Finish your festive celebration with our special Christmas dessert ideas and recipes, try a traditional Christmas pudding or a Christmas cake showstopper. Find more Christmas recipes and ideas.
This pink lady apple cake is a real looker. Use pre skinned hazelnuts if you can find them otherwise follow the instructions to have a go yourself. Prepare the topping while the cake bakes for an hour, then spread over the top and pop back in the oven for 15 minutes.
Get into the festive spirit and learn how to make a traditional Christmas cake.
A sweet treat that doubles as a great Christmas gift, these peppermint creams are awfully easy to eat. It's just the right amount of peppermint flavouring prevents these from being too cloying or saccharine, so be sure to follow the recipe exactly.
This Christmas pud is an absolute showstopper: a pavlova meringue wreath adorned with whipped cream, juicy berries and decorated with an unctuous chocolate sauce made with cream, golden syrup, butter and melted dark chocolate.
Bring a touch of class to your next supper party with these milk chocolate truffles made from melted chocolate, chunks of almond and crushed crunchy bars.
A lighter dessert for the Christmas season, this clementine sorbet is the perfect way to round off all those rich meals. Sugar, lemon juice, and clementine zest and juice are frozen then churned until a perfect consistency has been obtained. Garnish with pretty mint leaves.
Chocolate truffles make the perfect edible gift for Christmas or any special occasion, and this pretty selection is perfect for peanut butter lovers.
This simple cake has just five ingredients and is full of zingy citrus flavours.
An excellent festive treat for the whole family at Christmas, these shortbread cookies couldn't be simpler to make.
Is it even Christmas without brandy butter?
Chocolate, fruit and nut are a classic cake combination – and this is a lovely one to bake for Christmas. It only takes 20 minutes to prepare, which is a bonus around the busy festive period. It keeps for up to a month in a cake tin and is also freezable.
Impress the guests and crack out the homemade chocolate truffles with coffee after dinner. No one need know how easy they are to make: reduced fresh orange juice, melted chocolate and double cream, mixed, chilled then shaped and dusted with icing sugar. Unless they read this.
A festive bake that everyone can enjoy, these vegan scones are gluten-free and dairy-free. We love them served with a dollop of fruity compote and creamy coconut yogurt on the side.
Make these dinky cupcakes ahead to have on hand for festive parties.
Score points with family and friends with this delicious edible gift
Give this lusciously frosted, classic Christmas cake pride of place on your table
This is a really fun (and tasty) way to use up Christmas cake or fruit cake, and it's a lovely one to make with the kids. Use marzipan and food colouring to make the suitably seasonal topping and serve popped on to wooden or plastic sticks.
Cooking from scratch doesn't have to be hard, easy to follow with great results!
Looking for a gorgeous homemade gift idea for the foodies in your life? These Champagne truffles are hard to beat. You can use sparkling wine, if you prefer, or make them with orange liqueur or brandy.
Full of festive flavour, cranberries add a zingy burst of flavour to sweet and savoury dishes
An excellent condiment for anyone with a sweet tooth, this rum and vanilla butterscotch sauce is deliciously sweet and deliciously easy to make, too. The sauce requires just five ingredients, though do ensure that you use a decent rum for the mixture.
Bundt cake recipes are the ultimate show-off dessert for sharing with friends and family.
The impressive gluten-free Christmas cake is elegant, delicious, and easy to prepare
This melted snowman cake is so adorable you almost won't want to eat him
What's better than a tiramisu? A show-stopping tiramisu cake recipe. Combining the same classic Italian flavours of coffee and marscapone, plus amaretti biscuits for taste and crunch, this is a creamy elegant dessert.
This dairy and egg-free cake recipe is the perfect vegan chocolate cake recipe for an indulgent treat or for serving up for a special occasion.
These sweet little shortbread biscuits are such a simple bake - they're great for parties and double up as a foodie Christmas gift, too
A wonderfully sticky and sweet ginger and treacle cake - the ideal afternoon treat for autumn
A special chocolate biscuit recipe that Vivek Singh has spiked with a hint of Indian spices to bring out all the complex notes in the cocoa.
Jamie says: “Ready in minutes, this crowd-pleasing dessert is a brilliant way to use up seasonal favourites and it's fun to make, too, so get the kids involved!"
Sit back and relax with a slice of this spectacular s’mores layer cake, topped with crispy little meringues and a decadent drizzle of dark chocolate. Heaven!
This pretty low sugar cake recipe is perfect for any celebration or special occasion, using Stevia to replace the sugar. The fruity sponges are sandwiched with creamy citrus icing and a drizzle of tangy orange curd for a treat everyone can enjoy.
Kick off the festivities in style with this sparkly confetti cake that's quite literally exploding with chocolate stars and glittery gold sprinkles