Traditional Christmas Food from Around the World
| December 13, 2017
10. Szaloncukor – Hungary
Szaloncukor are delicious chocolate candies that Hungarian families use to decorate their Christmas tree. The chocolates contain a delicious fondant filling flavored with different ingredients. Some typically Hungarian flavors are sour cherry, rum nut, and chestnut.
The chocolates are then wrapped in a shiny cellophane twist, and hung on the tree with twine. Through the years, Hungarian children have come up with ingenious methods for surreptitiously eating the chocolate out of the wrapping, so their parents don’t realize they’re gone. Szaloncukor from the tree always taste better than regular chocolates!
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