Christmas Cake Recipes From Around The World

This recipe includes dried fruit instead of the glowing candied stuff we ve all learned to associate with fruitcake and is less dense and more cake like than many fruitcake recipes.

Christmas cake recipes from around the world. Let s get the list s eponymous cake out the way first. Whoever finds the trinket in their slice of cake is. It s common for greek families to celebrate christmas dinner with roasted lamb as their main dish. Fruit cake is a big tradition in jamaica where they leave the dried fruit to soak in a red wine and rum mix months before christmas day so the cake is extra moist and packed with alcoholic flavours.

I ve got several easy and delicious traditional christmas desserts from around the world to share with you in the coming weeks you re going to love them. I think this award winning red velvet cake recipe will be a winner in your house too. Around the world christmas cakes vary from fruitcakes like those eaten in the u k to rum cakes in india and jamaica to poppy seed rolls called makowiec in poland. Feel free to change the color of the food coloring to suit the occasion.

From the caribbean to germany and japan these are the best christmas cakes from across the globe. Essentially this cake is made of layers of buttery puff pastry topped with powder sugar which wrap around rich almond cream. You ve probably heard of fruitcake but that s hardly the only holiday themed cake people are eating around the world. Christmas cake is generally assumed to be some kind of fruitcake you know that holiday dessert that tends to be the butt of so many holiday jokes.

Black forest cherry cake. Cindi declue anchorage alaska. It has become a favorite of my friends and family around the holidays even the skeptical ones and is delicious by itself or covered with a layer of almond paste. Once everything has been prepared it is baked until the outer layer acquires a toasted look.

I m proud to say that this recipe won a blue ribbon in the holiday cake division at the 2006 alaska state fair. Nothing brings out the christmas cheer quite like a big slice of cake. Though in northern regions of the country you ll find yiaprakia brined pork stuffed cabbage rolls on the table on christmas eve it s a greek tradition to make christopsomo a rustic sweetbread filled with raisins nuts cardamom and cloves. This type of cake is very traditional from the south east of germany the black forest.