Forget mince pies – try baking your own iced baubles for the tree, a penguin-festooned fruit cake and white chocolate snowmen truffles that can be packaged into the perfect gift
I don’t really have set Christmas traditions. My mum is Chinese, and Christmas isn’t really a big deal for her, so after my parents separated, we didn’t celebrate it much. Then, in the years when I was a care assistant, or a support worker in a hospital, I have had to work. The only things I do every year are a secret Santa with my friends – and baking.
One year, I went on a baking marathon. I got it into my head that I wanted to make loads of things and photograph them all in one picture. I baked mince pies, and camembert with bread around the edge. My partner, Nabil, wanted to eat it straight away, but I had to take it outside and hold it over a hedge to photograph it. I also made little cupcakes with my own Santa Claus toppers.
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