How to fill your homemade Christmas crackers

We seek out some perfect cracker fillers from chocolates to more extravagant gifts

How to fill your homemade Christmas crackers

Cracker fillers

How to fill your homemade Christmas crackers, Busy Ladybird

Chocolate

Busy Ladybirds, £4.50 for 50g box Rococo Chocolates (020-7352 5857; www.rococochocolates.com)

Tala Daisy Cookie Cutters

Cookie cutters

Tala Daisy cookie cutters, £4.50 for four John Lewis (08456 049049; www.johnlewis.com)

How to fill your homemade Christmas crackers, White-gold and diamond fir-cone drop earrings, £2,950

Jewellery White-gold and diamond fir-cone drop earrings, £2,950 Guy and Max (020-7499 5898; www.guyandmax.com)

How to fill your homemade Christmas crackers, Links of London charm

Links of London Silver charm, from £35 (0845 120 2923; www.linksoflondon.com)

How to fill your homemade Christmas crackers, justaglass.co.uk

Mini spirit bottles From £1.50 Just A Glass (01592 565100; www.justaglass.co.uk)

How to fill your homemade Christmas crackers, Fortnum and Mason

Chestnut specialty Marron glacés, £35 for 240g box Fortnum & Mason (020-7734 8040; www.fortnumandmason.com)

How to fill your homemade Christmas crackers, Travel shave brush

Shaving Mini badger shaving brush, £34 Geo. F. Trumper (020-7272 1765; www.trumpers.com)

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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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