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Blogmas 2024: Day 20 Rice Crispy Christmas puddings

Hi guys 👋🏻

OMG – 5 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

How exciting!

Now that it is the school holidays and Christmas is just around the corner, it’s time to get in the Christmas mood. If you need a little festive ‘no-bake’ treat, then look no further.

This one’s perfect for a Christmas buffet table or an easy activity to keep the kids occupied.

Let’s take a look:

What do you need?

  • Milk chocolate – I prefer Cadburys but use your favourite.
  • White chocolate for the topping
  • Rice crispies
  • Christmas Sprinkles
  • An ice cream scoop
  • Small cupcake cases/greaseproof paper

How to make them:

  • Melt the milk chocolate (slow & steady)
  • Mix in the rice crispys until they are all coated.
  • Spoon into an ice cream scoop to create the dome shape.
  • Spoon into either cupcake cases or into greaseproof paper.
  • Leave to cool in the fridge.
  • Melt the white chocolate.
  • Once the chocolate has hardened, take them out of the fridge and drop the white chocolate onto the top of the milk chocolate rice crispy domes.
  • Let it drip down the sides to resemble the icing on a Christmas pudding.
  • Decorate the top with sprinkles to look like the holly on top.
  • Leave in the fridge so that the white chocolate hardens.
  • Enjoy!

These are super cute, really effective, and best of all, really easy!!! Oh, and REALLY delicious.

Let me know if you give them a go!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas 2024: Day 17 🎄Christmas Pudding Rocky Road 😋

Hi guys 👋🏻

I’m here with another delicious recipe for you, and this one really is worth your attention. If you are looking for something to really wow your guests but is also super easy to make, then look no further – a Rocky Road Christmas Pudding centrepiece is what you need.

Ingredients:

  • Dark chocolate 200g
  • Milk chocolate 100g
  • White chocolate X1 bar (topping)
  • Unsalted butter 125g
  • Small pack of digestives
  • Mini marshmallows
  • Golden syrup
  • Festive sprinkles (topping)
  • [You can add cherries/Raisins etc but I didn’t on this occasion]

I don’t usually use a specific recipe as I have made Rocky Road how we like it, for many years haha and we like lots of dark chocolate and golden syrup and we don’t add Raisins/Cherries etc.

I crushed up my biscuits, leaving some dust, mostly medium-sized pieces. I then melted my butter and chocolates (dark and milk) and mixed this all together. I then added my golden syrup (measure with your heart) and marshmallows.

I used one of my bowls as my mould, lined with baking parchment that I scrunched up so that it is easy to use.

I packed it in, making sure the bottom was flat, and then I popped it into the fridge to cool.

Whilst it cooled I melted my white chocolate.

Once it was cooled, I carefully spooned the white chocolate on top, allowing it to cascade down the sides to create the icing effect. I then added my sprinkles as the holly (you could use a fake or real sprig if you have one)

Leave this to harden up again in the fridge and voila! You have a very delicious, choc-tastic, and very impressive looking treat for any Christmas table.

It looks so effective when you slice it with all the bits of biscuits and marshallow, adding to the ‘Christmas pudding’ effect.

I took this one to my husbands work Christmas Wreath Making workshop, and it was a hit!

This recipe actually previously won us his works ‘Great British Bake Off’ comp, so why not try our winning bake! Haha.

Let me know if you give this a go and what you think!

8 days until Christmas!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas 2024: Day 12 Homemade Mince Pies 🥧

Hi guys 👋🏻

Here’s another yummy festive recipe for you to try. It’s super quick and super easy. Perfect for a festive snack, party table, or pudding. Mince Pies is an absolute classic.

You’ll need:

  • A jar of mince meat
  • A sheet of shortcrust pastry
  • A circle cutter and a smaller star cutter.
  • Butter to grease the tin
  • One egg for egg wash
  • Any other ingredients you want to use to flavour your mince pies.

I didn’t follow a recipe, but here’s what I did…

  1. Grease the 12 holes in cupcake tin with a small amount of butter, to stop the pastry sticking.
  2. Use the circle cutter to cut out the base of each mince pies. Use the star cutter to cut out a top for each mince pie.
  3. Press one circle into each hole in your baking tin.
  4. Bake the cases in the oven just until they start to turn slightly darker (7ish mins at 200°c)
  5. Spoon a teaspoon of mince meat into each pie case, this is when you can add any other flavourings of your choice. I added a square of dark chocolate and a dollop of caramel. If you want more traditional mince pies, just stick to mince meat on its own.
  6. Top each mince pies with a star, pushing it down a little so that it sticks.
  7. Egg wash the top of each mince pie to ensure it turns that lovely golden brown.
  8. Bake in the oven at 200°c for 10 minutes but keep an eye on them.
  9. Enjoy!

Let me know if you give these a go!

13 days until Christmas!!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas 2024: Day 6 Festive Chocolate Orange Fudge 🍊

Hi guys!

I think its time for a festive treat don’t you!? And what better way to start than with this delicious but also super simple Chocolate orange fudge recipe.

I think that Chocolate orange and Christmas are synonymous with one another and it is one of my all time favourite chocolate flavours, but it just hits different at Christmas. Who needs a satsuma in their stocking when you can have a chocolate orange, right!!

This recipe is by Jane’s Patisserie and you can never go wrong with her recipes.

Here is the link:

Terry’s Chocolate Orange Fudge!

It is so simple and you only need three ingredients… A chocolate orange, a can of condensed milk and some festive sprinkles of our choice.

These would make brilliant as homemade Christmas gifts, yummy sweet treats at a work get together or Christmas party, or just as a easy activity with the kids.

These went down a treat with my husbands work colleagues and I can confirm that they go brilliantly with a cuppa!

What is your favourite festive flavour?

Let me know if you give this recipe a go!

19 days to go!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Easter Chocolate Bark 🍫🌷🐣

Hi guys!

I’ve always enjoyed doing a few ‘baking’ recipes on here, every now and then, particularly at Easter time.

All that delicious Easter chocolate in the shops or that you may receive can be put to good use by yourself or your small people – it’s super easy and great fun too!

So what is Easter Bark you say? 

Well it’s shards of decorated chocolate.

And here’s how it’s done (by us anyway)

Ingredients

  • X2 large bars of Milk Chocolate
  • X2 large bars of white chocolate
  • Sprinkles
  • A selection of your favourite Easter chocolates to adorn

Recipe

Prep a baking tray with a lining of baking parchment, make sure it covers the sides of your baking tray a little too, not just the bottom.

Melt your different chocolates (we went for milk and white for the kids – dark would also be delicious) in separate bowls over water (or in the microwave)

When the chocolate that you wish to have as your base is ready (ours was milk), pour that into the baking sheet and spread out so it covers the bottom in an even layer. Don’t spread it too thin.

Drizzle over the other chocolate/s that you’ve melted (our white chocolate) either yourself or the children need a cocktail skewer to swirl the chocolate carefully to create the marbled effect.

Adorn with your sprinkles and chosen Easter Chocolate, trying to evenly distribute it throughout.

Pop into the fridge (or freezer if you are impatient like us!! 😂)

Once it is fully solidified, break it up into shards and ENJOY!

Super easy, fun & delicious! Perfect for occupying the kids this Easter hols – my nephews and niece loved it (especially the eating part!)

Happy Easter Weekend

🌷🍫🐇🪹🐥🐑🐣🌷

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas 2023 Day Twenty Two: Easy Christmas treats to make with kids 🍫

Hi guys 👋🏻

Now that the Christmas holidays are in full swing and the kids are at home, I thought I would share with you a few fun, easy, and relatively quick recipes for little festive treats.

These ideas are so cute. I’ve either made them with my Nephews or made them with the children at work. Either way, they are lots of fun and great for keeping the kids occupied.

I’ve included links to help you with how to make them.

1. Chocolate Reindeer

Chocolate Reindeer Rolls Recipe

2. Rice Crispy Christmas Puddings

I have previously posted during Blogmas about this recipe.

Here’s the link to that days post:

Blogmas 2023 Day Three – Festibe Baking Blogmas 2023 Rice Crispy Christmas Puddings

& Rice Crispy Christmas Puds Recipe

These are my favourite of all the recipes!!

3. Hot Chocolate Snowman Jars

Hot Chocolate Snowman Jars Recipe

These are fun but would also make a great homemade gift.

4. Easy, Festive Cupcakes

Easy Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

Use whatever festive coloured icing/sprinkles that you wish to decorate them with.

3 days until Christmas!! Only 3!!!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas 2023 Day Three: Festive Baking ✨️

Hi guys 👋🏻

Welcome to Day Two of Blogmas.

Today I did a spot of festive ‘baking’ with my Nephews.

We made Rice Crispy Christmas Puddings.

I’ll include the ingredients and recipe below. They are super easy, they came out so well and they are really effective.

These are fun just to make but would also be great on a festive buffet table.

Ingredients:

  • Milk Chocolate
  • Rice crispies or coco pops
  • White chocolate (half the amount of milk)
  • Smarties (The Candy cane ones have loads of red ones)
  • Christmas Sprinkles

Method:

  • Melt the Milk Chocolate slowly, 30 secs at a time until fully melted.
  • Mix in the rice crispy until well coated.
  • Use an ice cream scoop to scoop out a domed portion and place onto greaseproof paper (reshape on the paper if needed)
  • Refridgerate until hard.
  • Melt the white chocolate in the same way that you melted the milk chocolate.
  • Take the puddings out of the fridge, drizzle a small amount of white chocolate on top and let it drip down the edges to look like icing.
  • Adorn and decorate with the smarties and sprinkles to create Holly.
  • Refridgerate again so that the white chocolate can harden.
  • Enjoy!

Give them a go and let me know how you get on!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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The Platinum Jubilee 🇬🇧👑

Happy Platty Joobs day everyone! I hope you are having fun celebrating this special occasion in British History!

Friday 3rd June 2022

(& if you aren’t – I hope you are having a great Friday anyways)

I love the Queen so I thought it would be fun to have a little afternoon party to celebrate on the Official Platinum Jubilee day.

So, I organised an Afternoon Tea Garden party at my parents house, for all our immediate fambizzle to attend.

And it was great fun!

There was lots of decorations!

There was lots of food!

I even made the Official Platinum Jubilee dessert – Lemon & Amaretto Trifle. Pretty chuffed with how it turned out to be honest!! & we had a laugh ceremoniously bringing it to the table with the National Anthem haha 🤣

And lots of fun! Hanging out, enjoying the treats, listening to music and making crafts and playing games with the kids.

🇬🇧 Until Next Time,

Roseanne 👑

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Biscoff Chocolate Crispy Bars 🍫

Hi guys 👋🏻

So, here is another blog post, and this time I thought I would do a lil baking- it’s been too long.

These no bake Biscoff bars and super easy, super quick and partly inspired by loads of random videos that I have seen on Tik Tok… so there is no real ‘recipe’ as such.

Here is what you’ll need:

•Rice Crispies

•Smooth Biscoff/Biscuit spread

•Dark Chocolate

Recipe:

1. Slowly melt the biscoff spread jn a bowl, in the microwave – this took about 45 seconds.

2. Mix in the Rice Crispies until they are fully covered and start to combine.

3. Push the mixture into a tin and make sure it is all compact.

4. Freeze for at least 30/45 minutes.

5. Slowly melt your dark chocolate. I do this in the microwave at 30 second increments.

4. Allow the chocolate to cool.

5. Take the crispy block out of the freezer and slice into finger sized pieces. Be quick or it will warm up too much. Place back in the freezer whilst you prep the chocolate.

6. Carefully pour/spoon the chocolate over the crispy fingers.

7. Place on some non stick baking parchment to cool.

8. Bon apeiti!

These were a big hit with my husband, he really enjoyed them.

Mine don’t look the best, but they taste great!

Great for any chocoholics out there!!!

Let me know if you give them a go! Happy Baking.

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas Day Twenty Three: Baking Christmas Cookies 🍪🎅🏻

2 days to go!

I love a bit of festive baking – and its super fun when you get the kiddies involved. Me and my Nephews made some festive chocolate chip cookies – heres how it went.

What do you need:

  • Cadbury cookie pack
  • Oil
  • Milk
  • Baking tray
  • Baking parchment
  • Mixing bowl
  • Spoon
  • Festive sprinkles
  • Icing sugar

What do you need to do:

  1. Follow the box instructions – pre heat the oven accordingly.
  2. Empty the packet mix into a bowl and combine with the oil and milk.
  3. Roll out into 10 equal balls and place evenly on the tray.
  4. Press down a little.
  5. Bake.
  6. Add Sprinkles on top with a little icing so that they stick (or you could bake them with the sprinkles on top but they do melt a little)
  7. Enjoy!

Who doesn’t love a bit of festibe baking!?

What is your favourite festive bake?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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