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Hairy Bakers' Christmas Special

Hairy Bakers' Christmas special | Hairy Bakers recipes
Average rating: 3 out of 5 star rating

Did you see The Hairy Bakers Christmas special on BBC2, Thursday 11th December?

They made traditional mince pies with a Hairy twist and created giant cheese straws, turkey and ham pies, chestnut and apple soup, as well as Christmas cookies. But the most exciting news is we have the Christmas pudding recipe they made in the programme, so you can try it at home!

So if you're feeling inspired, here are some of our recipes you might want to have a practise with, and a few of the Hairy Bakers/Bikers recipes thrown in!

Christmas puddings
Hairy Bakers' Christmas pudding Make this with the Hairy Bakers on Thursday!
Christmas chocolate puddings
Apple and cinnamon Christmas pudding
Luxury Christmas pudding
Microwave Christmas pudding
Boozy Christmas pudding
Roopa Gulati's vegetarian Christmas pudding

Mince pies
Mini star mince pies
Deluxe mince pies
Traditional mince pies
Star-shaped mince pies
Gluten and dairy free mince pies

Cheese straws
Cheese straws with butter bean dip
Spicy puff pastry straws

Turkey pies
Turkey and ham pie
Turkey, leek and mushroom pie
Turkey pie
Phil Vickery's individual turkey and stilton pies

Soup recipes
Tomato and apple soup
Mulligatawny soup
Butternut squash soup
Spiced carrot soup
Hairy Bikers' tortilla soup Hairy Bikers recipe!
Hearty lentil and turkey soup

Christmas cookies
Brilliant baubles
Striking stockings
Molasses and spice cookies
Spiced chocolate dipped shortbread

Where to next?
Find out what the Hairy Bakers will be having for Christmas dinner
More Hairy Bakers recipes
More Hairy Bikers recipes
More Christmas recipes

By Anna Penniceard

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3 out of 5 star rating

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Shirley, 4 days

looking for the ham recipe that was on last christmas show hairy bikers. have lost my copy, i know that it has orange and apple juice, can anyone help please

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s BALDOCK, 11 months

i'm looking for the dipped florentine's recipe they made on the christmas special show, can't find it on the web.

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lydia, 11 months

Link to the mince pies recipe on BBC site : http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/oldfashionedsweetmin_90635.shtml

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michael, 11 months

the christmas special was amazing i really enjoyed watching them. The cake they did with the replica icing people was fantastic i want to know how to do that it was so amazing. The hairy bikers are my step mums faviourate people for food the are a star to her and she wishes that she could see them so that she could get some tips of of them because she also wants to know how to do the cake but with differnt people on i.e. for peoples birthday :)

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carol maxwell, 11 months

I watched the hairy bikers christmas special. Thought it was brilliant. Was looking for the mince pie recipe the used fresh orange insted of water. Cant find the recipe on the web if you could please sent me it via email. It would be much appreciated. Carol Maxwell

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