Christmas baking recipes

[Hairgician]

So I am getting organised to bake some treats for gifting and for house.
I would love if anyone has a favourite easy, fool proof fudge recipe and thinking maybe some tiffin? or Something else easy but jazzy/special?

Also planning to do sausage rolls for the house. If making to freeze ahead, do you assemble them then freeze or do you bake them first then freeze??

Thanks in advance

Chocolate bark works well for cellophane bags.

Chocolate bark recipe - BBC Food this is the basic idea, add whatever you fancy.

ooh fab!! hadnt thought about chocolate bark! good shout thank you!

I make Speculoos cookies (very similar to Biscof) & bake some of the dough to make a Biscof cheese cake base. Iv used the same recipe for over 20years & it's never let me down. Except when I tried to tweek it 😅 My DD says it wouldn't be Christmas without them.

Rum balls? I've made these with plum pudding from the year before I hadn't used and also with some fruit cake from a supermarket. www.taste.com.au/recipes/chocolate-fruitcake-rum-balls/56717e97-eeba-4ffc-a4fb-ed0e7bfc6f58

Rocky road? https://www.nigella.com/recipes/christmas-rocky-road

Good shout on those thank you😁👍

Rum balls sound delish!

I like the idea of speculoos then using as cheesecake base aswell, cheesecake might be on dessert list as goes over well with the adults. Always do jelly/trifle fir the weans.

Pull-apart 'trees' are very easy. I usually use cinnamon, like in this recipe, but you could also use nutella. Cinnamon Pull Apart Christmas Tree Recipe » Homemade Heather

I never bake sausage rolls before i freeze them, but I do bake straight from frozen day of.

Freeze uncooked sausage rolls on a tray and once frozen pop them in a freezer bag.

I make a lot of these mince pies which are incredibly easy and wonderful.

Also ginger millionaires shortbread. We like a lot of ginger.

Biscotti make great gifts.

Easy gorgeous chocolate things store well and are very pretty.

This one's special for Christmas

www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/baking-and-desserts/baileys-chocolate-tiffin/

They all look lovely thank you for sharing! Not too complicated either!

Good shout on the sausage rolls for freezing. Im in for a busy weekend! Cant wait!

@mamamarshmallow could you possibly post your recipe? Sound delicious!

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/gingerbread-bunting

This is easy to handle and a firm favourite here. I don't make it into bunting or ice it. I just cut it into stars and people and put in glass jar.

Here's another fun to make with Nutella but looks impressive.

I make the dough in bread maker using hot cross bun recipe without spices or dried fruit.

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/a553240/chocolate-star-bread/

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/a553240/chocolate-star-bread/

Christmas tree brownies

www.bakingmartha.co.uk/blog/2020/12/13/christmas-tree-brownies

I make those chocolate fudge crinkle biscuits too - they’re so easy, tasty and cute.

I use Delia’s recipe for sausage rolls (Etty’s) and freeze baked, as she instructs. Defrost for one hour and reheat in the oven for 5 mins. They are absolutely delicious.

I also like Delia's mincemeat slices made with spelt flour, oats and butter

So lovely everyone can you put links up ?

They are like mincepie meets flapjack and you just press into tin. Easy

https://aristolafood.blogspot.com/2008/12/wholefood-mincemeat-slices.html?m=1

Chocolate bark is a winner, I do a great one with salted peanuts. It looks wonderful and tastes like a Snickers

Nigella's pistachio fudge is ridiculously easy and very versatile - leave out the nuts for plain, add grated orange zest for chocolate orange etc.

Lebkuchen. V easy really. I decorated it with white chocolate (just dipped in melted white chocolate). The biscuits themselves are quite plain so they need the added white choc or icing sugar as decoration.

I've frozen half for next week so hopefully that will work.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/lebkuchen_88786

The dough will feel dry but persevere. The only time iv had bad results was when I tweeked the recipe. I also tend to roll the dough thin (like rich tea's), which gives a nice snap.
Hope you enjoy them as much as us 😊

Omg I never got back on here over christmas as flat out! Hope you all had a lovely christmas and enjoyed all your bakes!

I ended up making the rum balls which were delicious! Though I split the mixture so 400g fruit cake, and 200g dark choc. one lot I added the rind of 1 clementine and 40ml cointreau and rolled in choc vermicelli. The other I used rum and rolled in coconut.

I made sausage rolls using a recipe on IG and the kids liked those.
I didnt get making mince pies but made mine pie muffins, which were lovely with cream!
Ive made those choc crinkle biscuits before and they were lovely. I will be saving all the recipes here for next year!