Do you and your kids do a lot of baking and making for the holidays (whatever you may celebrate!). I love the smells of spices in the kitchen — vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, orange — spiced drinks and eggnog, ginger snap cookies [downloadable PDF] and gingerbread and speculaas cookies (pictured above — lots of holiday cookies recipes from around the world available in our celebration issue from this time last year).
Last year we were all about the pfeffernusse and ginger snaps, we usually make a batch of gingerbread men, and pretty much always make shortbread — we love using our holiday cookie cutter collection. We love the Latvian version of gingerbread “piparkukas” (as made by grandma) — it has more pepper and cardamon and less ginger. But this year it is all about the speculaas [gingerbread cookies from Netherlands and Belgium) -- lots of cinnamon and not so much ginger. And we are all about the eggnog -- non-alcoholic version for breakfast is so so good!
More holiday baking ideas for you and the kids:
- Peppermint white chocolate chip cookies
- Hanukkah sugar cookies
- Blackberry chocolate rugelach
- Cherry ginger thumbprint cookies
- Glazed wreath cookies
- Gingerbread milkshake
- Christmas shortbread
- Gingerbread solstice cookies
- Tang Yuan (Gluntinous Rice Dumplings)
- Chinese New Year pineapple rolls
- Fortune cookies
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aww, thank you so very much for including my Christmas Shortbread in you’re delicious list of Christmas baking! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas. x