These sweet ginger cookies can be enjoyed with a cup of tea or coffee, but beware, you won't stop at one.

These German cookies may be hard to say but they're delicious to eat. They're also super easy. Begin this recipe at least 4 hours ahead.

Helena Moursellas shares her take on a retro bake sale classic: honey jumble biscuits.

Georgie Esdaile and Phoebe Woods' scrumptious ginger, tahini and white chocolate cookies are the perfect weekend treat.

For a different take on brandy and cigars at the end of the night, have tuiles ready to fill with chocolate mousse!

Steve cherishes his bees, this dessert is a tribute to them. This is an edited extract from Farmer: Recipes and Stories from the Land by Jody Vassallo (Harper Collins, RRP $29.99). All profits from sales of the book go to Rural Aid.

These cookies are the perfect treat to leave for Santa and his reindeer on Christmas Eve.

Celebrate the Christmas spirit with these sweet festive treats. You'll need a piping bag with plain 5mm nozzle for this recipe.

Cute little gingerbread are fun to make and tasty to eat.

Soft and spicy, it doesn't get much more Christmas-y than these cute reindeer biscuits.

Perfect for a day baking in the kitchen with the kids.

No Christmas is complete without gingerbread people. Grab some icing and get the whole family involved in this fun recipe. You'll need gingerbread people cookie cutters (we used 13cm x 10.5cm and 12.5cm x 10.5cm cutters to make 16 gingerbread people) and a piping bag with a 2mm opening for this recipe.

Spell it out: these fun "Scrabble tiles" can be made for gifts, or use them to create place names at your table.

Can it really be called Christmas without devouring a whole batch of these? Use this as a base recipe for making a gingerbread man or a gingerbread house.

Here’s something for everyone to enjoy at Christmas. This gingerbread has enough warm spice to make a sophisticated treat for the grown-ups, but not enough to turn youngsters off. The kids can get involved in making them, too; cutting out the shapes and icing them can be a lot of fun. This is an edited extract from The Tivoli Road Baker by Michael James with Pippa James (Hardie Grant Books, RRP $60), available in stores nationally.