Bonfire Night

Someone pouring sauce over a slice of gingerbread cake

Baking and desserts

Gingerbread cake with date syrup bourbon sauce

1 h 40 mins Makes 12 servings

A plate of beef brisket with rice and lime wedges

Healthy chilli

8 h 30 mins serves 6

A selection of Christmas cocktails lined up in a row

Chocolate old fashioned

5 mins serves 1

Four bottles of Irish cream, one gold round one and the others conventional bottle shape

Best Irish cream taste test

Smoky Hot Chocolate Recipe

Cocktails and drinks

Smoky, boozy hot chocolate

30 mins serves 6-8

Two glass mugs filled with mulled red wine with a slice of orange in each

Cocktails and drinks

Hot spiced cherry cup

40 mins serves 6

Two glasses of mulled port with sprig of rosemary inside

Cocktails and drinks

Mulled port with bay and rosemary

30 mins serves 8

Sloe Sazerac in a glass

Cocktails and drinks

Sloe sazerac

5 mins serves 1

Sidecar cocktail in a coupe glass with a bottle of red liquid behind

Spiced sidecar

5 mins serves 1

Vegan mac n cheese

Vegan mac ’n’ cheese

1 h serves 4-6

Gingerbread squares on a platter

Baking and desserts

Classic gingerbread

45 mins Makes 9 squares

Pumpkin cake, image by Mike English

Baking and desserts

Pumpkin cake

1 h serves 12

Tray-baked potatoes with mushrooms, chestnuts and sherry

Tray-baked potatoes with mushrooms, chestnuts and sherry

1 h serves 4

Sticky Toffee Self- Saucing Pudding Recipe

Sticky toffee self-saucing pudding

50 mins serves 8

Godfather Cocktail Recipe with Whisky

Christmas godfather

5 mins serves 2