From show-stopping cocktails to cheese pairings, and even Heinz ketchup, these small but mighty books make the best thoughtful, quirky gifts for any food and drink lover on your Christmas list.
Looking for more gifting inspiration? From the best vegetarian and vegan cookbooks, to the best cookbooks for bakers and the perfect recipe book for the cook who has everything, discover all of our Christmas gift guides here.
The Peanut Butter Cookbook
If you’ve drawn a peanut butter lover for secret Santa, the search for the perfect gift is over. Peanut butter is good for so much more than toast and this cookbook from much-loved peanut butter brand Mani Life contains 75 new recipes for all occasions, from breakfasts and main meals to plenty of sweet treats too.
Corker
Corker is a different kind of guide to wine pairings, where the recommendations revolve around the occasion you’re celebrating rather than the food you’re eating.
Whether you’re on a date that’s going well (or not), meeting your in-laws for the first time, shivering your way through a British “summer” picnic, getting divorced, or heading off to a dinner party full of wine snobs, Hannah’s recommendations for the perfect pairing are packed with practical advice, wit, and personality.
The Bird & Blend’s Brew, Bake, Sip & Savour
The perfect gift for the tea drinker in your life, this cookbook from Bird & Blend is packed full of recipes that incorporate different varieties of tea, from matcha cookies to an Earl Grey loaf cake.
90 colourful fan-favourite recipes for every occasion
From cakes and cookies to brownies and blondies
Packed with tips and tricks from the team behind the successful bakery
Crumbs & Doilies
In Cookies & Crumbs you’ll find recipes to suit every mood and occasion, whether you’re looking for a failsafe classics like Milk Choc Chip or Peanut Butter and Chunky Double Choc, or new recipes with inventive twists – think Coffee and Cardamom, or Melt-in-the-middle S’mores.
Sleepless in Sangria
Love cocktails almost as much as you love love? Sleepless in Sangria the must-have addition to your kitchen bookshelf.
Featuring beautiful illustrations, easy instructions, and 60 fun and tasty recipes for drinks inspired by your favourite romantic comedies, this cocktail book will give you all the inspiration you’ll need for your next movie night with friends.
The Curious Cocktail Cabinet
Every gin lover will be familiar with a Hendrick’s Gin & Tonic. In the Scottish gin company’s beautifully designed first book you’ll find summer stunners, winter warmers, and clever twists on old favourite cocktails – the ultimate addition to any drinks trolley!
The Cheese Wheel
If you’ve got a cheese connoisseur or just a passionate cheese lover to shop for this Christmas, this is a one-stop guide to the world of cheese. Learn how to curate the perfect cheeseboard, pair it successfully with the right drink, and discover the finest new cheeses from around the world in this beautifully designed book.
Food on the Go
From the pioneers of reusable bottles and containers comes this collection of 75 easy, healthy, and tasty meals to suit all tastes. Whether you’re an avid meal prepper or just want to up your packed lunch game, there’s something everyone in this book, with recipes such as ramen, salmon poke bowls, and plenty of inspo for delicious wraps and sandwiches.
Bakes That Break The Internet
This is the go-to guide to the internet’s most-loved cakes. Find the perfect easy recipes for recreating the decadent and indulgent snacks filling your TikTok For You Page. From Jammy Dodger ice cream to Nutella freakshakes, prepare to spice up your baking and your Instagram!
Fifty inspired sausage and bacon recipes
Ideas for every season (not just Christmas)
From barbecue dishes to winter warmers
Pigs in Blankets
The ultimate cookbook for fans of this classic Christmas accompaniment, Pigs in Blankets features fifty bacon and sausage recipes to intrigue, inspire and delight. Proving that PIBs aren’t just the reserve of the festive season, the book also features ideas for every season, from barbecue dishes to winter warmers.
The Tofoo Cookbook
Find simple, accessible recipes from the UK’s favourite tofu brand, Tofoo. Readers will learn how to whip up easy weekday meals, meat-free versions of comfort classics, desserts, snacks and everything in between in this fun and endlessly useful cookbook.
The Heinz Cookbook
This Heinz ketchup lover’s dream cookbook features one hundred inspired ways to use the nation’s favourite condiment in your everyday cooking. Incorporate it into marinades, sauces and more to create myriad dishes with the magic ketchup touch.
Rainbow Bowls
Eat the rainbow with forty accessible, vibrant and flavourful recipes from Niki Webster, the food writer and photographer behind Rebel Recipes. Layered with flavour and nutrients, these vegan treats will delight the plant-based cook on your Christmas list.
The Alcorithm
As its title suggests, The Alcorithm uses a revolutionary algorithm to accurately predict the kinds of booze you’ll enjoy based on the flavours you love, from fruity to floral, smoky to sweet. For each of the key profiles in the flavour spectrum, Rob suggests myriad new drinks to try, helping to expand your repertoire of go-to tipples and grow your confidence in choosing alcohol you’re guaranteed to like. Innovative and approachable, it’ll totally transform the way you drink.
Stunning cocktail recipes designed to delight and impress
From classic concoctions to more experimental drinks
Including insider tips on the fundamentals of mixology
The Alchemist Cocktail Book
Become an expert mixologist with this boundary-breaking collection of cocktail recipes from the team behind the popular nationwide bars. With a focus on creativity and flair, these are recipes to take you far beyond the basics and to help you inject a little theatre into your at-home cocktail making.
Everything You Need to Know About Whisky
Take a deep dive into the wonderful world of whisky with this compact little guide exploring everything from the process behind the perfect Scotch to insider tips on how to find your new favourite whisky, plus plenty of whisky-based cocktails to try.
An accessible wine matching guide designed for real life
With pairing suggests for the kinds of meals we eat every day
From proper Sunday roasts to Friday night takeaways
Which Wine When
Which Wine When is a wine and food pairing guide for anyone who finds themselves struggling to pick a bottle of wine based on anything more than an attractive label. Divided into chapters for specific dishes and styles, from home-cooked classics to takeaways to snacks and nibbles, it offers a host of potential wine pairings, making it much easier to choose what to drink with dinner.
Fizz
The perfect gift for Christmas, this recipe book celebrates the art of cocktail making. From Champagne to cava, cider to beer, even soda to kombucha (for the teetotallers), Olly Smith collates 80 simple cocktail and mocktail recipes for every occasion. Our favourite? The Sherbet Fizz Mocktail.
A hot sauce bible with 60 recipes that pack a punch
Make your own hot sauce at home
Inspiring recipes for every meal of the day
The Hot Sauce Cookbook
A brilliant guide to cooking creatively with chilli sauces, this little book shows how to add flavour and intensity to meals using popular spicy sauces, from Thai sweet chilli to Sriracha. One for the chilli fiends.
Delicious ingredients that boost your sleep quality
Wholesome bedtime snacks
Comforting, nutrition-packed recipes
Eat to Sleep
Getting a good night’s sleep can be easily affected by what we eat and when we eat it, so for anyone in your life having trouble with getting a good kip, this cookbook could be the winning ticket. With eighty recipes, plus tips and advice, this handbook will spell out how to eat the right foods at the right time to help keep those sleep hormones in check.
The Grilled Cheese Sandwich
This fun little cookbook is a celebration of the grilled cheese sandwich in all of its forms. From breakfast and brunch to something sweet, this cookbook will inspire you to branch out beyond the conventional cheese toastie.
