Christmas Holidays 2013
I feel like I have neglected my blog over the past few months; only posting the odd recipe. I thought I’d look back at the baking and cake decorating I have enjoyed over the three weeks of Christmas. I will share with you some of the recipes I have used recently and publish those I amended as I went along.
I started the holidays frantically decorating cakes to give to friends and family as gifts for Christmas. I made twenty mini Christmas cakes using the Baked Bean Tin Christmas Cake idea from ‘Butcher, Baker’. I wanted each one to be different which was a challenge in itself.
Here are a few of them:
They were all iced with fondant icing except one I made for a friend who loves royal icing.
And of course there was the family Christmas cake which I iced on Christmas Eve; just in time for the big day.
As well as cake decorating I have baked lots of different things; trying my hand at both pastry and bread.
First of all I made a Mincemeat Frangipane Tart using a jar of mincemeat but adding a beautiful almond frangipane cake as a topping instead of more pastry. Delicious with a glass of white wine after a day of Christmas preparations.
I also tried two of Paul Hollywood’s recipes this Christmas: Boxing day Chelsea Buns and Stollen. Both of these recipes went down extremely well with the family. I’ll be using the Chelsea Bun recipe as a basis for other similar bakes in 2014 and the family have already started giving me possible flavour combinations.
There’s nothing better than a little bit of chocolate over Christmas so I decided to make some Cherry Brandy Chocolate Brownies. I think Brandy makes everything taste Christmassy. Here’s the recipe: Cherry Brandy Chocolate Brownies.
The New Year’s Eve Lemon Meringue Pie recipe was recommended to me by a fellow baker through twitter, after I had a not so good attempt a couple of months a go. It is my husband’s favourite so I knew I had to master it for him. Here’s a link to the recipe: Lemon Meringue Pie.
So here it a collage of my Christmas of Baking 2013. Happy New Year to all my followers on here, on twitter @Luciebaking and on Facebook. Here’s to another year of baking…Lucie xx
Happy New Year to all my followers on here, on twitter @Luciebaking and on Facebook.
Here’s to another year of baking…Lucie xx
