As I said a few days ago, I have one more recipe for you! And it’s perfect for a special Christmas day occasion.
It’s a delicious, and relatively easy and quick, Salted caramel (do I need to say any more?) and chocolate tart.
It doesn’t require a lot of ingredients which is great! And apart from time for it to set it doesn’t take too long either. It only took me an hour or so one evening so its great as a fancy, last minute showstopper.
Don’t let the making caramel stage scare you… it’s not as horrendous as you’d think and, if you have a food thermometer this will really come in handy.
I will link both of the recipes that I used below.
I used pre made shortcrust. Remember to bake it blind for 15 mins before removing the baking parchment and beans (or whatever you have, I used dried pasta) pop it back in until it starts to turn golden.
I had some nice flakey salt that I added during the caramel recipe process (as stated but I doubled it) and I sprinkled more salt on, generously, once I had poured the caramel into my cooled tart.
Leave the caramel to set and then add your silky smooth ganache on top. Good quality Dark chocolate is the best.
As someone who likes baking, I enjoyed this recipe because it uses lots of different techniques that perhaps I wouldn’t bother to try usually.
And it looks impressive too!
This is going to be our Christmas day dessert, served with some thick double cream, YUM!
Here’s another delicious, festive recipe for you guys to try over, the Christmas period.
Its super easy and quite quick to make, but it looks impressive and really festive on a Christmas buffet/party table.
This is a Rocky road (are you sold already!!!) Bombe, decorated to look super festive as a Christmas pudding.
I love this idea and it’s so effective!! As soon as my husband saw this recipe he wanted us to give it a go.
The great thing about the Tesco Real Food website is that it has everything you need to know to make the recipe, tweak it if you want to add an extra festive touch but also, if you are doing your food shop you can add all the ingredients that you’ll need to your basket in one go, no hunting for everything you’ll need!!
You can add or take out too if you don’t want to strictly follow the recipe.
I’ll leave the link to the recipe below for you, definatly take a look at the page and some it their other yummy recipes too.
1. Melt the dark chocolate over some boiling water.
2. Whilst it is melting crush up the biscuits, don’t crush it too finely.
3. Once the chocolate has melted, pour it into the biscuit mix.
4. Add the raisins and mini marshmallows and stir altogether.
5. Make sure everything is coated in the dark chocolate.
6. Pour into a medium sized plastic mixing bowl. Flatten the top.
7. Leave to cool down and harden in the fridge.
8. Once it has cooled for an hour or so, take out of the fridge and ease it out of the bowl. Turn upside down onto a plate and lift off the bowl to reveal the dome.
9. Melt the white chocolate over boiling water. Once it has all melted pour it over the top to look like the icing on a Christmas pudding.
10. Garnish with a little sprig of plastic holly, to add the finishing touch. Serve.
I havn’t done a baking post in a little while and as the Autumn/Winter months draw closer it’s all about cosy comforts, and these are perfect.
Plus, it’s Bake Off season so who doesn’t love a bit of inspired baking.
I used a BBC Good Food recipe as they always work so well. I’ll leave that here
I modified this recipe to create these Malteaser filled beauties.
In addition to the ingredients you’ll need:
Malteaser Teaser chocolate bar
Malteaser buttons (Large share bag)
Malteaser Teaser chocolate spread
Just mix these into the chocolate stated in the recipe, melt them together to make them extra special. Add the Malteaser buttons to the melted chocolate mix too but, keep some as decoration.
These went down a treat at the Macmillan Coffee mornings that I attended.
Roseanne Byford 