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by Marina Hopkins
published on 27 November 2018
It’s time to start indulging in some festive baking, and this collection of Christmas biscuit recipes will have your kitchen filled with the gorgeous scent of nutmeg and ginger in no time. We’ve put together a selection of our favourite festive biscuits, including beautifully decorated home-baked gifts and fun family baking projects to get stuck into over the school holidays.
Looking for more Christmas baking inspiration? Explore our classic Christmas bakes, festive baking projects and easiest baking recipes.
Clissold Park Christmas Crinkle Cookies
by Debora Robertson
from Notes From A Small Kitchen Island
These cookies provide the ultimate chocolatey, vanilla-y goodness to evoke Christmas and comfort. Best served with a hot warming drink.
Meliz Berg’s Almond-filled Celebration Cookies
by Meliz Berg
from Meliz’s Kitchen
These icing sugar-dusted and almond-stuffed cookies are the perfect treat for the festive season and make for budget-friendly edible gifts for friends and family.
White Chocolate Biscotti
by Jane Dunn
from Jane’s Patisserie
These pretty white chocolate biscotti from Jane’s Patisserie can be finished off with your choice of chopped nuts or freeze dried raspberries. Package them up as an edible gift, or keep them all to yourself.
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Jane’s Patisserie: 100 deliciously customisable cakes, bakes, and treats
Bold, colourful, customisable bakes for every skill level
From tea time treats to celebration centrepieces
Accompanied by Jane’s top tips and baking hacks
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Rochelle Humes’ Gingerbread Biscuits
by Rochelle Humes
from At Mama’s Table
Rochelle Humes’ take on the classic gingerbread biscuit is a fun, festive, and kid-friendly recipe; perfect for getting the whole family in the Christmas mood.
Nigella Lawson’s Linzer Cookies
by Nigella Lawson
from Cook, Eat, Repeat
Nigella uses ground toasted hazelnuts to create a rich, tender dough in her take on the Austrian Christmas classic, Linzer cookies.
Nadiya Hussain’s Ginger and Almond Florentines
by Nadiya Hussain
from Nadiya Bakes
Thesedelicate biscuits are laced with crystallised ginger, sliced almonds and orange zest. Dipped into chocolate, they make for charming festive gifts.
Piparkakut
by Justin Gellatly, Louise Gellatly, Matthew Jones
from Baking School
These piparkakut, a classic Finnish Christmas treat from Baking School: The Bread Ahead Cookbook, are packed with warm Christmas spices.
Christmas Biscuit Wreath
by Biscuiteers
from Biscuiteers Book of Iced Gifts
Dust off your piping bags and set aside an afternoon to make this Christmas wreath, a biscuit extravaganza from Biscuiteers Book of Iced Gifts.
Christmas Honey Biscuits: Melomakarona
by Georgina Hayden
from Taverna
Also known asMelomakarona, these Cypriot-inspired biscuitsare fragrant with spices and drenched in a sticky syrup. As Georgina says, “they have been an incredibly popular addition to our kitchen”.
Stained Glass Tree Biscuits
by Lizzie Kamenetzky
from The Great British Bake Off: Christmas
A cute addition to any Christmas tree, these stained glass biscuits from The Great British Bake Off: Christmasare easy to make and a fun activity for the kids to get involved in.
Candy Cane Biscuits
by Emma Marsden
from Christmas on a Plate
Nothing says Christmas quite like classic striped candy canes, and these candy canes in biscuit form are no different. Perfect as a decorative treat to fill the biscuit jar, or give them to friends and family as an edible gift.
Bread Ahead’s Amaretti Biscuits
by Matthew Jones, Justin Gellatly, Louise Gellatly
from Baking School
These classic amaretti biscuits from Baking School: The Bread Ahead Cookbook are an irresistible Italian treat, and with a snowy dusting of icing sugar they really look the part at Christmas time.
Cranberry, Oat and White Chocolate Biscuits
by Helen Goh, Yotam Ottolenghi
from Sweet
For an elegant home-baked gift, Ottolenghi’s cranberry, oat and white chocolate biscuits will do the trick, with notes of cranberry for a festive flavour.
Gingerbread Nativity
by Lizzie Kamenetzky
from The Great British Bake Off: Christmas
A true Christmas showstopper, this gingerbread nativity from The Great British Bake Off: Christmas is a fantastic activity to bring the family together.
Spiced Biscotti with an Orange Syllabub Dip
by Nadiya Hussain
from Nadiya’s Kitchen
Nadiya adds a clever festive twist to an Italian classic with her spiced biscotti from Nadiya’s Kitchen. Served with an orange syllabub dip, they make a moreish tea-time or after dinner treat.
Florentines
by Lizzie Kamenetzky
from The Great British Bake Off: Christmas
Essential to any Christmas biscuit selection, these florentines from The Great British Bake Off: Christmas are full of festive flavours and make a luxurious homemade gift when packaged in a cellophane bag and tied up with a colourful ribbon.
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