What are you Baking or making for Christmas??

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Aside from Christmas pudding and Christmas cake?

I want to make some nice traditional English cakes/sweets for Christmas, and need ideas and recipes.

Mince pies, surely, Quint? I may make a gingerbread house, but think that's more traditional for your neck of the woods!

Chocolate yule log.
Rum truffles.
Cocnut ice.
Fudge.
Peppermint creams.

i always bake a ham. christmas stylie with cloves etc

Cranberry and white chocolate cookies.
Chocolate Truffles.
Mince pies.
Yule log.

A job lot of lemon & lime marmalade for DD to give to all & sundry (she has a marmalade obsession, so not quite as random as it sounds)
Chocolate rum truffles (for grandparents)
A thing called a mincemeat jalousie (not sure of spelling) that my mum always makes - so traditional to us at least. Made with a layer of puff pastry on baking tray, spread with mincemeat, cover with sliced cooking apples, then puff pastry on top cut as if you were making a chinese lantern out of paper but flat IYSWIM. Gorgeous and unbelievably easy. Also a good compromise between offending my MiL by taking home made mincepies, and struggling with my subconcious which was trained from birth to consider bought mincepies A Bad Thing and people who bought/ate them Morally Dubious.
Are you in the US Quint? What do they think of xmas pud? I have happy memories of converting very dubious Spanish friends to the joys of mince pies & xmas pudding

Nigella's Christmas muffins
Cranberry and white chocolate cookies
Rhubarb muffins with cinnamon crunch topping.

Choc truffles
Peppermint creams
Marshmallows
Cranberry chutney
Spicy Apple Chutney
Mince pies (might try Vienese this year)
Marmalade
Jam of some description
Gingerbread House (Ikea kit though!)
Helping DS1 to make gingerbread men as pressies.

I'm doing hampers for the family this year (so will be spending alot less time on MN and more time tied to the stove!)

You're all tormenting me

where can I get the recipes for such delights?

Are the Christmas Morning muffins good then?I will probably just do some mince pies, with extra fruit and brandy added to the mincemeat; and a chocolate Guiness cake.

Cheers! Will give them a try.

I'll be doing Chocolate Chip Christmas Cookies I've got my mini cookie cutters and my Christmas themed cello bags at the ready!

Stained glass cookies for the tree, biscotti and mincepies!

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Okay here it goes for the stained glasswindow cookies!

allrecipes.com/Recipe/Stained-Glass-Window-Cookies/Detail.aspx

I must add I make a hole in the cookie dough and thread with ribbon once cooked. Then they hang proudly on my tree!

I will be baking viennese biscuits and muffins probably. Not much this year.

Thse staied glass window cookies look great to make with the kids. When they say "hard candy" do they mean boiled sweets, murphyslaw? And do they come off the baking sheet OK?

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Not a cake or a sweet but I make sausage rolls at Christmas.

I think I may be too late to make Delia's Christmas chutney (again)

Nigellas cranberry and white chocolate cookies, Nigellas clementine cake, vanilla cookies using christmas cutters.

I use the value boiled sweets from Tesco for my stained glass window cookies.

Now I want to try the clementine cake. Wonder how it will work with gluten free flour?

and cook them on siliconised baking parchment