Christmas sweets are the highlight of Christmas lunches and dinners. Basically, we find Christmas sweets in all Spanish houses. No wonder, it is a tradition. Does anyone conceive of Christmas without typical Christmas desserts? Let us doubt it.
Christmas sweets are traditional products which are only eaten during this period of the time. That is why we say that Christmas sweets are present in every Spanish House, it would be unthinkable to finish a Christmas meal without having eaten nougat or marzipan.
Christmas sweets typical of Christmas holidays
Christmas sweets are essential, along with Iberian ham. Both lunches and dinners are adorned with red tablecloths, Christmas decorations, nice dishes and glasses, and a lot of variety of food. In addition, joy, harmony, and typical Christmas sweets are never missing. That is all it takes for a lovely family evening.
Usually, Christmas sweets such as nougats or polvorones are only eaten on these dates because it is a tradition. For that very reason, they are common in our Christmas tables.
Many Spaniards who live outside Spain cannot come back home on these dates. It’s normal that they miss these family traditions and the meals with their friends. Gastronomic Spain has the solution. The best typical Spanish products at your fingertips, with no need of physical or economic efforts.
What are the Christmas sweets offered by Gastronomic Spain?
Gastronomic Spain is more than an online shop, it can become your best ally. In this Christmas season, Christmas sweets abound in our stores, including nougats, marzipan, polvorones, mantecados and many other products that may surprise you.
There are many sweets that are traditionally consumed at Christmas and some of them not only at Christmas, but also at many other times of the year.
Let’s go a little deeper into each of these Christmas sweets:
Nougats
The nougat is the most typical Christmas sweet in Spain, and therefore the most famous for foreigners. All the tourists who visit our country are delighted with the gastronomy. They all love nougats, but who doesn’t?
Nougat is a sweet dough obtained by cooking honey with peeled and roasted almonds. This paste is kneaded and shaped like a rectangular tablet, which is the shape of the traditional nougat. Although its consumption has expanded worldwide, Alicante, Valencia and Lleida are the main industries of nougat. For the same reason, nougat has become one of the culinary gems of Spanish gastronomy, especially among Christmas sweets.
Marzipan
Nougat is not the only traditional Christmas sweet in our country. Marzipan is also very famous among Christmas meals. Marzipan is a sweet whose main ingredients are: almonds, sugar and egg. It is the typical Christmas sweet that is never missing in the candy tray, ass well as the bread from Cadiz, a product very similar to marzipan.
There are many different types of marzipan in Europe, but the most popular in the world are the Spaniards from Soto, La Rioja and Toledo.
Polvorones and mantecados
Both polvorones and mantecados are two of the star products of Christmas meals. Polvorones are a tiny cake made from flour, butter, and sugar. While mantecados are very similar, but they are made with lard. Polvorones and mantecados melt in the mouth, they are delicious. Nowadays, they are typical products of Christmas pastries in Spain, especially of the ones from Andalusian, Navarre and the province of Valladolid.
Other typical Christmas sweets
But there are not only these types of Christmas sweets, Gastronomic Spain also offers you more varieties such as assortment of chocolates, wine rosco or cabello de Ángel. Gastronomic Spain’s online shop comes loaded with typical Christmas sweets. We are aware of the amount of Spaniards that live outside Spain and cannot come back home with their families. Our mission is to get a little piece of Spain to their homes.
You will find all these ones and many more in our online shop.
Buying Christmas sweets online at Gastronomic Spain
We know it is not easy to find typical Spanish Christmas sweets outside Spain. We also know that many of you cannot retorn on these dates, that is why Gastronomic Spain wants to bring you a little piece of your Christmas traditions to wherever you are.
In our website you will find the widest online catalogue of Christmas sweets. You will see the most typical and new, all of them in Gastronomic Spain. Furthermore, if you also want to expand your pantries with typical Spanish products or to prepare a Spanish Christmas dinner, we also have what you are looking for: Iberian ham, Cantabrian anchovies, Manchego cheese and much more. Shipments are totally free from orders over €79.99 to all Europe.
Forget about carrying bags or even going shopping. Shop directly in our online store and enjoy a typical Spanish delicacy. You will be delighted!
