Christmas Gift Ideas from a Swindon Baker (2026)

Every year I get asked the same question in November: what can I get for the person who has everything? My answer is always something homemade they can eat! So here's my Christmas gift guide for 2026, with everything I'm baking this year and when you need to order it by.

For posting to family and friends

Artisan Shortbread Advent Calendar. 24 hand iced shortbread, one for every day of December. It can be collected from my unit in Swindon or posted anywhere in the UK, which makes it the one to choose for anyone who lives further away. You can add a Merry Christmas tag shortbread to go with it too. Orders close on 22 November so I can get them baked, iced and out in time for the 1st.

Order the advent calendar

For the little ones

Elf Arrival Box. A little box of treats for when your elf turns up on the shelf. These are collected from the unit before 1 December, so the elf can arrive with them. Orders close on 22 November.

Order an Elf Arrival Box

Iced Gingerbread Biscuits. Stars, trees and gingerbread men, hand iced and bagged in threes, sixes or nines. Lovely for stockings, teachers and Christmas Eve boxes.

Order iced gingerbread

For the chocolate lovers

Dubai Chocolate Tree. A chocolate Christmas tree filled with pistachio cream and crispy kadayif. These have been really popular over the last few years and come as a single tree or a set of three or six. Please note they contain nuts.

Order Dubai chocolate trees

For Christmas Day itself

If you're hosting this year, let me do the baking! These are all ready to collect on 23 or 24 December, with local delivery on the 23rd.

Yule logs. Choose from Luxury Belgian Chocolate or White Chocolate & Lemon, both made to share.

Order the White Chocolate & Lemon Yule Log

Order the Belgian Chocolate Yule Log

Festive Sponge Cake. A piped holly wreath and a Merry Christmas plaque, in chocolate fudge, Black Forest, white chocolate & raspberry or lemon meringue.

Order a Festive Sponge Cake

Sausage Roll Wreath. New this year, baked fresh on Christmas Eve morning and served with a cranberry dip.

Order a Sausage Roll Wreath

There are all butter mince pies on the menu too.

See the full Christmas menu

For someone who'd love to learn

A place on one of my Christmas cake classes makes a lovely experience gift. They're small, hands-on classes at my Swindon studio with everything provided, and you take home everything you make. This year there's Christmas Wreath Cupcakes, Fondant Christmas Biscuits, a Christmas Jumper Cake, a Ganache & Snowflake Stencil class and a Traditional Christmas Cake class with marzipan and royal icing, plus children's gingerbread, cupcake and shortbread classes.

See the Christmas classes

Key dates

• 22 November: last orders for advent calendars and Elf Arrival Boxes

• 23 December: local delivery and collection

• 24 December: collection

Everything is made to order in small batches, so once the slots are gone they're gone. If you have any questions, just get in touch. Happy Christmas! Kim x