The lovely Amylou tagged me in The Christmas Tag and as it’s the lead up to Christmas, I thought I’d share my answers with you. 🙂 You can read Amylou’s answers here. So without further ado… The Christmas Tag 1. When do you start getting excited for Christmas Day? Usually the last week of work, we always go out for drinks on the last Friday before our Christmas shut down.…
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Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
… 🎼 Lit up like a star. ⭐ Anyone else love hearing that song? It always reminds me of Home Alone 2 when Kevin McCallister causes the cardboard Christmas tree to fall down! 😅 Decorating the Christmas tree is definitely one of my favourite things about this time of year. As a child I’d beg for our Christmas tree to go up as early as possible but my parents would…
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Favourite Christmas Movies *
Advent is in two days(!) and what better way to start off the Christmas period than by watching a Christmas movie? 🎅 My dad and I have a tradition that the first Christmas movie we watch is The Muppets Christmas Carol so that’s what I’ll be doing on December 1st. We have a sing-a-long session and it gets me in to the Christmas spirit. After that first movie most of…
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Slow cooker mulled wine
My dad loves mulled wine at this time of year from market stores and fetes, however doesn’t like the type you can get in the supermarket . I don’t like it personally but he says it doesn’t taste anywhere near as good. This year, Ryan and I decided to bring mulled wine to the table and brought over the ingredients Christmas morning to brew the mulled wine in my parents…
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Chocolate Rudolph Christmas Cake
I saw this Chocolate Rudolph Christmas Cake in the Morissons Christmas magazine last year but didn’t get chance to try it out; the recipe is by Stork. I modified the decoration slightly. Photos to follow!! Have a bit of a back log due to the holiday season. For the Cake: 225g Butter 225g caster sugar 4 medium eggs 40g cocoa powder 225g self-raising flour For…
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How to decide which Christmas movie to watch first
In our house we can never decide which Christmas movie to watch and often discussions get quite heated! It’s silly really. This year we decided to let fate decide and put the name of every Christmas movie we enjoy on a piece of card, folded it up and placed it in a little stocking that will live by our tv for the festive season. The idea is that whenever we…
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‘Tis the season.
Where has the time gone? Halloween and Bonfire Night have both been and gone and Christmas is right around the corner! Picking up where I left off last time, we didn’t end up dressing up as characters from The Rocky Horror Picture Show for Halloween in the end. Time got away from us and the costume one of us was planning on ending up being too small. 🙁 So we…
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Christmas cupcakes
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🙂 For Christmas this year I’ve decided to bake Christmas cupcakes and a chocolate chip banana cake as we had some left over bananas to use up. For the Christmas cupcakes I used my “go to cupcake recipe” but added a chocolate sauce to the mixture to make gooey chocolate filled cupcakes. I decorated with red / pink icing and Christmas themed sprinkles…
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Mince pies
Last December, I baked a gingerbread house and mince pies for the Christmas period. I’ve yet to decide what I’ll be doing this year, yet, but wanted to share the mince pies I made last year. Since I forgot to! … Better late than never? You will need 500g pack sweet or dessert shortcrust pastry Plain flour, for dusting 300g mincemeat Milk, for glazing Method Pre heat oven to 200C/180C…