Jun 18th 2017

Red, white, green, and gold in December are known as celebration color of Christmas. Christmas celebrations are anticipated by many Christians and are usually prepared well long before the Christmas day itself.

Who doesn’t know the Christmas tradition of sharing gifts and having dinner together?

Even so, not all countries have the same tradition and Christmas food. Here are some interesting traditions and foods in 4 countries during the most iconic Christian holiday.

Netherlands
In Netherlands, you will see trees and Christmas decorations on each class door at school as typical Christmas tradition. This hundreds of years old tradition is also celebrated by kindergarten students who are taught to string Christmas ornaments with their parents.

Speculaas is one of the typical Christmas cookies from Netherlands that use spekkoek spices and palm sugar which is then mold with wooden prints. Caramelized and crunchy biscuit texture makes this cookies very popular. Initially, speculaas was made to commemorate the celebration of Santa on December 5 and 6. That’s why the form of speculaas is similar to Santa Claus.

German
Weihnachtsmarkt is the annual folk market in Germany to welcome Christmas and to decorate the house with Christmas decorations. Christmas atmosphere in Germany begins when entering the Advent, which is four weeks before Christmas.You can find Weihnachtsmarkt almost in every city in Germany.

In Weihnachstmarkt, festive Christmas decorations will not be complete without the typical German food at Christmas. Stollen or Christstollen is German-typical sweet bread that has existed since the 14th century. Because of a tunnel-like shape, this cake is named after Stollen which means tunnel. Stollen is made from flour, yeast, water, added with butter, milk, sugar, eggs, and is also filled with almonds, dried fruits, and raisins. Sprinkling Sugar on the surface makes Christstollen even more perfect.

France
Christmas has been here, in France, since December 5. On Christmas Eve, the whole streets are usually filled with the sound of church bells and the singing of French songs. At Christmas time, the whole family will go to church and eat the dishes available there. As for the children, at Christmas Eve, have the habit of putting their shoes in front of the fireplace while hoping Santa Clause (Pere Noel) will fill their shoes with gifts.

Since the 12th century, Buche de Noel (or Yule Log) is famous in France as a tree-shaped dessert at Christmas. This cake symbolizes the customs of the local people who used to cut the Yule tree at Christmas. The top of the Yule tree is usually made as a Christmas tree, while the bottom is made into a wood fireplace. In general, Buche de Noel is made of roll cake and fruit jam which is coated with brown butter cream to make it look like wood fibers and leaves made from marzipan.

Denmark
In the middle of a dark and cold day, a typical Denmark calendar candle begins to light and shine in early December, then continues daily and is turned on according to the date in the candle.

Denmark is famous for its Danish butter cookies as a typical Christmas snack. One of the famous Christmas butter cookies is Pebernødder (pepper nuts). This cake is one of the oldest Christmas butter cookies in Denmark. This walnut-sized Christmas butter cookies dominated by warm spices is perfect served in winter.

You can also enjoy a range of Danish butter cookies at once without the need to create one by one with Danisa. Danisa is one of the original Danish Butter Cookies brands with authentic Danish recipes. Danisa has a variety of delicious flavors of Traditional Butter Cookies, Choco Cashew Butter Cookies, Currant Butter Cookies, Choco Filled Butter Cookies and Pineapple Filled Butter Cookies. You can enjoy various Danish butter cookies at once without having to make one by one! Butter cookies are also the perfect gift for your close relatives on Christmas.