What and how much did you bake over Christmas?

I disagree. Homemade is so much nicer. But the secret is to spread it out and freeze as much as you can in advance.

I made my Christmas cake, Christmas pudding and mincemeat on one day in October. They all use similar ingredients so it was easy to shop for them.

Then throughout November I made things and froze them eg cranberry sauce takes ten minutes while you make a meal. Sausage rolls are easy to make and freeze well. I made Yule log and froze it. Same with stuffings, bread sauce, various puddings and cakes etc. I just did them one thing at a time spread over weeks.

I froze some mince pies but they're easy to make fresh, pastry takes seconds in the food processor. I made savoury cheese biscuits to have with nibbles and drinks and frozen them.

I have various Christmas cookbooks and lots of other cookbooks and they all state whether a particular recipe will freeze. For Christmas catering the freezer really is your friend.

Plus leftovers usually freeze well, I froze turkey, gratin dauphinois, boeuf bourguingnon, turkey soup, which did more meals after the day.

I made pigs in blankets but only because I was feeling extra (bought the dough and wrapped them). I order the cakes, Yule log from the store.
when I was growing up my mom and grandma used to spend the whole day in the kitchen baking and cooking just to sit shattered at the end of the day. The food was also way too much and I hated eating leftovers for almost a week. So I make (or more like buy) a moderate amount that can be eaten within a day, 2 max.

DH made a Yule log and gingerbread with DC. DC made sweets by themselves. I made sausage rolls and cheese twists with DC.

I make the stuff people particularly ask for/appreciate as being home made - I don't bother making mince pies for example as I'm the only person in the family who likes them and I'm happy with decent shop-bought ones.

Christmas cake
Ricciarelli
Speculaas/spice cookies - double batch
Chocolate shortbread - double batch
Spiced roasted nuts
Spicy cheese savouries

Plus a batch of custard tarts to use up the egg yolks from making the Christmas cake icing, nuts and ricciarelli (all of which use egg whites)

First year ever, I didn’t bake anything or make any food.

i had a perforated appendix 10 days before Xmas so managed to go to the supermarket twice to get food with help and even purchased braised red cabbage as I usually cook it in the le cruset and I wasn’t supposed to lift

i did bubble and squeak with left overs by putting in batches in food processor.

i did host Xmas dinner and guests brought puddings

Shortbread
chocolate chip peanut butter cookies
white bread
focaccia with garlic and rosemary
Breton gateau
Mince pies - 3 types
Glamorgan sausage rolls
pork sausage rolls
cheesy bacon turnovers
apple turnovers

I could have baked a lot more but ran out of days!

Not a thing….m&s do it all for me

None.

Yule log, cinnamon buns and stollen

I baked some bread and that’s it. Bought everything thing else. No time to bake plus I’m a rubbish baker.

Christmas cake
Christmas pudding
vegan chocolate cake
vegan chocolate chip cookies
yule log
sausage rolls
Cardamom and orange shortbread
vegan sausage rolls
sachertorte
apple cake
vegan wellington
apricot couranne
That’s me done for 2025

I made a gluten free Christmas cake and it’s absolutely delicious. I was hoping to not keep eating it after new years but it’s calling me and I keep having another slice.

I also made peppermint creams with milk, white and dark chocolate and they were also delicious. But are now all gone.

everything else I bought. Some years I make truffles or cookies but we didn’t this year, I don’t eat gluten any more and I haven’t quite worked out GF recipes so didn’t risk any major bakes

Absolutely nothing.

Sourdough pizza base, Plum crumble, Sourdough naan flatbreads & Apple tarte tatin. I very rarely bake now as kids are all at Uni/working & we're trying to eat more healthily. But Christmas was an exception.

Mince pies, chocolate Yule log thing, sausage rolls, veggie squash and chestnut rolls, delias chocolate truffle torte, millionaire shortbread, doughballs stuffed with Camembert, probably more that I’ve forgotten.
Why? Because it’s all infinitely nicer than what you can buy in the shops, and because we do a lot of hosting and prefer to offer homemade. Nothing more to it than that.

Two Yule logs. They were both delicious.

Pavlova
Gingerbread house
Shortbread

Would love to bake more (mince pies, christmas cake, yule log etc) but nobody eats it .... wish I could get the same satisfaction from putting together a salad....

….I should add that in some parallel universe where I have lots of time and don’t work FT, I would bake more and everyone’s lists sound lovely BTW!

I did a Christmas cake, sausage rolls, endless sourdough loaves, sourdough pizza bases, sourdough ball wreath for a camembert, quiche, and tangle pies.

But I love baking, so I enjoy it. I certainly don't turn my nose up at anything shop bought! Don't overstretch yourself OP!

Sausage rolls and that was it. As shop bought ones are all rank.

Everything else was bought

Made nothing for no one 😀 didn't get up till 1.30pm more than once 😀

Don’t do all that again. It is just not worth the effort. I’ve had Christmas’s making my own pastry for mince pies, boiling down cranberries for sauce etc. it’s a complete faff and nobody carers!

Make a couple of things you enjoy making and have the time to make, buy the rest in. Remember unless you have a house full of kids, most people really don’t need a tonne of sweet stuff in, as they always seem to accumulate over Christmas from visitors/ gifts anyway.
Take it easy next year. The whole thing is all too much bloody work without the baking I find!

Just Christmas cakes. Was intending to homemake more stuff but just ended up buying it due to flare up of chronic illness, actually would do the same again-theres so much pressure the idea of having to make a ridiculous amount of food it's all just exhausting.

Christmas cake
About a million mince pies
Gingerbread
Cinnamon buns
Endless loaves of bread
Yule log
Chocolate chip cookies
Florentines
Macarons
Shortbread

I love to bake but I'm not making anything now until March 😂