Christmas Treats

 42 Shortbread Biscuits Later...

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas and are looking forwards to the new year! For Christmas this year I made everyone some shortbread biscuits which I decorated in white royal icing. 

 

I made a set of six biscuits for each couple in my own and my boyfriends close family. This meant I had to bake and decorate 42 biscuits! It was a real challenge, but I actually really enjoyed doing it! I managed to bake them and decorate them all in one day.

I then wrapped them all up in little parcels, ready to be scoffed on Christmas day!

 

For the younger ones in my boyfriends family, I made 5 melting snowmen shortbread biscuits.

These were just as fun to make as last time!

 

Christmas Cupcakes

I also made 12 orange cupcakes for Christmas day, decorated in varying degrees of buttercream, to suit everyone's different tastes. 

Chocolate Log

And finally, I made me and my boyfriend a chocolate log for our Christmas on Christmas Eve. I used Mary Berry's Chocolate Log recipe, which was very easy to follow. 

I made all these treats over the period of just two days and I was quite impressed that I managed to do so much! Hopefully all the recipients of the goodies enjoyed them!

I got a few baking gifts for Christmas, so I am hoping to do some baking before I go to London next year (very soon), so stay tuned!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thanks for reading!

 

Melting Snowmen Shortbread

Yummy Snowmen Puddles!

So as Christmas nears I am going to be increasingly busy with baking treats! This might be my last blog before Christmas, but stay tuned for more blogs in the new year! I have a new job starting in January, so the blogs wont be as frequent, but I am hoping I will get some time to bake during the weekends!

These little chaps were made using this tutorial here LINK.

I used the BBC GoodFood Shortbread recipe to make the base of these snowmen, then drizzled on the royal 'snow' icing. I don't have a microwave and was concerned how to melt the marshmallows. I ended up using the oven and putting them in for about 20 seconds, which worked fine! The marshmallows make great melting heads!

I thought the original designs made the snowmen look a little too happy, so mine are in different states of distress!
 

These three are my favourites! They look like they are getting progressively more melted! These were really fun to make and taste great! Some special people are getting some of these today (lucky!).

If I don't manage to blog before Christmas...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thanks for reading!