Christmas recipes: the best things in life are sweet
Christmas gifts tend to not survive the first week of the new year – and are quickly relegated to the company of other seasonal skeletons in the closet. Some don’t even make it out of the glittery wrapping – and are quickly, and a tad unkindly, recycled to a relative you don’t really like. Then there are those gifts which you wish you had never received – as they can’t be passed on, used or abused. Cue grandma’s knitted Christmas jumper, an 800-page tome on the entomology of the Amazon forest (you have an extreme fear of insects), and a handcrafted photo album that you suspect started life as a wedding album. Admittedly, it’s difficult to get Christmas gifts right. The safest – and sweetest – option is to bake some festive goodies. They’re personal, edible and if you’re going around for Christmas dinner, crunchily thoughtful. Christmas biscuits You need 175g dark muscovado sugar 85g golden syrup 100g butter 3tsp ground ginger 1tsp ground cinnamon 350g plain flour 1tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 egg, lightly beaten 100g white chocolate Edible silver balls Method Heat the sugar, golden syrup and butter until melted. Mix the spices and flour in a large bowl. Dissolve the bicarbonate of...