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Puffle Cupcakes – Club Penguin – A How To…
My boys are Club Penguin crazy and it seems quite a few of you have Puffle Mad kids too!
Flapjack – All kinds of ways!
It’s good to have some fail safe recipes you can refer back to when you need to bake but don’t have much time. This flapjack recipe comes from my Great Grandmothers recipe book – just to prove that the old ones are sometimes the best!
12 Days of Baking Christmas from The Pink Whisk
12 Christmas baking recipes over 12 days – Merry Christmas and Happy Baking
Love Ruth xx
Here’s the full run through….
Day 1 – Lebkuchen
Day 2 – Snowman Cookie Lollies
Day 3 – Christmas Monkey Bread
Day 4 – Complete Guide to Decorating your Christmas Cake
Day 5 – Party Breadsticks
Day 6 – Chocolate Coconut Snowballs
Day 7 – Ultimate Sausage Rolls
Day 8 – Stollen
Day 9 – Mince Pies The Pink Whisk Way
Day 10 – Gingerbread Men Cupcakes
Day 11 – Christmas Bakewell Tarts
Day 12 – Brandy Snap Baskets
Ruth Clemens, Baker Extraordinaire
Finalist on BBC2 The Great British Bake Off
On the twelfth day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me…..Brandy Snap Baskets
The last in the 12 Days of Baking Christmas from The Pink Whisk. I hope you’ve enjoyed the recipes, I’m off to put up my Christmas tree, I’ll be back with more baking madness once the big red man has been to visit – I’ll still be on Facebook if you fancy popping over for a chat www.facebook.com/ThePinkWhisk
On the eleventh day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me……Christmas Bakewells
Instead of the usual jam try these Christmas style with Cranberry and Port mincemeat!
Makes 18 small Bakewell Tarts
Ingredients:
Pastry
225g plain flour
25g caster sugar
100g butter
1 egg yolk
35ml cold water
1/2 jar of mincemeat
100g butter, melted
2 eggs
100g semolina
100g ground almonds
a few drops of almond essence
100g caster sugar
flaked almonds or icing to top
Start off by making the biscuity pastry base, because its so rich and buttery you can get away with making it in the food processor.
On the tenth day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me…… Gingerbread Cupcakes
Gingerbread Men Cupcakes
Makes 18 cupcakes
Ingredients:
Cakes
115g butter, softened
55g dark brown sugar
50g caster sugar
1 large egg
150ml treacle
310g plain flour
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 1/4tsp ground ginger
230ml greek yoghurt
Gingerbread men (optional) to decorate
Frosting
500g icing sugar, sifted
1 tbsp meringue powder/meri-white/egg white powder
or
1 x box of Silver Spoon Royal Icing Sugar
90ml lemon juice
Preheat the oven to 160c fan/180c/Gas Mark 4.
On the ninth day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me…. Mince Pies
Mince pies The Pink Whisk way – with zesty pastry, mince pies were meant to be individual, sticky, oozy, bursting with mincemeat and a good dusting of icing sugar to hide the imperfections!
My mince pies are like my scones, very definitely homemade – I have never striven for looks of perfection with these beauties – uneven tops and sticky bits of mincemeat that ooze over the edge are everything I like in a mince pie – if you’re after neat and precision perfection you won’t find it here!
On the eighth day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me……Stollen
Another traditional Christmas baking treat – candied peel and almond paste- mmmmmmmm!
Ingredients:
450g strong plain flour
15g dried yeast
40g caster sugar
zest of one lemon
200ml milk, lukewarm
1 egg large, beaten
115g melted butter
115g sultanas
55g currants
70g mixed candied peel
90g blanched almonds, chopped
250g marzipan
50g butter melted to brush on before baking
icing sugar for sifting onto finished loaves
Makes 2 x small loaves.
On the seventh day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me…..Ultimate Sausage Rolls
There is nothing that tastes better than home made sausage rolls, I have to admit that it’s been a Christmas tradition since I was little and was in fact my Dad who taught me to make them, these really are delicious.
On the sixth day of Christmas The Pink Whisk sent to me…. Chocolate Coconut Snowballs
Chocolate and coconut were made to go together, add in some marshmallow and it’s heaven in a snowball!
Ingredients:-
Cakes
200ml milk
2 tsp malt vinegar
75g dessicated coconut
140g butter, softened
200g caster sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
55g self raising flour
165g plain flour
3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
60g cocoa powder
Marshmallow
225g caster sugar
85ml water
1 x 7g sachet of gelatine
50ml water
Topping
20g dessicated coconut
50g plain chocolate to drizzle
Preheat the oven to 160c Fan/180c/ Gas Mark 4.
