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All-butter Scottish shortbread

Easy Ready in 10 min serves 12 This luxurious all-butter shortbread is simple but classic. Ingredients Serves: 12 175g (6 oz)...

Spiced toffee apple cake

Try a twist on traditional toffee apples - sugared, spiced and very very nice! Ingredients 200g dates, roughly chopped 200ml milk, plus a...

Carrot cake with cinnamon frosting

Yummy, moist and totally delicious, a great bake to have with a cup of tea. Ingredients zest and juice 1 orange 50g sultanas 150ml...

White chocolate spotty cake

This one is for me I just love White Chocolate. Ingredients 250g pack butter, softened 300g self-raising flour 250g golden caster sugar ½...

Spiced pumpkin toffee apple cake recipe

I just could not resist this, I am sure someone will want to bake this for Halloween. Serves 16 1 hr 10 mins to prepare and 45 mins to...

Apricot shortbread

Give homemade biscuits a fruity spin by sandwiching a layer of apricots in between two layers of buttery tray-baked shortbread....

Morello cherry & almond traybake

This fruity cake uses ground rice and almond extract for a cheaper bake - perfect for a cake sale or as a teatime treat. Ingredients 300g...

Banana & blueberry muffins

Low fat version and taste good as well, they'll keep in an airtight container for up to 3 days, or freeze for up to a month. Ingredients...

Victoria Sponge

I love this quick and easy cake, you can be sitting down one minute, and then in 45 minutes have a cake on the table all be it, a bit...

Scones

Lets start of with scone nice and easy and delicious with cream and strawberry jam Ingredients 225g self-raising flour, preferably...

Farmhouse sultana cake

Ingredients 8oz plain flour 1 level tsp bicarb of soda 2 level tsp mixed spice 8oz plain wholemeal flour 6oz butter 8oz soft brown sugar...

Farmhouse Apple Cake

Everyone has their own version of the Apple Cake it is just a cake that has apples, brown sugar and sometimes cinnamon. The apple can be...

Farmhouse rustic crusty cob loaf

This Rustic loaf will go really nicely with the soup from yesterday's recipe Makes: 1 Prep time: 2 hrs (may need an extra hr) Cooking...

Cider Cake

Cider Cake 125g butter, diced 125g sugar 2 eggs, beaten 225g self-raising flour 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda Half teaspoon of...

Teacakes

The perfect accompaniment to a strong cup of tea, teacakes are sweet buns filled with dried fruit. Usually toasted and smothered in...

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COOKING TIPS

You do not have to be stressed at Christmas if the idea of cooking for family and friends is just all to much you can buy everything you need at most supermarkets, just pop in the oven no preparation sit back and enjoy a glass of champagne (you can either ban all from your kitchen so they think your amazing, or tell them that it all comes from whichever store you choose so you could spend more time with them. NO SHAME IN THAT.

Whole herbs and spices last longer than crushed or ground versions

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Test freshness of herbs by moving some around in your hand and sniffing to see if spice gives off flavorful aroma

Generally speaking 1 cup fresh herbs = 1/3 cup dried as the dried spices have more intense flavor

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Decorating your cake

use gingerbread Christmas trees, a house and hearts (you’ll need about 15 hearts for the outside). To decorate, mix 300g fondant icing sugar with enough water to make a thick icing, transfer to a piping bag fitted with a fine nozzle. Decorate however you like, then leave to dry. Place the trees and house on top of the cake and push the hearts into the icing.

Only one tin?

If you have just 1 x 20cm cake tin, you can easily divide the cake mixture into three and bake the sponges in batches. Work in metric measurements as they are easier to scale down for this recipe, and write the new measurements out before you start, so you don’t get mixed up halfway through.

A little bit about me ..Celia Loves Wine , Fast Cars and Travel and Any Thing New.

Rock Music and Jazz, the Classics and Bocelli, In love with Commissario Montalbano - alias Luca Zingaretti (more about him later)

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