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Roasted nuts make a great go-to snack.

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12 home-made Christmas food gifts to make this weekend

Plus, don’t forget to make some extra for you to nibble, drizzle or dunk yourself.

12 recipes
Sichuan chilli oil.
EASY

Adam Liaw's Sichuan chilli oil

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Helen Goh’s roasted spiced nuts with lime leaf and chilli.
EASY

Roasted spiced nuts with lime leaf and chilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Helen Goh
Smoky tomato sauce.
EASY

Adam Liaw's smoky chilli tomato sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's Christmas red and green hot sauces.
EASY

Adam Liaw's fermented red chilli-cherry hot sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Anna Polyviou's gingerbread house complete with Iced VoVo front door.

Anna Polyviou’s Christmas gingerbread house

  • Anna Polyviou
Adam Liaw's Christmas red and green hot sauces.
EASY

Adam Liaw's quick green jalapeno, peach and coriander hot sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Decorate the cookies with a sprig of rosemary (pictured) or lavender.

Helen Goh's spiced German cookies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Christmas gingerbread cookies.

Gingerbread Christmas cookies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Dan Lepard's pistachio almond butter biscuits.
EASY

Pistachio almond butter biscuits

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
Bake a batch of Christmas cookies.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s salt and brown sugar cookies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
A great little pickle to give as a gift or pack for a picnic.
EASY

Easy piccalilli recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Dan Lepard
Gingerbread folk.

Gingerbread women

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix