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Christmas buffet ideas

If you fancy doing Christmas a little differently this year how about having a Christmas buffet? Whether it’s instead of your Christmas roast, a Boxing Day treat or pre-Christmas celebration party, a buffet is a great way of serving food to a lot of hungry people.

Never thrown a buffet before? Then we’ve got the inspiration you need. We’ve rounded up our favourite buffet foods that are sure to impress. From dips to desserts, every buffet needs a wide selection and variety of foods to choose from so each guest can leave with a smile on their face and a full stomach.

The buffet recipes in our round-up are cheap, quick and easy so you won’t feel the stress or the pinch this Christmas. There’s no need to spend lots of money on fancy nibbles or hours hunting down the supermarket aisle for that perfect treat, when you can make your own. You can even get the family to help you make them too.

We’ve got both savoury and sweet recipes, classic Christmas drinks and naughty but oh-so-nice desserts. We’ve also got some treats for the adults, fussy eaters and not forgetting simple Christmassy bites for the kids. We’ve even got party bag ideas full of Christmas goodies for your guests to take home with them.

Click through to see our Christmas buffet ideas

Banana Ice Cream Recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

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Step 1

For the frozen banana cream with coconut and curry biscuits recipe, cut the bananas into slices and arrange them on a tray, then put them in the freezer for at least 4 hours.

Step 2

Crumble the cocoa biscuits and mix them with a pinch of curry.

Step 3

Blend the frozen bananas with the milk and sugar to obtain a cream. Serve with curry biscuits and flaked coconut.

Step 4

Wine pairing: Cold fruit desserts pair well with sweet, aromatic bubbles. Mezzacorona’s Moscato Giallo Spumante is fragrant and citrusy and has the personality to pair well with the spicy note of curry. 11 euros, mezzacorona.it

Recipe: Emanuele Frigerio, Photo: Riccardo Lettieri, Styling: Beatrice Prada

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Iginio Massari celebrates Andrea Bocelli with his desserts (photo) – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

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It starts from panettoneone of its cult desserts unmatched for softness and fragrance, made according to the traditional recipe with a dough with mother yeast enriched with raisins, candied orange and citron, which for the occasion will be offered in a mini 60 gram format. There will also be its irresistible husbandthe perfect union between sweet bread and whipped cream born out of love: once upon a time, in fact, a ring was inserted into the filling to ask for the hand of the beloved woman. There will be no shortage of tiramisuthe Venetian dessert that cooks used to prepare by beating egg yolks with sugar, adding coffee and ladyfingers: a sweet treat to cheer up the sick, to which mascarpone was then added. We will then continue with the “Piedmontese” which celebrates the Tonda Gentile hazelnut of Piedmont: a dessert made up of three layers of sponge cake soaked in hazelnut and maraschino syrup and two layers of hazelnut Bavarian cream. Finally, a triumph of chocolate with a mignon of the Sette Veli Cake – composed of dark chocolate mousse cream, hazelnut bavarian cream enriched with chocolate veils and hazelnut sponge cake on the bottom – and another mignon of the Sacher cakewith a version made of hazelnut sponge cake soaked in 15-year-old rum, dark chocolate ganache cream, raspberry jam and chocolate fat topping.

Dinner with Iginio Massari’s desserts at the Teatro del Silenzio

A detail about the sweets (ph press office).

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