Christmas candy/cookies
By Porcospino
@Porcospino (31366)
Denmark
December 20, 2012 10:25am CST
Tonight when my husband went to pick up the car I asked him to buy some of the christmas candy from the shop and the traditional christmas drink called Glögg (it consists of redwine, sugar and spices, and it is served with raisins and almonds)
The Chrismas candy consists of different kinds of chocolate and marshmallows and there are also some cookies than you can only buy around christmas time. I love the christmas candy and the christmas cookies 
We also have some cookies that my mother has made and they are also very delicious.
Do the shops in your country sell special kinds of candy that you can only buy around Christmas time? What kind of candy? Do you bake your own cookies or do you buy them?
We also have some cookies that my mother has made and they are also very delicious.
Do the shops in your country sell special kinds of candy that you can only buy around Christmas time? What kind of candy? Do you bake your own cookies or do you buy them?4 responses
@fannitia (2167)
• Bulgaria
21 Dec 12
Hi, Porcospino! The old tradition in my country is to make Christmas food at home. Today of course you can buy various things but the classic thing is a banitsa /or cheese pastry/ with fortune slips. Every family should have it for Christmas. The traditional sweet pastry is the baklava. This is not only a Bulgarian but also a Greek and Turkish delicacy. By the way the best baklava I know around me is made in a Turkish pastry shop.
Have a happy Christmas!
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
28 Dec 12
I think that I have heard the word baklava before, but I don't remember in which connection I heard it. I would like to taste it one day, because I love sweet things. In my country quite a lot of people still make their own christmas food, but there are also many people who prefer to buy their food in a shop. We celebrated Christmas Eve at my parents' house and my mother had made some very nice christmas food for us. At first we had the traditional christmas dinner and then we had coffee and sweets. I hope that you have also celebrated a nice christmas. Happy New Year 
@jricky1 (6800)
• China
21 Dec 12
It is really cool to have the candy and also cookies around christmas. I love such kind of stuff a lot and praying for christmas to come. We have the shops like that and there are many different kinds of chocolates candies and milk cookies. Anyway i just so love it and feel great with such wonderful christmas white world.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
21 Dec 12
I also like the candy and the cookies that we get at christmas time, they are very delicious. Right now we can find a lot of candy or cookies in the shops that you can't buy the rest of the year and it is always fun to explore the shops and see the things that they are selling. We bought some christmas candy yesterday, but we already ate most of it, because it tasted so good 
Now christmas is really near and I look forward to having a nice evening with my family on Christmas Eve, after dinner we will eat candy and cookies again 
Now christmas is really near and I look forward to having a nice evening with my family on Christmas Eve, after dinner we will eat candy and cookies again 
@peavey (16936)
• United States
20 Dec 12
We can only buy candy canes at Christmas, for one. They're a hard candy that started out in peppermint but now comes in a lot of different flavors. There are chocolate covered cherries that I only see at Christmas time, too, and a cookie that is called by various names that is sort of like a shortcake with pecans in it, rolled in powdered sugar. I sometimes bake cookies and sometimes don't. It seems like we have way too many sweet things around Christmas and they don't all get eaten.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
21 Dec 12
We have the candy canes in my country, too, but I have only seen peppermint canes, I don't think that we have other flavors. Chocolate covered cherries sound nice, I don't think that exist in my country, but we have many other kinds of christmas candles for instance something called snowballs which consist of chocolate and marzipan. We also have special cookies that you can only buy around christmas time. I don't usually bake my own cookies, but my mother likes to bake cookies and we get some of her cookies, and we buy the christmas cookies like "pebbernoedder" and "brunkager" (brown cakes)
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@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
20 Dec 12
we go to a German deli (my hubby and his family are German and we take my inlaws there each week) and they have great food and stuff that comes out only at Christmas. i bought my college daughter some of her favourite cookies that only come out this time of year.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
21 Dec 12
Germany is our neighbour country, but I don't know the German christmas food that well. Some Danes go on a day-trip to Germany in December and look at the German decorations and buy the German food. I have never tried that, but it could be a nice activity in December 
It could also be interesting to compare the German and Danish food. At the moment there is lots of christmas food in the Danish shops and you can only buy those things at christmas time. Some of the that food is very delicious, but it is not exactly healthy, so maybe it is good thing that we can only buy it once a year
It could also be interesting to compare the German and Danish food. At the moment there is lots of christmas food in the Danish shops and you can only buy those things at christmas time. Some of the that food is very delicious, but it is not exactly healthy, so maybe it is good thing that we can only buy it once a year 