Easy Food and the Irish Daily mail wish you an Appy Christmas with the new, easy-to-use app loaded with festive recipes, cooking tips and menu planners that will bring plenty of holiday cheer into your kitchen this Christmas.

This app is the handiest way to plan, shop for and prepare your ultimate Christmas feast, all with the help of these special features:

* Recipes for starters, sides, accompaniments, main courses, drinks, desserts and vegetarian options for your Christmas meal, as well as everyday winter dinners and clever ideas for using up leftovers.

* Save ingredients to a shopping list that you can email to yourself.

* Our Top Tips include tricks for properly thawing a turkey, keeping custard from splitting and sprucing up shop-bought cranberry sauce.

* Just enter the weight of up to six different meats for the Meat Roasting Timer to calculate the cooking time required.

* Quick ‘How-To’ videos to help you master the basics of Christmas cooking.

* Festive carols to listen to while you cook away!

* Take the headache out of menu planning by saving all your favourite recipes to ‘My Menu’.

* The easy-to-use Search facility finds what you’re looking for in seconds.

* Impress your friends with your knowledge of Christmas traditions from around the globe, with the cute spinning fact cards on the app.