From: Emma Heinze

Date: 04.12.2025

Christmas in a glass

Nothing says Christmas dessert like a chocolate fir tree. Very easy to recreate!

Ingredients

for 6 portions

  • Cream: 400 g mascarpone / 400 ml cream / 100 g sugar
  • 65 ml rum
  • 50 g candied lemon peel
  • 50 g candied orange peel
  • 50 g almonds (ground)
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 425 g flour
  • 100 ml milk (warm)
  • ¾ cube of fresh yeast
  • 100 g butter
  • 75 g sugar
  • 1 packet vanilla sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp cardamom
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • A little butter for greasing
  • Icing sugar for dusting over

preparation

  1. For the little fir trees, melt chocolate and lay Mikado sticks on baking paper

  2. Pour the chocolate onto the stick in a zigzag (the chocolate side is the trunk), getting wider towards the bottom

  3. Let cool briefly, pour on a second layer, decorate with sugar sprinkles and let cool

  4. For the layered dessert, melt white chocolate and nougat each over a water bath, let cool slightly

  5. Crumble vanilla crescents and speculoos into two bowls

  6. Whip the cream with sugar until stiff, add the mascarpone and divide the mixture between two bowls

  7. Fold white chocolate, vanilla sugar and crescents into one mixture. Fold nougat and speculoos crumbs into the other cream (keep a few crumbs aside)

  8. Put both mixtures into a piping bag

  9. For the sauce, put apple juice and sugar in a pot and heat

  10. Mix cornflour with a little water and add to the boiling mixture

  11. Layer alternately light cream, speculoos crumbs, sauce and nougat cream until the glass is filled and decorate with a fir tree

Emma Heinze

Emma Heinze is a passionate hobby baker who delights generations with her traditional recipes and lots of love