Start off by making your own Christmas box with brightly coloured cardboard, decorated with glitter and ribbons. Fill the box with pretty crêpe paper and layer your home-made biscuits into the box. Remember you can store cookie dough in the freezer for last-minute home-baked Christmas treats, should surprise visitors arrive. If you can’t bear to give your favourite biscuits away, make a small hole in the just-cooked biscuits while they’re still hot. Then, when they’re cooled, thread through a sparkly ribbon to make a pretty tree decoration. For more Christmas gift ideas, see our Hampers page
Sophie Grigson's delightfully crisp, cheesey litle biscuits prove that going to seed can sometimes be a delicious thing to do!
Freeze half the dough for these addictive chocolate cookies from Amy Willcock and cook to order when the nibbles call
Fresh clementines add a delicious citrus flavour to a traditional Scottish tea-time treat in Andrew Nutter's more-ish recipe
Perfect for a picnic or a satisfying snack, James Martin's tasty little chocolate and nut cookies are fun to make
Enjoy a traditional Christmas treat with Martin Blunos's recipe for fragrant, home-made gingerbread biscuits
Home-made lavender sugar adds a delicious and subtle fragrance to shortbread biscuits in Gioconda Scott's appealing recipe
Sophie Grigson's elegant little orange biscuits are perfect with coffee and a delight to serve with desserts
For irresistible, melt in the mouth treats try Paul Hollywood's simple recipe for peanut butter cookies
Fragrant spices, citrus zest and almond combine to flavour these delicious biscuits in Gennaro Contaldo's recipe
Try Janet Brinkworth's crisp, spiced
Swedish-style biscuits, delicious with a cup of tea or coffee
