Mar 28th 2018

Christmas in Denmark is usually celebrated on December 24 (Christmas Eve). Before December 24, all Danish citizens are celebrating Christmas by doing a variety of preparations, whether preparing decorations to buy ingredients or making a typical Christmas meal.

Many people attend a Christmas service in church before Christmas dinner. This custom is not only a religious belief but an opportunity to enjoy time gathering in church and singing Christmas songs. This custom is believed to have been done by the Danes for centuries. Certainly, when the moment of Christmas comes, all the Danish people who celebrate it with joy to serve a variety of typical Christmas delicious foods in Denmark. Whether on Christmas Eve, Christmas, or after Christmas the Danesh spend much time enjoying lunch and dinner with lively delights with friends, colleagues, and family.

Christmas Lunch in Denmark

Most Danish people will attend one or more Christmas lunches in December. Danish natal lunch is a traditional way to celebrate Christmas with people like friends and colleagues (other than close family) to strengthen kinship relationships. The traditional food menu that can be found that is smoked salmon, chicken cream with asparagus, herring or liverpâté with bacon and mushrooms. Wine is also a compulsory drink at Christmas time in Denmark.

Danish Christmas Dinner

Dinner is served early enough at around 6 pm by eating roasted duck accompanied with boiled potatoes, sweet potatoes, red cabbage, or beets on Christmas Eve. In addition to duck, it can also be replaced with roast pork. For the dessert itself consists of Risalamande which is a cold rice pudding with whipped cream, sugar, vanilla, and chopped almonds added with hot cherry sauce or caramel.

Traditional Cake

For traditional cakes, Danish citizens will make a cake in the last two weeks before Christmas. Danish families are busy baking their favorite cookies and biscuits, using traditional recipes handed down from generation to generation. Some Christmas cakes are often made from sugar, egg yolk, margarine, and flour. Klejner dough is rolled and cut into pieces, then fried in hot oil. To enjoy, it can be added with a sprinkling of sugar. Klejner is a very common Christmas cake. To get it you can buy Klejner in almost all food stores in Denmark. In addition, there is also a snack of Christmas biscuits. The most popular are Pancake Balls (Aebleskiver), ginger biscuits, vanilla biscuits, and Danish Butter Cookies.

For Danish Butter Cookies, you do not have to put yeast but you need to make it from ingredients such as butter, milk, and sugar. In addition, in the manufacture of Danish butter cookies do not use flavorings, but only given a sense of vanilla and chocolate. The forms of Danis butter cookies as circles, squares, boxes, round, oval, or flat. Until now Danish butter cookies are not only in demand by Danish society but also people in other countries. Therefore, there are many brands that produce Danish butter cookies. One Danish Butter Cookies made from selected ingredients and authentic Danes recipes are Danisa. As a Danish butter cookies brand, Danisa is perfect as a dish on Christmas Day. Danisa is a worldwide brand of butter cookies since the last few decades. In the production process, it also uses quality materials. In marketing, Danisa has been sold in 60 countries. Some countries include the United States, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Japan, China, Vietnam, Hongkong, Nigeria, and others. Danisa is now the brand of Danish butter cookies that ruled in several, especially in Asia.

Although today there are many brands are also producing Danish butter cookies, but Danisa is always consistently adhering to traditional Danish recipes to spoil the taste of consumers who are very fond of Danish butter cookies original. Danisa itself has various variants of butter cookies and filled cookies. For butter cookies itself consists of three variants namely Traditional Butter Cookies, Choco Cashew Butter Cookies, and Currant Butter Cookies. While filled cookies have two variants of Choco Filled Butter Cookies and Pineapple Filled Butter Cookies.