Merry Christmas from Tasty Tuesday !

Hi  everyone !! 

Hope you all had a wonderful week and are ready for Christmas. Can you believe its Christmas Eve already ? I still have a few things to tick off from my to-do list before I can completely ease off into the Christmas mood.. and first off the list is the 42nd Edition of Tasty Tuesday !   

Each week, our team of 10 amazing bloggers hosts this fabulous party! We're so glad that you've stopped by to party with us!

We blog: Anyonita Nibbles | Craft Dictator | Detours in Life | Lori's Culinary Creations | Red Cottage Chronicles | Three in Three | Mom on the Run x2 | West Street Story | I'm Not a Trophy Wife | Ma Niche

Without you, we wouldn't have a party at all. So we think you're pretty special and deserve to benefit from linking up with us each week. Here's how:

Christmas Day Muffins

Tomorrow is Christmas and I am sure you have every meal planned out to the "T."  However these Christmas day muffins might just be perfect in case you have some space at your breakfast table and are looking for some inspiration. I shared them at Jerri's space Simply Sweet Home a few weeks back and thought I'll share them here today...

These eggless Christmas day muffins are inspired by Mrs Byatt's Christmas Day Muffins. They taste lovely with all the cranberry, hazelnut and orange marmalade glaze. Though healthier, they are a little dense when baked with whole wheat flour. So if you are in a mood to indulge just substitute the whole wheat flour with an equal measure of all-purpose flour and swing into the holiday mood...

PÍO V (Nicaraguan Christmas Cake) # Baking Partners Dec '13 Challenge

With Christmas just a week away, it was only apt that Christmas cake be chosen as the theme for this month's Baking Partners Challenge. However when Swathi asked me to suggest few recipes I was at loss.. I am a newbie at the food scenario and have very little knowledge of  traditional recipes. I learn and cook from the books and websites that I find attractive and that explains why this blog does not have a specific direction. Anyhow a week later Swathi suggested that I look into Yule log recipes which led me to these ones... 

1. French Yule Log by Flore of Florilège Gourmand  from Use Real Butter
2. A Vegan version of Flore's French Yule Log from The Healthy Kitchen
3. Bûche de Noël (Williams-Sonoma Recipe)
4. Vegan Buche de Noel from Bon appetit

Besides the Yule Log Cakes, I also found this Nicaraguan Christmas Cake recipe that looked very appealing. So I included it in the list.. and decided to try this before I get started at the French Yule Log..

  

Pío V though called a Christmas Cake is really a gourmet dessert with a cake base and a custard topping that is typically served in Niacaragua during Christmas. It is made up of marquesote, sopa borracha, and manjar. Translated literally marquesote means cake, sopa borracha means drunken soup referring to the a rum-laced syrup that the cake is soaked in and manjar means custard. Apparently, this dessert is named after the 16th century Pope Pius V,  however there is no written evidence or verbal conjecture bearing proofs of it.