Best Christmas Cakes and Bakes Ideas

Baked food has given Christmas more possibilities, after a long period of development and precipitation, reform and innovation. They were given the role of inheriting history and continuing deliciousness. You might be able to name the Christmas cakes and other relevant products that have swept the world, but you might not know anything about them.

The most Exquisite Christmas Cake and Bake Products

1. Gingerbread & Gingerbread House

Main endemic areas: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, etc.

"People like to put their thoughts on gingerbread, and gradually, gingerbread has become a beautiful landscape for Christmas"

Gingerbread is a special Christmas dessert, usually made with ginger, flour, honey, brown sugar, almonds, candied peels and spices.

It originated from the Crusades (a religious war in the 11th century). "Ginger" was an expensive imported spice. People can only eat it mixed with ginger on major festivals such as Christmas and Easter.

Cakes and biscuits. Over time, when everyone thinks of Christmas, they will think of gingerbread, and when they see gingerbread, they will feel the atmosphere of Christmas.

People usually make a lot of gingerbread to give to children, and some will secretly stuff them into the socks of children's gifts. Gingerbread has thus become the taste of Christmas in children's memory, and it is also a famous feature of Christmas.

Later, people made gingerbread into a gingerbread house, just like the candy house in Grimm's fairy tales, it was welcomed by the whole world, and the Christmas atmosphere of decorating the shop with gingerbread house immediately appeared.

People also like to spend more and more thoughts on gingerbread. Gingerbread is also going farther and farther on the decorated road. Gingerbread has become a beautiful scenery at Christmas.

(The cookies with ginger are called gingerbread, don’t confuse it with the icing cookies)

2. Chopping wood cake

Main endemic areas: France, Holland and other places

The oncoming chocolate smell makes everyone love this bite of cake .

In addition to cream and chocolate, vanilla, coffee, strawberries, and almonds are also used in the current chopping cakes. The taste and patterns are new and unique.

In France, firewood cake is a standard Christmas product. Before the 19th century, every family in France had a fireplace and they burned firewood for Christmas. Now, every family buys firewood cake for Christmas.

When it comes to Christmas, chopping wood cakes are like moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

It’s a bit unclear about the source of the wood-chopping cake. One theory is that this was an idea created in 1834 by an apprentice in a chocolate pastry shop in the Saint Germain des Pr s area of Paris.

There is also a theory that it was in 1860. Invented by the Lyonians; another way of saying it was created by Monaco's pastry chef Pierre Lacam in 1898.

Although it is not clear the source of chopping wood, everyone knows that chopping wood cake means peace and a good harvest.

The delicacy of chopped wood cake has gone beyond the festive significance, and it is a delicacy that many people are willing to taste.

A fragrant cake that looks full of chocolate, some will be decorated with maraschino cherries and chocolate inserts. It is a cake that the elderly and children love.

Every Christmas, the hosts would cut a section of chopping wood with great enthusiasm for the guests to taste.

But after Christmas is Epiphany, when the king cake will be fully online, and the cake will be off the shelves, so if you want to try chopping wood in France, you have to seize time!

3. Panettone & Pandolo Christmas Dishes

Main endemic area: Italy

There are two traditional Christmas dishes in Italy, one is Panettone and the other is Pandoro.

Batch sales in shopping malls and supermarkets make Panidoni not mysterious

Regarding Panidoni, it was a kind of bread filled with dried fruits at first, and there are very, very many dried fruits in a bread.

Since yeast was considered a special ingredient during a certain period of history, it can only be allowed to be used in bread during religious holidays such as Christmas. Therefore, Panidoni became a cake that can only be eaten at Christmas.

At Christmas, when the weather is cold, they will cut a slice of Panidoni and have another cup of hot chocolate.

Panidoni has a light and airy taste through long-term fermentation.

By the mid-nineteenth century, Christmas bread had evolved into butter, eggs, sugar and raisins. In the twentieth century, Panidoni began mass production, in the shape of a dome.

During Christmas, you will see the shopping malls full of cake gift boxes for people to choose from.

Businessmen's painstaking packaging has made bread a hot souvenir

Pandoro (Italian: pandoro), meaning golden bread, is a traditional Italian sweet bread that originated in Verona and is a common festive bread during Christmas and New Year.

Royal Bread / Golden Bread

Pandora bread was still the food of the rich in the Middle Ages. At that time, people could only afford to eat brown bread. Pandora bread with eggs, cream, sugar or honey could only be eaten by nobles. In the palace, it is also called "Royal Bread" or "Golden Bread".

It is made into an octagonal three-dimensional state by making a model. After being demolded, it is usually sprinkled with vanilla-flavored powdered sugar to simulate the snow-capped mountains of the Italian Alps to celebrate Christmas.

All traditional breads are modified to have a modern taste. In order to increase the taste of Pandora, the Italians cut the cake horizontally and put cream on it, or dig a hole in the middle of the cake and fill it with cream or ice cream and other fillings.

Every year, businesses will pack pandora bread into a variety of beautiful packages for sale, and people are also very happy to use this way to go to the festival.

These two Italian products are quite down to earth. As long as it's Christmas, they can be taken anywhere, and they are also easy to carry!

4. Fruit Cake

Main endemic areas: Britain, Ireland and other Commonwealth countries

A cake that even locals want to complain about

Christmas cake (English: Christmas cake) generally refers to fruit cakes, which are fruit cakes eaten at Christmas in the United Kingdom, Ireland and many Commonwealth countries.

This is a very traditional cake with a lot of dried fruit in the middle and some frosting on the surface, and finally decorated to look like spring evergreen.

The fruit cake faces the same embarrassing position as the five-core moon cake, that is, it is obviously rich in heart, but it is not necessary for those who are disliked.

Even the native British people describe it this way, "Some people like him very much, and some people really don't like this cake!"

The recipe for the oldest fruit cake is still circulated on the market. Does it look a bit like "Asian hair cake"? Some people say "this is the best holiday cake", but many Asian students say it is difficult to accept!

Conclusion

No matter how many types of Christmas cakes or New Year Cakes come in the market during festive seasons but what dominates the market are the common fondant cakes, which are little costlier than the low priced foam or bread cakes.