Perfect Yorkshire Puddings

Always good to remember this recipe, perfect for the upcoming christmas dinner :)

Ingredients (Makes 6 large puds):
* 2 eggs
* 70g flour
* 100ml milk
* vegetable oil

Instructions:

Preheat your oven. Pop the eggs in a bowl and whisk up. Once you've done this, add the milk and whisk until smooth and fully combined. Then add the flour, and whisk up again until its the consistency of single cream. Leave the batter to sit for 10 minutes.

While you're waiting, place around 1cm of vegetable oil in six of your muffin tray holes. Pop in the oven for around 10 minutes (keep an eye on this as oil can catch!) and remove from the oven when the oil is hot. Ladle your batter in on top of the hot oil, you want to see it sizzle each time so act fast! Pop your tray back in the oven for 15 minutes until golden and crisp. p.s. don't be tempted to open your oven door as they won't be as good!!

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Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies

This is a good base recipe to remember, you can pretty much anything once you get the base right.

Ingredients (Makes 12):
* 100g brown sugar
* 100g butter
* 100g coconut oil
* 300g plain flour
* 50g dried cranberries
* 50g white chocolate

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 180c

Mix together the brown sugar, butter and coocnut oil together. Then add in the flour followed by a second mix. Finish with the cranberries and white chocolate, with another mix together.

Mould the mixture into small golf bowls, and spread evenly onto a lined baking traying. We suggest six at a time. Lightly press down on top of the cookie balls so they spread whilst baking.

Pop into the oven for 18-20 mins until they're golden brown. Cool them down on a cooling rack, and they are good to eat. YUMMY!

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Festive Rocky Road Chrismtas House

With Christmas only around the corner, we had to make something super festive! We picked up Asda's Enchanted Elves Cottage kit which has everything you need to make your own chocolatey rocky road house :)

Ingredients:
As mentioned above, we bought a kit to make ours but if you have a mould for your house already, you will need...
* Cooking chocolate
* Digestive biscuits, crushed
* Mini marshmallows
* Smarties or m&ms
* White icing (for piping)
* Small cones (for the trees!)

Instructions:
Divide the chocolate and crushed biscuit into two and the marshmallows into three piles. Empty the first lot of chocolate into a small bowl and melt over a pan of warm water. Dip the wafer cones in the chocolate one at a time, letting the excess dribble off for a smooth finish. Stand on a plate and leave to set.

Add one pile of each of the biscuit and marshmallows into the chocolate. Empty the mixture into the mould, filling to the edges of each shape. Place in the fridge to set for around 25 minutes. Once set, place shapes onto greaseproof paper and repeat this step until you have all the pieces you need to build the house!

Snip the end of the piping bag and carefully build the Elf's Cottage using icing to stick the panels together. Don't forget to decorate the trees too! While waiting for the cottage to set, decorate a serving plate or board with a snowy icing setting. Once set, pop your cottage on the board. It's now time to go wild and decorate! :)

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No Bake Mini Christmas Puddings

Ingredients (Makes 20):
Balls
* 175g dates
* 100g Almonds
* 100g Pecans
* 75g sultanas
* 35g dried cranberries
* 1tbsp lemon zest
* 1 tbsp orange zest
* 1 tsp cinnamon
* 1 tsp nutmeg
* 1 tsp ginger

Icing
* ½ cup cashews, soaked for at least 4 hours
* 2 tbsp agave syrup
* 2 tbsp almond milk
* 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
* 1 tbsp coconut oil
* Handful of dried cranberries, chopped


Instructions:
Add all of the ingredients to make the Christmas pudding balls in a food processor and mix together until it begins to form a big ball. Once it’s all in one big ball, separate into 20 little ball shapes and make sure you press the top down with your thumb for a flat surface for the icing! Pop these in the fridge to set while you make the icing.

To make the icing, drain the cashews and add the almond milk, agave syrup, coconut oil and lemon juice and blend until smooth. Pop this in the fridge for 30 mins so it firms up and is easier to spread on the balls. Pop the icing on the top and add little pieces of chopped up cranberries! It’s as easy as that :)

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