Christmas stress because you don’t know yet what to serve your family this Christmas? These five recipe apps will have you baked over Christmas.
These recipe apps make Christmas dinner a breeze
Whether you want to keep the raclette grill in the attic for a year, or are always trying to put an innovative three-course dinner on the table: it can sometimes be difficult to find fun and easy Christmas recipes. iPhone therefore list some of the finest recipe apps for when you want to turn Christmas into a culinary party.
1. From Pauline’s Kitchen
Food blog From Pauline’s Kitchen is a daily source of inspiration, and around the holidays new recipes appear in the accompanying app every day to serve an easy, but delicious Christmas dinner.
But also special dishes for the Christmas breakfast, such as savory French toast, or a luxurious Christmas menu that you can prepare completely in an airfryer. It couldn’t be easier.
Easily add recipes to your own collection by creating an account and pressing the heart. The handy and clear search function allows you to quickly discover the recipes you want to prepare.
2. Kitchen Stories
Kitchen Stories is a popular recipe app for a reason. Every cooking fanatic can find something for a mango moment for dessert, or the perfect steak for the main course. But more importantly, the steps to prepare something are very visual and clearly explained.
This way you can easily cook along with the recipe. You can easily filter by categories using the search function. As a result, you will also quickly find a Christmas recipe if you want to cook gluten-free or if you want to form a menu with an Asian touch.
Do you already have a recipe in mind, but does it involve some tricky skills? Then check out the heading ‘Cooking Tips’, where you can easily learn how to video cutting skills, basics such as ‘how to thicken a sauce’, baking instructions or how to make your own mayonnaise. This way you can amaze your whole family at your skills in the kitchen.
3. All of Holland Bakt
An impressive cake for dessert at Christmas dinner, or a delicious cake for Christmas brunch is easy with the recipes from the Heel Holland Bakt app. This one is full of baking recipes, including an ingredients list that you can add to a shopping list.
In addition, a timer can be found in the explanation for each step that takes time, so that you can keep track of several timers in the app during baking, without having to leave the app. You are also in the right place for savory baked goods or appetizers, because you will also find plenty of recipes for pasties, flammkuchen or sausage rolls, for example.
Or how about making your own naan or pita bread for soup? Extra fun if you also follow the television program, because all recipes for creations of participants in Heel Holland Bakt appear in the app after each episode. Ready? Bake!
4. Jamie’s Ultimate Recipes
Jamie Oliver has been popular for his programs for years, and the famous chef also offers plenty of inspiration around Christmas. Jamie’s Ultimate Recipes is a collection of over 600 recipes, including many Christmas recipes. Great, because that’s how you fish from an endless recipe pond and you have your three-course dinner together.
The cooking steps are shown in detail with photos of each step. In addition to the ingredients list, you will also find an overview of the necessary utensils for each recipe. You will also find all kinds of useful how-to videos in the app.
Would you rather not invest in a recipe app? Then there is also a free variant, called Jamie’s Recipes. At least fifteen new, seasonal recipes are added to this app every Monday.
Of course you will find Christmas recipes in the app this week, no less than 27 pieces. Very handy to take screenshots if you find something tasty, because the disadvantage of this app is that the recipes are only temporarily accessible. After a while, they will only be accessible through the Ultimate Recipes app.
5. VTM Koken
Our southern neighbors are just as well known as Burgundians, which is why VTM Koken is also worth a look if you are looking for original and new Christmas recipes. Television channel VTM has quite a few cooking programs, and all recipes from these episodes can be found in the app.
For example, the explanation of a recipe always consists of the accompanying video, so you immediately see how it should look like. Not only Christmas recipes for a starter, main course or dessert are included, but you can also find accompanying cocktails or beautiful aperitifs.
With a recipe you can indicate for how many people you cook, so that the quantities are automatically adjusted accordingly. You can also easily add recipes that you are going to use to My Kitchen, where all your favorites will be saved.
Need Christmas gift inspiration?
If you also need inspiration for Christmas presents, we’ll get you started. We have listed 15 gift tips for every Apple user. This way you can also figure out what to put under the tree without stress, for yourself or your loved ones.