We love Irish cream at olive try our Irish cream style check to search out out which one to purchase), so we’ve got created some indulgent Baileys recipes so that you can make. For fast and straightforward festive entertaining, try our no-cook Christmas entertaining concepts, or for enjoyable bakes which mash up festive flavours, try our Christmas mash-up recipes.
Greatest Christmas baking concepts
Bûche de Noël
Serve this bûche de noël for a Christmas dessert showpiece. This festive log options layers of chocolate sponge, chantilly cream and chocolate buttercream.
Cinnamon biscuits
These crisp iced biscuits are flavoured with warming cinnamon and ginger spices. They’re certain to fill your kitchen with engaging festive aromas.
Traditional mince pies
It is simply not Christmas with no mince pie. Making your personal shortcrust pastry is simple, and investing in respectable shop-bought mincemeat makes all of the distinction.
Make-ahead Christmas cake
Get forward for Christmas by baking this basic festive fruit cake, coated in marzipan and fondant icing. With light spices, citrus flavours and ginger wine, this simple bake is stuffed with flavour and certain to impress a crowd.
Traditional stollen
This gently spiced, festive bake is bursting with dried fruit and marzipan. An incredible home made reward or afternoon pick-me-up.
Baileys cake
An actual showstopper of a cake, this three-tiered magnificence is all darkish chocolate and Baileys Irish Cream. It is good for a formidable Christmas dessert.
Vegan raspberry and lemon trifle
Impress your visitors with this basic layered dessert. The simple home made custard makes use of vanilla-flavoured soya milk and provides a conventional flavour and color to the custard.
Vegan gingerbread males
Get pleasure from some festive nostalgia with a batch of vegan gingerbread males. They’re simple to bake and enjoyable to embellish.
Vegan Christmas cake
Everybody will take pleasure in a slice of this Christmas cake, which could be baked and matured as much as eight weeks earlier than Christmas. Feed the cake weekly along with your selection of brandy, rum or whisky for additional moisture and a warming flavour.
Stollen bites
Make these fairly stollen bites for a enjoyable Christmas baking undertaking – you should utilize any combined dried fruit, resembling cranberries, bitter cherries or apricots.
Christmas crumble
Increase your Christmas repertoire with this festive take in your fave pud. Deplete left-over mincemeat – jarred or home made – for additional flavour.
Gingerbread cupcakes
These moreish spiced cupcakes are nice enjoyable to make over the festive season for the entire household.
Gluten-free chocolate fudge cake
Flip your hand to baking this festive chocolate fudge cake this Christmas, which simply occurs to be gluten free.
Cozonac
Bake this candy Christmas bread from Status Patisserie in Tottenham this Christmas. It’s studded with raisins, nuts, chocolate and Turkish delight and infused with rum.
Pistachio and cherry nougat pandoro
Minimize corners by assembling this spectacular festive centrepiece with shop-bought pandoro – it’s a bake which is able to get everybody within the festive spirit.
Gingerbread pie
Bake this superb gingerbread pie, showcasing a mix of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice, for a Christmas bake that’s designed to impress.
Tiramis-czhoux tower
You possibly can assure family and friends haven’t come throughout this hybrid earlier than, the place balls of choux pastry are filled with coffee-drenched ladyfingers and boozy pastry cream.
Christmas lamingtons
Give lamingtons a festive makeover on this recipe from Morny Bakehouse, with white chocolate icing, a cherry yuzu jam centre and a buttercream crown.
Christmas pavlova
Particular person pavlovas are crammed with caramelised pineapple, topped with vanilla-infused cream and completed with a passionfruit coulis. It is a actually showstopping dessert by Covent Backyard restaurant, Ave Mario.
Moldavian layered pie with hemp cream
Historically made on Christmas Eve in Jap Romania, this pie sees layers of flatbread soaked in a honey syrup and unfold with a hemp seed filling.
Christmas tart
Fill a shop-bought tart case with brandy-soaked dried fruit and two sorts of almond for a simple festive dessert, finest eaten with brandy butter.
Caribbean rum cake
This decadent and boozy cake from Caribbean chef Keshia Sakarah is fed with spiced rum and historically served in the course of the festive season.
Indonesian pandan, raspberry and white chocolate blondies
Pandan and raspberries give a vibrant and festive edge to those blondies, whereas the tartness offsets the candy white chocolate completely.
Chocolate panettone
We have given this candy Italian bread a decadent twist with darkish chocolate – the right deal with to serve guests over the festive season.
Panforte
This Italian dessert is fashionable in the course of the festive season. Chewy, nutty and candy, it is full of pistachios, almonds and dried fruits.
Mexican chocoflan
This festive flan cake, that includes chocolate, caramel and cinnamon, is called ‘flan imposible’ and combines two fashionable Mexican desserts.
Nepali spiced fruit and nut tart
Cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger give this nutty tart an actual festive edge. With a kick of spiced rum, it is a grown-up dessert that is good for Christmas.
Christmas biscuits
In search of a foodie festive exercise to do with kids? Our spiced Christmas biscuits make good edible decorations to hold out of your tree or mantle. You possibly can depart them out for Santa or wrap them up as a present, the probabilities are infinite!
Rum and raisin cake
Fire up this make-ahead Christmas cake with a spiced, boozy twist and your kitchen will likely be crammed with alluring, festive smells.
Chocolate yuletide log
Want a show-stopping dessert recipe to impress visitors over the Christmas interval? Take a look at our indulgent festive yuletide log with a boozy Baileys cream and crunchy hazelnut brittle, the right festive bake.
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Baileys chocolate tiffin
In search of a straightforward edible reward to offer buddies over the festive season? Take a look at these indulgent chocolate tiffins with our favorite Christmas drink in stable chocolate kind. You don’t have to incorporate the edible glitter however it does give added bling. Take a look at our different Baileys recipes right here.
Christmas cupcakes
In search of Christmas treats to bake? Absorb the cuteness of our melted chocolate snowmen cupcakes. These easy-to-make cupcakes are nice enjoyable to bake with the entire household and make for fast and straightforward Christmas get together meals.
White snowball cake
Want a show-stopping cake to serve household and buddies over the festive season? Take a look at our indulgent white chocolate Christmas cake recipe. It won’t be snowing outdoors, however one chunk of this cake and you may really feel such as you’re in a winter wonderland. Full of coconut and coated in white chocolate, it is candy and indulgent.
Bitter cherry stollen bars
In search of Christmas treats to bake? Jazz up your stollen this Christmas with our simple bitter cherry flavoured bars. The substances checklist might look prolonged however it’s all about build up the textures and flavours to make this probably the most moreish bar ever – manner higher than common stollen. Take a look at our greatest cherry recipes right here.
Snowball madeleines
Give the English madeleine a festive spin by infusing with the flavours of a basic snowball cocktail.
After Eight cake
This showstopping cake is an excellent mixture of chocolate and mint that makes a superb dessert for a festive get together.
White chocolate cranberry cheesecake blondies
Make your blondies additional particular with a festive sprinkling of cranberry flavour and a swirl of decadent cheesecake filling.
White Christmas cake
Desire a show-stopping simple Christmas bake? Take a look at our tremendous mild vanilla cake, a straightforward different to serve on Christmas Day instead of a standard fruit cake. In an effort to preserve the color as white as potential, use a really light-coloured butter resembling Lurpak or preserve beating the butter till it lightens in color. In search of different show-stopping cake recipes? Click on right here.
Black cake
Make this basic Caribbean as a Christmas cake different – that includes port, darkish rum and dried fruits, it is wealthy and decadent (and superb at Christmas).
Lebkuchen
Honey-sweetened German treats spiced with cinnamon and ginger, lebkuchen are famously festive biscuits. Bake a batch this winter to essentially get into the Christmas market spirit.
Black forest gateau
Flip the clock again with our nostalgic black forest cake with a contemporary twist.
Florentines
An incredible little Christmas deal with to bake at house. Grasp them from ribbons as an edible Christmas tree ornament or stack them on a plate and revel in with a comforting cup of tea over the festive season.
Pandoro semifreddo
This simple but standout pandoro recipe is certain to carry the wow issue to any Christmas desk. The chocolate and amaretto semifreddo is all encased in an Italian pandoro bread and topped with a crown of crunchy pistachios.
Whisky crumble mince pies
We have added a splash of booze and morello cherries to this basic Christmas deal with and topped with buttery crumble for additional indulgence.
Rum and almond fruit cake
Need a straightforward fruit cake with no fuss? Impress your visitors this Christmas and jazz up your cake with rum and a easy almond buttercream. Make it now or save the recipe to whip up a straightforward Christmas baking concept.
Baileys truffles
Deal with somebody particular this Christmas with these melt-in-the-mouth chocolate truffles with a boozy kick from Baileys cream.
Gluten-free mince pies
Christmas baking, gluten-free type. These boozy mince pies with meringue tops do not compromise on flavour or texture, plus they appear spectacular, too.
Boozy mincemeat pie
Desire a boozy pie to feed a crowd over the festive season? Our elegant recipe turns the standard mince pie right into a implausible Christmas dessert. Use shop-bought shortcrust pastry and a good-quality mincemeat to save lots of time. End with a dusting of silvery icing sugar. Click on right here for different thrilling candy pie recipes…
Chocolate-dipped honeycomb
In search of simple edible items for Christmas treats to bake at house? Prepared in 20 minutes, our fast and tremendous enjoyable honeycomb recipe is dipped in darkish, milk and white chocolate, the right Christmas deal with for somebody with a candy tooth. Attempt certainly one of our different edible reward concepts right here…
Russian honey cake
Take a look at our spectacular Russian cake recipe with moreish burnt-honey icing. This layer cake takes a little bit of effort to make however it’s the right cake to indicate off to family and friends for any big day over the festive season. This Russian honey cake recipe is created by authentic GBBO winner and knowledgeable baker Edd Kimber.
Baileys fudge
Home made fudge is a good little candy deal with for Christmas. Excellent with espresso to complete off a meal or as an power booster, it retains for as much as a month in an hermetic container. Plus we have a straightforward how-to video and it solely requires 4 substances, the right festive bake.
Spiced rum bamkuchen
Current this show-stopping dessert on Christmas Day for a formidable festive bake, full of golden marzipan and darkish rum. Slice it open to disclose the various layers which is able to wow your visitors. It’d take a little bit of time to organize, however it’s definitely worth the effort! Attempt extra of our boozy cake and bakes right here.
Clementine yoghurt cake
Transfer over Christmas fruit cake, our gluten free festive clementine cake is on the town and it is zesty and tremendous moist. Slice it up and watch everybody come working for a bit of this fruity and candy, yogurty deliciousness.
Mini Viennese mince pies
How do you make mini mince pies style even higher? Add much more buttery goodness with a Viennese swirl biscuit topping, zesty oranges and boozy amaretto after all!
Cranberry and ginger tiffin
Make this easy, indulgent tiffin to deal with somebody you’re keen on this Christmas. You possibly can swap the white chocolate for darkish or milk – go for the recipient’s favorite. The cranberry and ginger flavours actually elevate the buttery biscuit. Prepared in solely half-hour.
Gingerbread Introduction cookies
In search of enjoyable Christmas baking concepts? Make your personal edible Introduction calendar with our fast and straightforward gingerbread cookie recipe. The children can eat them sooner or later at a time or suddenly! We have now extra biscuit recipes right here.
White chocolate roulade with Baileys
Deal with your family members to an amazing dessert with this luxury festive bake made with white chocolate and Baileys. It is simple to make and requires little or no effort – put together it subsequent time you host a festive banquet.
Chocolate, hazelnut and cinnamon kugelhupf
Kugelhupf is a light-weight Christmas cake much like brioche or baba and is fashionable in central Europe. This model is made with chocolate, hazelnut and cinnamon, an amazing different to the normal British Christmas cake recipe. Plus, it is easy to make, too.
Christmas muffins
These tangerine and marzipan muffins are simple to make and prepared in beneath an hour – serve with a day cup of tea or for an indulgent festive breakfast deal with.
