Treats

Day 2 – Father Christmas Cookie Lollies

Father Christmas Cookie Lollies

On the second day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me…..Father

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Day 1 – Ideas for Decorating your Christmas Cake

On the first day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me (singing please!)…..Ideas

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Stars and Sparkle Christmas Tree Cake

Stars and Sparkle Christmas Tree Cake

 You will need:

1 x Cake, marzipanned and covered with white sugarpaste, instructions on how to here

Sugarpaste, white and dark blue

Small sugarpaste star cutters  and medium star cutters

Silver balls

Edible cake sparkles in white

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Gingerbread Man Cake

Gingerbread Man CakeYou will need:

1 x Cake, marzipanned and covered with white sugarpaste as per the instructions here

Sugarpaste in red, white and green

Chocolate sugarpaste (or regular sugarpaste coloured brown)

Royal Icing

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Holly Wreath Cake

Holly Wreath CakeYou will need:

1 x cake marzipanned and covered with white sugarpaste, instructions on how to here

Green, white and red sugarpaste

Round fluted cutter

Edible red glitter

Steak knife

To create the two shades of green, take equal amounts of the green and white and knead together until fully combined.  

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Traybake Recipe Round Up – TPW November Challenge

Lots of lovely traybake recipes were submitted for The Pink Whisk November Challenge Here they are in all their glory!  But first, the winner of November’s Challenge, chosen at random is…..

S’more Brownies by Hef’s Kitchen
who is the lucky winner of a fridge freezer kindly supplied by Argos.
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Homemade Potato Cakes

Homemade Potato Cakes

Keeping up the wintery baking, potato cakes are a real trip down memory lane for me.  Tastes of my childhood, tubs and tubs of potato cakes – toasted and slathered with butter.  I always wondered where my love of the buttery stuff came from.

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Apple & Sultana Flapjack with Yoghurt Topping

 

Apple & Sultana Flapjack with Yoghurty ToppingMy traybake recipe to kick you off on The Pink Whisk Challenge for November – Apple & Sultana Flapjack with yoghurty topping – I have to admit that this recipe is more about the topping than it is the flapjack!

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TPW November Challenge

Righty ho!  On to the November’s Challenge.  I know I planned to keep it seasonal but I’m going off course already!  There is, however, a good reason.

November is the month of Children in Need, Blue Peter’s Bake a Difference campaign, Movember and lots of other fund raising events.  

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Time to Bake Your Christmas Cake

Christmas Cake - Boozy Fruit Part 2So you’ve been lovingly stirring your boozy fruit for the past few weeks and enjoying inhaling the fumes as you do so! Now it’s time to turn that jar of loveliness into this years Christmas Cake. If you missed the Boozy Fruit post you can find it here, get going with it now, even a weeks soaking is going to create some Christmas Magic!

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