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Christmas Dessert in a Glass: The 3 Best Recipes

Christmas desserts in jars are not popular for nothing, because they look beautiful and sweeten your Christmas menu. With these desserts, you give your guests a successful Christmas Eve.

Christmas dessert: vanilla crescent mousse in a glass

If you don’t want to simply serve up the usual mousse au Chocolat as a Christmas dessert, this recipe for vanilla crescent mousse in a glass is a delicious alternative.

For four servings you need: 250 ml whipped cream, 100 g vanilla crescents, 100 g white chocolate, two gelatine leaves, and three cl rum.

  1. Melt the chocolate over a water bath.
  2. Soak the gelatin sheets in cold water for about ten minutes and then squeeze them out well.
  3. Then whip the cream until stiff.
  4. Heat the gelatine with the rum and add the mass to the chocolate.
  5. Stir the chopped vanilla crescents into the chocolate as well.
  6. Finally, fold the whipped cream into the chocolate mass, pour the mousse into glasses and place them in the fridge for at least three hours.
  7. Just before serving, you can sprinkle each glass with chocolate chips or biscuit crumbs.

Marzipan cinnamon pannacotta

This Christmas dessert is for the marzipan lovers among you. For four people you need 500 ml milk, 100 g marzipan, five sheets of gelatine, three teaspoons of cinnamon, and two tablespoons of vanilla sugar.

  1. First, soak the gelatine in cold water.
  2. Meanwhile, cut the marzipan into small pieces.
  3. Put the milk in a saucepan and slowly heat it up. Make sure she doesn’t boil.
  4. Stir the marzipan into the milk. It should completely dissolve.
  5. Finally, squeeze out the gelatine leaves and stir them into the marzipan-milk mixture. Flavor everything with cinnamon and sugar.
  6. After you have poured the pannacotta into glasses and cooled them for at least four hours, you can decorate them with cinnamon or Christmas sugar sprinkles.

Baked apple tiramisu as a dessert in a glass

If you like tiramisu but would like more variety, we recommend this delicious variation. For about six glasses of the baked apple treat you need four chopped apples, three tablespoons of sugar, 50 ml of apple juice, 100 g of raisins, cinnamon, and cloves to taste, 250 g of mascarpone, 150 g of yogurt, two tablespoons of honey, 200 ml of cream and finally 200 g ladyfingers.

  • Make a compote from the apples, sugar, apple juice, raisins, cinnamon, and cloves. Put everything in a saucepan and let it simmer for 20 minutes over medium heat. Stir the compote from time to time.
  • For the cream, mix the mascarpone, yogurt, and honey.
  • Whip the cream until stiff and fold it into the cream using a whisk.
  • Now alternately layer ladyfingers, compote, and cream in your glasses. Repeat this step so that you end up with two layers of biscuits, compote, and cream in each glass.
  • You can decorate the top layer of cream with cinnamon, apple sauce, or honey.
  • Place the jars in the fridge overnight so that everything can infuse well.
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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