is to take a sweet dish to complement the host’s menu. So, whether you are the host or the guest, the post brings tips and recipes for Christmas desserts, after all on that day we can enjoy a lot!
Oh, and even if you don’t have a lot of confectionery skills, there are pretty easy Christmas dessert ideas that will impress the family and make your mouth water!
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Photos and Ideas for Christmas Sweets and Desserts
Traditional / Simple
Among the traditional Christmas dessert ideas, the French Toast is certainly the best known.
The sweet is made of old-fashioned bread and is super traditional for the Christmas dinner. And the advantage is that in addition to being easy to make, it’s still a delight to eat for Christmas breakfast.
Another dessert that is very common on the Christmas sweets table is the fruit cake. The cake filled with candied fruit is a charm and is beautiful to decorate the table.
Coconut delight with plums is classic and easy to make
The brigadeirão is a beautiful and delicious candy
ice cream
In Brazil, Christmas is the height of summer and it’s not uncommon to be quite hot at Christmas dinner, so iced Christmas desserts go down very well.
And as an inspiration for a delicious candy for the candy table, comes the ice cream or ice cream pudding. The candy is formed using a chocolate-covered white cream base.
If the idea is to serve a cold and light dessert after all the Christmas meal, a good bet is the strawberry flan, which is simple to make and can gain more charm if done in a decorated shape.
The mint mousse with chocolate is refreshing for the Christmas season
With chocolate
For chocolate aficionados who want to escape the raisins and candied fruits that haunt Christmas foods, a good dessert idea is to make a Sonho de Valsa pavé.
The chocolate in the middle of the pavé, in addition to a beautiful look, gives an amazing flavor!
A candy that is super hot is the giant candy, which is nothing more than a candy made in a plastic pot with chocolate coating and filling that can be varied.
The candy is super simple to make and adds a nice value to the candy table!
The stem cake can be decorated with chocolate whipped cream
With Panettone
And if you got a lot of Panettone during the end of the year, it’s time to use them to make Christmas desserts.
The first inspiration is to fill the Panettone with ice cream and then cover it with chocolate. The idea is simple and delicious to transform panettone or chocotone.
Another inspiration for using Panettone in Christmas desserts is to make a pave of fresh fruit, cream and layers of Panettone, which can replace the use of cookies.
Panettone French Toast is a way to unite two Christmas season classics
with strawberry
Strawberries by themselves are delicious and add value to any dessert, but at Christmas time they gain an extra charm because they match the color of that period – red.
As an idea of making sweets with strawberries, the proposal here is to make a puff pastry pie filled with cream and strawberries.
The pie, in addition to looking amazing, is still a good choice for desserts that are not too sweet, since the strawberry gives it a sour taste.
with ice cream
If the idea is to impress with the beauty and flavor of the dessert, but with a simple dish, the ice cream pie is a proposal.
The pie has a base of chocolate dough and layers of ice cream filling. To cover it, it’s worth using Nutella or a layer of ganache and then just finish it off with crushed chestnuts to add more charm to the sweet.
Another idea for Christmas candy is to make a cake filled with ice cream. In addition to a beautiful look, the cake also surprises because of the flavor, which is light and refreshing.
The candy is an ice cream pavé with dulce de leche
with pineapple
The sweet pineapple ice cream with jelly is a classic and old acquaintance, but as it is delicious and simple to make, it is worth keeping it among the Christmas dessert ideas.
The dessert is chilled, and as the pineapple is refreshing, it makes the sweet delicious and light to complete the Christmas menu.
Another idea for the Christmas candy table is to make a pineapple cake decorated with slices of candy on top and caramel.
The cake looks amazing and can be served alone or with a scoop of ice cream to go with it.
The pineapple mousse is light and refreshing
With Gelatin
For those who think gelatin is too simple for Christmas desserts, this candy proves otherwise.
The sweet served in the bowl is a mix of jelly, raspberries and a white cream. Finally, the mint leaf on the top decorates and still gives a refreshing flavor to the candy.
The versatility of gelatine is one of the great advantages of using it in Christmas sweets, and the idea here is a peach mousse with gelatine. The effect is beautiful, and there is the advantage of being a lighter candy.
with Nuts
Oilseeds are very common at Christmas time, and a classic are walnuts, which appear from savory dishes to sweets.
Among the ideas to include walnuts in sweet dishes, the proposal here is to make a walnut cake, which looks beautiful and has an incredible flavor.
Another idea to make Christmas desserts with walnuts, is to change the classic pudding and have the upgrade of a walnut pudding.
Walnuts are perfect for making mousses and cakes
With Champagne Biscuit
And if you received a Christmas basket and want to use the basket’s ingredients for Christmas desserts, a way to get away from the classic pavé to use champagne cookies is to make a cake decorated with berries and use the cookies to decorate the surroundings of the cake.
And despite the pave being a classic of Christmas jokes and desserts, let’s agree that the sweet is still delicious and deserves its special place on the menu.
In this idea the peach pavé was the proposal, and the cookies appearing decorating the side of the candy.
The biscuit was dipped in chocolate
in the cup
If the idea is to serve individual desserts, the glasses are a great strategy to assemble the candy and still give a nice value to the dessert’s look.
As an idea of a sweet in the glass, a delicious proposal is to serve panacotta with red fruits.
If you want a simpler dessert, one strategy is to assemble the Dutch pie in bowls.
The pie layers are visible and beautiful, and the cookie can be used to decorate the top of the candy.
The dessert in the glass is a mix of Nutella and Laka mousse and decorated with physalis
pave
The pavé will never lose its special place on the Christmas candy list, after all classic is classic, and when it’s delicious it doesn’t deserve to go out.
And as an idea of a delicious pavé for dessert, the proposal here is a pavé with lemon mousse, which is refreshing and delicious to close the Christmas dinner.
In the list of classics, one proposal is to mount a peach pavé in the refractory.
The candy is super simple to make and is delicious as a Christmas dessert.
The syrup with red fruits decorates the top of the pave
The walnut pavé is perfect for the Christmas menu
Diet / Light
And if anyone on the guest list has diabetes, you need to think about a diet Christmas dessert. And in this case, a bet is to make a classic flan with plum sauce.
For the sweet to not have too much sugar, bet on the use of diet ingredients, such as diet condensed milk.
Christmas desserts can also follow a less caloric proposal, with light sweets.
And if you’re already thinking about a dull sweet, it’s good to leave this paradigm aside, because there are amazing ideas, like this sweet made with pears cooked in orange syrup and with light Greek yogurt.
Light pudding can be made with light ingredients and skim milk
How to Make Christmas Desserts: Easy Recipes!
Apple jam with apricot
Ingredients:
- Puff pastry;
- Red apples;
- 1 lemon;
- Wheat flour to sprinkle on the counter;
- Apricot jam;
- Cinnamon powder;
- Refined sugar.
Preparation mode:
Cut strips from the puff pastry. Then cut the apple in half and cut very thin slices. Put a few drops of lemon on the cut apple so it doesn’t darken.
Sprinkle the countertop where you are going to put the puff pastry. Spread apricot jam over the inside of the puff pastry strip.
Place the apple slices on the puff pastry strip, then roll to form the flower. Sprinkle a little powdered cinnamon on the cake, place a cupcake tin and bake (pre-heated oven at 18ºC) until the puff pastry is golden.
Remove from oven and sift refined sugar over the top to serve.
jelly candy
Ingredients:
- Strawberry flavored gelatin
- strawberries
- Chantilly
Preparation mode:
Make the gelatin according to the instructions on the package. Put the gelatin in small cups.
Place small cups on a slant over a cupcake/muffin pan and chill. After the gelatin hardens place slices of strawberries on top of the gelatin and as a pastry bag top off the rest of the cups with whipped cream. Finally, place a strawberry decorating the top.
French toast pie
Ingredients:
- 4 French stale breads
- 2 cups (tea) of milk
- 1 can of condensed milk
- 3 eggs
- Cinnamon powder
- Refined sugar to taste
Preparation mode:
Cut the stale bread (smooth) into slices of medium thickness.
In a container place the milk and condensed milk. Dip the slices of bread in this mixture until they are very wet, but be careful that the bread does not get too wet to the point of undoing.
In another container mix the eggs with a little powdered cinnamon. Spread the bread in this mixture.
Place the wet bread slices on a baking sheet, placing the slices side by side, and bake in a preheated oven at 180ºC….
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