Christmas spice recipes
Get grinding those festive spice blends for these Christmas spice recipes. Mulling spices – cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg – have so much more to offer than to perk up cheap red plonk. Use the flavours to add some festive sensory sparkle to everything from meaty stews to sweet syrups – they’re a must-have in your festive cooking.
Try a sophisticated spin with mulled pears three ways, a fragrant mulled fig and apple Christmas cake or a hazelnut meringue cake.
It’s not all about sweet treats. Our mulling-spiced apple biscuits make the perfect partner for cheese, mulled wine-braised venison cobbler is the warming meal you need in your life and our blood orange, burrata and cinnamon-cashew salad is the perfect start to any festive meal.
Want to warm up with a tipple? Check out our mulled drinks collection.
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Pears
Mulled pears, three ways
This showstopping trio of mulled poached pears - simmered in wine, white tea or cider - offers something for everyone at your Christmas table
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Oranges
Blood orange, burrata and cinnamon-cashew salad with mulled wine glaze
Blood orange and burrata salad gets a festive spin with a spiced mulled wine dressing. Perfect as a Christmas starter or Boxing Day salad.
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Duck
Sauerkraut-stuffed duck with roast apples and mulled wine gravy
This festive roast duck sings with mulled wine flavours. A rub spices the duck's skin while a mulled wine gravy adds richness.
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Christmas biscuits
Mulling-spiced apple biscuits for cheese
Oats, parmesan and apples are given a mulled spice kick to create seriously good biscuits for cheese. Add them to your Christmas cheeseboard.
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Venison
Mulled wine-braised venison cobbler
The warming, fruity flavours of mulled wine are a natural companion for venison. Pair them together under cheesy scones in this cobbler.
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Christmas cakes
Mulled fig and apple Christmas cake
This lighter take on Christmas cake is packed with fruit, adding figs and apples to the classic mix. Mulled cider brings comforting warmth.
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Christmas trimmings, sides and sauces
Mulled wine carrots with crispy sage breadcrumbs
Make glazed carrots a star of your Christmas table. Braise carrots in warming mulled wine, citrus, stock and orange until glossy.
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Make-ahead desserts
Oranges in mulled wine syrup
A fruit salad recipe with a difference. It makes a beautiful, refreshing dinner party dessert, or an alternative to Christmas pudding.
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Festive desserts
Hazelnut meringue cake with mulled wine pears
This is an indulgent meringue cake that's creamy in the middle and crisp on the outside – complemented perfectly by sweet, mulled wine pears.
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Pears
Poached mulled wine pears
Give poached pears a festive twist with our easy mulled wine pears recipe. A lighter alternative to Christmas pudding or trifle.
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Burns Night
Honey parfait with mulled red wine plums
These delicately flavoured frozen parfait desserts manage to be classy, romantic and delicious all at the same time.
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Christmas for six
Chocolate tarts with mulled pears
These delicious chocolate tarts with mulled pears from expert baker Eric Lanlard make a great alternative to Christmas pudding, and serve 6.
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