Chanukah hacks: how to make your festive table sparkle

4. Makeshift menorah: line up wine decanters down the centre of the table to form a chanukiah. Tip: If you need to secure the candle use silver foil.

5) Gelty pleasures: make home-made Chanukah gelt by pouring a thin layer of melted white chocolate into a mini cupcake tin tray to make the coins. Once they have set, spray them with gold edible spray.

6) Doughnut delight: adults and children will love a doughnut bar on the table. Provide a mountain of plain, mini doughnuts and loads of colourful dips and sprinkles so your guests can have fun with their favourite toppings.

7) DIY décor: different oil containers make fabulous decorations: There are so many beautiful bottles and cans in delis and supermarkets that will look great on your table.

8) Light relief: gold tea lights to help create the ambience and keep the gold theme going.

9) Boxed in: little gold treasure boxes make a lovely table decoration or gift to each guest, and can be filled with gold confetti and a few dreidels and a chocolate coin or two.

10)Delicious details: To continue the theme I made sure everything on the table fitted in. I used gold-coloured cutlery; glassware or china with gold hints on them — again, many supermarkets sell these; gold or silver table mats; and wrote on brown paper gift tags with silver or gold pen for name places.

Find more tips from Dani Tucker at www.thesocialkitchen.org