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Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Getting in the festive spirit: Christmas Gingerbread

If you had come into my kitchen last night you would have been pretty convinced you had stepped into the Bake Off tent! Honestly it was like a serious production line of gingerbready goodness!!! I wasn't just cracking out 100s of little christmas gingerbread trees for no reason, we have a fundraiser for Rainbows and Guides tonight and a bit of festive gingerbread always goes down well. Ignore the fact that the sign says stars, this was my intention until I saw the tree!!

Recipe:

2tsp Ginger
60g Brown sugar
75g Butter
175g Plain Flour
3 1/2 tbsp of Golden Syrup

Add the Butter, Sugar and Golden Syrup into a pan and cook until they are melted. In a mixing bowl add the flour and ginger. Add the warm mixture and stir together. Once in a ball, wrap in cling film and leave to cool for 30 minutes (I popped mine in the fridge). After 30 minutes roll out to about the £1 coin size. Use your chosen cutter.

Pop into the oven for between 10 - 15 minutes (depending on the size) - take out and leave to cool. They will go hard while they are cooling so don't worry if they are still a little soft when you take them out of the oven. Add some icing to jazz them up a bit and serve!

Hope you enjoyed this little recipe. As I find some I will be sharing some more christmassy recipes in the lead up to the festive period!

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Saturday, 14 April 2012

My Week in Instagrams

Hey guys!
Sorry I havent been around much this last week. This week has been mental! It seemed like although I had 4 days off work last weekend it was soon back to work on Tuesday again!
I have been using instagram quite a lot this week since it has been released for andriod - I am in loveeeeee - if you want to find me my username is unlovedbutton :)

1. Lunch with my friend and her little girl. 2. Fairy cakes for church from my cake decorating magazine.
3. Pick and Mix to celebrate the end of Lent. :) 4. A day of playing Lego Harry Potter at Matts House. 5. Chipstickkkkks!! Not had these for yearrrrrrrrrrrrrs!!! 6. After both local cinemas were sold out me and Matt had our own viewing of Titanic on his projector 7. Me and Paddy (Matts dog). 8. FINALLY got my hands on Models Own Ibiza Mix - excited is not the word. 9. Work from the first aid course I went on today :)

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Christmas cake is done

So I promised I would share with you my finished christmas cake when it was done.
And something amazing happened! One of the other leaders at guides saw my cake and asked me to make her a cake for her father in laws 75th birthday! I have been wanting to start doing cakes for people for a while. I have made and decorated quite a few but this will be the first one ive done as a request and been paid for :)

Monday, 21 November 2011

Christmas Cake

So yesterday I made a start at a christmas cake I said I would make for wednesday night. The guide group at which I am a leader in training is holding a christmas fundraiser and I said I would make a chistmas cake which we could raffle of as part of the raffle prizes since I have made and decorated quite a few cakes before.
I have never made a christmas cake on my own before - I help my nanna with hers every year but have never done one myself! I make sponges or cupcakes all the time but cooking a cake for 4 hours made me a bit nervous! I am so happy with how it came out!
Heres a photo of the cake so far - it had just come out the oven here. I have put marzipan on it today and am going to ice it tomorrow and finish decorating it! Ill make sure i share the finished product with you :)

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