Let the Festivities Begin with our range of Christmas Recipes

December 08, 2021

Let the festivities begin! These brilliantly fun and festive treats are perfect for the whole family to enjoy making and eating together!

FLORENTINES

Have a go at making these luxurious chewy biscuits in the comfort of your own home

Ingredients:

50g butter
50g demerara sugar
50g golden syrup
50g plain flour
25g dried cranberries (finely chopped)
25g almonds
25g walnuts
25g pistachios
200g dark/milk chocolate

Preheat the oven to 180C/160 Fan/Gas Mark 4. Line 3 baking trays with baking paper.
Put the butter, demerara sugar and golden syrup into a small pan and gently heat until the butter is melted. Remove the pan from the heat and add the plain flour, chopped cranberries and nuts to the pan. Stir well.
Make 18 florentines by spooning 6 teaspoons of the mixture onto each of the prepared baking trays, leaving space for them to spread whilst baking.
Bake for 8-10 mins or until they’re light brown in colour. Leave the florentines to cool before lifting them onto a cooling rack using a palette knife.
Put a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water without letting the bowl touch the water. Add the chocolate into the bowl and stir until the chocolate is fully melted. Remove the bowl from the pan.
Spread a little of the melted chocolate over the flat base of each florentine and leave to cool slightly before making a zigzag in the chocolate with a fork. Leave to set, chocolate side up on a cooling rack

CHRISTMAS CUPCAKES

Cupcakes are so quick and easy to whip up with little ones and there’s so much fun to be had with decorating them on a Christmas theme. Try covering in chocolate and adding pretzels, red smarties and eyes to create mini Rudolphs, simply top with swirls of white buttercream and shiny sweets to look like snowcaps or cut out shapes from white sugar paste icing and decorate to make snowman faces.

Why not turn our Chocolate Orange Jaffa Loaf into some wonderful cupcakes and then decorate them with all your festive designs!

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STICKY TOFFEE COOKIE CHRISTMAS PUDDING

Ingredients:

Baked In Sticky Toffee Cookies Baking Kit
140g unsalted butter
1 medium egg
55ml double cream
Icing Sugar
Water
Festive Sprinkles

Method:

Follow the instructions to make the Sticky Toffee Cookies up to step 5 (if you’d still like to add the toffee sauce to your cookies, continue to step 8).
Make a thick glace icing combining the icing sugar and water.
Ice the top half of the cookies with the glace icing and finish off with some holly sprinkles to create a Christmas pudding.

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CHOCOLATE PINE CONES

This simple recipe makes a wonderful addition to any Christmas table and is also a great Christmas snack to have throughout the whole of December!

Ingredients:

2 tbsp crunchy biscuit spread
2tbsp chocolate spread
4 tbsp icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
2 very thin breadsticks cut in half
350g chocolate Shreddies

Method:

Mix the biscuit spread, chocolate spread and icing sugar well to a mouldable paste.
Divide the mixture into 4 and mould each portion into the shape of a cone around one of the breadstick halves.
Stick the Shreddies into the base of the chocolate mixture all the way around. Working upwards, continue sticking them in to produce narrowing circles, to look like a pine cone. Halve the cereal for the top layer. Repeat to make four. Chill for 2 hours until firm.
Once set, dust with icing sugar.

CHOCOLATE BROWNIE CHRISTMAS TREES

Ingredients:

Baked In Chocolate Brownie Baking Kit
Green food colouring
200g softened unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing.
3 medium eggs

Method:

Follow the instructions for the Chocolate Brownie until you get to step 5.
Once cooled cut the brownie into triangles
Melt the white chocolate and add a small amount of green food colouring into the bowl and put into the piping bag.
Put the chocolate into a piping bag and drizzle over the brownies to create trees.
Add your favourite festive sprinkles to decorate the trees.

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