What could be better than that atmosphere during the Christmas season, when everything is lit up with the lights of decorations and the air in homes begins to smell of Christmas sweets? It's time for a tasty trip.

On this page a collection of recipes that make their appearance on Lombard tables at Christmas. Discover your favorite!

The symbol of Milan is panettone and it absolutely cannot be missed during the Christmas holidays. For the typical dessert of the Lombard capital you need eggs, sugar, spices and the addition of candied fruit and raisins.

In the Bergamo area, you taste a sponge cake, shaped like a polenta. But it is not a savory dish, but rather the typical Christmas dessert named Polenta e osei, precisely because it is covered with yellow almond paste decorated with marzipan birds.

Simple ingredients for Miascia cake, a recipe that comes from Lake Como. A cake made with stale bread, white and yellow flour, fresh and dried fruit.

Amaretti di Saronno are world famous, a dry cake with a soft heart inside to be enjoyed in the company of the cake's namesake liqueur.

It is crumbly to the point, soft or hard and covered with chocolate of all kinds, Nougat is not only famous in Cremona but also all over the world.