Make-ahead Christmas recipes
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Stir-up Sunday recipes
Best of the best Christmas pudding
Inspired by a family recipe, this Christmas pudding is intensely fruity and deeply spiced – the best figgy pudding you’ll ever make.
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Ice cream recipes
Spiced fruit and mascarpone ice cream sandwiches
These ice cream sandwiches are inspired by our popular Christmas pudding semifreddo. A delight to have on hand in the freezer this Christmas.
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Christmas cake recipes
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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Vegetarian pie recipes
Ottolenghi’s butternut crunch pie
This ruffled filo pie from team Ottolenghi cleverly treads the line between sweet and savoury, with a top note of zingy heat thanks to a scattering of pickled chillies.
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Crab recipes
Crab pots with parmesan crisps
Effortless but packed with flavour, this easy crab starter with fancy parmesan crisps can be made entirely in advance in just 15 minutes.
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Christmas baking recipes
Orange gugelhupf with cranberries
A majestic, yeasted gugelhupf studded with dried fruit is a festive must-bake in much of Central Europe. Irina Georgescu shares her recipe.
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Mussel recipes
Grilled mussels with garlic and parsley
These grilled mussels with garlic and parsley butter make a delicious starter and they look impressive too.
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Trifle recipes
Traditional English trifle
Raspberry jelly, thick vanilla custard, sherry-soaked sponge fingers and pillowy mounds of whipped cream: it's the ultimate traditional trifle.
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December seasonal recipes
Chicken liver pâté with beetroot, orange and sage
Orange zest and liqueur give this pâté a festive flavour, with beetroot and crispy sage leaves adding colour and interest.
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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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Christmas buffet recipes
Cheesy Marmite puff pastry swirls
These simple but sophisticated cheese scrolls keep for 2 months in the freezer. Have a batch on hand ready for Christmas parties and nibbles.
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Make-ahead Christmas recipes
Harissa lamb kofte bites
These freeze-ahead kofte bites are perfect for Christmas parties and festive nibbles.. Serve the harissa lamb kofte with cooling yogurt dip.
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Make-ahead Christmas recipes
Caramelised onion, pear and chestnut stuffing
Get ready for Christmas with this make-ahead chestnut stuffing recipe from Chantelle Nicholson. Freeze, then defrost when ready to bake.
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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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Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
Chocolate coconut meringue wreath
This is one epic dessert. A chocolate coconut meringue wreath topped with fruit curd, chocolate cream, toasted coconut and melted chocolate.
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Roast potato recipes
Garlic roast potatoes with bay leaves
Looking for a roast potatoes recipe that won't let you down? Our garlic and bay roast potatoes are crisp and golden with soft fluffy insides.
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