How to fill your homemade Christmas crackers
We seek out some perfect cracker fillers from chocolates to more extravagant gifts


Cracker fillers
Chocolate
Busy Ladybirds, £4.50 for 50g box Rococo Chocolates (020-7352 5857; www.rococochocolates.com)
Cookie cutters
Tala Daisy cookie cutters, £4.50 for four John Lewis (08456 049049; www.johnlewis.com)
Jewellery White-gold and diamond fir-cone drop earrings, £2,950 Guy and Max (020-7499 5898; www.guyandmax.com)
Links of London Silver charm, from £35 (0845 120 2923; www.linksoflondon.com)
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Mini spirit bottles From £1.50 Just A Glass (01592 565100; www.justaglass.co.uk)
Chestnut specialty Marron glacés, £35 for 240g box Fortnum & Mason (020-7734 8040; www.fortnumandmason.com)
Shaving Mini badger shaving brush, £34 Geo. F. Trumper (020-7272 1765; www.trumpers.com)
Mini-cosmetics and candles
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Molton Brown £42 for a set of six
(0808 178 1188; www.moltonbrown.co.uk)
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