Jan 17th 2019

It’s the time of the year again. Danes celebrate Christmas joyously. Danes love Christmas and "The Festival of the Hearts" as it is called is more than any other holiday associated with traditions.

Danes never forget their traditions, even the young people still celebrate their tradition. Here is a list of unique Christmas vacation’s tradition in Denmark:

Treat Your Pets

Everybody is busy on the day of Christmas Eve. Each year we promise each other that this is absolutely the last time we are going to leave everything until the last minute. From now on our planning will be immaculate and therefore we’ll have time to do all the things that we always wanted to do. Peacefully.

In the old days it was common to give the animals a special treat on Christmas vacation. It was widely believed that all animals could talk on this special night, and nobody would like the animals to speak ill of you. Today some families continue that tradition. They go for a walk in the garden, in the park or in the field or forest and bring along small goodies for the animals on this very special occasion.

Christmas Dinner Menu

One of the Christmas Vacation tradition in Denmark is unique Christmas Dinner Menu. Dinner is served quite early. Most people eat roast duck on Christmas Eve but roast goose or roast pork with crackling rinds is widely used.

The duck or goose is stuffed with apples and prunes and served with white and sweet potatoes, red cabbage and beets and cranberry jam. As dessert is normally served ris à l’amande (cold rice pudding) with hot cherry sauce or “risengrød”, if you are very traditional.

A peeled almond is hidden in the dessert bowl. The lucky finder of the almond gets a special almond present.

Traditional Baking

One of the Christmas Vacation tradition in Denmark is traditional baking. As Christmas approaches all kinds of preparations accelerate in each Danish home. Remarkably, the old Scandinavian tradition has survived untouched even in these modern times.

Certainly, Christmas has been commercialized like everywhere else but all Danes - even young people give in to their heritage at this particular time of the year. Everybody tries to participate in the preparation for Christmas Eve. The last two weeks before Christmas the great baking period begins - naturally with the kids playing the major rolls.

Ginger cookies made from old traditional recipes, deep fried crullers, vanilla cookies and gingerbread shaped as hearts and decorated with ribbons - every family has favorite formulas from way back that has to be carried out at this time of the year.

Send a Christmas Card with a Special Christmas Seal

One of the Christmas vacation tradition in Denmark is sending a Christmas card with a special Christmas seal to your special ones. Since their debut in 1904, Danish Christmas seals have been adopted by many other countries around the world. They are designed each year by specially invited artists and are very popular, as Danes love writing and sending Christmas cards!

Probably the most famous designer so far is the Queen herself, Queen Margrethe II. Christmas seals are used to decorate letters and postcards and look like stamps. They are sold only around Christmas time and the proceeds go to children's charities.

Those are several Christmas vacation traditions in Denmark. Complete your Christmas experience with something premium and memorable like Danisa butter cookies. As premium Danish butter cookies with original Danish recipe, Danish butter cookies mostly served during tea time. There are two variants of this luxury Danish butter cookies which are butter cookies and filled cookies.

For butter cookies itself consists of three variants like traditional butter cookies, Choco cashew butter cookies, and currant butter cookies. In addition, Danish butter cookies filled cookies has two variants, choco filled butter cookies, and pineapple filled butter cookies. That is why Danisa is favorable butter cookies around the globe.

Furthermore, Danish butter cookies is not only for dinner but also for a gift on special occasions like Christmas, Wedding or New Year to the beloved one.