With Christmas just around the corner…combined with my LOVE for baking and cut-out Christmas sugar cookies with homemade icing…I had a Christmas Cookie making party with friends!
Christmas shaped cookies – like cut-out sugar cookies, aren’t really popular in Scotland. The more popular Christmas dessert here in Minced Pies. Minced Pies are shortbread-like filled mini pie/tart – filled with ‘Minced Meat’ – which actually isn’t meat, but a combination of sugar, chopped nuts and dried fruit. A Minced Pie paired with a little ‘mulled wine’ – a warm, red wine drink with spices and occasionally hints of citrus, is the perfect Christmas treat here.
Since cut-out Christmas cookies really aren’t that popular, ASDA (what Wal-Mart is called here) didn’t have any Christmas shaped cookie cutters! So I had to buy ‘kid set’ kitchen utensils that came with mini cookie cutters in the form of geometric shapes and random animals. We had to use our imaginations to make Christmas shapes.
One of the most innovative shapes was the ‘Christmas Cracker’. In America, we don’t have Christmas Crackers – so basically what a Christmas Cracker is, is a tube shaped present (kind of looks like a big Tootsie Roll) and it is filled with little gifts and presents!
There are lots of ‘cultural exchanges’ – things that are different from culture to culture during the Christmas season. It has been fun to take part in Scottish traditions and share some of my own American traditions.
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