Make this festive version of hot chocolate with fragrant orange, ginger, cloves and cinnamon. A star rating of 5 chocolate cake decoration ideas at home of 5. Bake these grown-up gingerbread biscuits, spiced with black pepper and stem ginger.

A star rating of 0 out of 5. Create this stunning gingerbread birdhouse imagined by Samuel Debenham who won our gingerbread house competition. A rustic traybake for any time of day. Try a square at coffee break, or with a jug of steaming custard after dinner. Combine two very traditional Christmas bakes – gingerbread and mince pies – to create a brilliant modern classic. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users. Enjoy warming gingerbread spices in our festive take on cheesecake.

Love gingerbread with a soft centre and crisp edges? A star rating of 4 out of 5. Make some gingerbread stars to hang from your Christmas tree. It has been suggested that Roscón be merged into this article. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.

A king cake, also known as a three kings cake, is a cake associated in many countries with Epiphany. After the cake is cut, whoever gets the fève wins a prize. The three kings cake takes its name from the Biblical Magi, also referred to as the three kings. The origin of the cake tradition seems to be related to the Roman Saturnalia. These were festivals dedicated to the god Saturn so that the Roman people, in general could celebrate the longer days that began to come after the winter solstice. For these festivities, round cakes were made with figs, dates, and honey, which were shared equally among the commoners and slaves. Later, Spanish and French settlers brought it to America.

It often includes a figurine, and it is believed that the individual who discovers it will have good fortune. In most of France it is a puff pastry filled with frangipane. To ensure a random distribution of the pieces, the youngest person is to place themselves under the table and name the recipient of each piece as they are cut. The German and Swiss Dreikönigskuchen ‘three kings cake’ are shaped like wreathes or rounds, and uses an almond as the fève. Portuguese cake eaten from the beginning of December until Epiphany. Portuguese monarchy’s official bakery in 1829. The cake is round with a large hole in the centre, resembling a crown covered with crystallized and dried fruit.

It is baked from a soft, white dough, with raisins, various nuts and crystallized fruit. Also included is the dried fava bean, and tradition dictates that whoever finds the fava has to pay for the cake next year. Roscón de Reyes” with whipped cream. The Roscón de Reyes is eaten in Spain, Latin America and the United States. Recipes vary from country to country and between cultures but tend to be similar.

It generally has an oval shape due to the need to make cakes large enough for large groups. In Spain consists on a sweet brioche dough aromatised with orange blossom water and decorated with slices of candied or crystallized fruit of various colors. It can be filled with whipped cream, cream, marzipan or others. The figurine traditionally represents one of the Three Wise Men Biblical Magi. A dry broad bean is also introduced inside the roscón.