My favorite Christmas treat, get ready for an amazing combo!

What I’m going to tip you about in this post is one of my all time favorite Christmas treats, get ready for; GINGERBREAD COOKIES WITH BLUE CHEESE & HOT MULLED WINE!

Even the thought of it gets me super exited! Today I had it for the first time since last year after coming home to my gingerbread baking mother for Christmas. It’s super easy and tasty and you can even pimp it up further by adding other things to the treat like, a Clementine boat, some nuts, figs, jam and honey.

For me nothing beats homemade, but the gingerbread cookies you get at your local super market will for sure do the job just fine. It’s also a nice little treat to put out if you have people coming over around this time of the year. I don’t know about the rest of the world but when I’ve been living in Sweden and Norway this is a standard Christmas treat.

To accompany this amazing snack is my favorite Christmas drink, hot mulled wine, or GLØGG, which it is called in Norwegian. Mulled wine can be made in various ways but my favorite way to make it is like this;

5 dl blackcurrant juice
5 dl water
1 bottle of red wine
1 dl chopped almonds
5 cloves
1 orange chopped in smaller pieces
1 big piece of ginger
2 star anise
½ a tea spoon ground cardamom
1 cinnamon stick

Just put everything in a pot and stir while you heat it up. A tip is to mix everything the day before and leave it over night for the spices to give extra aroma and flavor to the mulled wine. Make sure when you heat it up that you do so slowly and that the mulled wine doesn’t start to boil.

Then all that’s left to do is to enjoy this amazing combo of flavors alone or in good company!

Hope you enjoy and get the chance to try it out.