Christmas Calendar 2018 - Merry Christmas to all of you with a glass for Winter cider

I want to wish all of you a merry Christmas and thank you for dropping by on small visits to my little kitchen :-) I hope you have enjoyed your visit(s), few or many, here, being either a short browse or a long stay.

Today is the day of farewell to this year Christmas Calendar of 2018, which I hope have brought you joy during a perhaps stressful Christmas time. I have for sure got a kitchen full of Christmas goodies, when making all the many blog posts for this year´s Christmas Calendar.

Thank your for dropping by and have wonderful Christmas together with your family :-)

In case you want to serve to some type of mulled wine I hereby share the very last recipe from this year's Christmas Calendar with you. It is a recipe from the weekly magazine of Søndag (December 2018). I decided to add in less of the vanilla pod, as the prices on vanilla pods are gigantic nowadays.

Winter cider: - 10-12 servings

• 3 bottles of 75 cl apple cider (NOT the flavoured soft drink style of cider, but the real stuff)
• 9 cloves
• 3 star anise
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 4½ tablespoon brown sugar
• muscat nut - grated - addition according to your taste preference
• ½ vanilla pod - both vanilla corns as well as pod

1. Pour the apple cider into a medium-large cooking pot.
2. Add in all the spices and sugar.
3. Open up the ½ vanilla pod, remove the vanilla corns. Add both the vanilla corns as well as the vanilla pod into the cider mixture.
4. Bring the cider and spices up in temperature, the cider should not be boiling.
5. Pour the cider into glass and serve the cider warm.
6. Cheers and merry Christmas :-)