Make sure you have a cracking Christmas by taking one of the many festive cookery courses available over the next month. Here’s some ideas to get you started… find more Christmas cookery classes here.1. Bored of the same old bird (turkey) year after year then take a break and dare to have an Italian Christmas at the Cookery School, London £150
2. A DIY edible gifts class pays dividends in these austere times: Christmas gifts, Dishy Cookery School, Thames Ditton, Surrey £40
3. Go all culinary fireworks and ‘Heston’ on the family with A Michelin Star at Christmas, Waitrose Cookery School, London £175
4. Make sure your gluten and wheat-free Christmas dishes are tolerably not free from joy: Arches Cookery School, North Yorkshire Moors £95
5. Get the yule log, mince pies and cake right and all else will fall into place, honestly. Christmas Baking, Tideswell School of Food, Tideswell, Buxton , Derbyshire
£150
6. A green, lean, and truly tasty vegetarian Christmas Lunch Workshop, Cordon Vert School, Altrincham, Cheshire
£115
7. Add bite to a party with micro-sized festive treats and seasonal canapes at Webbe’s Cookery School, Westfield, East Sussex
£95
8. Uncork the best festive fizzies to befriend turkey and trimmings: Christmas Sparkling Wines, Edinburgh New Town Cookery School, Edinburgh
£30
9. Enjoy a bumper bake-off with a Giant Christmas Cupcake class at Harts Barn Cookery School, Longhope, Gloucestershire
£45
10. You wouldn’t walk in to a work presentation unprepared so take a full dry-run at Christmas and reduce the heat for the real thing – no sweat: Festive Fare, The Spinney School of Fine Food, Southwell, Nottingham
£110-120
