New Year’s Eve is a part of food-intensive holiday in many countries. It is celebrated with dancing, eating, and witnessing and lighting dazzling fireworks. An ideal New Year’s Eve celebration must involve enticing bakery items. Especially different flavors of cakes have become a mandatory part of the celebration all around the world.
Some traditional bakery items of New Year’s Eve around the world
Rosca de Reyes
Mexicans serve Rosca de Reyes or King’s Cake on January 6. “Rosca” means wreath and “reyes” means kings. It’s a bread filled with candied peel and mixed dried fruit, and ornately decorated nuts and cherries. The Rosca de Reyes has an oval shape to symbolize a crown and has a small doll inside, which represents baby Jesus. The doll figure symbolizes the hiding of the infant Jesus from King Herod’s troops.
Kransekage
Kransekage, literally wreath cake, is a cake tower composed of many concentric rings of cake layered atop one another, and they are made for New Year’s Eve and other special occasions in Denmark and Norway. The cake is made using marzipan and can be decorated with ornaments, flags, and crackers.
Oliebollen
In the Netherlands, fried oil balls, or oliebollen, are traditionally consumed on New Year’s Eve. They are doughnut-like dumplings, made by dropping a scoop of dough spiked with currants or raisins into a deep fryer and then dusted with powdered sugar.
Banitsa
People eat the traditional Bulgarian pastry banitsa on New Year’s Eve in Bulgaria. It is made by layering a mixture of whisked egg, natural yogurt and pieces of white brined cheese between filo pastry and then baking it in the oven.
There is an interesting tradition that Bulgarians follow. Fortune is baked into banitsa on little pieces of paper and whichever fortune you get in your piece is what predicted for your fortune.
Vasilopita
Vasilopita, this Greek cake is served on New Year’s Day and in some other parts of Eastern Europe. If you’re lucky, you’ll find a hidden coin or trinket in your slice, promising 12 months of prosperity. But don’t fret, everyone who is gathered to slice the cake is said to receive good luck in their household in the coming year.
Cornbread
Cornbread, made with cornmeal, is a favorite at most Southern American tables. However, on New Year’s Eve, a side of cornbread with your meal is consumed to bring fortune. The bread’s golden-backed color is considered extra lucky as far as monetary success is concerned.
Some popular bakery items of recent times New Year’s celebration
New Year’s Eve Crackers
New Year’s Eve crackers is an easy-to-make treat for celebrating the occasion with our loved ones. It is made with saltine crackers, butter, brown sugar and chocolate. The colorful sprinkles on the top add an extra festive vibe.
Pies
A pie is a baked dish that is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients. Some popular pies are apple pie, chocolate cream pie, peanut butter pie, blueberry pie, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie, oreo pie, etc.
Cakes
A New Year’s Eve remains incomplete without a cake. Different flavors of cake with colorful frosting make the celebration more exhilarating. Chocolate cake, cheesecake, red velvet cake, vanilla cake, nut cake, baklava cheesecake, mint chocolate cake, pistachio cake, and atomic cake (It has three cake layers, pudding, and fresh strawberries and bananas) are popular cakes of this joyous occasion.
Doughnuts
Who doesn’t love doughnuts? Doughnuts are made of various shapes and colors with sprinkles on top which is a favorite item for all. These doughnuts have fillings like chocolate, raspberry, blueberry, and strawberry cream.
Loaf
New Year party loaf looks like it will be a party in your mouth. These are already buttery, sweet, and soft and to make it extra party-worthy some powdered sugar glaze and silver and gold sprinkles can be drizzled on top.
Creampuffs
Creampuffs are perfect for satisfying any sweet tooth! Light and crisp cream puffs, filled with your choice of rich pastry cream, can make your mood uplifted for the New Year party.
Le Delicia is serving New Year’s treats to you by taking pre-orders for cakes and other bakery items. You can order through the website or visit your nearest shop to get the best deals and make your party a splendid one.