With these recipes you can bring the Christmas market home

With these 7 recipes you can bring the Christmas market into your home

A mug of mulled wine in one hand and a pack of roasted almonds in the other – who doesn’t think of a Christmas market right away. We can also produce all the goodies from the Christmas market ourselves in our own Christmas bakery. Here are seven recipes that will bring the Christmas market straight to your home.

mulled wine

We’ll start right away with the most important good of the Christmas market: mulled wine.

ingredients

• 1 liter of red wine
• 1 lemon
• 1 Orange
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 2 cloves
• 1 Sternanis
• 4 tbsp brown sugar

preparation

1. Briefly roast cane sugar in a saucepan and deglaze with the red wine.
2. Squeeze the lemon and orange and add with all the other ingredients.
3. Let the mulled wine steep for about three hours and then warm it up again.

gingerbread

Whether it’s Chilbi, Oktoberfest or Christmas market: you can find gingerbread everywhere. In all shapes and colors. But we stay with the Christmas version.

ingredients

• 3 EL Butter
• 200g brown sugar
• 250 g flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• 2 EL Cocoa powder
• 1/2 pack of gingerbread spice
• 1 pack of vanilla sugar
• 2.5 dl milk
• 1 tbsp honey

preparation

1. Brush the tin shape (26 × 16 cm) with soft butter.
2. Melt the remaining butter in a pan. Add the remaining ingredients continuously and stir to form a dough.
3. Pour the dough into the tin and bake at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes.

Roasted almonds

Mhmm … roasted almonds, as we know them from the Christmas market.

But that doesn’t mean that we can’t do it ourselves!

ingredients

• 200g almonds
• 200g sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 dl water

preparation

1. Put the almonds, sugar, cinnamon and water in a pan and bring to the boil without stirring.
2. Reduce the heat slightly and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the water evaporates.
3. Continue stirring for another five minutes until the sugar melts and covers the almonds.

Chestnuts from the oven

Marroni, chestnuts. This year not from Toni, but straight from Ofoni.

ingredients

preparation

1. Soak the chestnuts in cold water for 15 minutes and then cut them crosswise.
2. Place on a baking sheet and bake at 250 degrees for about 30 minutes.

Churros with chocolate sauce

The donuts go so well with Christmas because they have a star-shaped cross-section. But maybe also because they simply warm every heart.

ingredients

• 2.5 dl Rahm
• 100g chocolate
• 2.5 dl of water
• 75g Butter
• 200g flour
• 4 Eggs
• 4 tbsp sugar

preparation

1. Bring the water to the boil with butter and salt.
2. Reduce the heat a little and add the flour.
3. Stir with a ladle until a smooth ball of dough forms. Then remove the pan from the plate.
4. Gradually fold in the eggs.
5. Put the dough in a piping bag with a serrated nozzle.
6. Fill the casserole 1/3 high with oil and heat to about 160 degrees.
7. Squirt strips of dough (approx. 6 cm) in portions into the hot oil and cut with scissors.
8. Fry the churros for about five minutes until golden brown.
9. Remove and sprinkle with sugar.
10. Bring the chocolate to the boil.

Chocolate bananas

The chocolate banana can also be found at every Christmas market. Of course, it can also be used with other fruits.

ingredients

• 4 bananas
• 4 wooden sticks
• 1/2 dark chocolate

preparation

1. Stick the bananas on a wooden stick.
2. Bring the chocolate to the boil and dip 2/3 of the banana in the warm chocolate.
3. Sprinkle with coconut flakes, chocolate sprinkles or nuts as desired.
4. Place the bananas on baking paper and let them cool for about five minutes.

Apple strudel with vanilla sauce

Apple strudel with vanilla sauce. Mhmm. And best of all: the vanilla cream certainly won’t freeze immediately at home.

ingredients

Dough:

• 250 g flour
• 1 No.
• 3 THE Öl
• 5 tbsp lukewarm water

Filling:

• 1 No.
• 3 THE Öl
• 5 tbsp lukewarm water
• 600g apples
• 1 lemon
• 50g dark sultanas
• 4 tbsp hazelnuts, ground
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp cinnamon

Vanilla sauce:

• 50g Butter
• 5 dl milk
• 1 vanilla stalk, cut lengthways, seeds scraped out
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 0.5 EL Cornstarch
• 1 No.

preparation

1. Mix the flour and salt in a bowl. Mix the egg, oil and water well and add. Put everything together and knead into a smooth dough.
2. Let the dough rest in a bowl for about 30 minutes.
3. Quarter the apples and cut into thin slices.
4. Grate lemon zest and squeeze out 1 tablespoon of juice.
5. Roll out the dough into a rectangle and as thin as possible on a little flour.
6. Mix the apple slices, lemon zest and lemon juice with the sultanas, ground hazelnuts, sugar and cinnamon.
7. Brush the dough with a little butter and spread the filling on top. Leave a margin of about two centimeters free.
8. Place the strudel on the baking sheet with the lock facing down and brush with butter. Then bake in the oven at 200 degrees for about 30 minutes.
9. Mix all ingredients for the vanilla sauce together and then bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly.

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