Get Into the Holiday Spirit 1 Taste Bud at a Time With These Peppermint Desserts - POPSUGAR

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Get Into the Holiday Spirit 1 Taste Bud at a Time With These Peppermint Desserts - POPSUGAR

Posted: 23 Dec 2020 05:00 AM PST

To me, the holidays smell like pine trees, feel like being wrapped in cozy flannel, sound like Mariah Carey, look like fresh snowfall — and, my favorite of all, taste like peppermint.

That's why I keep a Rolodex of peppermint dessert recipes on rotation for all of December. I'll be baking up a storm (and hopefully during some snowstorms!) in fresh pajamas, with Spotify on blast, and a pine candle burning — because my fake tree can only do so much.

5 easy and quick Christmas dessert recipes you must try for a healthy holiday - Times Now

Posted: 24 Dec 2020 02:00 AM PST

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Christmas is almost here and everyone is looking for dessert recipes they can quickly whip up

Desserts remain an integral part of almost any holiday and festival

Here are 5 easy and tasty Christmas dessert recipes you must try

New Delhi: Christmas is finally here, with everybody around the world celebrating Christmas eve tonight. Even as the holiday is not the same as every other year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, food still remains an essential part of it. Christmas is incomplete without some tasty desserts. However, there can be ways to make them healthier as well, especially in a year when health has been of utmost importance due to the ongoing pandemic.

Even if you are celebrating Christmas eve away from your family this year, these desserts can help lift up your mood. If you are lucky to have them around, making these desserts for Christmas for and with them is a great way to celebrate the holiday. Try these easy and tasty Christmas dessert recipes shared by Ms Trupti Siddharth Patil, an expert at Momspresso.

5 easy and tasty Chistmas Dessert recipes

Christmas special Fudge

Ingredients:

Chocolate chips: 1 cup
Sweet condensed milk: 2 cups
Heavy cream: 2tbsp.
Butter: 4 tbsp.
Vanilla extract: 1 tsp.
Christmas sprinkles: 3 tbsp.

Method:

Take a baking pan, put baking paper and grease it with butter/oil.
Take a small pan, put it on medium flame, add chocolate chips, condensed milk, cream, butter, and vanilla extract.
Stir all these until this batter becomes smooth, once smoothened then pour into the baking pan.
Now top it with Christmas sprinkles and put it into refrigerate at least for 2 hours, check once done, if not then keep for some more time.
Once set properly cut it into squares and enjoy.

Nutella Brownie

Ingredients:

Butter: 1 tbsp.
Eggs: 2
Nutella spread: 1 ½ cup
Flour: ½ cup
Rock salt: ¼ tsp.

Method:

Take a small baking pan grease it with butter, heat oven at 350 F.
Take a bowl, add eggs and Nutella, and whisk them together now add flour and salt and mix well.
Now transfer this batter to the greased pan and bake till 20 to 25 minutes.
Once baked check with a toothpick, serve hot.
You can add vanilla ice-cream as a topping and serve it.

Chocolate Mousse

Ingredients:

Bittersweet chocolate: 1 cup (chopped)
Chocolate shavings: 1 cup
Marshmallows: 30 pieces, regular size
Heavy cream: 2 cups

Method:

Take a microwave bowl, add, chocolate, marshmallows, ½ cup heavy cream and put this in the microwave on high for 2 mins. Now stir well till marshmallows melt and it becomes a smooth texture. Let it cool for at least an hour.
Now take another bowl, add the remaining heavy cream and whip it till it gives soft peaks form. Take out ½ cup aside for toppings and refrigerate.
Add the remaining cream into the chocolate mixture and stir well till it mixes properly. Gently fold the rest and put it into refrigerate until set well. You can keep overnight for best results.
While serving, take a glass bowl, add the chocolate mixture and top up with remaining cream and sprinkle with shaved chocolate and enjoy.

Caramel Pears

Ingredients:

Pears: 6, cleaned and washed
Heavy cream: 1/3 cup
Butter: 1 tbsp.
Sugar: 1 cup
Sea salt: as per the taste

Method:

Take a small pan, put it on medium flame, add sugar and heat it, keep stirring till it dissolves, now put the heat on high flame and see the sugar should cook until it turns into caramelized form.
Once done remove from the heat, slowly stir in heavy cream and make it smooth, now add butter and stir again.
Now start dipping pears one by one in this mixture.
Once all done then sprinkle the salt and serve.

Chocolate dipped cookies

Ingredients:

Any Butter cookies: 10 pieces
Dark Chocolate: 1 cup

Method:

Take a small pan, put it on medium flame, add dark chocolate and melt it.
Once melted then dip the butter cookies and keep aside to set.
Once set serve it and enjoy.

So friends, what do you think? Aren't these recipes easy to make and serve on Christmas? Then what are you waiting for? Go ahead and make these yummy desserts and let your Christmas be very special for you and your family.