What are you baking/cooking today?

Sure.

2lbs bread dough. (I usually use 750g of bread flour and then remove some before adding rest of ingredients as that makes about 2.5lbs). Make it as normal bread and let it rise once.

Add:
12/13 small yolks (I got large eggs half price so I sort of guessed the amount and did 9 🙈).
8oz caster sugar
8oz softened butter
8oz raisins
8oz sultanas
1 tsp bicarb mixed with dessert spoon milk

Once bread dough has risen you beat the yolks in gradually, mixture should get bubbly. I use a stand mixer otherwise v hard work. Next add sugar and keep beating, then softened butter gradually. Finally mix in the fruit and the bicarb mix. Put into greased pan (should be about 3/4 full). Leave in pan for a second rise in the sun (can you tell it's not a UK recipe? I put in the oven at 40 degrees!).
Bake till golden brown and cooked (try 10 mins at 180, 25 at 170. I forget every year how long).

It's a very, very old recipe. At least my great grandmother but prob older.

Nothing I don't know anyone who bakes on Xmas eve. I plan to cook absolutely nothing today or tomorrow bar breakfast 🙌🙌

As well as the mincemeat that I mentioned earlier, I have made braised red cabbage. The kitchen is now carnage as the red cabbage went everywhere. I even lost an apple under the counter, which took an age to retrieve it!

Pesto and Parmesan pinwheels it is! Thanks all. I can’t believe I’ve never made/tasted these before!

I need to make stuffing - two types, one bread and one sausage meat. Also going to make sausage rolls (will bake them tomorrow morning) and prepare the veg.

I used to boil the ham Christmas Eve then glaze and finish it on Christmas Day, but for the last few years I have used Delia’s oven baked method - easier and tastes nicer too, much less chance of ending up with a dry ham.

Just need to get off here and actually start!

I'm baking a special bread we eat on Christmas morning. It's a bit like a cakier version of Panettone. It contains raisins, sultanas and 13 egg yolks! It's baked in a savarin tin so it's round. You eat it with Edam or Gouda cheese and it's delicious.

That sounds amazing @PrincessOfPreschool would you mind sharing the recipe please?

Meringue for tomorrow's pavlova. Will possibly do Christmas biscuits with DD.

Ooh thanks for the sweet pastry recipe!
Today I am doing

Mince pies
Bailey's tiramisu
Red cabbage
Gammon
1000 layer potatoes for dinner tmrw

Eldest DS is Head Chef and younger DS is sous chef tomorrow, so then I get a rest :)

Lasagne for boxing day, a baked lemon and raspberry cheesecake for tomorrow, and some veg soup for lunch!

This is a really easy sweet pastry recipe @HurdyGurdy19, especially if you have a food processor. It's from Bill Sewell's 'Food from the Place Below' cookbook.

Fruit sourdough bread for the cheese board.

I just made my first ever trifle. Thrilled with how it turned out, hopefully it tastes nice

All I am cooking is the Christmas ham in the slow cooker so one less job for tomorrow and I’ve peeled the potatoes.

when the ham is cooked I’ll then make mulled wine in the slow cooker. But that’s it. Totally intend on having a chilled Christmas and bought the desserts etc

Or you could spread those ingredients over the whole rectangle of pastry and then roll it into a 'Swiss roll'. Slice it up and make pesto/ cheese pinwheels for lunch. Yum.

I'm baking a special bread we eat on Christmas morning. It's a bit like a cakier version of Panettone. It contains raisins, sultanas and 13 egg yolks! It's baked in a savarin tin so it's round. You eat it with Edam or Gouda cheese and it's delicious.

We are about to have Santa pancakes for breakfast but that's the limit of my culinary skills today. It's party food for dinner that just needs shoved in the oven!

Cooking the gammon, probably won’t start on it till Boxing Day though.
More mince pies (Delia’s homemade mincemeat 😋) pastry ready in a plastic bag in the fridge.
Re mince pies, a few years ago I found that they end up more reliably tidy-looking with pastry stars on top, rather than lids. Uses less pastry, too. 🙂

Why I'm putting myself through it, I don't know, but I'm attempting mince pies. I am absolutely hopeless with pastry, even the ready-made stuff. But my husband has eaten all the shop bought ones, and I don't want to go to a shop today.

I am also making (not sure if it counts as baking) a Parsnip, Cranberry and Chestnut Loaf, for a bit of something new for my vegetarian son.

Then I will make some gingerbread, although it really needs a couple of days to get properly sticky.

Yesterday about 5pm I decided to make some mince pies instead of today ( 3rd batch )
Today will prep the veg for tomorrow , and planning a make a spag bol for dinner today . That's it .

I mean cheese onion pesto and herbs sounds like a fab puff pastry tart

turkey, pork, sage & onion stuffing and potatoes

Gingerbread men. Well, biscuits. I make the dough and give my LO a selection of cutters then he chooses.

We have gingerbread and stollen and tomorrow I'm planning on making eggnog pudding (the alcohol-free kind).

Thanks @Jellycatspyjamas and @olderbutwiser I’ll have a play around.

Roll it out, spread marmite and cheese and whatever else, slice into thin long strips, bake for cheese straws. Or roll for cheesy whirls, or whatever.