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Classic Christmas cake recipe

A classic Christmas cake topped with marzipan and royal icing. This recipe scorches the royal icing top with a blowtorch but you could finish with a spritz of edible gold spray and a scattering of sparkly snowflakes if you wish. Ingredients Fo ...

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Chocolate yule log recipe

A rich festive log, filled and covered with a dark chocolate mousse. It’s pretty simple to make, but does require some chilling. It’s best made the day before serving. Tips: You could also fill the log with whipped cream and crushed raspb ...

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The Perfect Christmas Turkey

Tremendous free range turkeys are juicy and full of flavour - a world away from dry, flavourless mass-produced birds. Follow our tips below for the best (and easiest) Christmas roast. Ingredients 1 whole organic turkey1 onions1 clementine or o ...

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THE STORY OF EGGNOG

Many believe that eggnog is a tradition that was brought to America from Europe. This is partially true. Eggnog is related to various milk and wine punches that had been concocted long ago in the "Old World". However, in America a new twist was put ...

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Eggnog recipe

That classic Christmas drink - eggs, sugar, milk, vanilla, nutmeg and yoghurt.  You will need a cooking thermometer for this recipe. Don’t be scared of raw eggs in eggnog; we gently cook them in this recipe. Mat’s top tip: Use double c ...