Christmas yum, yums, for the tum, tum.

[marsattacks666]

Christmas food and desserts. What's your fav-o-rite(s)?
Adorable Christmas Cookies for Kids

[ChattyLMS]

What's my favorite yum yums?  Everything!

[marsattacks666]

What's my favorite yum yums?  Everything!

Ha!!! Me too!

[Dr. Madd]

Gingerbread and candy canes. I have to have sugar free on both- though sometimes I fudge it a little.

[Count_Zirock]

Both of these are awesome!
Gingerbread Oreos

Frosted Marshmallow Hot Chocolate Pop-Tarts

[marsattacks666]

Both of these are awesome!
Gingerbread Oreos

Frosted Marshmallow Hot Chocolate Pop-Tarts

Yummmmmm!

[charp13]

I have never heard your voice, dear mars...but for some reason I can't imagine a monster maniac like you- saying yum yums & tum tum. HA!! Your are such a delight!    I do like your category.....it sounds delicious! Cookies are the greatest invention! I rarely hate any cookies...except for fig( bleh) newtons.
I like those chocolate cherries that come out in November. We haven't bought any yet, but one of those things is worth a thousand cookies.....mmmmmm-yeah!  We tried Queen Anne's (whoever that is) chocolate covered blueberries last year, but they weren't as rich. I will have to go get some of these babies later today.

[Hepcat]

If the treats are to be Xmas specific, my four favourites are these:

1. Yule Logs





The best ones I ever had were made by an old German fellow at a little place called Klein's Bakery on Hamilton Road in London. Klein's supplied the restaurants and delicatessens in the London area with the most positively exquisite black forest, mocha, lemon, walnut, hazelnut and marzipan cakes. His cakes were not only absolutely delicious but they were little works of art, particularly the Yule logs.  But you really had to learn about Klein's by word of mouth since there was nothing to draw a person into the bakery since it was located in a lower income part of town and it was very unprepossessing in appearance.  Moreover he only baked to order so there was nothing on display even if you walked in off the street! I chanced upon Klein's in 1977 when I was managing an H & R Block outlet across the street and patronized it for holiday cakes for over thirty years. And then he went and retired after being in the baking business for over fifty years! The nerve! I don't think I'll ever find cakes of that quality again, particularly not at Klein's very friendly price point.

Vachon makes a very decent mass market Yule log for the price.

2. Kisielius





A jellied berry pudding made from cherries, lingonberries, red currants, loganberries, raspberries, strawberries or gooseberries in Europe, it's most commonly made from cranberries here in North America quite simply because frozen cranberries have long been so widely available here at this time year. Sweet and tart, it's a traditional Lithuanian Xmas dish.

3. Fruit Cake



Surprisingly enough, I've never had better fruit cake than that made by Weston, which is the mass market baker of Wonder Bread here in Canada! But Weston does the Christmas cake very right with lots and lots of fruit and nuts and it's sold in high end retail stores such as the Bay.



4. Kringles





A traditional Scandinavian Xmas pastry. Once again, the bakery that was London's favourite supplier, Chapman's, closed down earlier this century when the baker retired after having been in business for many decades. A person had to preorder their kringles in November or shop elsewhere.

Now I'm both sad and hungry.

[Fester]

If the treats are to be Xmas specific, my four favourites are these:


2. Kisielius





A jellied berry pudding made from cherries, lingonberries, red currants, loganberries, raspberries, strawberries or gooseberries in Europe, it's most commonly made from cranberries here in North America quite simply because frozen cranberries have long been so widely available here at this time year. Sweet and tart, it's a traditional Lithuanian Xmas dish.

Something similar is marketed in the States as Junket Danish Dessert.
But it only comes in raspberry and strawberry.
My grandmother loved that stuff.  She used it to make strawberry pies.

[Count_Zirock]

I like those chocolate cherries that come out in November. We haven't bought any yet, but one of those things is worth a thousand cookies.....mmmmmm-yeah!  We tried Queen Anne's (whoever that is) chocolate covered blueberries last year, but they weren't as rich. I will have to go get some of these babies later today.

Yeah, those blueberries were kinda "Meh." I prefer the dark chocolate to the milk chocolate covered cherries. I see this year they also have French vanilla-filled cherries. Hmmm.

[Hepcat]

Something similar is marketed in the States as Junket Danish Dessert. But it only comes in raspberry and strawberry.

That's probably very similar as the dish is popular in the Scandinavian countries as well as throughout northeastern Europe. And evidently Europeans often resort to making it from instant mixes these days. It's hidebound old country traditionalists in North America that insist on making it from scratch these days, even if they use North American cranberries instead of the more traditional berries that were used in Europe!

My grandmother loved that stuff.  She used it to make strawberry pies.

Like this?

[Flower]

[Fester]

That's probably very similar as the dish is popular in the Scandinavian countries as well as throughout northeastern Europe. And evidently Europeans often resort to making it from instant mixes these days. It's hidebound old country traditionalists in North America that insist on making it from scratch these days, even if they use North American cranberries instead of the more traditional berries that were used in Europe!

That may be, but I've only ever seen it in mix form.  Even 50 years ago at Grandma's house.
http://www.junketdesserts.com/

[Flower]

I love them ...

[charp13]

Oh lordy!! I forgot about Peppermint Bark!! I absolutely love that stuff- especially when it gets cold outside! YUM!!!
I could literally live on  Ghiradelli products! My favorite thing in the world is when you go into the Ghiradelli shop in Orlando and they hand you that sample chocolate that's at the perfect temperature!