Our best Christmas desserts recipes - 5 recipes
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These fun Tropical Salmon Sushi Cups make the perfect warm-weather appetizer!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 cups cooked sushi rice
- 1 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 2 tbsp seasame oil
- 1 tsp chili paste
- Salt
- 1 mango, diced
- 1 avocado, diced
- 1 lb salmon, diced
Method
- Combine the rice vinegar and sugar.
- Stir though the cooked sushi rice, and with wet hands, shape into balls.
- Press the balls into ramekins lined with parchment paper, and press the rice up the sides of the ramekins into cup shapes.
- Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
- In the meantime, combine the soy sauce, cilantro, sesame oil, chili paste and salt in a bowl.
- Combine the mango, avocado and salmon.
- Pour the soy mixture over the salmon mixture, and stir through until evenly coated.
- Remove the rice cups from the refrigerator, and peel off the parchment paper.
- Distribute the salmon mixture between the rice cups.
- Garnish, serve and enjoy!
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The flavors of a traditional gingerbread have been transformed into a colorful cheesecake
- CRUST:
- 1-1/2 cups gingersnap crumbs (about 30 cookies)
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- CAKE:
- 3 8-oz packages cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 2 teaspoons dark molasses
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon each: nutmeg and cloves
- 3 eggs, beaten
- TOPPING:
- 2 milk chocolate bars, shaved
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- 1/2 cup pistachio nuts, chopped
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- - 24 Maraschino Cherries
- - 1 box semi-sweet baking chocolate
- - 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- - 1 bag unsweetened coconut
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- 1 large egg
- 110g sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 75g pumpkin puree
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 155g flour
- 110g real white chocolate, chopped, or white candy melts
- 3 tablespoons chopped walnuts
My Favorite Gingerbread Cookies
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- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 Gingerbread spice pack (In Germany, they provide a pre-mixed spice pack just for Gingerbread, somewhat similar to our Pumpkin Pie Spice)
- **If you don't have the pre-mixed spice pack: 1 tsp. allspice, 1 tsp cinnamon and 1 tsp clove.
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup margarine
- 1 egg, beaten
- 3 1/2 cups flour
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- 1 can evaporated milk
- 1/2 cup margarine
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