RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Pain au chocolat

  Enjoy creating a classic French bakery treat in your own kitchen with Paul Hollywood's dangerously tempting recipe for pain au chocolat

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  Home-made tomato sauce

  Matthew Fort thinks classic simplicity is best, so doesn’t add anything to his tomato sauce but tomatoes, onion, garlic and olive oil

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  Cinnamon and pecan butterscotch buns

  These sticky buns from Ainsley Harriott make a great weekend breakfast treat. Kids just love to get involved with all the mixing, kneading and rolling

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  Toffee apples

  Relive nostalgic childhood memories with Roopa Gulati's crackingly good toffee-coated apples

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  Brandy snaps

  Toffee-coloured biscuits laced with spice and a billowing cream centre from Eleanor Smallwood

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  Spiedinos

  Ed Baines guarantees success on a stick with these mouth-watering skewers of meaty monkfish, juicy scallops and crisp bacon-wrapped ciabatta

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  Deep-fried ice cream and mincemeat parcels

  Nigel Slater's splendidly decadent mixture of hot, crisp pastry, boozy mincemeat and cold vanilla ice is an all-round winner

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  Venison en croute with winter vegetables

  Elspeth McNaughton wraps venison fillets in mushrooms and haggis in this very Scottish dish

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  Nettle ravioli

  Handled correctly, the humble nettle can make a dramatic and delicious change from the norm suggests Theo Randall

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  Raspberry and hazelnut tart

  For a truly tempting tart, try this combination of buttery hazelnut pastry with glorious raspberry filling from Claire Macdonald