Episode 1: Baking (that you can do in a student kitchen...)
"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. "Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!" Dr Seuss
Strawberry Santas
Cut the top of a strawberry, insert icing or whipped cream. Pretty self-explanatory from then on...
Cut the top of a strawberry, insert icing or whipped cream. Pretty self-explanatory from then on...
Cheaters Festive Fondant Fancies:
- 1kg ready-to-roll icing block
- blue and green food colouring
- 20cm square, or a 30 x 20cm traybake cake
- decorate with sprinkles , sugared almonds, mini marshmallows and small gingerbread men (we used Marks & Spencer Gingerbread men, 99p for 9)
- Put your ready-to-roll icing block in a large bowl and pour over boiling water to cover. After 10-15 mins the icing should be soft. Pour off water, and mix icing in bowl, adding a dribble more hot water until you get a smooth, runny but thickish icing. Divide evenly in 3 and add a little blue colouring to one third, and a little blue and green colouring to another third.
- Slice a 20cm square, or a 30 x 20cm traybake cake into roughly equal, portion-sized squares, and sit them on a wire rack above a large tray.
- Spoon some icing over each cake to cover, then decorate with sprinkles, sugared almonds, mini marshmallows and small gingerbread men.
Chocolate Crispie Christmas Wreaths
Makes 4:> You need 25g Butter. 2tbsp Golden Syrup. 150g Chocolate. 100g Rice Crispies.
Makes 4:> You need 25g Butter. 2tbsp Golden Syrup. 150g Chocolate. 100g Rice Crispies.
- Place the butter and syrup in a small pan and heat gently until the butter has melted.
- Add the chocolate and stir until it has melted and the mixture is smooth.
- Stir in the rice crispies until well coated in chocolate.
- Line a baking tray with baking parchment and place teaspoonfuls in a small ring shape onto the paper.
- Allow to cool in the fridge for 10 mins until firm, then decorate with Silver Spoon edible decorations, add a ribbon tied in a bow.
Or if you're feeling a bit more adventurous..
Check out this website for millions of Christmas Oreo recipes!
Or for lots of proper Christmas recipes from Chocolate Peppermint Crunch cookies to Lime Coconut Snowballs to Red Velvet Cheesecake cookies to Lemony Lemon Bread to Homemade Cranberry Bliss Bars to Almond Crescents to Chocolate Chestnut Yule Log to Cranberry Orange Christmas Cake
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