Home Made Christmas Goodies

[amethist]

Snow Covered earth Squares​

Ingredients

160gms/5oz Hazelnuts
200gms/7oz Crunchie Bars
150gms/5oz Dried cranberries
100gms/4oz Mini marsmallows
300gms/10oz Dark chocolate, broken into pieces.
100gms/4oz Milk chocolate, broken into pieces
175gms/6oz Soft unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
4 tbs Golden syrup

Icing sugar for dusting

Method

1. Line a 20cm x 30cm baking tin with a large piece of kitchen foil.

2. Roughly chop half the hazelnuts, leaving the rest whole.

3. Place the Crunchie bars in a strong plastic bag and bash them with a rolling pin, so the pieces are of various sizes, but not too big

4. Place the chocolate, butter and syrup into a large pan, over a low heat and gently melt all together,
stirring all the time.

5. Once melted, take the pan off the heat and stir in the cranberries, marshmallows and broken
Crunchie bars.

6. Tip the mixture into the prepared baking tin and smooth the top using a large metal spoon.

7. Chill for 11/2 - 2 hours, until set.

8. Lift the chocolate slab from the tin and peel off the foil.

9. Dust the top with a little icing sugar, and cut into squares.

To serve at a party, pile onto a serving dish and dust with more icing sugar.

 

[KP the nut]

Snow Covered earth Squares.

OMG those sound amazing, thank you for sharing

 

[amethist]

Vanilla Fudge​

Ingredients

450gms/1lb Caster sugar
85gms/31/2oz Butter
150mls/1/4pt Milk
175mls/6fl oz Evaporated Milk
A few drops of Vanilla Extract.

Sunflower oil for greasing tin.

Method

1. Grease and 18cm square tin.

2. Place the sugar, butter, milk, and evaporated milk into a heavy based pan and heat gently, stirring until sugar
dissolves.

3. Turn up the heat and bring to the boil without stirring. Until the mixture reaches 116C/240F on a sugar thermometer. If you dont have one, drop a small amount (Usually after 5 to 7 minutes boiling) into some iced water. If it is the right temperature, it should for a soft ball.

4. Remove from the heat, add the Vanilla extract and beat with a wooden spoon until thickened.

5. Pour into the prepared tin and leave to cool at room temperature.

6. when set cut into small squares, wrap each one in baking paper and twist ends to secure.

Store in a tin and enjoy at your leisure.

 

[Marie E.]

Now I am stuck on vanilla fudge for now on!! :laugh:

 

[CraftyCath]

These are too good to be true Amethist! Shame I'm diary intolerant!!!! :D

 

[Oberons Wife]

You know those oragami stars (everso easy, you can make them with the kids); we're writing family promises (' I promise to make you breakfast in bed' etc etc) onto the long strips of paper, then making them into a star around a bit of twine for hanging up the star. Pop a number 1 to 24 on the outside of each and use as an advent calendar.

 

[amethist]

SHORTBREAD STAR BISCUITS FOR YOUR TREE​

Ingredients

300gms/10oz Plain flour
1tsp Baking powder
100gms/ 4oz Butter, cut into small cubes.
100gms/4oz Soft dark brown sugar
1 Large egg
4tbsp Golden syrup
1tsp Vanilla extract

Boiled sweets in assorted colours.

2 different size star cutters.

Method
1. Line 2 baking sheets with baking paper.

2. Turn on oven and heat to170 deg C - 340 deg F - Gas mark 3 1/2

3. Place sweets into separate colours in freezer bags and crush with a rolling pin.

4. Sift the flour and baking powder and half a teaspoon of salt into a large bowl, then mix together.

5. Rub in the butter then stir in the sugar.

6. In a separate bowl, beat together the egg, golden syrup and vanilla extract. Add this to the flour mixture a little at a time, beating well until the mixture forms a dough.

7. Knead the dough gently on a lightly floured board until smooth, then roll out to the thickness of a pound coin. stamp out large star shapes, re rolling the trimmings as necessary.

8. Transfer to a baking sheet and cut out the center with the smaller star cutter. Use a skewer to pierce a hole in the top of each one.

9. Carefully fill each cut out with a different colour each of crushed sweets.

10. Place the baking sheets in the oven and bake for around 7-10 minutes, until the biscuits are golden brown and the sweets have melted.

11. Remove from the oven and leave to cool for at least 20 minutes. Then thread the stars with ribbon and hang form your tree.

 

[KP the nut]

SHORTBREAD STAR BISCUITS FOR YOUR TREE​

Then thread the stars with ribbon and hang form your tree.

The dogs then knock the Christmas tree over, eat everything inc the ribbon and are then sick on the carpet :D - yes it happened to me :eek::mad::roflmao:

 

[amethist]

COOKIES AND CREAM TRUFFLES​

Ingredients

• 500 g Oreo biscuits
• 250 g cream cheese, softened
• 400 g milk chocolate
• 100 g white chocolate

Method
1. Crush cookies finely, or put them in a blender.

2. Pour into a bowl, add cream chese and mix until there are no traces of white.

3. Using a teaspoon, roll mixture into balls, place on a baking paper lined tray and refrigeratre for 45 minutes.

4. Break milk chocolate into pieces, and melt in a heat proof bowl over hot water.

5. Coat balls thoroughly with melted chocolate, place back into fridge to cool.

6. Finally melt remaining white chocolate and using a fork drizzle melted white chocolate over balls.

 

[Ladyhope Somerset]

An easy alternative when making mince pies is to add some grated orange peel to the pastry mix (best done before adding the liquid!).

 

[Froggie]

I'm gaining weight just looking at these recipes ! Oh my, where do I start ... Unlike KP, I don't have dogs to watch over, it's me ....:D

 

[CraftyCath]

COOKIES AND CREAM TRUFFLES

Amethist...stop with all the yummy dairy stuff!!!! LOL