Danish Christmas Food Gift Idea - DIY Snaps! Plus my British Christmas Cake! UPDATE

[@timistorms8284]

Your videos are so personable, as if you are directly across from your audience having a conversation. How wonderful! That’s a skill not every vlogger has achieved and you are a natural! Thank you for remaining authentic, Diane.💝

[@MsCarterRocks]

“Sorry for rambling on this morning.” I’m not sorry!! Hahaha! You’re awesome!

[@DianeinDenmark]

Aww, thank you - being an introvert, I always wonder what people will think of these videos... Trying not to be perfectionist and just film them and work along with you!

[@marcemiss]

@@DianeinDenmark If you want my opinion about your videos: I love them!!!!! I could listen to your stories all day!!

[@Julie-ok5fr]

I so enjoy catching up on these unique Danish traditions for Christmas! I have been tuning in while doing my morning exercise at the gym😉A GREAT motivator for me to keep putting one foot in front of the other, literally! A few of our family Christmas traditions are:*** walking a tree farm to choose and cut down a tree🌲 around the end of Nov*** Drinking🍶 egg nog after returning home from candlelight 💒church service on Christmas Eve***Hubby prepaing a crockpot 🍳🧀breakfast casserole on Christmas Eve to wake up to on Christmas Day...mmmm..the smell of peppers 🌶& sausage & potatoes***And, on some years, DD17 and I bake and decorate butter sugar cookies to look like little Santa's. I also have a divine recipe for cherry 🍒🍒🍞danish rolls🤑🤗😍 P.S. I just LOVE the idea of holding hands around the Christmas🌲 tree, how joyful!! Mmm the smell of pine and fir trees, nutmeg in the nog, and peppermint ice 🍧cream 🍭** Merry Christmas **🍭

[@MsOLWYNN]

Julie Well now you have to share those great recipes hun. Lol we would love them here in Australia 🇦🇺

[@DianeinDenmark]

Gosh, that all sounds lovely, Julie. Especially the Danish cherry rolls...have no clue what those are but I LOVE cherries!

[@Julie-ok5fr]

Thank you, Diane :) Thank you, Olwyn in Australia :) I will post the recipe here for everyone! They are simply a sweet roll, like a cinnamon roll from IKEA (smiles), except, instead of cinnamon, they have a cherry-filled center. When I get better at IG, maybe I can be like you and share some food pics. Here it is: www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/overnight-cherry-danish

[@Julie-ok5fr]

OH! and here is the recipe for the butter/sugar cookies too :) www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/cookies/annie-halls-butter-cookies.html

[@Julie-ok5fr]

Olwyn N, thank you! I have shared the recipes here for the sweet items; the breakfast casserole...well, my husband sort of throws that together on his own so it is a little of this and a little of that, but oh, so good :) haha

[@ronyroberts7781]

Watched this in February 2024 and I will say you have succeeded in training us. I can't sit and watch a Diane in Denmark video any longer. I have to be up doing SOMETHING. Today I folded laundry and cleaned out the fridge. Thanks for instilling good habits in us.

[@dianaroque8458]

O, Diane, just "got back from Belgium" with you. So very enjoyable. Now going on a journey with you during the holidays. I am so very blessed. Do not change a thing on your presentations. They are such a blessing to me. Thank you once again Diana from California. Blessings.

[@emmasflying9017]

Hello Diane this was funny! 😁 Thank you ! 😗😗😗

[@debralunnen3378]

Oh How You Make me Happy and Laugh !!! Xoxox Thanks !!!!! Deb in USA !!

[@veronicamelson7087]

Love your videos and you are my daily treat 💜

[@luciegallagher2710]

Oh Diane, I am loving the Christmas videos. You are brilliant and such great ideas! I think I’ll have to make the steeped fruit for my hubby, he’d love it!!! Thank you so much, you are a true inspiration!!! 😘

[@user-mk2vt3kv1p]

thank you for helping me try new things and getting things done! you are such an inspiration and i love listening to your accent! also i live in Pennsylvania and your videos come out just in time to start my day! you have become a big part of MY MORNING ROUTINE!😆

[@DianeinDenmark]

+a Go you, A and thanks for your kind words!

[@cv7357]

Hi Diane, it's Nov 6 of 2018 and I just made the Snaps to be ready for Christmas. Also have the British Christmas Cake in the oven with an hr and a half to go! Feeling on top of things thanks to your Cruising thru the Holidays videos and encouragement! Doing the pistachio/cranberry freezer fudge next - that went over really well last yr! Also want to do the cookie dough that FlyLady Marla taught us this yr. Will be so nice to have all of this done ahead of time!

[@DianeinDenmark]

Wow, you are ahead of the pack, Charlotte - pom pom salute coming your way! 🎉🎉🎉

[@marcemiss]

I'm sooooo baking this!!!!!!! Can't wait!!!!!!

[@leslievalenciano-lopez8887]

Love the Traditions! Thx for sharing!

[@cv7357]

That was fun! Have all my ingredients for these finally & looking fwd to pulling up your videos again as I make them.

[@HG-gr8sl]

Hey.. It's OK Diane... I like your silly ......LOL.. After all - 'Tis the Season to be Jolly!! fa la la la la... He he.. I was just thinking the same thing with those teeny bottles... stash them in your handbag and take them with you on your bike rides on those extra cold days.... assuming there's no breathalysing for cyclists! LOL! Ok.. now I'm silly.. promise I haven't been hitting the schnaps! Helen :) BTW love what DD15 did with the left over fruit the other day :)

[@teresah7748]

Woohoo! I cant wait to decant mine! I think I was about a week behind you.. so will do mine next week. How exciting!

[@ellenmoeller]

What fun!!! I found some cute bottles and am so excited to gift such lovely yummies! So, is December 1st when it’s officially time to enjoy it? Hubby is chomping at the bit!

[@DianeinDenmark]

No need to wait until 1st December, drink a wee nip while you are prepping for Christmas!

[@lornaf3655]

I saved the top of my wedding cake! It wasn't fruit cake though(froze it for our 1st anniversary).Peach schnapps was a big deal when we were teens!!LOL.

[@DianeinDenmark]

Peach snaps...yes!!! Thanks for the memory, Lorna!

[@reggieandherman4251]

My DH makes homemade wine, once turned into sherry. Have got to try this schnapps recipe to warm up the winters. Hygge treat! Mmmm Going under 30 degrees F. next week. Brrr.

[@lovetotravel5864]

Aren't the collapsible things great? I have a collapsible microwave popcorn popper, serving bowls, colander, microwave covers for reheating and even measuring cups all collapsible. They are really great space savers!!

[@DianeinDenmark]

And so much fun to play with! LOL!

[@mandymann7195]

Is it not important to sterilise the bottles first Diane? Love your videos x

[@DianeinDenmark]

Aww, thank you so much, Mandy! It's 40% alcohol (not jam/chutney which will be sitting for a long time, etc) so I do my bottles in the dishwasher on a high heat but if you are worried about it, go ahead and sterilise 'properly'.

[@beverleyforde6505]

What are the sultanas soaking in pls ?

[@suem6004]

Thanks. Hmm. Would liked to have seen you top up the cake. Also, for some reason, the film has everything backwards like your kitchen is in reverse. Kind of weirded me out as I am use to seeing window behind our other shoulder. Silly technolgy. No idea why things get reversed.

[@sanders2378]

Sue M I noticed that too! Just took the iPad over to the mirror to check.

[@DianeinDenmark]

Ha ha, yes, me too! There's been some kind of update to my phone - think I've fixed it now, cross your fingers...

[@renatekuhn9810]

Dear Diana, what Kind of alcohol do you Mix with the dry fruit? LOVELY GREETINGS from germany.....Renate

[@DianeinDenmark]

Guten tag, Renate! The video is here if you want to see me making it kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZjCpmN8pbKZkMU

[@CartB0X]

Just out of curiosity, your video seems to be in reverse from your usual vids, is this thr true layout of your kitchen or the opposite?

[@DianeinDenmark]

Update to the phone, it reversed everything - had me so confused! LOL

[@beverleyforde6505]

Sorry just seen the video titled 'sherry' steeped fruits 🙄