14 advent recipes

The Pennsylvania Dutch settlers made these at Thanksgiving and stored them in a stoneware crock until Christmas. The cookies can be made at any time, but allowed to age for 4-6 weeks.

This recipe was inspired by Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. 2. It was developed as a shrimp based filling for a small Vol-au-vent.

Homemade vol au vent shells made from puff pastry shaped around a foil ball for a hollow center. Fill with chicken, seafood, or mushroom sauce for an elegant French appetizer.

Classic French chicken vol-au-vents: flaky puff pastry shells filled with cubed chicken in a creamy sherry-laced white sauce. Elegant, freezer-friendly, and ready in 40 minutes.

These small but scrumptious pastries are made with salmon and diced cucumbers.

This is such a fun recipe. I made an entree Vol Au Vent for a recent garden party with this chicken filling, filled the small puff pastry baskets with it. Not only it looked nice and elegant, it also tasted amazingly delicious. A great pick!

Aebleskiver - a Danish dessert, like doughnut holes, but sweeter & much better traditionally served with glogg during the Advent.

Elegant seafood Wellington with lobster, prawns, and scallops flamed in cognac, draped in a silky Nantua sauce, and served in golden puff pastry vol-au-vents.

Puff pastry patty shells (vol-au-vent cases) with golden flaky walls and a hollow center for creamy fillings. Two-ingredient pastry cases that bake sky-high from frozen rounds.

Slow cooker apple cake layers a biscuit-style base under sliced tart apples, cinnamon-sugar dust, and apricot jam. A vented crockpot lid keeps the cake from steaming dense.

Homemade puff pastry from scratch using a classic six-fold lamination of dough and butter. The base for croissants, palmiers, vol-au-vents, and proper buttery turnovers.

Master chef puff pastry made with classic French lamination and six single turns, building hundreds of buttery flaky layers. Restaurant-quality dough for tarts, vol-au-vents, napoleons, and palmiers.

Rough puff pastry is the home cook's shortcut to puff pastry, made by folding walnut-sized chunks of cold fat through a soft dough four to five times. Flaky enough for tart shells, vol-au-vents, and turnovers.

Homemade fruit pie with a flaky double crust, a vented top, and a sparkle of sugar over the rim. Shielding the edges with foil keeps them from scorching while the filling bubbles and the top bakes golden.