Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Possibly the best ever Christmas chocolate brownies

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Christmas bauble cakes

Reindeer cupcakes with pretzel antlers


I really wanted to make some time to do some Christmas baking when I had a day off last week as in the past I would have made several festive treats by now and I hadn’t done anything yet! 
These reindeer cupcakes are really easy, the key ingredient is the pretzels - and you can make the cakes themselves any flavour you like!

I made chocolate cakes using this recipe on the BBC Good Food site and made a simple chocolate buttercream.

When the cakes were baked and cooled I topped with a spoonful of buttercream and used salted caramel flavour chocolate coated pretzels (made by Flipz, available in most supermarkets) for the reindeer’s antlers. You can use regular pretzels as well but I thought these went better with the cake!

For the face you can use a Smartie or M&M for the nose but I didn’t have any and these were a spur of the moment bake so I used some icing I had coloured red and used a little piping bag to pipe on the rest of the face. Some of the reindeer have slightly odd expressions but my daughter liked them and so did my husband!

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

The Cocktail Man - Cocktail kits at home subscription box review

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Winter Warmer recipe - Cheesy Sausage, Broccoli and Quinoa Bake