Christmas baking recipes
Crumbly mince pies, pretty Christmas cupcakes and frosted panettone, find all your favourites festive cakes and bakes here.
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Fruitcake with apricot butter icing
- Ready in 1 hr 40 mins
This delicious light fruit sponge is packed with storecupboard staples like nuts and dried fruit, it's also budget-friendly
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Chocolate & ginger refrigerator squares
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- Ready in 20 mins
This quick and easy fridge cakes make a great addition to a homemade gift hamper
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Brandy pudding
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- Ready in 3 hrs 45 mins
This pud is impressive, delicious and makes a great light alternative dessert to a traditional Christmas pudding
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Leftover veg & orange cake
- Ready in 1 hr 10 mins
A novel way to use up root vegetables is to bake up a sweet, moist sponge with citrus flavours
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Stollen spirals
- Ready in 2 hrs 45 mins
Bake a batch of these sweet German buns over Christmas and enjoy at breakfast or teatime... or both
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Chocolate chestnut cupcakes
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- Ready in 1 hr 20 mins
Sweet chestnuts and chocolate make a heavenly combination at Christmas time
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Chocolate, cranberry & macadamia brownies
- Ready in 55 mins
Leftover cranberry sauce? Use it as an excuse to make these delicious chocolate, nutty cake squares
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Mincemeat
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- Ready in 12 hrs 30 mins
Lulu Grimes makes Christmas baking easy with a batch of homemade mincemeat and three simple ways to use it - cake, pies and pudding
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Cinnamon shortbread
- Ready in 45 mins
Shards of this simple, Christmas-spiced shortbread add a professional finish to creamy desserts
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Mini gingerbread houses
- Ready in 1 hr 25 mins
Everyone can decorate their own gingerbread house this Christmas, with Sarah Cook's cute mini versions
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Reindeer cupcakes
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Kids will love making these cute Christmas cupcakes from Planet Cake
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Marzipan Eccles tarts
- Ready in 1 hr 15 mins
This fun spin on the traditional Lancashire fruit cakes uses leftover marzipan to make irresistible individual pies
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Unbelievably easy mince pies
- Ready in 1 hr
You can throw the dough around and the mince pies still come out crisp and biscuity in this kid-friendly Christmas recipe
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Chocolate fruitcake
- Ready in 2 hrs 35 mins
If anyone in your family isn't keen on traditional fruitcake, this might be the compromise you've been looking for
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Little Eccles mince pies
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From freezer to oven, these cheeky Eccles mince pies are perfect mid-afternoon with an equally cheeky glass of mulled wine. It is Christmas after all!
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Sandham family mincemeat
- Ready in 30 mins
A real treat. Associate food editor, Barney Desmazery, has had this recipe in his family for 100 years
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From-the-freezer mince pies
- Ready in 55 mins
Keep these festive favourites nice and simple or spice things up with some imaginative twists
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Baked mincemeat doughnuts
- Ready in 2 hrs 30 mins
Get into the Christmas spirit and enjoy the pure pleasure of baking these mincemeat filled doughnuts
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Pear & mincemeat crumble cake
- Ready in 2 hrs
With a hint of spice and little pockets of mincemeat, this is a lovely post-Christmas cake, great with warm custard
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Fig & honey Christmas cake
- Ready in 4 hrs
This traditional Christmas cake is the perfect combination of fruit, nuts and spices
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Posh spice cake
- Ready in 2 hrs
A fruit cake for those who like theirs light, spicy, fruity and moist, with a tart cranberry topping
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Stollen wreath
- Ready in 2 hrs 50 mins
BBC Good Food's show-stealing December 08 cover recipe - perfect if you fancy a change from the usual Christmas cake
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Snow-topped holly cakes
- Ready in 2 hrs 30 mins
This square Christmas cake is cut into two loaf-shaped cakes, so you can give one to a friend
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Christmas cupcakes
- Ready in 1 hr 25 mins
These beautiful and classy little cakes make lovely gifts, and kids will enjoy decorating them too
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Yule slice
- Ready in 2 hrs
Perfect for health-conscious people who still like a Christmas treat, this is dairy-free and full of fruit and nuts
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Simmer-&-stir Christmas cake
- Ready in 3 hrs 45 mins
An easy-to-make alternative to traditional Christmas cakes which requires no beating
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Orange frosted panettone cake
- Ready in 12 mins
If you’ve been given a panettone over Christmas but you’re not sure what to do with it, try this superfast, special stacked cake
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Christmas morning spiced bread
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- Ready in 3 hrs 10 mins
This festive bread can be made ahead and frozen and makes a lovely treat for breakfast on Christmas morning
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Lebkuchen
- Ready in 30 mins
A German biscuit similar to gingerbread, lebkuchen is easy to make and a great Christmas treat
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Double ginger gingerbread men
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- Ready in 1 hr
Even the smallest hands can help make these friendly little fellows made with a versatile gingerbread recipe
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Cranberry & white chocolate panettone
- Ready in 4 hrs
The perfect treat to serve up for Boxing Day brunch, panettone is easy to make if you have a food processor fitted with a dough blade
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Jewelled mince pies
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- Ready in 1 hr 15 mins
Step up the quality of your mince pies with this melt-in-the-mouth recipe
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Vanilla shortbread dough
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- Ready in 15 mins
Use this dough as the base for biscuits, to eat yourself, or to make as a Christmas gift
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Mini panettone
- Ready in 3 hrs 20 mins
Perfect for an indulgent brunch over the Christmas holidays, these little Italian treats are rich and devilishly buttery
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Deep-filled mince pies
- Ready in 45 mins
These deep, decadent mince pies with a layer of almond frangipane cook brilliantly from frozen
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Starry mincemeat slices
- Ready in 1 hr 15 mins
Get creative with your mincemeat this Christmas and try this simple traybake version of mince pies
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Spiced & iced Christmas trees
- Ready in 1 hr 45 mins
The whole family will enjoy making these cute and Christmassy gingerbread treats
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Fruity Christmas biscotti
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- Ready in 1 hr 15 mins
The perfect make-ahead gift, these will keep for up to a month after baking and look really impressive
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Sparkling vanilla Christmas cookies
- Ready in 22 mins
Hang these from a Christmas tree or pack them into boxes as end-of-term gifts for teachers and friends.
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Orange & ginger stained glass biscuits
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- Ready in 35 mins
Kids will love to make these magical Christmas biscuits and hang them with pretty ribbon
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Spicy tree biscuits
- Ready in 2 hrs
These cookies are great for getting the kids involved in cooking, and they will look great on the tree too
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Cranberry & cream cheese muffins
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- Ready in 40 mins
These sweet muffins have a beautifully creamy middle and go brilliantly with a cup of tea
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Cranberry & pear pies
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These cute and festive pies make a good warm dessert or a tangy alternative to mince pies
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Sugar-dusted mince pie parcels
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- Ready in 35 mins
Want freshly baked, homemade mince pies without the hassle of lining tins? Try our easiest-ever version
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Gingerbread gift jars
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- Ready in 20 mins
Layer a jar with ingredients for delicious ginger biscuits and present as a thoughtful homemade gift
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Rudolph’s carrot flapjacks
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- Ready in 1 hr 5 mins
These moist oaty slices are packed full of fruits, seeds and spices - a great bake to make with the kids
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