As we enter the December ‘limbo’ between Christmas and New Year, I have decided that now would be the perfect (?) time to put up my Christmas blog post. Admittedly, the timing was largely dictated by my almost complete absence from any kind of social media over the festive period, but who doesn’t love an extra treat in the time anyway?
Continue reading “Christmas Traybake Box – Chocolate Orange Cookie Bars”
While you will find that I am heading back to the birthday cake theme very shortly, today I have decided to embrace the season again with something a little more festive – mulled wine blondies. While these are a little more unusual, the sweetness of the blondie makes it the perfect Christmas bake even if you aren’t the biggest fan of mulled wine!
And so the Christmas bakes begin, and this year we are starting with mince pie flapjacks. Admittedly, I am questioning whether it is a little early – usually I wait until the middle of December before I consider anything past an advent calendar (I may be 26, but I’m not going to pass up an excuse to eat chocolate every day). But, given everything that has been going on this year, why not start the Christmas cheer a little early!
So now Christmas is almost officially upon us, I thought I had better go out of my Christmas themes posts with a bang. This, of course, leads to something that involves far too much thought, concentration, effort etc. in the week before Christmas. It is safe to say that my brain is already completely with anything festive, so I will apologise in advance for any Christmas dong related ‘puns’ that slip in. Fortunately for you I have already dodged the Leona Lewis ‘One More Sleep’ reference and I am not feeling creative or humorous enough to come up with many more. So you are relatively safe. But, you know, ‘All I want for Christmas’ is a chocolate orange gingerbread mountain (yes that’s the best I’ve got). Continue reading “Chocolate Orange Gingerbread Christmas Mountain”
Now I have posted my chocolate and cherry semi-naked cake I, as promised, will return to Christmas bakes; since it is now only 1 week away from the actual day (explaining why I am slightly nervous that I still haven’t finished my shopping) I think it is probably a fairly acceptable thing to do. Since I have already done my take on mince pies, I thought I would have a bash at another of my favourite ways to gain weight at Christmas, stollen. Continue reading “Apricot, Almond and Orange Stollen Slices”
So in case you haven’t noticed (although you probably did months ago when every shop decided it was acceptable to bring Buble back) it’s getting pretty close to Christmas. However I have decided to stand out from the crowd and (drum roll please) post Christmas recipes for the whole of December! I’m not normally a huge Christmas person as I only tend to start thinking about it a week or so before and while this is true in most cases this year, I must admit it is hard not to get excited about the food! Although nothing can really beat Christmas dinner, you can never underestimate a good Christmas cake or, in this case, mince pie.
Cakehole Bakes - Newcastle upon Tyne 