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.

but the Niogella clementine cake doesn;t have any flour in anyway

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nought, we are going away for christmas, but if I was here, I would make mince pies, olive pin twirls and cheesey straws for cocktail parties.

I'm glad to hear it Mrs B. I haven't made it before I just liked the idea of a clementine cake when I saw it mentioned on this thread. I've only been gluten-free for a few months and am still in the process of finding out which recipes work with gluten-free flour and which don't.

Christmas Cake
Christmas Pudding
Baileys chocolate cheesecake
Mince pies
Christmas Choc roulade with raspberries or Chocolate meringue log
Trifle
Chocolate mousse cake
Gingerbread house/tree
Carrot Cake
Lemon cheesecake
Raspberry mousse
Jelly
Stained glass bisuits for tree

I know this seems alot, but I will be having 25 people over for xmas eve, day and boxing so I need loads.

Baileys chocolate cheesecake - mmmmmmmm. What is the recipe, please?!

oh as little as possible

Christmas is not the optimum time for baking chez badge

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recipes recipes please!

Fiest Christmas at home and I love baking.

(btw a tip off: poundland has silicone baking cases in atm)

Oh recipe for viennese biccys esp wanted please, love viennese topped mince pies and want to try and bake a few (hundred)

christmas sponge cake (for those who don't like traditional xmas cake)

orange and brandy steam sponge ( for those who don't like xmas pud)

cheese twists
mince pies
christmas spiced cookies
gingerbread house
( have done the green tomate chutney already)
cranberry sause
plum chutney
fudge
chocolate slabs ( like the hotel chocolat ones)
sausgae rolls ( with spice and apple)
churros and the hot chocolate to go with them.

and obviously the cake and pud.
I think that's it LOL

Chocolate Baileys cheesecake

175g choc digestives crushed
75g melted butter
0.5 tsp cinnamon
225g cream cheese
75g sugar
3 eggs, separated
225g melted choc
300ml whipped double cream
80ml baileys
0.5oz gelatine granules, soaked in 2 tbsp water

mix crushed biscuits, melted butter and cinnamon.

press into bottom of 23cm/9" spring form cake tin (oil sides of tin first) then chill.

Melt the chocolate and set aside.

Beat together the cream cheese and the sugar, then add the egg yolks.

Whisk the cream until quite firm.

Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks.

Heat the gelatine gently until dissolved and add to cream cheese mixture, add the melted chocolate and baileys.

Mix the cream with the chocolate mixture and then gently fold in the egg whites.

Pour the mixture into the tin and chill.

I always have to make more of the biscuit mix as it is never enough for my tin.

ENJOY

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I would really like to make your recipe Chio, can you answer a few questions for me please.

What cream cheese do you use, philli?
What is a spring form cake tin?
Do you use an electric whisk?

am not chio but can help:

yes, philadelphia or own-brand equivalent

a springform cake tin is one where you can take off the sides leaving the cake on the base - thus

Using an electric whisk for the cream is less effort than doing it by hand with a balloon whisk or rotary whisk but you can even do it with a fork if your arms are strong enough.

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yep

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same weigth as the granules, so 0.5 oz or about 12.5g

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Venetian Ribbon Cookies mean Christmas for me. Not sure why they're called cookies as they are definitely cake-like not biscuit-like. They are a huge faff (they take a long time, use loads of pans and you have to make up several different colours of cake mix etc.) but they are extremely easy to make, nothing complicated at all, just time-consuming. They end up looking little bite-sized squares of 3-coloured almond cake (supposed to look like the Italian flag) with chocolate on top. They are so cute and SO more-ish I can post the recipe if anybody is interested. You can see a picture here (it's the last picture on the page)

contessapollina.com/favorites.htm