Good plan with the cooking magazines, you can group the recipes into favourites and try-outs, and cut down on guff.

There are two types of chocolate Santa in the UK. The old, traditional version is hung on Xmas trees and made of the cheapest, most disgusting chocolate known to man.
The second, more modern version comes from the posh chocolate shops and is made of expensive but good quality choc, but they're not really connected to anything beyond the Mammon tradition of getting people to spend money!