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Please get in touch, always happy to hear your thoughts, successes (and I am sure not often your failures) looking forward to hearing from you soon. Celia

Slow cooker hot chocolate

Can you wait this long for a delicious hot chocolate. Great if you are of for a winters walk and want to come home to a warm and...

Apple Coffee Cake

This is really easy and so very, very good. I like to add a dollop of vanilla yogurt on top of my piece of coffee cake. Ingredients...

Microwave banana pudding

This pud will be a hit with all the family, and it only takes 20 minutes to make Ingredients 100g butter, softened, plus extra for...

Greek style Nutty baklava

This syrup-soaked pastry is gently spiced with cinnamon and cardamom, and has a blend of pecans, pistachios and walnuts, its absolutely...

Bramley Apple and Frangipane Tart

Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 40 minutes Serves: 8 Ingredients 275g ready-made sweet shortcrust pastry 100g each softened...

Baked Bramley Apples with Honey and Pecans

A simple dish that’s great for a cold winter’s day,and good for you as well. Ingredients 4 medium Bramley apples 50g pecan nuts 40g...

Apple crumble sundae

Ready in no time, this simple budget sundae will satisfy any midweek sweet cravings. If you're looking for a pudding you can whip up in a...

Christmas Day - Turkey , Beef, Goose, Stuffing, Starters and sides.

STARTERS Potted Stilton PREP: 15 MINS COOK: 2 MINS plus 2 hrs chilling EASY MAKES 1 LARGE RAMEKIN 200g Stilton, rind removed,...

Vegetarian Christmas Day starters,mains,dessert

Breakfast Kale, tomato & poached egg on toast PREP: 2 MINS COOK: 7 MINS EASY SERVES 2 There's no tastier way to eat kale than...

7 very bad desserts

Chocolate truffle star cake This makes a stunning centrepiece. And the bonus is you can make the whole thing ahead and freeze until you...

spotted dick

Made from suet pastry, dried currants and raisins, spotted dick first appeared in 1849. Serve this pudding with lashings of hot custard....

BAILEYS AND BELGIUM CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE

The combined creaminess of the famous liqueur from Ireland with the creaminess of Belgian chocolate, is your mouth watering already....

Chocolate waffles

for this recipe you will need a waffle iron... Prep 5 m Cook 10 m Ready In 15 m Ingredients 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 3...

Port and Stilton truffles

Port and Stilton truffles This Port and Stilton truffles recipe from Paul A Young, perfectly balances the two strong flavours in a rich...

Rich Belgian Drinking Chocolate

Ingredients 2 oz chopped dark chocolate 1 oz chopped milk chocolate 1/8 t cinnamon 2 tsp brown sugar (optional – for those who need it...

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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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