An old-school festive dessert, White Christmas is a tooth-numbingly sweet traybake featuring glacé fruit, desiccated coconut, nuts and puffed rice, all bound together with copha (vegetable fat shortening) or white chocolate. Intended to mimic the colours of freshly fallen snow and glittering baubles, White Christmas is a treat eat – and, most likely, the closest anyone will get to festive flakes in Australia.

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