Christmas season is the most creative period for pastry chefs and tons of sweets in the shop windows decorated with little snowmen, Santa Clauses and Christmas trees prove it. We picked the coolest Christmas gift ideas for those who have a sweet tooth!
Christmas Candy Gifts 2018: From Gingerbread Houses To Chocolate Snowmen
- Read time: 5 min
- Publication date: 21.02.2019
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Good old classics
Christmas Marzipan Candies
Show us those who don’t like this sweet sugar-and-almond paste! On Christmas Eve all pastry chefs try their best to create the most unusual and impressive hand-molded marzipan decorations. All kinds of snowmen, little hollies, reindeers and Christmas trees are waiting for you!
Kinder Surprise Advent Calendar
Do you remember the excitement of waiting for Christmas when you were a child? It’s time to experience it again. 24 little doors of the advent calendar hide 24 Kinder Surprise eggs including 5 Christmas collection figures for a Christmas tree. Try not to eat them all in one day!
Christmas Marshmallows & Hot Cocoa
Make Christmas a little cozier and warmer with decadent combination of hot cocoa (add a mug hugger from above) and chocolate-coated peppermint marshmallows. White snowflake prints will add to the festive atmosphere.
Bottle of Mulled Wine
This is a gift for adult girls and boys. This spicy drink is made following traditional recipe with red wine, sugar and spices. Heat it to 70˚С and serve with gingerbread cookies every time you need to create a holiday mood.
The most ginger of Christmas joys
Gingerbread Cookies
Cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice and ginger were mixed together so that you could have yummy Christmas gingerbread cookies on your table. Wonder cooks make all kinds and shapes of these colorful cookies: just choose which one you like best!
Personalized Gingerbread House
Gingerbread house is a symbol of Christmas along with Christmas tree and Santa Claus. Warm, cozy and delicious, it seems to be filled with love and joy. It can be customized to represent every family member in cookie characters and it will make a wonderful centerpiece of the table!
Gingerbread House Decorating Kit
Decoration of gingerbread house is a nice way to get all the family together and have fun! This decoration kit has everything necessary for your creative work: pre-baked and pre-assembled walls house, 4 types of candies, white fondant, white ready-to-use icing and a decorating bag.
Gingerbread Heels
Not exactly edible… but still they look sooo delicious that you may want to give it a bite! These high heels will look incredible at the Christmas or New Year’s Eve party (those who dare may wear them all year), but try to find out the recipient’s shoe size beforehand to make sure the heels fit.
Sweet Christmas Tree Ornaments
Imagine all those white snowflakes, reindeers and Santa Clauses, Christmas elves and gingerbread houses hanging on the Christmas tree, bright and colorful and shiny. And suddenly you can eat them all! Your guests will be surprised when you say “Help yourself” and lead them to the Christmas tree!
From Europe with love
Lebkuchen-Schmidt Pastry
If you had to choose a gold standard of gingerbread bakery art, it would definitely be Lebkuchen-Schmidt. These delicious gingerbread cookies are baked in Nuremberg following traditional German recipes and filled with hazelnuts, crispy marzipan and spices.
Candy Canes
These peppermint candies were invented in Germany, but now they help to create holiday mood all around the world! They can be used as Christmas tree and gift ornaments, and they go perfectly well with hot chocolate and marshmallow. And make sure you order some cute felt reindeers to carry them!
Yule Log
Here is a traditional French Christmas delicacy in a shape of a log. Every December there is a competition in France for everyone who want to show off their decorating skills and find out who can make the most amazing cake. You can make your own version of it or order it online.
Glazed Doughnuts
By the way, Poland, the Netherlands and Hungary celebrate Christmas with various deep fried yummies — doughnuts and oliebollen, filled with apples, raisins and black currants. Every year Krispy Kreme shop joins in and makes Christmas style decorated pastry.
Classic desserts with a modern twist
Chocolate Snowmen
These snowmen are so cute that maybe it will be hard for you to eat them! But anyway, these figures are handcrafted of quality white chocolate topped with a whole roasted hazelnut and dark chocolate top hat. We are sure, they taste amazing!
Chocolate Covered Christmas OREO® Cookies
Even classic Oreo cookies want to have some kind of special Christmas outfit! So, to mark the occasion, they are covered with thick layer of chocolate and decorated with green, red and white snowflakes and Christmas trees. Now everyone is happy!
Fancy Macarons
Wonderful airy meringue-based macarons are made with almond powder, egg whites, sugar and have various fillings. The flavor may range from mojito, chocolate and raspberry to mint and strawberry-rhubarb. The traditional Christmas colors and reindeer or Santa topping will turn it into a nice gift.
Handmade Chocolate Cake Pops
No, this is not a lollipop! Enter cake pops — small round cakes fixed on a stick and coted with icing or chocolate. On Christmas Eve thousands of cake pops shaped like snowmen, Christmas trees or reindeers take their places in the shop windows.
Ninjabread Cookies
Were you the one who felt sorry for poor helpless Gingerbread Man in Shrek? Then take a look at these ones: they are definitely capable of standing up for themselves! Just help them to come to life using cookie cutters and gingerbread mixture.
Rice Krispy House
This is an unusual variant of a gingerbread house for those who prefer non-gluten diet… or for those who just want to try something new. This crispy house is held together with white chocolate, covered with marshmallows and has delicate rosy color.
Mug Hugger Cookies
We all used to enormous gorgeously decorated gingerbread houses that make a centerpiece of a Christmas table. But what about smaller and cuter ones, the ones that fit perfectly on the side of your mug with hot chocolate? These easy-to-reach snacks will add some extra warmth to your Christmas night.
Christmas Cupcakes
Can you tell the difference between muffins and cupcakes? Well, cupcakes are the ones topped with creamy, delicious frosting. During Christmas season you can find dozens of design variants: Christmas trees, little snowmen or Santa Claus hat and each one is a little piece of art.
Remember that you can easily make some Christmas candies yourself – these marshmallow snowmen, for example. Catch some Christmas spirit!