Baked Christmas gift recipes

Christmas gifts of the baked and edible kind

The best presents are the ones you can eat.

Gingerbread stars with buttermilk icing

Mark Roper

Edible treats are sort of Christmas gifts that will always be appreciated (and Boxing Day clean-up is that much easier if most of your presents are edible). From a grown-up version of white Christmas with sour cherry and roasted almonds to a spiced pfeffernüsse, and stunning gingerbread stars with buttermilk icing, these are the baked and edible Christmas treats your friends and family will love.

Golden square tin holding hand-sized custard tarts with burnished tops, each in their own white paper casing. There's also a glass holding a rose-pink speckled bauble, which is kind of weird, but we'll take it. — Photo: Mark Roper

Lauren Eldridge’s eggnog custard tarts

Lauren Eldridge’s eggnog custard tarts

An Italian Christmas cake — Photo: Ben Dearnley

Flour and Stone’s Italian Christmas cake

Flour and Stone’s Italian Christmas cake

Flour & Stone’s stollen with sour cherries

Flour & Stone’s stollen with sour cherries

Sour-cherry and roasted-almond white Christmas

Sour-cherry and roasted-almond white Christmas

Pfeffernüsse

Pfeffernüsse

Gingerbread stars with buttermilk icing — Photo: Mark Roper

Lauren Eldridge’s brunkager

Lauren Eldridge’s brunkager

Panettone

Panettone

Cranberry, pistachio and almond nougat

Cranberry, pistachio and almond nougat

Gingerbread house

Gingerbread house

A round white plate, with an ornamental red floral border, holding star-shaped baked cookies. — Photo: Ben Dearnley

Spiced Christmas cookies (speculaas)

Spiced Christmas cookies (speculaas)

Fruit mince tarts

Fruit mince tarts

Fruit shortbread stars with cinnamon-brandy glaze

Fruit shortbread stars with cinnamon-brandy glaze

Philippa Sibley Christmas biscuits

Philippa Sibley’s Christmas biscuits

Pineapple-rum fruitcakes

Pineapple-rum fruitcakes

Stollen

Stollen

Florentines

Florentines

Burnt butter fruit mince tartlets

Burnt butter fruit mince tartlets

Christmas cake with fondant

Christmas cake with fondant

Gingerbread stars with buttermilk icing

Gingerbread stars with buttermilk icing

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