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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
Cheese biscuits, brittle and fig jam: Yotam Ottolenghi’s Christmas gifts for food lovers
A trio of presents that you’ll want for Christmas dinner: a ginger nut brittle to serve as is or to blitz into a toast-topping paste, crumbly cheese biscuits and an enticingly easy fig jam
Spice up your life: Thomasina Miers’ chilli jar gift set
Three jars that will delight any chilli lovers: a Chinese chilli oil, an ancho pickle and a Mexican spice blend
Nut clusters and herby oat cookies: Honey & Co’s food gift ideas
Buttery, crisp cashew clusters with a mustardy kick, and a cheeseboard showstopper of rosemary-scented oat biscuits
Meera Sodha’s vegan jewelled florentines
A fruit-and-nut Christmas treat to wrap up and gift – assuming you can keep your hands off in the meantime
David Atherton’s pickles and chutney gift jars
A festive ketchup, pickled beets, carrot chutney and marinated feta – all surprisingly easy to make
Bottle it: drinks gifts for Christmas
A bottle of a favourite tipple is bound to be a surefire hit
Benjamina Ebuehi’s ginger and treacle crinkle cookies
Crackly, Christmassy, sugar-coated ginger nut biscuits to give to family and friends (or, more likely, to devour in one sitting)
Felicity Cloake’s festive shortbread selection
As made by the Guardian’s resident recipe perfectionist, with a few choices of festive flavourings
Rachel Roddy’s Christmas dried figs stuffed with almonds dipped in chocolate
A centuries-old Roman treat of dried fig halves, stuffed with almonds and candied orange, and dipped in dark chocolate
From chilli oil to tahini thins: Yotam Ottolenghi’s edible gifts
Make room under the Christmas tree for these spiced biscuits, sweet treats and spicy infused oils
Thomasina Miers’ dark chocolate, orange and cranberry granola
Not just any granola, but a deeply chocolatey one laced with festively tangy orange and cranberry to pack into jars and give as presents
Meera Sodha’s vegan spiced chocolate coins
A low-effort treat that will make a high-impact gift to send to friends
The four spirits of Christmas
A clementine cordial, a chestnut brandy syrup, a red-wine punch and a Christmas-pudding-infused vodka, from Claire Strickett and Bert Blaize
Kylee Newton’s Christmas spreads and jams
A chocolate and chestnut spread, an apple and date chutney, a pear and ground coffee jam, and a quince and rosemary jelly
Ravneet Gill’s pecan, orange and milk chocolate cookies
Freshly baked cookies are an ideal gift. Freeze the dough and cook from frozen when required
Felicity Cloake’s stollen
The festive German fruit bread is a satisfying and delicious bake and a (ahem) perfect homemade Christmas gift
Chocolate thins and nut brittle: Rachel Roddy’s sweet Christmas gifts
Easy walnut, honey and bay leaf sweets (nociata) and little chocolate, nut and currant sweets
Helen Goh of Ottolenghi’s Christmas sweets
An assortment of sweet treats to box up for loved ones: hazelnut brittle, marmalade rugelach, lime chocolate truffles and treacle gingerbread stars
Chiristmas jams and chutneys, from Pam Corbin
Smoky beetroot ketchup, Sauternes jelly, chutney and a sumptuous sticky jalapeno jam
Ideal Christmas sweet bottles to gift (rather than glug)
It’s safe to say your hosts will have selected booze to go with the main courses, so why not plump for a sweet or fortified wine to round things off with a bang?
Courtesy: theguardian
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