Bonfire Night

Easy Slow Cooker Gammon Recipe

Meat and poultry

Slow cooker gammon in cider

6 h serves 6

Easy Apple Pie Recipe

Baking and desserts

Classic apple pie

1 h serves 6

Two mugs of hot chocolate, next to a jug fo milk and shots of spiced rum

Cocktails and drinks

Orange hot chocolate

15 mins serves 2-3

A ginger cake cut into squares with cups of tea on the side

Baking and desserts

Ginger cake

55 mins cuts into 16

A bowl of stew with dumplings on top

Beef stew and dumplings

3 h 30 mins serves 4

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