Chocolate and clementine come together here in a deliciously light 'rocky' bun. For an extra chocolatey orange touch why not drizzle melted chocolate over the top of the cakes? Green and Black's Maya gold (orange and spices), or organic milk chocolate orange flavour would work wonderfully!

Makes: 12 cakes
Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:
200g self raising flour
25g cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
125g butter
40g granulated sugar
100g candied orange and lemon peel (I got mine from Tesco)
1 medium egg
2 clementines (zested and juiced)
2 tablespoons demerara sugar for decoration

You could make your own mince pies for this fudge, but this recipe is so simple and effective it's just easy to use shop bought! If you are a real fan of mince pies, add 2 tablespoons of mincemeat as well as the bashed-up mince pies. A thermometer is handy but not essential to make this fudge.

Adapted from Domestic Sluttery (Dec 2012)
Makes: 30 squares
Cooking time: 20-30 mins, plus 2 hours to cool

Ingredients:
225g butter (salted, or add a pinch of salt to unsalted)
450g caster sugar
One tin condensed milk (397g)
6 mince pies (optional: + 2 tablespoons mincemeat)

This year I decided to go for it and make homemade presents for 3 people. These recipes all took a couple of hours each to make, and filled 3x400ml jars. If you have some fairly common pantry items, and can get the out of season fruit/veg frozen then they all work out as quite cheap which is nice! 
I made:
Mango and apple chutney
Rhubarb and date chutney (I had a lot of excess chutney with this recipe)
Sweet chilli jam
and....
Clementine, cranberry and whisky marmalade! Now this smelled fantastic as it was bubbling away on the stove so i'll share the recipe here with you.

Ingredients:
600g clementines
4 lemons
225g cranberries (I used dried but fresh/frozen is ok)
1.6kg granulated sugar
150ml whisky