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Christmas

Almondy mince pies

December 21, 2012

I love lots of nuts in my Christmas cake, Christmas pudding and also my mince pies and if this was a cookie you would probably call it a triple almond one! Of course you don’t have to make them in a muffin tin, if you want shallower mince pies use a normal patty tin but [...]

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Luxurious Chocolate Rose Creams

December 18, 2012

These make perfect last minute presents, if you can bear to part with them that is. Be warned these are very rich and moorish. 300g icing sugar 3 tbsp double cream 3 tbsp of rose syrup a few drops of pink food colouring 200g dark chocolate (use gluten free chocolate for a gluten free treat) [...]

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Happy Christmas

December 25, 2011

Have a peaceful, happy and safe Christmas. Thank you for all your support and comments throughout the year. XX

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Home Made Christmas- Festive biscuit lollies and Christmas Tree Biscuits

December 20, 2011

The children love a home made biscuit, other than that we are not really huge biscuit eaters. Last year I brought you some lovely Christmas tree cookies but this year I have a new recipe thanks to Schwartz and decided to make them fun by putting the biscuits on lolly sticks which then got sent [...]

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Coca Cola Designated Driver Campaign

December 9, 2011

We all want a safe Christmas, we don’t want to hear of tragic stories of drink drive accidents which are totally unnecessary. We all know the dangers and thanks to government education campaigns and enforcements the number of people killed in drink drive accidents since 1979 has been reduced by three quarters. However, still 380 [...]

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Home Made Christmas – Chocolate Coconut Truffles

December 7, 2011

Receiving a gift made by your own fair hands can mean so much more then a bought one, although not necessarily the cheaper option it can also be so much fun. In this first of my ‘Home Made Christmas’ series be prepared to be spoiled with these divine white chocolate truffles. If you can, I [...]

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Teenage woes…there is always wine though

December 5, 2011

Since last week I now officially have three teens in the house, it may have felt as though it has been years already but no, child number three turned that exciting age of thirteen. Word of warning to anyone with babies or toddlers, make the most of it because boy oh boy teenagers are hard [...]

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Christmas Buying-on a budget

November 22, 2011

I have to admit to being a lazy shopper, on the whole if I see something that I like or the perfect present, I tend to get it straight away. I am not a fan of walking round and round the shops in search of the cheapest price if it is only going to amount [...]

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Silent Sunday

December 26, 2010

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Last minute Chocolate Christmas Presents

December 23, 2010

Who could fail to be impressed or pleased with a home made gift made from their favourite chocolate? It is all very simple. Melt chocolate of your choice, It needs to be ‘real’ chocolate not cooking chocolate. I always melt chocolate in the microwave but you must be very patient and do it in 10 [...]

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