Christmas baking recipes

Craft enchanting reindeer food flapjacks with kids on Christmas Eve. Packed with love and key ingredients like carrots, it's a magical treat for our festive friends!

A novel way to use up root vegetables is to bake up a sweet, moist sponge with citrus flavours

Kids will love making these cute Christmas cupcakes from Planet Cake

This fun spin on the traditional Lancashire fruit cakes uses leftover marzipan to make irresistible individual pies

If anyone in your family isn't keen on traditional fruitcake, this might be the compromise you've been looking for

From freezer to oven, these cheeky Eccles mince pies are perfect mid-afternoon with an equally cheeky glass of mulled wine. It is Christmas after all!

A real treat. Associate food editor, Barney Desmazery, has had this recipe in his family for 100 years

With a hint of spice and little pockets of mincemeat, this is a lovely post-Christmas cake, great with warm custard

This traditional Christmas cake is the perfect combination of fruit, nuts and spices

A fruit cake for those who like theirs light, spicy, fruity and moist, with a tart cranberry topping

BBC Good Food's show-stealing December 08 cover recipe - perfect if you fancy a change from the usual Christmas cake

This square Christmas cake is cut into two loaf-shaped cakes, so you can give one to a friend

A stunning cake that uses the 'boiling method' to plump up dried fruit. Decorate with pistachio paste trees and swirles of fluffy icing

Eat these family-friendly sausage rolls with a chutney or pickle. They make a great snack for a party buffet

The sweet German fruit and marzipan loaf recipe is adapted into a gorgeous wreath cake with decorative fondant holly icing and almond marzipan

These easy cookies with a fruity jam filling are perfect teatime treats. Make a batch as a weekend project and fill your biscuit tin with sweet bites

Get set for Christmas with these sweet meringue wreath decorations. Use as edible table settings or thread through a length of ribbon for decorations

Make this uncooked dough as a gift for the future. It can be kept frozen for up to three months, ready to be sliced and baked for a welcome sweet treat

Enjoy a festive crumble made with apples, cranberries and mixed spice. Serve warm with cream or custard for the ultimate comfort dessert

Transform your usual Christmas pavlova with the addition of clementines, pistachios, mint and dark chocolate, plus a mincemeat and rum-infused cream filling