Homemade Christmas food gifts
Make someone's 2021 with these recipes for delicious treats
Bowled over: Richard Godwin’s party punches – recipes
Four unconventional party-starters: a mulled negroni, an ‘apple pie’ mixer, a brew of dessert wine, brandy, grapefruit and maraschino, and a bafflingly good milk-and-rum punch
Our best Christmas food gifts – with recipes
From our archive: from festive pickles and homemade sweets to luxury biscuits and exotic oils, a a gift you’ve made yourself can make someone’s Christmas
How to make shortbread – recipe
Christmas shortbread as made by our resident perfectionist, with a few choices of festive flavourings
Spice up your life: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for chilli jar gifts
Rachel Roddy’s gift recipe for stuffed chocolate-coated figs
Nut clusters and herby oat cookies: Honey & Co’s food gift recipes
Meera Sodha’s vegan gift recipe for jewelled florentines
Cheese biscuits, brittle and fig jam: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for edible Christmas gifts
Pickles, ketchup and chutney: David Atherton’s recipes for Christmas gift jars
Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for ginger and treacle crinkle cookies gifts
Crackly, Christmassy, sugar-coated gingernut biscuits to give to family and friends (or, more likely, to devour in one sitting)