The last week of December is one of the best times of the year for festivals, holidays, and fun. Now, holiday means gathering of friends and relatives and the whole day is to be spent with good food, desserts, and cakes because it is the birthday of Jesus. Just because people love splurging on food mostly, friends and relatives gather with dry fruits, cakes, and desserts as a gift item to win your heart. Christmas cake is one of the main USP of this holiday season. Variety of cakes are available in the market to serve your purpose like Vanilla, chocolate, butterscotch, black forest, red velvet, etc. apart from Christmas favorite Plum cake, Rum cake, and Fruit Cake.
The dessert and cake types mentioned below are the ones that can be brought to your celebration mode to intensify your happiness.
- Apple Crumble Tart: Puffed pastry, cinnamon, flour, sugar, butter, apple, eggs, and vanilla gives rise to a delectable dessert recipe named apple crumble tart. To enjoy the chilling winter season, you can present a piece of apple crumble tart by placing a scoop of vanilla ice-cream and relish with friends and family. Those who love apple are simply going to be flattered with this tasty piece.
- Baklava: Baklava is the most famous sweet dish of the Middle Eastern region. It is a sweetened pastry whose layers are filled with almonds and pistachios. Flour, sugar, baking powder, saffron and dry fruits can be mixed and baked to give this pastry a shape of a cake. And this would be your innovation during the time of Christmas.
- Sweet Martabak: A stuffed pan cake or pan fried bread you may call which is quite a popular food item in Middle East. Now, in these regions, the Martabak is generally a spicy one with egg and meat stuffing. But during festive season you can convert it into a Christmas cake with chocolate and cheese as the stuffing. Well, it is a very tasty cake type although it doesn’t look like a cake. But the ingredients used are flour, sugar, eggs, condensed milk, yeast, and vanilla essence.
- Honey cake: A very soft, spongy, and fluffy cake made with normal cake ingredients but with lots of honey. Before serving one can spread some icing sugar over it or spread a vanilla cream or you can serve it with ice cream. It is not such a sweet cake and therefore it can be consumed with tea or coffee.
Date Cake: Middle East is the region where dry fruits are consumed in large quantities. Dates and walnuts are the main ingredients of this cake that is really very tasty. Dates are soaked overnight in milk and then crushed well to mix in the batter. Walnuts are crushed and spread over cake before serving. So, get ready to bake your Christmas cake and indulge in fun and excitement.
