Today I finally baked some Sugar cookies i've been really into baking lately with Christmas just around the corner im finding new recipes to try out this one came from Pinterest 

They are so easy to make they only take about 5 minutes with prep creaming together the sugar butter and vanilla extract then adding the flour and the christmas sprinkles 

The Ingredients are 

1 Cup of softened butter

2 cups of self raising flour 

1 Large egg 

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract 

1 cup and 1/4 cup of white sugar 

Firstly make sure your pastry is at room temp this is crucial for the dough to move in the shape you want it to be 

Add your Nutella spread in between 2 pieces of puff pastry cut lines about medium thickness not to thin and not too thick add the pastry onto the skewer and add your egg wash to have that gorgeous brown colour 

               For the Cherry jam ones you use the same process as the Nutella ones just with jam instead 

bake for 20 minutes on 160 fan forced 

sprinkle some icing sugar or cinnamon sugar onto each tree 

These turned out so cute I'll be making more of these over the festive holidays 

Geri 

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for the gingerbread cookies you will need 

125 grams of butter 

1/3 of a cup of brown sugar 

1/4 of a cup of golden syrup or treacle 

2 cups of white plain flour 

1/4 of a cup of self raising flour 

1 tablespoon of grond ginger

1 teaspoon of bicarb soda

330gram's of icing sugar to decorate 

food colouring of your choice 

sprinkles of your choice or even m&ms we used some christmas ones 

pair of Minnie and Mickey cutters Preheat your oven at 180 degrees fan forced 

Line 2 baking trays with baking paper 

In a large mixing bowl beat butter, sugar and syrup together in a bowl until creamy add the egg and beat well.

In a seprate bowl sift your flours & bicarb soda together and add to the butter mixture fold in slowly.

Add some baking paper and some flour and kneaded the dough lightly until smooth you can also let it cool in the fridge for 15 minutes too.

cut out your Mickey shapes and place on a baking tray. 

cook for 10 to 15 minutes 

Wait for the cookie's to cool completely before icing them 

for the icing mixture we use just plain icing sugar and two drops of food colouring mix well with a little bit of water and drip of the excess icing mixture add some m&m's and let it set 

Happy Holidays 

Geri 

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Christmas baking has to be one of my favourites I love the chocolate goodness in baking treats for this time of year even when its in Summer in todays post im sharing my Christmas triple chocolate fudge brownies with holiday m&ms and some festive sprinkles of course cause you can never have enough Christmas sprinkles or Chocolate for this time of year 

To make these you will need 

2 box mixes of good quality chocolate brownie mix i like to use the triple chocolate fudge ones of these brownies as you get a mix of milk white & dark chocolate throughout the brownies 

6 Large Eggs 

half a stick of butter melted and cooled 

2 bags of Christmas m&ms 

festive sprinkles 

Pre heat your oven to 165 fan forced 

you need to cook these brownies slow & on a low heat to cook gradually I like to do this method as you get a super soft chewy brownie as that's my favourite kind of brownie

The time to cook these would be about 1 hour and a half as I've added 2 box mixes I like to make sure all of the chocolate batter is cooked properly and you don't have a runny batter throughout 

Geri 

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 In todays post I'm sharing my mum's recipe for Chocolate Crackles these are a massive party treat from the 90's that are still a hit today for any get together they are also so easy to make and really nice in the summer weather as these are a chilled dessert treat 

The first thing you will need is 

4 cups of Rice bubbles 

 4 Tbsp of cadbury bournville cocoa powder 

1 cup of  icing sugar

1 cup of desiccated coconut 

250 grams of Copha oil cut into pieces " you need to melt the copha in a small saucepan we melted ours in the microwave for 8 minutes on low 

you need to mix all of the dry ingredients together once the Copha is melted add that in the dry mix and place the mixture into patty pans 

you need to let these set in the fridge for at least 4 hours until they are hard to the touch 

Geri

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