I couldn’t resist adding this recipe for Chocolate Truffles to make for the festive season. In our house you can’t have too many rum balls, apricot balls or chocolate truffles – the more the merrier.
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CHOCOLATE SURPRISES
Marshmallows, coconut and chocolate with a few nuts added – a great sweet treat for Christmas entertaining. Although I think I’d be tempted to change the walnuts for some glace cherries just to make them even sweeter.
DEB’S CHRISTMAS CAKE
They say the older you get the more like your mother you become and I found that out this week. My good friend Deb and I were discussing the Christmas cakes we’d just made and hers sounded very unusual. Unusual, because it’s the first time I’ve heard of the fruit being soaked overnight in strong coffee and then a block of chocolate added – no sugar, no butter – she assures me it tastes great. So like Mum, I had to ask ‘can I please have the recipe’. She got recipe from a co-volunteer at the local Op. Shop who makes it all the time and so the cycle continues…………………..
LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS PUDDING
There’s still plenty of time to make your Christmas Pudding, but if you end up needing to make one on Christmas Eve there’s no need to panic – this recipe is the answer.
EASY MELT SHORTBREAD
With most shortbread recipes you rub the butter into the flour and then add the other dry ingredients which takes a little bit of time. Melting the butter instead is certainly an easier option and a whole lot quicker, not traditional, but quicker…..
BOILED FRUIT CAKE with Cold Tea
I always marinate the fruit for my Christmas Cake in brandy and then slosh a bit more onto the cake hot from the oven. It makes a wonderfully rich cake which is great at Christmas, but is a bit too rich for other times of the year. This recipe has a great tip to substitute the brandy with cold tea. I’ve turned a failed Christmas Pudding into a cake by doing that, but this is the recipe I’ve come across that suggests using it from the beginning.
BEB – Recipe Collector Extraordinaire
I thought I’d share this great photo of my Mum/Beb taken a couple of weeks ago. She’s 99 in January and still as lovely as ever.
FRUIT MINCE PUFFS
I’ve changed the name of this recipe as I don’t think Crumble Puffs is a very good description. They seem like a very light fruit mince tart to me – light and fluffy and fruity. Just right for this festive season.
CAESAR-STYLE RICE SALAD
Who doesn’t love a Caesar salad (with or without the anchovies)? This is the first time I’ve seen rice added though. Even without adding some cooked chicken or salmon it would be a meal in itself.
CORN PANCAKES
I don’t remember Mum making these, but she used to make sweet corn patties which were always one of my favourites. For those she used sweet corn kernels, for these pancakes you use creamed corn so you’d get a smoother mixture. I think I’ll give them a try, they sound good. Convert -10oz can to 310g size.
