DFS want to help you make this Christmas your best one ever and have produced this Christmas inspiration guide to help you create a magical time, whether you’re organising a big family gathering or a cosy night in for two.
One thing they can’t help you with though is cooking the food. However, every good host should have at least one tried and tested party recipe they know how to prepare perfectly and is guaranteed to go down a treat.
My personal favourite festive recipe is stained glass biscuits. These are a classic, that are fun to make and look so pretty too! We make them by making a standard biscuit recipe or ginger bread biscuit recipe, and then cutting out a smaller shape to be filled with boiled sweets that melt down resulting in pretty colours in the middle of your biscuit
But what I want to know is – what’s your own trusted recipe that you go back to again and again? Is it a traditional family favourite? Or new concoction you discovered after throwing together the Boxing Day leftovers?
Let me know your top festive recipe below and one lucky reader will win a brilliant Fortnum & Mason hamper.
I’ve chosen to offer this festive tea hamper, worth £165.00, including a tin of Fortnum’s zesty Christmas Tea Caddy, made with clementines and bold Christmas spices; an Earl Grey Classic tin, Afternoon Blend Tea and a hearty Cognac & Cranberry Fruit Cake. In addition, it also has two marvellous preserves; a Christmas Spiced Preserve, Christmas Spiced Marmalade; and a tin of Traditional Shortbread Fingers and a silver-plated tea strainer. To add to the merriment, it also has added a St Clements Musical Biscuit tin, which is filled with sumptuous biscuits and plays a festive tune, Christmas Marzipan Fruits, and the Tea at Fortnum & Mason book and a Stripe Waffle Tea Towel.
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Every Boxing Day my mam uses up the turkey leftovers to make a turkey pie and I love it! She uses a few tins of condensed mushroom soup for the sauce and adds chopped turkey and slice peppers – all encased in her homemade pastry!
Rather than a traditional stolen, my mum used to make a “marzipan roll” which was covered in puff pastry and glazed with apricot jam. This was a family favourite and I know make it for my family every Christmas …
Don’t have a favourite but maybe Christmas log cake.
I’ve been testing gluten free mince pie recipes for hubby. The batter is incredibly difficult to work with but taste nice
That sounds delightful! I can picture myself by the Christmas tree, sipping some tea and dipping some biscuits in for good measure. Sounds so relaxing! I make a yule log every year, but Christmas cookies are my favorite.
My fave recipe is Quich Lorraine!!
My favourite recipe is homemade mince pies made from my mums recipe.
I love to make a very decadent Yule log with lashings of ganache. It always goes down a treat
homemade mincie pies!
I’m another Chocolate Log lover, also pigs in blankets …. & sprouts 😉
Turkey curry made with leftovers.
Homemade chocolate log even with the hidden cracks
I love turkey pie made from leftovers 🙂
Mine is a rich welsh fruit cake,from a recipe handed down by my great grandmother, which is baked all through the year and then also as our Christmas Cake. It’s a real.cut and come again cake. I even still have my great grandmothers original Welsh recipe book 😃
homemade mince pies with a dollop of clotted cream yummy
Love making red cabbage dish for Christmas Day
It has to be a Christmas Pudding
Love pigs in blankets
My mums homemade mince pies are delicious
Halved brussels sprouts fried with pancetta or lardons – even those who claim to hate sprouts will eat this.
Cherry and Chocolate roulade is my favourite extra special Christmas dessert
My Mum’s Xmas Pud recipe. Don’t know what it is but it’s awesome!
I like making Mince pies but using filo pastry instead of shortcrust which makes them a bit lighter on the stomach leaving more room for other treats 😉
We have a family tradition to make a Trifle for Boxing day it is a little different from the usual ones.Sone base with a little sherry added,jelly lots of fruit, strawberry’s, ,peaches,then Strawberry blancmange and finally wipped cream,we decorate it with sprinkles and Christmas figures
Hazelnut and chocolate roulade!
Every year I make Nigella’s ultimate christmas pudding, its delicious!
Warm Homemade Mince Pies with cream
My favourite festive recipe is homemade Delia mincemeat with almond and orange shortcrust pastry and viennese topping
I always make a homemade trifle as none of us really like Christmas pudding. It’s nothing fancy but everyone likes it and there’s never any left to take home so it must be good 🙂
I love bread sauce but Christmas is the only time I bother with it 🙂
I like to make Sprouts with Chestnut & Bacon Butter
Pigs in blankets are my favourite
Can’t beat a good gingerbread house!
Very simple. But my favourite is Boxing Day Bubble & Squeak. Just all the uneaten brussels, potatoes, carrots etc mashed up and fried and eaten for breakfast. much better than it sounds 😉
I have a great recipe for spicy turkey soup.
OH adores Sausage Stuffing Meatballs. I think he’d forego the turkey and be happy if I just made those.
I don’t really have a xmas recipe
My Mum’s Chocolate Log Recipe It’s Delicious 🙂
I love a good old fashioned style Christmas cake with loads of alcohol soaked fruit in it 🙂
Chorizo Sausage & CheeseRolls!
My favourite Christmas recipe is a Baileys and chocolate cheesecake, so easy to make yet so delicious and a great alternative to Christmas pudding after lunch.
Now, I can’t divulge the recipe (more than my life is worth), but I can tell you that my mince pies are amazing! The neighbours and a few people in my street have me baking just for them after they heard about them!
Yule log with chocolate ganache topping
I love homemade stuffing for the turkey and usually follow a Mary Berry recipe
BBC have a stollen plait I can not wait to try! 🙂
I have a fantastic recipe for homemade Yule Log that my family loves.
We have a recipe for yule log that is amazing!
An Italian trifle made with blackberries, lemoncello cream and amaretti it is Devine
I always make a pavlova, its lighter then Christmas Pudding so great for after a heavy meal.
My own christmas log
homemade mincepies 🙂
Cinnamon and Apple Cake x
Ginger Christmas cookies!!
I don’t like Christmas cake or mince pies, or anything else with candied peel in, so I rather like cherry things at Christmas. Cherry trifle with kirsch, or morello cherry tart. Very easy, drain some bottled morello cherries, pack, in one layer, into a short crust pastry case, bake. When cool, glaze with redcurrant jelly. Really yummy.
Dundee cake (mmm with a little cheese)
homemade mince pies
Mince pies, the secret is to add orange peel. Yummy!
We love chesnut and herb stuffing
bubble and squeak on boxing day
Sprouts with Chestnuts & Bacon
A lovely Boxing Day turkey curry with lots of spices and a little chilli that my husband has grown, all with basmati rice and a nan, just the job after the feast the day before.
I love Stollen x
Homemade mince pies are the best – I’ll admit to not making them very often though, I hate cooking 😀
we make short bread Christmas trees! x
Made in desperation several years ago and went down so well we make them every year! Puff pastry mince pie whirls. I bought puff pastry instead of short crust when we were having a Christmas party. I used it anyway just spread the mince meat over the pastry, rolled it up and cut into even size slices. Lay them to bake on an oven sheet and they looked fab! I sprinkled them with sliced almonds and they went down a storm. Requested every year since 🙂
I have NO idea the Recipe but my mum makes the Tastiest Stuffing ever!!!!!! She has mushroom onions and garlic and i have no idea what else 🙂
Ive attempted to Replicate it but i need to get the Full Recipe 🙂
Merry Xmas
I make carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese icing, at Christmas instead of a carrot I make them look like Christmas puddings 🙂
I love chocolate yule log at christmas time
Caribbean Christmas Cake
My Favourite recipe is home made Mince Pies served with double cream.
Leftover turkey curry for boxing day, delicious
Love Chocolate and Cranberry yule log…my own recipe
We always make baked Alaska on Christmas Eve – lovely sponge filled with ice cream and topped with meringue
I love mince pies covered in Hazelnut and marzipan streusel.
Herby Cheese Straws – made with leftover pastry after making the Mince Pies – easy and delicious and the perfect nibble with drinks!
Home made mince pies with a good sploosh of brandy in them 🙂
I’m not much of a cook. I like to make festive gingerbread with the little one though and I can mull a good wine!
My Mum used to make an amazing yoghurt pudding that I love as was never keen on Christmas pud
Prawn cocktail, only ever have it at Christmas and look forward to it every year 🙂
I love mince pies and I bake puff and shortcrust but my favourites are the “bakewell” mince pies topped with an almond sponge. Very moreish 🙂
Homemade boozy mincepies
Steamed sponge pudding with dates and raspberry jam served with hot custard and double cream. Absolute pudding perfection.
Cinnamon buns!
Good old fashioned Sherry Trifle I make a gorgeous one and look forwards to eating it every Christmas
I love home baked mince pies…..so lush with cream.
My mother in law’s homemade Christmas pud is absolutely divine – I don’t know the recipe yet unfortunately but i’m definitely going to find out before we have to host Christmas for the first time!
Home made rum truffles 🙂
My Carrot & Orange soup that we have as part of the Christmas meal.
Home made Liebkuchen – delicious!
White chocolate fudge 🙂
Brussel Sprouts with Bacon and Cashew Nuts – heaven ! xx
Stick Toffe Pudding! 🙂 mmmm
Shortbread
i love making homemade mince pies.
turkey curry for boxing day
my husband always makes salmon pate but only makes it for me at xmas
Gingerbread! Have to make gingerbread at Christmas 🙂 xx
My own mince pies!
Gosh so many, cauliflower cheese with nutmeg, sprouts with bacon, sesame seeds and maple syrup, my hubby just loves bubble & squeak!
Love this Ham recipe from good housekeeping mag…….unsmoked gammon..simmered on top of oven with some cloves , onion and peppercorns.Drained when cooked. Skin removed.Brushed with mixture of brown sugar, honey and brandy mix. Baked in oven for 40mins but out every 5 mins for basting in brandy mix. Divine hot or cold.
Clootie Dumpling nom nom
Has to be turkey curry.
Turkey and ham pie on boxing day, love it almost as much as the actual Christmas dinner
Christmas Pudding Microwave recipe.
My partner does his own mince pies – they are easy, but it’s the only thing he can bake! So I love when he makes them. He does do his own vegan pastry, too!
our favourite recipe is buttered swede with black cracked pepper
I love chocolate mint cookies. I honestly love most cookie varieties at Christmas.
me too!
Roasted Parsnips and Carrots in honey glaze
sweet potato wedges
I make a Xmas Pavlova with two different recipes. I use 8 eggs on the bottom layer and make a smaller crunchy top with 6 eggs and fill with fruit , so too layers it is yummy:)
Gingerbread.
I love making a gingerbread house every year. I make it from scratch and it always looks rubbish but it is great fun.
Christmas Pudding Ice cream if I can call it a recipe- crush and mix a pudding into vanilla ice cream and put back in the freezer. It is amazing
Turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce sandwiches dipped in gravy with home made chips on Boxing Day xx
I love making chocolate yule log cake 🙂
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My favourite recipe cinnamon swirls with icing x
chocolate yule log
My mum’s homemade Baileys is absolutely delicious
Peppermint bark. It’s a US thing but I found a good recipe and we all love it. Two layers of white chocolate with crushed candy canes mixed in, sandwiched together with a layer of dark minty chocolate cream.
Pistachio chocolate brownies are delicious!!
My chocolate orange cake with a baileys ganache
Nothing gets me into the Christmas spirit better than making my own mini mince pies. So easy and yet so delicious. I love them.
With the remaining Turkey I make my now infamous Turkey and Ham pie, using my grandma’s secret pastry recipe that was passed down to me. If I say so myself, it is delicious.
I have a lovely recipe for Turkey, Leek and potato pie. Great way to use the leftovers.
It’s my stuffing recipe. It involves german sausages and apples.
My mums stuffing recipe….which I have tried to copy …but it never tastes as good as it does when she makes it!
I always enjoy my “Turkey Ploughman’s Lunch” on Boxing Day.
My grandmas special Gingerbread cake xx
I adore the hummingbird bakery’s recipe for gingerbread. It is perfect for gingerbread shapes as it doesn’t spread when baking.
my mums mince pies
my mother in laws christmas cake
Mince pies, without alcohol!
Every year a make my christmas cake using Delia Smiths recipe from her christmas book. Never fails.
Bread sauce
Simmer an onion stuck with cloves in milk, very slowly , for several hours. Add white bread, crusts off, cubed to 1cm, lots of pepper, salt and let sit till thick. Stir in butter and/or single cream
My Mum’s chocolate crunch – made only at Christmas.
My Mums Honey and wholegrain mustard baked ham 🙂
My favourite Christmas recipe, wow there are so many.
I love my gingerbread men that I made from my own recipe, nice and soft.
I also love my home made mince pies with home made filling.
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Mine is my mums Christmas cake, thanks for the lovely giveaway. xx
Mine is my mum’s stuffing, it’s very special x
waitrose xmas cake kit!
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Apple and chetsnut stuffing yummy 🙂
brandy and oranges marmalade
Home made Trifle
A turkey curry recipe from Atul Kochar, which is amazing
Home made Trifle!
Sticky Toffee Christmas Pudding
4 fruit marmalade,pink grapefruit/lemon/orange and lime,its yummy
my nanas christmas cake and christmas mince pies
I do a buffet between Christmas and new year and my cherry coke ham is the star of the show
I make turkey and leek pie with the leftover turkey on Boxing Day.
mince pies – yum 🙂
I love my Christmas cake recipe x
Chocolate orange yule log. 🙂
Love to eat and make Christmas Log
My personal favourite is christmas pudding ice cream . This is simply made by soaking dried fruit including pineapple, cherries, sultanas and mixed peel in brandy or alcohol of choice. mix with ice cream . Place in bowl and then put in freezer Remove from freezer 10 minutes before serving . Easy dish tastes great!
Mine has to be the Norwegian Kransekake
Hot chocolate – a few pieces of your favourite chocolate (we use dairy milk), add warm milk and a either a few big marshmallows or half a handful of little ones, Add squirty cream on top then sprinkle with chocolate shavings and a bit of cinnamon, Perfect!
Chocolate Yule Log x
chocolate coated gingerbread
Mince pies
spiced brown sugar mince pie
Stollen
We make it a family thing to make the Mince Pies together
Mince pies are a Christmas favourite. But really special are the ones with puff pastry.
I love to make gingerbread men at Christmas- with a lot of ginger 🙂
cookies for santa
Chocolate yule log
Polpette made with left over turkey, mixed with breadcrumbs, egg,garlic parsley and made in to little patties, flour & fry
It’s a boxing day favourite,leftover turkey on toast with fried stuffing,so basic,so simple and yet oh so yummy.It’s also so quick,after a massive cook on Christmas Day where we cater for twelve this is about all we feel like doing x
Every year i make a banana creme pudding
home made mince pies
Mince pies 🙂 Merry Christmas x
My favourite Christmas recipe is Christmas dinner: Turkey, veg, mash, and gravy with sliced boiled egg.
I make a wonderful chocolate and Caramac roulade – like a chocolate log!
the Scottish tablet I make for my sweet toothed friends 🙂
On Boxing Day we all sit down for a huge fried Full English & Irish Breakfast / Brunch. The Full English part is pretty normal: fried eggs, fried bread or toast, mushrooms, fried tomatoes and baked beans, plus bacon & sausage for my husband who is the only non-veggie. The Irish part is colcannon made with well-seasoned mashed potatoes and left-over Brussels sprouts cut in half or quarters. Somehow having the sprouts combined into mashed potato cakes and fried in butter until they are browned makes them much more yummy.
Other than the dinner, Im not a huge christmas baker. One thing I do like to make on christmas eve though are home made sausage rolls
Key Lime Pie
home made mince pies
christmas cake -lots of cherries and marzipan but not too much icing
Spicy bean cheese crumbleis a family favourite
Christmas yule log yum yum
My favourite are spiced Christmas biscuits but I buy them at Poundland or Lidl as I can’t make them so pretty.
My mum makes an amazing Millionaires shortbread!
Homemade mince pies
It’s definitely got to be turkey curry made with the leftover turkey curry. Yum!
Homemade mince meat and then mince pies
I love my family recipe homemade mince pies!
Turkey and ham pie made from the Christmas Day leftovers.
love to make a ginger bread house x
My mum’s pork, apricot and sage stuffing!
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I love homemade Mince Pies!
i love mincemeat pin wheels with filo pastry so much ligther than a mince pie, and calorie saving too xx
lemon curd tarts, i make them every week.
Boozy Trifle
Christmas Spice biscuits
Chocolate yule log
My dad invented a recipee for the naughtiest yet yummiest festive dessert, he shared the secret with me and I’ve made it every year since!
Home made gingebread house
Xmas cake
Let’s be honest, you can’t beat a cracking chocolate yule log to totally annihilate you after a big Christmas lunch.
I love making Christmas cookies
it has to be delicious homemade mince pies!!!
Homemade stuffing!
mulled wine
I use my great great grandma’s cake recipe for Christmas. It’s delicious! Add a dram of brandy for that little kick 🙂
It would be my mothers Portuguese almond cake. I have had it every Christmas my whole life.
Home made mince pies. Merry Christmas x
My Dad’s bubble and squeak is the best
My homemade puff pastry mince pies are amazing!!
I add dries sour cherries and small bits of marzipan to my mincemeat. Xx
I use the left over turkey to make a warming turkey noodle soup.
We have cold leftover turkey on boxing day with pickles. As there is only 2 of us I then cook up lots of veggies divide into 2 pots and make one into a stew and the other I curry. I then freeze it in 2 person portions keeping us going for months
Sponge rum trifle
My favourite christmas recipe is for mince pies made with an orange pastry mincemeat (of course!) and a sweet cream cheese filling (it’s nicer than it sounds!) 🙂
My late nans Christmas pudding she always put in plenty of booze!!!!!!
My husbands pot roast of beef
A yummy sweet chutney the recipe has been passed down from great Grandparents
I love making all types of mince pies, shortcrust, open, puff, and turnovers but my favourites have to be those topped with an almond sponge, I have to be careful not to eat too many.
Tell me your favourite Christmas recipe . . . . . . . mince pies made with my home made mincemeat
Home made mince pies using the family pastry recipe – they are the only mince pies that I actually like!
I love making a Christmas cake when is baking in the oven the kitchen has a lovely aroma very christmassy
It has to be my National Trust Christmas Cake recipe 🙂
We love Boxing Day bubble and squeak with sprouts and mash! Plus add bacon and maple syrup to chopped sprouts
Our Xmas shortbread is our favourite festive recipe
I love making my little ones egg nog on xmas eve. The recipe is simple but my children love it, even the older ones
childrens Eggnog Recipe
3 cups whole milk
1 cup double cream
1/2 cup sugar
4 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
nutmeg
1.Whisk together the milk, cream, sugar, and eggs
2.Cook over low heat, whisking constantly. Do not let it boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla extract.
3.Serve immediately, topped with nutmeg to taste.
My nans Christmas pudding recipe it tastes like home 🙂
I like pork stuffing
I love home-made bread sauce on my Christmas Dinner.
Stilton and broccoli soup – 500g of broccoli, 125g of Stilton, 750ml stock, one medium onion. small pat butter, braise onions in the butter, add the stock and broccoli, simmer until soft, blend, then add Stilton after to melt in the hot mixture.
Cranberry and orange muffins!
Traditional Italian chocolate salami..
It’s dark chocolate with crushed biscuits and assorted crushed nuts.. a little dark rum… place ball of ingredients onto clingfilm. . Roll out into salami shape.. dust wirh icing sugar… slice & serve with cream … yummy!
The Christmas cake recipe from my m&s cookbook (its 20 years old) x
I don’t cook so best to ask my wife for the recipe but I love her Christmas pud. I have noticed the brandy bottle seems to take a hammering for a couple of weeks prior to Christmas though!
My chocolate yule log 🙂
My favourite recipe is homemade mince pies
My sister in laws christmas cake recipe is the best 🙂
gingerbread biscuits
really boozy mince pies
Home made meat patties are a favorite recipe this time of the year.
fruit cake
Looks lovely 🙂
Christmas Pudding Ice Cream!
Chocolate truffles – just chocolate, cream and a slug of rum then cooled until set. A must every christmas
I have a lovely Christmas cake recipe that is perfect
It has to be gingerbread, this year I am experimenting with refinded sugar, gluten freand dairy free options.
Me and my son love to bake gingerbread men for the family at christmas
Chicken Kiev
It would have to be our Christmas cake, it’s lovely and rich.
Everyone expects me to make my prawn cocktail in my home-made sauce. Years ago a chef told me how to make the sauce and I love it.
My Mum’s walnut stuffing. Secret recipe, can’t share it but it’s gooooood
love my friends Christmas that she cooks me
homemade mince pies
Our christmas cake 🙂
I love chopping up sprouts and adding bacon and pan-frying in butter
home made yule log
My favourite Christmas recipe is pork and chestnut stuffing. Combine sausage meat, tin of pureed chestnuts (or rough chopped if you prefer) packet of stuffing mix (like paxo) and egg to bind and use to stuff the turkey – it is delicious! Can also make it into little balls if you prefer.
Great luxurious treafor Christmas! fingers crossed
My favourite Christmas recipe is my Austrian Great Grandmother’s Vanilla Kipferl recipe, yummy Christmas cookies that taste like Christmas to me 🙂
Oops my favorite Christmas recipe is spiced red cabbage, yummy
My mum’s pork and cranberry stuffing. I would have it on its own!
I love turkey stuffing 🙂
The recipe from my Mum for home made mince pies laces with brandy 🙂
Cinnamon buns 🙂
Every Christmas I make a sherry trifle for my family, I don’t use and fruit just Swiss roll. And plenty of sherry. You can’t forget a broken up flake for in too of the cream layer
My nannas shortbread recipe!
Christmas cinnamon cookies
Mince pies made with puff pastry
Christmas Pudding ice cream.
In our house we make a kind of stuffing cake, completely wrapped in bacon. We made it by accident a few years back and we’ve been making it ever since!!
christmas cake recipe passed down from my grandmother-make delicious cake
My favourite is my gran’s Clootie Dumpling recipe 🙂
I like to make my own melted snowman biscuits 🙂
has to be my old favourite and family ,s favourite my boily fruit Christmas cake delicious a mug of tea
Mums Xmas pud complete with sixpence
Christmas cake made with lots of rum and treacle 🙂
Chocolate log
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Delia Smith’s sausage rolls are something the family enjoys making.
My husband makes the Christmas Pudding every year (it’s literally the only thing he’s ever cooked :), it’s Delia Smiths recipe and it’s gret
my homemade christmas stuffing.. the family would forget the turkey and just eat the stuffing – lots of apple/bacon & onion
A boiled fruit cake which stays wonderfully moist
My favourite Christmas recipe is for chestnut stuffing and it is a very old one but one which the family loves.
ooooo pigs in blankets,and love aprout
Christmas pudding with double cream – scrummy!
My favourite Christmas recipe is orange and honey glazed Turkey.
Christmas Muffins – a family favourite
Christmas Muffins
Mulled Wine : )
My favourite is making homemade mince pies, there is nothing that beats it 🙂
home made gingerbread…my grannys recipe :o)
My favourite is Christmas pudding ice cream
My fave is turkey risotto..but the recipe is my wifes secret and she is not telling!!
My favourite recipe is my raw carrot cake which I like to make for visitors because one of then is likey to be guten free as she is coeliac and another is lactose intolerant. It is basically a nutty bese with dates and raw carrot and a cream made of cashews, vanilla, agave syrup and coconut oil which sets it as it turs to solid when cold. I can eat anything but I really like this cake as it makes me feel light.
With the leftovers I make a creamy mushroom, veg bacon and turkey pie
Christmas Chocolate Yule Log Cake! 😛
chocolate yule log
mince pies for me 🙂
I absolutely love a proper Christmas cake!
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My homemade Christmas Pudding, recipe came from my grandma
I love braised red cabbage – so tasty and great accompaniment to Xmas dinner!
My favourite is a mince pies and mincemeat & Vanilla ice cream all home made including the mincemeat. It is so Christmassy.
Microwave chocolate brownies has to be my favourite recipe, so easy and tasty, Christmas them up with some marshmallows and Christmas sprinkles 🙂
I make luxury Florentines for my husband each Christmas. He is diabetic so they are a once a year treat.
Christmas pudding made with vegetarian suet and a soya milk custard.
Brussels sprouts with crunchy bacon bits and flaked almonds
Oooh turkey curry with the leftovers, or maybe my dad’s leek and potato soup we have on xmas eve!
We usually have patties that my Grandma makes, not very festive but we have it every Christmas!
I’m not so good in the kitchen, personally, but my favourite to eat when other people cook or bake is mince pies x
Cook your sprouts with small pieces of Bacon
it is a simple thing but my favourite Christmas recipe is homemade brandy butter (butter, icing sugar and brandy 🙂 )
My mum’s homemade stuffing recipe 🙂
at Christmas it has to be the wheat/gluten/egg/dairy free biscuits we make for Santa’s elves who have allergies like we do.
Christmas cake, using a recipe that my mum gave me. Always lovely! x