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Books 1 to 20 of 30 – Christmas

Delia’s Happy Christmas  by Delia Smith
Delia Smith has done it again with her guide to the various aspects of cooking for Christmas. It gives you 150 recipes, including 100 new recipes and 50 classics, as well as menu plans and shopping lists, illustrated with full-colour photography. It includes recipes for your favourite traditional dishes

,  312 pp,  $92.95. Buy now

Southern Living Christmas Cookbook  by Rebecca Brennan, Nancy Fitzpatrick Wyatt and Susan Carlisle Payne & others and others
Over 350 recipes and nearly 250 colour photographs make up this holiday entertaining guide. You’ll love the ease of the Harvest Fare menu that features Bourbon-Glazed Ham and Out-of-this-World Scalloped Potatoes. Breakfast Pizza and Cheesy Baked Grits will delight the entire family. Don’t miss the Coffee and Chocolate Party that offers such indulgences as Mocha Fondue, in addition to tips on setting up a coffee bar. The Classic Christmas Dinner, with its entree choice of Marinated Cornish Hens or Marinated Turkey Breast, will have you preparing this meal year-round rather than waiting for Christmas Day! Treats for Early Risers gives you at-a-glance breakfast and brunch ideas, from Buttery Biscuits to Mini Sausage-and-Egg Casseroles.

,  288 pp,  $41.95. Buy now

Margaret Fulton’s Christmas  by Margaret Fulton
From choosing what to serve for Christmas dinner and how best to shop and prepare ahead, to planning a full menu and clever ideas for leftovers, Margaret will help you make this a Christmas to remember. Fully illustrated with variations and endless recipes and ideas

,  320 pp,  $59.95. Buy now

Christmas 
The newest title in the series that began with Cupcakes. Full of original recipes to grace your Christmas table and delight your guests

Paperback,   $24.95. Buy now

Easy to Make! Christmas 
One of the many joys of Christmas is the magnificent array of seasonal food on offer – but hosting the festivities can be quite a task. This heartwarming collection will guarantee a hassle-free holiday, with inspiring recipes from orange and bay leaf turkey right through to an indulgent cranberry Christmas pudding, together with a fail-safe Christmas techniques section.Over 100 triple-tested recipes in a new full-colour cookery series, featuring the most popular recipes from the GH Institute Kitchens – tried, tested, trusted recipes that are guaranteed to work first time every time. Each title in the series contains: step-by-step photography of essential cooking techniques nutritional advice – clear information where recipes are vegetarian,

Paperback,  128 pp,  $12.99. Buy now

Best of Gifts of Good Taste: Christmas & Everyday 
This collection of incredible, edible gift favourites is brimming with recipes and crafts. To make it extra easy to use, the book is divided into two groups and printed as a flip book: one side has A Year of Gifts of Good Taste the other is Christmas Gifts of Good Taste.

Paperback,  240 pp,  $27.95. Buy now

The Pastry Queen Christmas  by Rebecca Rather and Alison Oresman
The annual Fredericksburg Christmas parade marks the beginning of the Hill Country’s holiday season, which means the Pastry Queen is kicking into high gear at her Rather Sweet Bakery and Caf?. As party invitations pile up in the mailbox, Rebecca Rather is up to her elbows in sticky meringue, gooey chocolate, and a sleigh’s worth of savory indulgences to meet the Texas-sized entertaining-to-go orders of her neighbors. In THE PASTRY QUEEN CHRISTMAS, Rebecca shares nearly a hundred traditional recipes reflecting her made-with-love-from-scratch philosophy and the tastes of small-town Texas. Tree-trimming, open houses, cookie decorating, and Santas running down Main Street . . . Christmas time is here

,  240 pp,  $45.95. Buy now

I’m Dreaming of a Chocolate Christmas  by Marcel Desaulniers
No one knows chocolate like Marcel Desaulniers, whose bestselling, award-winning books have made his name synonymous with luscious chocolate desserts. Now Desaulniers has created the ultimate holiday baking book for chocolate lovers everywhere, packed with full-color photography. The 72 chocolate treats and desserts you’ll find inside are guaranteed to draw oohs and ahhs from your family and friends, and many are also straightforward to make-which means you’ll have time to enjoy Christmas, too!

,  224 pp,  $37.95. Buy now

101 Christmas Dishes  by Angela Nilsen
Packed with inspirational ideas, impressive menus and fantastic recipes, festive foodies will find everything they need to make Christmas magical every year with Good Food 101 Christmas Dishes. Add sparkle to your party nibbles, rev up the roast, delight your guests with truly decadent desserts. From canapes to Christmas cake, the team at BBC Good Food Magazine will take you every step of the way with simple, mouthwatering recipes that won’t keep you in the kitchen for days on end

Paperback,  216 pp,  $17.95. Buy now

Carol Deacon’s Little Book of Easy Christmas Cakes  by Carol Deacon

Paperback,  36 pp,  $17.95. Buy now

Christmas Sweets  by Georgeanne Brennan
One of the greatest pleasures of every holiday is the making of special sweets to share with family and friends. In ‘Christmas Sweets’, author Georgeanne Brennan shares some of her personal favourites in an irresistible collection of recipes for baked goods, candies, and frozen desserts. This festive volume also includes fun craft and gift ideas for using sweet treats to decorate the home and table that children and adults of all ages will enjoy. ‘Christmas Sweets’ offers more than 50 recipes, from cookie jars filled with Pecan Lace Cookies to boxes of homemade candy brimming with Chocolate Fudge or Turkish Delight. Traditional Plum Pudding with Hard Sauce or snowy white Angel Food Cake with Coconut curls are memorable finishes to a Christm

Hardback,  136 pp,  $27.95. Buy now

Jeanne Bice’s Quacker Factory Christmas  by Jeanne Bice
< p> < strong> Quack Up Your Holidays < /strong> < /p> < p> Are you longing for the festive twinkling of holiday lights but yours are tangled and on the blink? Ready to wrap your Christmas gifts but can’t remember where you hid them? Would you like to get your friends together for a holiday open house but don’t know when you’d find the time or what you’d serve them? Relax. Or, as Jeanne Bice, founder of The Quacker Factory says, & quot Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle & quot < /p> < p> Jeanne Bice, known to millions of fans as & quot the Head Quack& quot of the clothing line, The Quacker Factory, and designer-crafter extraordinaire, is here to show you how to make your home fittingly festive without the fuss. With the home-spun charm that

Paperback,  244 pp,  $39.00. Buy now

Betty Crocker Christmas Cookbook  by Betty Crocker

Hardback,  352 pp,  $36.95. Buy now

Donna Hay Christmas  by Donna Hay
A Donna Hay for Christmas! Donna Hay‚ whose bestselling books -modern classics‚ off the shelf and the instant cook – made food simple‚ fresh and modern‚ is set to change the way you think about Christmas. Take the hassles out of the festive season with this stunning gift-format book. Here‚ you’ll find simple recipes and menu planners for a traditional Christmas‚ a modern Christmas or a speedy Christmas. As a bonus‚ Donna includes timesaving tips and a 16-page planning section to record notes‚ your own handy tips‚ and things to remember. With its combination of delicious packaging and Donna’s signature accessible style‚ this is a beautiful gift to buy others – or to keep for yourself.

Hardback,  80 pp,  $29.95. Buy now

Christmas Cookies from the Whimsical Bakehouse   by Kaye Hansen
Come holiday time, there’s no better way to celebrate than by baking up some special cookies. In Christmas Cookies from the Whimsical Bakehouse, mother-daughter bakers Kaye and Liv Hansen share their most enchanting cookies, from simple to showstoppingly beautiful. These irresistibly pretty cookies are perfect for snacking and gifting, decorating the tree, and, of course, leaving for Santa. And they are definitely not your grandmother’s cookies! With both classic and creative flavor combinations and adorable designs, the Hansens’ cookies have been pleasing loyal customers at their cozy upstate New York bakery for years. Now they bring their customers’ favorite recipes home to you. Kaye handles the baking, imbuing the cookies with the tradit

Hardback,  96 pp,  $26.95. Buy now

The Traditional Aga Christmas  by Louise Walker
Louise Walker, Aga cookery writer, has written this helpful Aga Christmas book full of recipes, tips and seasonal folklore. Beautiful photography from Carlo Chinca completes this evocative celebration of the festive season

Hardback,  144 pp,  $34.95. Buy now

Christmas Entertaining  by Georgeanne Brennan
Christmas Entertaining Christmas is a time for entertaining, and for the host that means hours spent planning, shopping, cooking, and decorating the house. With a good guidebook in hand, the work of holiday entertaining can be one of the joys of the season. In Williams-Sonoma Christmas Entertaining, you’ll discover everything you need to know to welcome guests into your home with style and ease. Organized around six festive holiday occasions, this book provides complete menus and decorating ideas, all designed to fit the way people like to entertain and spend time together today: a cozy Fireside Cocktail Party an Italian Christmas Eve supper a chic Christmas Eve in the City a lavish, traditional New England Christmas a sparkling Snow Countr

,  143 pp,  $34.95. Buy now

Merry Kitschmas  by Michael D. Conway
“Merry Kitschmas” is a glorious guide to Christmas decorating for Santa’s hapless helpers. Awaken your memories of a tackier, spanglier time, with the dazzling decorating ideas in these pages. Send tastebuds tripping on a sentimental journey with the delicious Yes You Can! straight-from-the-can-to-the-table Kitschmas feast. Dee-licious! Save a tree, and set the house aglow with a glittering aluminium White Trash Christmas Tree. And finally bring those nagging carolers that Frigging Figgy Pudding they’ve been yapping on about for decades. “Merry Kitschmas” provides a sleighful of holiday inspiration for anyone itching to craft with fruitcake, frolic in a tree skirt, and wow the neighbours with a spectacular lawn lighting fantasia.

Paperback,  120 pp,  $22.95. Buy now

The Christmas Cookie Book  by Lou Seibert Pappas
From spicy Gingerbread to simple and elegant Biscotti, The Christmas Cookie Book offers up a mouthwatering collection of forty traditional and contemporary cookie recipes. Classics like Sugar Cookies and Spritz make an appearance alongside more modern takes on long-cherished recipes such as French Lemon Wafers and Mahogany-Iced Brown Bears. Baking expert Lou Pappas shares the enchanting history of Christmas cookies and demonstrates which are best for shipping, which are fun to bake with kids, and which make the most elegant cookie-tray displays. With tempting photographs throughout, this book is a joyous celebration of baking, giving, and most importantly, enjoying everyone’s favorite Christmastime treat.

Paperback,  96 pp,  $22.95. Buy now

Swedish Christmas  by Catarina Lundgren Astrom, Peter Astrom and Lundgren Astrom and others

,  156 pp,  $50.95. Buy now