Your favourite Christmas recipe.

[MrsWhites]

Is it too early? I want to try a few new recipes this year so share your favourites with me please!!

I’ll start with the pie I make with Christmas leftovers:

hairybikersrecipes.co.uk/hairy-bikers-turkey-ham-pie-recipe/

I'm going to try Delia Smiths chocolate crumble this year, it looks divine..

Last year I made this chilli jam for my Christmas gift boxes for with cheese and crackers. It went down a storm.

https://www.itv.com/thismorning/articles/clodagh-mckennas-festive-chilli-jam

This year I have a glut of apples to use up so I’m going to make a spiced apple chutney instead. Going to get that all done this week whilst the apples are fresh so I’ll let you know how I get on!

That is genuis!

DH always makes Nigella's Rocky Road at Christmas and I just bought the amaretti biscuits in Lidl the other week.

I quite like The Famous Chocolate Truffle Torte recipe | Delia Smith recipe. Its so simple and looks and tastes amazing.

Yes I was going to suggest Jamie’s recipe https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/turkey/turkey-and-sweet-leek-pie/

That turkey pie is something we make every year. We don’t bother with the chestnut pastry though.

no recipes to add but posting so I can come back for some of the above!

Christmas Muffins-

155g self raising flour
80g sugar
140g Greek yoghurt
2 eggs
60g marzipan cut into tiny dice
60g dried cranberries (or crystallised ginger, also in little dice)
80ml vegetable oil
1 TSP each of cinnamon, ginger and mixed spice

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.

Separately mix the wet ingredients.

Combine the two mixtures and bake in paper cases 25 minutes at 180.

I always make these florentines at Christmas. I cut them into smallish squares and decorate with christmassy sprinkles and give as gifts (as well as scoffing a few myself). The recipe is from a book I found years ago in TK Maxx by Julie Le Clerc.

We always have a chocolate or cranberry roulade at Christmas - my nephew makes it. It is less heavy than many deserts. I can't give you the recipes as my nephew has them, pulled out years ago from magazines. But they are easy to make.

Arran2024

We always have a chocolate or cranberry roulade at Christmas

We always have Shepherds' Pie (shepherds seem appropriate) and Yule log (which is what we call a chocolate and cherry or chestnut roulade with a bit of holly and a plaster robin on it) on Christmas Eve.
I do find that one of the things that makes Christmas a bit easier is having traditions so you don't need to devise a menu; I've extended that to Christmas Eve too.

That is not true. Lard is animal fat.
Trex and Cookeen are both suitable for vegetarians.

I make marzipan fruits. They always take much longer to make than you think. Plus Christmas biscuit tree using the set of cutters that Lakeland do. I make enough to have two small extra trees. I used to do a gingerbread house but have given up on that. Plenty of Rocky Road.

Wow, that all looks amazing! Christmas at yours looks lovely and festive.

Thank you but each year I feel less and less festive. DH does the Christmas dinner, thank God, I do all the ‘fancy’ bits. Family descends on us, several staying for a few days. Wonderful but exhausting.

Nigella's chocolate gingerbread 😋

@Tarragon123 that chocolate torte does indeed look very simple! I think I'm going to try that for one of our Christmas parties, thank you for sharing!

I've just realised that I used to make Delia's chocolate truffle torte - but got rid of loads of books, with hers being some, so forgot all about it. It is a really nice recipe though so I'll make one this year.

Great thread. Am making a note of a number of these.

I am on the look out for a good vegan chocolate pudding if anyone has one. I often do a torte with a crushed biscoff base and a chocolate and coconut cream filling, but would love some new ideas.

Delia’s chocolate bread and butter pudding is one of my favourite chocolate puddings.

https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/chocolate-recipes/chocolate-bread-and-butter-pudding

@Fifthtimelucky - you might be able to amend some of these recipes so that they include chocolate (e.g. the B&B pudding?) - her recipes are very good and I've made the lemon cake several times and no one realises it's vegan

https://www.thevegspace.co.uk/

There are some vegan Christmas recipes on the site too,

Thanks, @keepincool I’ll take a look. I’ll check out the lemon cake too!

This is so funny! I’d pay good money to see your DH’s reaction if you ever told him 😆

Vegetarian stuffing, Mary Berry's recipe with chestnuts and apricots
https://www.maryberry.co.uk/recipes/recipe/apricot-and-chestnut-stuffing

Delia's braised red cabbage recipe. Delicious
https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/occasions/christmas/christmas-100-recipes-to-freeze/traditional-braised-red-cabbage-with-apples?utm_source=rd&utm_medium=d&utm_campaign=otn&utm_content=from--recipes/collections/life-in-the-freezer/traditional-braised-red-cabbage-with-apples--to--node/12345

We always have Delias braised red cabbage too.

My Christmas pudding was my Great Great Grandmothers recipe (she was born in 1876!). Ive had it every year of my life, as has my 95 year old Grandmother (although during WW2 they couldn't get the citrus fruit)