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Christmas gifts of the baked and edible kind

The best presents are the ones you can eat.
Gingerbread stars with buttermilk icing

Gingerbread stars with buttermilk icing

Mark Roper

Edible treats are sort of Christmas gifts that will always be appreciated (and Boxing Day clean-up is that much easier if most of your presents are edible). From a grown-up version of white Christmas with sour cherry and roasted almonds to a spiced pfeffernüsse, and stunning gingerbread stars with buttermilk icing, these are the baked and edible Christmas treats your friends and family will love.

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Golden square tin holding hand-sized custard tarts with burnished tops, each in their own white paper casing. There's also a glass holding a rose-pink speckled bauble, which is kind of weird, but we'll take it.
Photo: Mark Roper

Lauren Eldridge’s eggnog custard tarts

An Italian Christmas cake
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Flour and Stone’s Italian Christmas cake

Stollen
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Flour & Stone’s stollen with sour cherries

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Sour-cherry and roasted-almond white Christmas

Sour-cherry and roasted-almond white Christmas

Photo: William Meppem

Pfeffernüsse

Gingerbread stars with buttermilk icing
Photo: Mark Roper

Lauren Eldridge’s brunkager

Panettone
Photo: Chris Court

Panettone

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Cranberry, pistachio and almond nougat
Photo: James Moffatt

Cranberry, pistachio and almond nougat

A .gif video showing a gingerbread house being constructed and iced.
Photo: Dean Wilmot

Gingerbread house

A round white plate, with an ornamental red floral border, holding star-shaped baked cookies.
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Spiced Christmas cookies (speculaas)

Fruit mince tarts
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Fruit mince tarts

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Fruit shortbread stars with cinnamon-brandy glaze

Photo: John Laurie

Philippa Sibley Christmas biscuits

Photo: William Meppem

Pineapple-rum fruitcakes

Photo: William Meppem

Stollen

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Photo: Ben Dearnley

Florentines

Photo: Chris Court

Burnt butter fruit mince tartlets

Photo: William Meppem

Christmas cake with fondant

Photo: William Meppem

Gingerbread stars with buttermilk icing

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