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Get ahead with these 10 Christmas recipes you can make right now

Whether it's baking the traditional Christmas cake or striking a few gifts off the list, fill the kitchen with festive smells with some get-ahead Christmas cooking.

9 recipes
Panforte

Panforte

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Brigitte Hafner
Maggie Beer's Christmas cake.

Christmas cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Maggie Beer
Stephanie Alexander's mince pies.

Stephanie Alexander's mince pies recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Stephanie Alexander
A lot of shops will sell a great range of glacé fruits that you might not be able to find at any other time of the year.
EASY

Brown sugar shortbread with glace fruits

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
White Christmas with Turkish delight, macadamias and amaranth.
EASY

Cherry, macadamia, Turkish delight and amaranth white Christmas

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Adam Liaw's cherry chinotto cordial.
EASY

Cherry chinotto cordial

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Paneforte bianco natale with white chocolate, pistachios, almonds and cherries.

Panforte bianco with pistachios, almonds and cherries

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Chilli choc truffles.

Chilli choc truffles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Caroline Velik
Biscuit Christmas tree.

Gingerbread christmas tree

  • 30 mins - 1 hr

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