Assort Your Christmas Basket With These Appetizing Baking Ideas

Assort Your Christmas Basket With These Appetizing Baking Ideas
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Do you love cooking but never tried hands-on pro-level baking? Why such hesitation? Only because you are not a trained baker? Forget everything from your assumptions and think out of the box. Christmas is about to come and it's time to make arrangements for all celebrations. You must be searching for some unique decoration options to embellish the entire home? Consider food also in the list of your preparations.

Dare to do something different with your oven. With some easy and tested recipes, you can win the4 heart of your loved ones and guests too. This article is introducing some appetizing Christmas basket ideas. Most of the ingredients must be available in your kitchen or convenient to buy fron the local market. Without wasting more time, let's start with some great baking ideas. 

Special Cherry Cake for Christmas night 

Every celebration is incomplete without a cake because we need something sweet. What is more beautiful than a cake? It hardly takes a few minutes to order a Christmas cake from the local bakery but it will be similar to the previously ordered. Only flavors or crust will change. Try to prepare a mouthwatering cherry cake in your kitchen. Please note down the recipe. 

Ingredients 

●      All-purpose flour (2 cups) 

●      Halved glace cherries (8 Ounce)

●      Orange juice (½ cup)

●      Eggs (2)

●      White sugar (1 cup)

●      Butter (1 cup)

●      Golden raisin (12 Ounces)

●      Baking powder (1 teaspoon)

Also Read:4 Kinds of Italian Cakes That Italy Prepares During Christmas

Directions to prepare 

Total servings:- 24 Servings

Total calories:- 205 

1)     Take a loaf pan of 9X5 dimension and grease a line with parchment paper on it. 

2)    Blend butter and sugar continuously to obtain a light and fluffy texture. 

3)    Add 2 beaten eggs and orange juice to it and mix thoroughly. 

4)    Mix flour and baking powder together in a bowl and take out ⅓ rd of the cup. Toss raisins and cherries in this flour. 

5)    Add your egg and butter batter to the remaining flour and blend thoroughly. Pour the flour mixture containing cherries and raisins to it and mix it again properly. 

6)    Pour this mixture in the baking pan that you already prepared with parchment paper. 

7)    Preheat the oven at 150 degrees and put the pan inside. Let it bake for the next 2- ½ hours. 

8)    Take our of the oven and keep it in a foil for 3 to 4 days before serving. 

The cake is the primary constituent of Italian Christmas baskets. If you want to add an Italian twist, try your hands on a pasta infused with wonderful flavors of seafood. 

Tomato cream sauce pasta 

Try something light, healthy and delicious fron Italian cuisine. Cooking pasta is super-easy and consumes your least possible time. Read the list of ingredients.  

●      A pack of penne pasta 

●      1 can of Italian style diced tomatoes 

●      1 diced onion 

●      Half cup of heavy cream 

●      1 tablespoon of butter 

●      Ground black pepper ⅛ th teaspoon

●      ¾ th teaspoon of white sugar 

●      1 teaspoon of basil leaves 

●      Salt ¼ tablespoon

Directions to prepare

Preparation time:- 20 minutes

Total servings:- 5 servings

Calories:- 182 calories

1)    Take a saucepan, add olive oil, onion and garlic to it. 

2)    After turning them light-brown under a medium flame, add basil, oregano, salt, pepper, tomatoes and oregano.

3)    Cook them for the next 5 minutes and remove them from the burner. 

4)    Add your heavy cream and stir thoroughly. 

5)    Allow it to cool down for a few minutes and boil your pasta at this time. 

6)    Drain water from it and pour the delicious creamy tomato sauce. 

These are the two appetizing recipes to add in your Christmas gift baskets for kids and adults. 

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