Festive recipes to make with the kids

Who doesn’t love a homemade sausage roll? This recipe includes three flavour-packed filling ideas: sticky hoisin duck, sausage and ‘nduja, and potato and pea. Choose your family’s favourite or spend an afternoon making all three. Depending on your little one’s age, they could help with mixing the filling, rolling the pastry or brushing over the egg wash.

Everyone will love these fun, festive chocolate-covered apples, which are rolled in our irresistible sweet-and-savoury Very Merry Munch mix.

Let the kids help decorating these cute cake pops with their favourite sprinkles and decorations, then snuggle up to enjoy them with a hot chocolate and your family’s go-to Christmas movie.

It doesn’t get more Christmassy than a homemade mince pie. These versions, with their zesty marmalade topping, are easy thanks to the shop-bought pastry and mincemeat. Put some festive tunes on and get everyone rolling, filling and baking.

This recipe makes a big batch of these pretty, festive-spiced biscuits, which could be packaged up and given as thoughtful homemade gifts (hello, brownie points with Granny and Grandad). Children can help with the decorating, rolling and shaping.

Get everyone involved in helping choose and arrange the toppings in these easy homemade pizzas, which are made with our shortcut ready-made pizza base and Classic Tomato Everything Sauce. They’re topped with leftover turkey here, but you could use cooked ham, chicken or whatever you have to hand.

These healthy muffins would make a lovely breakfast during the school holidays, when there’s a little bit more time in the morning. Children could help choosing their favourite fillings – we’ve suggested spring onions, cheddar, peas and cherry tomatoes, but you could switch it up and add their favourites, from cooked chicken and ham to steamed broccoli or pesto.

If you’re baking with – or feeding – toddlers, these moreish biscuits will go down a treat. Let them help cut festive stars and shapes from the easy cheddar biscuit dough then bake until golden.

It may look seriously impressive, but this tear-and-share mincemeat Christmas tree is surprisingly easy to make, especially when you have some little helpers to shape the shop-bought pastry, brush with beaten egg, and sprinkle over the icing sugar at the end. Just don’t stress about making it look too perfect – we promise it will still taste amazing.