What are you making for Xmas?

[Jftbo74]

What festive sweets, chutneys, jams, biscuits are you making?

Fluffy if you used thick coconut milk as a substitute for cream, with some dairy free dark chocolate, I bet you could make some amazing vegan truffles. Splash of your favourite booze while melting it all together. Scoop out little balls and dust in cocoa, nuts or icing sugar. Yum.

I've got the mince meat maturing nicely.

I hope to make a few different batches of cookies (chocolate chip. lemon and orange, stained glass, spiced Christmas) and maybe some chocolates, truffles and peppermint creams.

I say every year that this will be the year I make a Buche de Noel/Yule Log cake. And every year I don't get the time. Maybe this will be the year??!!

I won't be making chutney this year, or the mustard recipes I found last year to experiment with (again, failed last year with my grand plans, bbut I know I won;'t have time for that until the quiet days after Christmas this year).

Industrial quantities of Rocky Road. Chunks to be piled up on a glass cake stand, sifted with icing sugar snow, with two little reindeer and rosemary sprigs masquarading as fir trees, exactly like the picture in Nigella's Christmas book.
A biscuit 'tree' made from those graduated star cutters that Lakeland do.

Marzipan fruits; fiddly but popular.
The usual mince pies
A cake involving the 'antigravity' gadget newly acquired.
Buche de Noel for Boxing Day.

Not a problem normally, but DH and I are going away from 4 -20th December so I am worrying about what can be made in advance without going stale. Also another family is joining us for Christmas dinner, one of whom is gluten intolerant, so every component of the meal has to be examined in detail - who would have thought glacé cherries sometimes have gluten in the syrup?

Dan Lepard's caramel Christmas cake, it's lovely, do it every year.

And a gingerbread house!

I thought that said Def Leppards cake at first