Swiss  Holiday Baking

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Grassins with chocolate

Shortbread cookies from Graubünden topped with chocolate coins.

Switzerland has so many different styles and shapes of bread. Pfilenbrot is a round loaf with multiple curlicues and a 4-strand braid in the middle.

Pfilenbrot

Rissoles aux poires from the canton of Geneva

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One of Switzerland’s most popular Christmas cookies, these little cinnamon stars have a meringue-like icing.

Zimtsterne

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Birnbrot

A special spiced bread filled with dried pears and nuts that's perfect for the holiday season.

Cut-out sugar cookies with an egg yolk wash applied before baking.

A yeasted cake found in Basel, Switzerland, that often contains raisins and a crown of almonds on top. You'll find a recipe for Hefegugelhopf in my Swiss Bread book (2020).

Hefegugelhopf

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Made with chocolate, cocoa powder or both, these cookies also contain ground hazelnuts or almonds and spices, such as cinnamon and cloves.

Basler Brunsli

A yeasted bread studded with dried currants that's found in the canton of Nidwalden during the holiday season.

Filled with jam, these sandwich cookies are known as Miroirs or Coquins in French-speaking Switzerland.

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