Holiday Treats To Try for the Christmas Season

The holiday season has officially begun! You might already be preparing a dance number for the Christmas party in your office. Or you are already mall-hopping to find the perfect gift for your secret Santa. Either way, any Christmas party would not be complete without food. From greasy spring rolls to saucy pasta, every table serves at least two scrumptious dishes. But if you are a little bit extra, you might want to try something sweet. In this food spotlight article, I am going to identify holiday treats you could try. I bet that you are going to enjoy these sweets!

Sapin-sapin

Let us kick off the list of holiday treats you could try with a favorite: Sapin-Sapin. This is a layered rice cake that is considered a native delicacy among Filipinos. It is made with a mixture of coconut milk and glutinous rice flour. You could choose the colors of each layer to suit your flavor and taste. But for the holidays, I recommend ube and buko pandan.

English Toffee

You could also try something foreign like an English toffee. This is a treat that you could usually find in Christmas food festivals from all over England. However, you do not need to fly there to try this festive dish. Its texture and rich flavor, sprinkled with chips and walnuts, make for a great option to serve on your table.

Gingerbread

Gingerbread is another staple holiday treat. Families from all over the globe would display these treats on gingerbread houses. You could always incorporate this tradition by using grated ginger and cream cheese icing. You are sure that you will enjoy the distinct combination of the sweetness and spiciness of the ingredients in your mouth. Hmm. Delicious!

Lemon Cheesecake

Who would not want to serve a cake for the upcoming holidays? Of course, many of us would prefer to buy ready-made cakes. But you could easily make yours by making a lemon cheesecake. By using a few basic ingredients like cream cheese, lemon juice, and eggs, you could have a zingy dessert that your family will surely love.

Yema Cake

For those with sweet teeth, yema cake is a holiday treat you could try. It is delicious, sugary, and very easy to make. All you have to do is to mix all your ingredients in a saucepan and cook it until the mixture thickens into a smooth filling. It’s the perfect Christmas gift for your friends or colleagues.

Cream Puffs

If you have kids at home, you could add cream puffs to your menu. This confection is a pastry ball with a sweet filling of whipped cream or custard. You could decorate the puffs with chocolate sauce or powdered sugar to give that holiday feel that your kids would love. They would surely eat a lot.

Leche Flan

While many consider it a perennial Filipino snack, you could always sneak in a pan or two of Leche flan to the Noche Buena table. Leche flan is a Filipino dessert that consists of milk and eggs with soft caramel on top. This delicious dessert is smooth and creamy, and it will surely melt in your mouth.

Ube Halaya

To many Filipinos, ube is closely associated with the holidays. Ube is a tuberous root vegetable with a prominent purple color. Its jam could be used for other desserts such as halo-halo. But it could also serve as one of the staple holiday treats you could try. Whatever you pair with ube halaya, it would surely please you.

Baklavas

Baklava is a sweet dessert pastry and one of the holiday treats you could try. Not a lot of Filipino serve this, so you might as well consider cooking this to surprise everyone. It is composed of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts. Syrup or honey holds the layers together. This Mediterranean treat will surely be a blockbuster.

Dutch Apple Pie Tartlets

Dutch Apple Pie Tartlets are mini apple pie pastries that you could add to your buffet table. This is very easy to make because of the use of frozen phyllo shells. Enjoy a bite or two of these tartlets while having a cocktail with your friends before your intermission number arrives.

Maja Blanca

Maja blanca deserves a spot on this list. It is because this treat is a staple holiday treat. However, that is not all the reason why it is on this list. Its soft and creamy texture, coupled with a sweet taste of corn and coconut, makes for a stellar dessert. You could also top it off with cheese if you want.

Bibingka

What is not to love about this sweet? It’s obviously a great treat to try out this baked rice cake. While many cook it traditionally on clay pots lined with banana leaves, others have already innovated making bibingka. There are a lot of variations of bibingka. But if you are in for a treat, you could try out the royal bibingka of Vigan City.

Gingerbread Biscotti

Biscotti are Italian almond biscuits that are oblong-shaped, crunchy, and sometimes gooey. To have that Christmas feel, you could incorporate the ingredients of gingerbread into your biscotti. You could also garnish it with whatever you like to make it more stunning. Your kids will surely love its new and interesting taste.

Red Velvet Cinnamon Rolls

You might be obsessed with red velvet. You could be fond of cinnamon rolls. But if you mix them together in one mega dessert, you will surely have a non-stop food fest with this red velvet cinnamon roll. It does not only look festive, but it also tastes festive once you have a taste of its rich flavor.

Macarons

Macarons also made it to my list of holiday treats you could try. This is a sweet confection that is made of sugary ingredients such as granulated sugar and icing sugar. It is relatively easy to do, so this could be a great contribution if you are assigned something for your Christmas programs.

Wrapping Up

I recommend that you invite your family and friends to plan for the treats that you could prepare for your Christmas parties or your Noche Buena. At the end of the day, these holiday treats you could try are just a guide. Whatever suits your taste would already satisfy. Happy holidays everyone!