Treats
Day 4 – Cranberry & Pistachio Snow Bites
How could you resist these for Day 4?
Day 3 – Christmas Tree Cookie Lollies
It wouldn’t be TPW 12 Days of Baking Christmas without a biscuit on a stick 😉
This year I’m going 3D for Day 3 with Christmas Tree Cookie Lollies!
You will need:
1 x batch of non-spread biscuit dough, recipe here
A set of graduated star cookie cutters (Lakeland have a set if you don’t already)
Using up Egg Whites
So this is the other half to my Using up Egg Yolks post – what to do with a random number of egg whites. Well for me it’s a quick batch of meringues of course!
Here’s my handy table for a batch of meringues with any random number of egg whites:-
| Whites | Sugar (grams) |
| 1 | 55 |
| 2 | 110 |
| 3 | 165 |
| 4 | 220 |
| 5 | 275 |
| 6 | 330 |
| 7 | 385 |
| 8 | 440 |
| 9 | 495 |
| 10 | 550 |
And here’s the method…
Using up Egg Yolks
and how to make custard….
Thought I’d post this useful table I put together some time ago, you know how it is…you’re baking something, you’ve 7 random egg yolks left over.
Of course there’s lots of things you can do with egg yolks but my all time favourite has to be a great big panful of custard – but then you have to get the calculator out, or engage the brain cells with pen and paper calculations.
Bonfire Banger Rolls
A saucy sausage baked inside a bread roll? What’s not to love? In fact these were polished off sharpish by my bunch of hungry boys.
Ingredients:
450g strong white flour
2 tsp caster sugar
2 ½ tsp fast action yeast
Chocolate Oreo Pears
Not so much a recipe, more a gathering together of things!
(No panic, there’s a recipe coming tomorrow too)
These pears decided not to let apples have all the fun this Bonfire night and jumped onto sticks too! Of course if you’re after a traditional caramel toffee apple recipe then I can help with that too – just see the recipe here.
Spiderweb Millionaires Shortbread
Individual Millionaires Shortbread with a hint of Halloween – Yes please!
Ingredients:
Shortbread
80g butter
40g caster sugar
140g plain flour
Caramel
90g light muscovado sugar
90g butter
315g condensed milk – use a squeezy bottle for no waste, if you use a tin and have some left over try it drizzled over icecream, add it to tea/coffee/hot choc for a creamy sweetener or indeed eat it with a spoon 😉 – Thank you Hevz Tasty Treats for the top tips Xx
Topping
200g milk chocolate
50g white chocolate
Makes: 12.
Spooky Halloween Meringues
Just a quick something simple for Halloween Treats! Meringue is fast to whip up and the stripes are dead easy too – obviously this is a Halloween version but the technique can be used for all sorts of occasions in every colour under the sun – including red stripes for Christmas and a drop of peppermint extract for a candy cane version.
Flaky Pastry Toffee Apple Pie
A winter warmer if ever there was one! Toffee Apple taste without the risk of losing a tooth 😉 Flaky pastry has to be top of my list just at the moment buttery flaky and quick and easy to do too – try it I’m sure you’ll be converted just like me Xx
Ingredients:
1 x qty Flaky Pastry – recipe here
475g apples
150g butter
75g light muscovado sugar
1 egg for egg wash
caster sugar for sprinkling
Makes 1 x 8″ pie
Eccles Cakes
These are one of the first things I ever remember baking – they’re super easy for the kids to do and blooming lovely to eat of course too!
Simple ingredients, quickly whipped up into fabulous treats, what more could you want?
