Christmas baking ideas

Get ready to fill your home with the delicious aroma of the festive season!

Whether you're looking for easy Christmas baking ideas for a family afternoon or showstopping festive bakes for your party, we’ve got you covered. Think sweet treats like beautiful Christmas cakes, easy cookies, gingerbread men (and the ultimate gingerbread house!), plus, of course, classic mince pies. We've even got a whole host of gorgeous savoury Christmas bakes and nibbles that you're going to love. Baking at Christmas never looked so good!

For more festive food ideas, visit Jamie's Christmas recipe hub

Christmas Baking

Christmas cake ideas

My Christmas cake

3 hrs 30 mins

Scrumptious yule log

45 mins

Gluten-free Christmas cake

1 hr 20 mins

Christmas bundt cake

Prune & Armagnac cake

1 hr 30 mins

Apple pepper pot cake

1 hr 25 mins

Victoria sandwich

Queen Victoria sponge

1 hr

My Nan's St. Clement's cake

50 mins

Epic vegan chocolate cake

50 mins

Chocolate & chestnut yule log

1 hr 20 mins

Gluten-free chocolate cake

50 mins

Vegan ginger cupcakes

35 mins

Gluten-free apple, almond & cardamom cupcakes

30 mins

Flourless chocolate cake

1 hr 30 mins

Baumkuchen

1 hr 20 mins

Kugelhopf

2 hrs

Prune & Armagnac cake

1 hr 30 mins

Hazelnut madeleines with frangelico cream

30 mins

Family-friendly Christmas bakes

Easy gingerbread men and women with fun icing decoration

Gingerbread people

40 mins

Chocolate candy cane cookies

1 hr 10 mins

Gingerbread house

1 hr

Peanut butter cookies

35 mins

Stained glass biscuits

1 hr 10 mins

Chocolate whoopie pies

35 mins

Spiced flapjacks

55 mins

Lucky charms

Scones with clotted cream and jam on a plate

Crumbliest scones

35 mins

Simple gingerbread cookies

25 mins

Mint choc chip whoopie pies

47 mins

Rainbow jam tarts

35 mins

Jaffa cakes

40 mins

Mellow mincemeat

15 mins

Christmas pastries, pies & tarts

Classic mince pies

2 hrs 15 mins

Anything goes Christmas strudel

1 hr

Panettone bread and butter pudding recipe

Bread & butter panettone pudding tart

1 hr

Cranberry bakewell

1 hr 40 mins

Chocolate and caramel tart with hazelnuts

Chocolate & caramel tart with hazelnuts

2 hrs 10 mins

Buddy's mince pie pinwheels

40 mins

Chocolate truffle chestnut torte

1 hr 10 mins

Chocolate pumpkin brûlée pie

1 hr 45 mins

Rich chocolate tart with salt flakes

55 mins

Sour cranberry Bakewell

1 hr 50 mins

Brioche mince pies

1 hr 25 mins

Homemade gluten-free and vegan mince pies on a tray

Food Allergy Mums’ vegan mince pies

30 mins

Starry mince pies

40 mins

Gluten-free mince pies

40 mins

Mince pies

1 hr 25 mins

Bourbon pecan tart

35 mins

Almond tart with figs

Perfect mince pies

1 hr

Baked Alaska mince pies

1 hr

Christmas savoury bakes

Sausage rolls

1 hr 5 mins

Baked Camembert

1 hr 15 mins

Cheese & bacon pinwheels

25 mins

Gluten-free veggie pasties

1 hr 30 mins

Squash, Stilton & walnut rolls

1 hr 30 mins

Squash, sage & chestnut rolls

1 hr 45 mins

Baked veggie samosas

2 hrs

Vegan mushroom rolls

1 hr 20 mins

Vegan mushroom, chestnut and cranberry tart

Vegan mushroom, chestnut & cranberry tart

2 hrs 35 mins

Jamie’s turkey, pork & cranberry pie

6 hrs 20 mins

Parsnip & chestnut tarte tatin

1 hr 20 mins

Christmas quiche

55 mins

Chestnut, rosemary & pancetta focaccia

40 mins

Turkey and leek pie with chestnut and sage and puff pastry topping

Turkey and sweet leek pie

1 hr 45 mins

The best baked pumpkin

1 hr 30 mins

Christmas breads & doughnuts

Panettone muffins

4 hrs 10 mins

Sour cherry stollen

1 hr 35 mins

Saffron & hazelnut wreath

1 hr 30 mins

Hot crumpets with melted butter on top next to block of butter

Classic crumpets

50 mins

Poppy seed Stollen

Stollen

1 hr 20 mins

Christmas couronne

1 hr 25 mins

Cranberry & cinnamon swirl buns

1 hr 35 mins

Spiced doughnuts

1 hr 30 mins

December scones

55 mins

Dairy-free apple muffins

35 mins

Christmas cake - clementine, ricotta and lemon-curd panettone

How to make a seasonal celebration cake

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Christmas cookies & biscuits

Chocolate biscotti

1 hr 35 mins

Florentines

40 mins

White chocolate & cranberry cookies

35 mins

Amaretti biscuits

25 mins

Scottish shortbread

40 mins

White pepper spiced biscuits

Lucky charms

St Clement’s shortbread

45 mins

Stained glass biscuits

1 hr 10 mins

Chocolate candy cane cookies

1 hr 10 mins

Gluten-free biscotti

1 hr

Peanut butter cookies

35 mins

Jools’ easy oaty fruit cookies

25 mins

Gingerbread people

40 mins

Everything cookies

35 mins

Chocolate chip cookies

20 mins

Gluten-free lemon millet biscuits

30 mins

Dairy-free chocolate & nut cookies

25 mins

Gluten-free oat & raisin cookies

35 mins

Gluten-free peanut butter cookies

35 mins

More Christmas baking recipes

Profiteroles

1 hr

Easy flapjacks

50 mins

Easy chocolate brownies stacked on top of each other

Bloomin' brilliant brownies

40 mins

Honeycomb

25 mins

Gluten-free chocolate brownies

1 hr 20 mins

Little cherry and chestnut chocolate brownies

35 mins

Cranberry granola

35 mins

Spiced flapjacks

55 mins

Super toasted granola with chewy fruit

35 mins

Salted caramel brownies

55 mins

Gluten-free blondies

45 mins

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