Christmas recipe ideas by La Cuisine 2 Gaël

Christmas shortbread to delight your taste buds, spiced hot chocolate with comforting flavours and creamy eggnog. Get ready for a festive, gourmet family trip!

Christmas shortbread

Ingredients

• 250g flour
• 1 sachet vanilla sugar
• 60g icing sugar
• 100g softened butter
• 1 tablespoon single cream
• 2 egg yolks

Preparation

• Mix the flour, sugar, vanilla sugar and 1 pinch of salt in a bowl. Make a well and add the egg yolks and cream. Add the softened butter and knead quickly. Mix everything together and form into a ball.
  
  
• Leave to rest in the fridge for 1 hour.
  
  
• To finish. Roll out the pastry to a thickness of 5 mm and use cookie cutter shapes. Preheat the oven to 180°. Bake on a baking tray covered with baking parchment for around 15 minutes. Leave to cool on a wire rack and store in an airtight tin.

Spiced hot chocolate

Ingredients

• 1/2 litre of milk
• 1/4 litre liquid or farmhouse cream
• 150g minimum 60% cocoa chocolate
• 50g milk chocolate

• Green anise
• Cardamom
• Star anise
• Cinnamon
• Pepper
• Clove
• Vanilla powder

Preparation

• Make the spice mix: In a bowl, mix together 1 level teaspoon vanilla powder, 1 level teaspoon green aniseed, 1 level teaspoon cinnamon powder, 2 pinches clove powder, 1/2 teaspoon cardamom, 1/2 teaspoon star anise, 2 turns of the pepper mill - Mix well for about 30 seconds. Weigh out 10g of this mixture - Set the rest aside for later use.
  
  
• Place the milk and cream in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Stop at the first boil.
  
  
• Pour the chocolates into the boiling liquid with the spices - wait 3 minutes. Whisk to froth - serve immediately.

Eggnog

Ingrédients 

• 25g de sucre
• 15cl de lait
• 1 pincée de cannelle
• 1 pincée de muscade
• 1 jaune d'oeuf

Preparation

• Heat the milk in a saucepan with the cinnamon and nutmeg (take care not to boil the mixture).
• Mix the egg yolk and sugar in your cup.
• Add the milk to your cup, continuing to stir well.
• Enjoy!