Christmas baking recipes
Crumbly mince pies, iced cakes, traditional festive breads like stollen and panettone, pavlovas and cookies – all your favourite Christmas cakes and bakes.
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App onlyChocolate spiced gingerbread house cake. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Put a fresh spin on a classic gingerbread house with this showstopper – it simplifies the process by using layers of chocolate sponge and treacle buttercream inside
Dark & stormy fruit cake
Make this Christmas cake a couple of months in advance, if you can, and feed it with rum to give it time to mature and develop deep flavour and texture
Apple, cardamom & stem ginger granola
Gift this granola at Christmas for a thoughtful present. Packed with dried fruit, nuts and stem ginger, it will keep in an airtight container for up to a month
App onlyOrange & brandy mincemeat. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Make this easy twist on mincemeat – it's infused with the festive flavours of orange and brandy, and is easy to make by simply mixing everything together
App onlyMalted chocolate yule log. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Decorate this yule log with white chocolate snowflakes to make it even more Christmassy. It will be a big hit with fans of malted chocolate
Mince pie truffles
What's more festive than mince pie truffles? Serve these bite-size treats as an after-dinner sweet, or gift in pretty boxes tied with decorative ribbon
Easy gingerbread mince pies
Add ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg spices to pastry to make gingerbread-flavoured mince pies. Decorate with stars and dust with icing sugar to serve
Vegan Christmas cookies
Bake these vegan Christmas cookies packed with pistachios and cranberries. Fill your biscuit tin with them for whenever you have guests in over the festive season
App onlyCranberry & orange linzer cookies. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Make these linzer cookies for the Christmas biscuit tin. Filled with cranberry and orange and finished with icing sugar, they also make great festive gifts
Clementine custard tarts
Try a festive twist on custard tarts by adding the zest and juice of clementines. They're delicious served with an afternoon cuppa at Christmas
Stollen bites
Turn stollen into bite-size treats. With squidgy, sweet bread studded with fruit and wrapped in marzipan, it’s easy to see why this German bake is so popular
Classic everyday fruitcake
Use citrus juice to soak the fruit - instead of alcohol - in this lighter, family-friendly fruitcake. It can also work as an easy Christmas cake.
App onlyGruyere & caramelised onion pretzels. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Rustle up these cheesy pretzels to serve on their own or with soup. They take a little effort, but warm, freshly baked cheesy pretzels are always worth it
Igloo cake
Create this cute and clever igloo-themed cake, complete with a penguin family. It's the perfect Christmas treat to decorate with the kids
Marrons glacés
Prefer to make, rather than buy, a Christmas gift for family and friends? These candied chestnuts are pretty as jewels as well as being delicious
Jessica's magical Christmas cake
Dazzle guests with this fab cake. Designed by eight-year-old Jessica Whitlow in our magical Christmas cake competition, it features three flavoured sponges
App onlyBrown butter & cardamom lebkuchen. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Make a twist on the classic lebkuchen over Christmas. Spiced with fragrant cardamom, brown butter gives these chewy cookies a nutty edge
Iced mince pies
Stock your cake tin with these pretty bakes, or package them up for gifting. Choose your favourite sprinkles to decorate, or pipe snowman faces onto them
Chocolate Christmas biscuits
These easy chocolate biscuits are the perfect Christmas treat that both kids and adults will love. Get the whole family involved with decoration
Ginger & pomegranate pavlova
Serve a modern twist on a Christmas classic with this stunning pavlova. The pairing of crunchy ginger biscuits and sweet pomegranate works beautifully
Vanilla spiced cookies
Make these spiced festive biscuits to decorate our gingerbread house cake, then enjoy the extras or give them as a gift to friends and family
App onlyHot doughnuts with spiced sugared nut coating. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Enjoy fantastically fluffy doughnuts without the need for yeast and proving. Pulse the nuts to a fine consistency for the coating as this helps them stick
App onlyPrune & armagnac Christmas star cake. This is a premium piece of content available to registered users.
Want a rich fruitcake for Christmas that's properly boozy without needing to plan months ahead? Make this prune and armagnac version your go-to recipe
Mint chocolate chip cookies
Enjoy these cookies during the Christmas season, and share with loved ones. They're made with little pieces of peppermint candy canes for an extra-festive flourish
