Christmas recipes for large groups
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Canapés and cocktails
Gougères with pineapple chilli jam
These up-to-date gougères prove that the combo of sweet fruit and salty cheese is still a winner for party food.
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Bundt cake recipes
Christmas bundt cake
Create a festive showstopper with our Christmas bundt cake. Master the base recipe, but adapt the ingredients to best suit your tastebuds.
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Christmas baking recipes
Mince pie treacle tart
Lola Milne’s sublime yet simple pudding is an amalgamation of treacle tart and mince pie: sticky, spicy, fruity and unashamedly festive.
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Vegetarian Christmas dinner recipes
Sourdough stuffing balls
These zingy sourdough stuffing balls are a vibrant alternative to the heavy, traditional versions. Great with turkey, chicken or goose.
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Celebrity chef Christmas recipes
Jeremy Lee’s profiterole tower
A classic profiterole tower: delicate choux puffs stuffed with custard and ice cream, with a jug of warm chocolate sauce to pour over the top.
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Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
Mince pie ice cream sandwiches
Looking for an easy but impressive Christmas dessert? Mince pie ice cream sandwiches, served in golden brioche, tick all the right boxes.
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Christmas pudding recipes
Christmas pudding made with beer
Packed with plump, moist fruit, this is a fragrant, complex winner, only made better by the addition of dark beer, prunes, figs and dates.
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Gill Meller recipes
Gill Meller’s brined barbecued turkey with a rich gravy
Gill Meller explains how to brine and barbecue a turkey. The method may be unconventional but the results are succulent and full of flavour.
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Trifle recipes
Chocolate and caramel popcorn trifle
Trifle can be an epic undertaking but this crunchy chocolate and caramel trifle, despite being made from scratch, only takes 30 mins to make.
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Cheesecake recipes
Lindor white chocolate and passion fruit cheesecake
For a truly decadent festive dessert, top delicious white chocolate cheesecake with passion fruit, toasted coconut and white choc Lindor.
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Christmas chocolate recipes
After Eights chocolate tart
Obsessed with After Eights? Our next level chocolate tart has crisp pastry filled with layers of velvety mint white and dark choc ganache.
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Christmas chocolate recipes
Ferrero Rocher self-saucing chocolate pudding
Give chocolate pudding a festive twist. This melt-in-the-middle pudding is filled with hazelnuts and topped with Ferrero Rocher.
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Festive desserts
Baileys yule log
Give yule log a boozy twist with a splash of Baileys. Chocolate roulade is filled with luscious Baileys frosting in this make-ahead recipe.
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Sharing recipes to feed a crowd
Giant Ferrero Rocher éclair to share
The award for the biggest, best pastry goes to our giant Ferrero Rocher éclair. This showstopper serves 8-10 for an ideal Christmas dessert.
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Baileys recipes
Chocolate Baileys cake
Meet the ultimate bake for Baileys lovers. Our chocolate Baileys cake is layered with white choc sponge, ganache & mascarpone buttercream.
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Christmas pudding recipes
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Christmas pudding
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall shares his recipe for Christmas pudding, the River Cottage way. This zesty pud is packed with citrus and apple.
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