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These slice-and-bake cookies are a great dinner-party trick. Have a roll ready in the fridge and pop them in the oven after the main course. Who doesn't love warm cookies for dessert?

These light-as-air cookies spread as they bake thanks to melted butter and cream in the batter. Then they're iced in chocolate, with sea salt finish.

These sweet and crisp cherry-almond florentines are an elegant addition to you holiday cookie tin. 

Tart lime curd and buttery pistachios add a pale green contrast to rosy strawberries and the pairing is reminiscent of those strawberry-kiwi-flavoured treats you enjoyed as a kid. Take the shortcut with store-bought angel food cake; this trifle is full of other homemade elements.

These desserts are true holiday crowd pleasers.

Bust out your best novelty glassware: This no-bake trifle recipe from the 1990s remains unchanged and as delicious as ever.

This decadent Black Forest trifle with cherries is a holiday party waiting to happen. It's easy to make ahead (and tastes even better the next day).

With a little royal icing and some holiday spirit, these gingerbread cookies make festive tree ornaments—if you can manage not to eat them. 

This stunning gingerbread tree—made from our classic gingerbread recipe, using a set of 10 graduated star cookie cutters—is a cinch to pull together.

A classic British dessert, allegedly made popular in the 1970s by Francis Coulson, chef at Sharrow Bay Country House in northern England. (No matter its origins, this deluxe moist spongey cake with caramel and creamy custard sauce will please every sweet tooth.)

Individual servings of this Christmas classic? Yes, please.

Drizzled with a rich brandy-butter sauce, this traditional Christmas pudding is a luxurious way to cap off a holiday meal.