Can You Guess THIS Festive Food From Its Close-Up?

How well do you know your festive foods?

Do you consider yourself a bit of a foodie? Love the Christmas dinner meal more than any other? If so, we have just the festive challenge for you. Our quiz asks you to identify popular seasonal dishes from a series of sumptuous close-ups. How many Christmas classics can you spot?

Click or scroll through our gallery to see if you can recognize these popular festive dishes from the zoomed in images.

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Golden and caramelized on the outside, moist and juicy on the inside (if you get the recipe right, that is), this dish is truly worth the time it takes in the oven. But from the image can you guess whether it’s sweet or savoury?

Roast turkey

It wasn’t the glassy shell of a crème brûlée or even crispy sweet potatoes, but the golden, shiny skin of a roast turkey. Basted in butter and meat juices, there's nothing better than this delicious Christmas centerpiece served with all the classic trimmings.

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A tart, sweet jam made from a red fruit that grows in North America. Many people like to make it themselves, while others believe a store-bought version will do. This one is easy to guess...or is it?

Cranberry sauce

Of course, it was a gleaming bowl of ruby red cranberry sauce. We’d always recommend making this particular condiment from scratch, so you can decide exactly how sweet you want it, add extra flavors such as orange juice or port and keep some of the juicy cranberries whole, for added texure.

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For many people, this fluffy-on-the-inside, crispy-on-the-outside side dish is the best part of Christmas dinner. It’s a key component of a British festive roast and is also a popular choice in the USA and Canada.

Roast potatoes

As you might have guessed, it was a glorious pile of perfectly crispy roast potatoes. This versatile side works with all manner of dishes, but is pretty unbeatable smothered in turkey gravy as part of a traditional Christmas feast. To make them extra tasty, try roasting parboiled potatoes in duck or goose fat.

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A centerpiece dish that’s as integral to the festive season as gifts, chocolate and a Christmas tree. Some people prefer to painstakingly baste and glaze their own, while others will just as happily buy it prepped and ready to pop in the oven. Either way, no holiday spread is complete without one.

Baked ham

It was, of course, the meaty pink interior of a glazed holiday ham. Served hot or cold, there’s nothing better than having a joint of ham in the fridge for festive grazing, Christmas sandwiches and buffet-style family meals.

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What’s chocolatey and delicious but designed to look like something you’d find on a forest floor? French speakers will know it as bûche de noël, while in Flemish the word for it is kerststron.

Chocolate yule log

The image showed a close-up of the decadent chocolate buttercream icing on a yule log – a chocolate cake made to look like a log burned in the fireplace at Christmas. It’s made by rolling a light chocolate sponge with buttercream or mousse and covering it in chocolate icing that’s etched with a fork, so it resembles bark.

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No Christmas (or Thanksgiving) dinner worth its salt is complete without this crowd-pleasing side dish. Traditionally served with poultry, it can also accompany pork, red meat or vegetarian dishes. Though it’s a side dish, often as much care and attention goes into making it as the main.

Stuffing

That’s right – we’re talking about stuffing. A mixture of breadcrumbs, herbs and butter, stuffing was traditionally put inside a bird’s cavity before roasting. Now most cooks prefer to prepare it separately, either rolled into balls or baked in a dish. Packed with festive flavors, it’s a proper treat in its own right.

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Although this dish plays a fairly low-key role on the Christmas dinner table, for some the festive feast would be ruined without it. Christmas isn’t the only time it makes an appearance either...

Gravy

The image showed a zoomed in jug of hot gravy. A proper turkey gravy takes a bit of time and effort, but it can make or break a Christmas dinner. After all, it's so much more than a sauce – it’s what brings all of the other components of a holiday plate together, and keeps them warm too.

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A food that’s sweet, spicy and snaps when you bite into it – although it’s often made for an entirely different purpose than to be eaten. Giant slabs are used to construct miniature villages – complete with inhabitants – that are sometimes better admired than consumed.

A gingerbread house

It was the smooth crumb of hardy piece of gingerbread, a durable confection perfect for building decorative houses. Baking and building gingerbread houses is a favourite Christmas pastime in many countries and is a great activity to really get you in the festive mood.

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A British food that has been around since the 16th century. From its name you might assume this dish is savory, but the ingredients used to make it include plenty of sugar, dried fruit, spices and brandy.

Mince pies

Correct – it was the gooey, fruity filling of a sweet mince pie, which usually features crumbly shortcrust pastry filled with a rich and sticky mixture called mincemeat. Historically, mince pies also included chopped mutton, beef, rabbit or game but modern day versions tend to eschew the savory ingredients.

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From November onwards you’ll start seeing these treats everywhere. They’re super easy to make, fun to decorate and are loved by adults and children alike.

Sugar cookies

It was the colorful icing on a beautifully decorated Christmas sugar cookie. Why not have a go at making your own; the ingredients are simple – just butter, sugar and flour – and you’ll end up with lovely sweet cookies with soft centers and crisp edges. When it comes to festive shapes and decorations, stars, snowflakes, baubles, trees, presents and angels work perfectly.

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This photo shows a hint of a dish that’s served almost exclusively at Christmas. It features two crowd-pleasing ingredients combined in one delicious side. They can be bite-sized appetizers or a full-sized component of Christmas dinner. Either way, you can be sure they’ll be juicy, crisp and devoured with gusto!

Pigs in blankets

It was a sumptuous close-up of pigs in blankets, a dish whose name has an entirely different meaning in the US (where it refers to frankfurters in croissant dough). In the UK, it’s a festive favorite and features chipolatas wrapped in bacon.

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You either love or hate this vegetable, but Christmas simply wouldn’t be the same without it. It makes an annual appearance on festive tables all around the world and is very nutritious.

Brussels sprouts

These miniature cabbages, with their distinctively nutty, slightly bitter flavor, tend to divide opinion. But Brussels sprouts dishes don’t have to be boring. We think they’re best when sautéed in oil and served with chopped bacon, roasted nuts and Parmesan.

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Another quintessentially British food, this is an absolute non-negotiable in many households across the UK on the big day, but you don’t see it as much in the US. It’s also very historic – the dish is typically made on the last Sunday before advent, a tradition that dates all the way back to medieval England.

Christmas pudding

A boozy, fruity, incredibly rich dessert, Christmas pudding divides opinion even in the UK – many people (especially children) prefer a chocolate-based dessert to end their festive feast. However, there's some lovely traditions associated with Christmas pudding, such as baking a penny or trinket in the mix and covering it in brandy and setting it alight before serving.

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A peppermint-flavored food, this confection definitely shouldn’t be chewed. Legend has it they were given to 17th-century choir boys to keep them quiet during church services.

Candy canes

That's right – it was the red and white stripes of a candy cane. The sweets originated in Germany and it’s thought they were shaped like a shepherd’s crook – a religious symbol – to make them suitable for being taken into church. Nowadays, the hook shape is ideal for hanging from Christmas trees and they make an appearance in many a Christmas stocking too.

Now can you guess these famous fast foods from their close-ups?