James Martin served up delicious Christmas buns with candied orange, pecans and cognac on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients are: 625g strong white flour, plus extra for dusting, 1 tsp salt, 75g caster sugar, 10g fresh yeast and 375ml tepid water.

For the filling: 100g cream cheese, 100g candied oranges chopped, 2 oranges zest, 1 tsp ground cinnamon and 100g pecans chopped.

For the glaze: 100g caster sugar and 100ml water.

For the icing: 150g icing sugar and Splash of cognac.

See recipes by James in his book titled: Complete Home Comforts: Over 150 delicious comfort-food classics available from Amazon now.