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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...

Graveyard Chocolate Cake

Ingredients 1 Belgian chocolate cake 10 g strawberry laces 20 g desiccated coconut 2 drops green food colouring (you may need a little...

Freaky finger red velvet cake

Terrify and delight this Halloween with a dramatic chocolate red velvet cake, sandwiched with an easy cream cheese frosting. Ingredients...

Haunted graveyard cake

The perfect centrepiece for a Halloween celebration, this cake is guaranteed to make your party extra spooky. Ingredients To decorate 1...

Eyeball snot-tail

The jellied texture and edible eyeball in this slimy mocktail are dreadfully delicious - perfect Halloween party fare for kids SERVES 10...

Easter Biscults

Make Easter biscuits the Mary Berry way: use half of the dough to make traditional fruited Easter biscuits, and half to make iced Easter...

Homemade Easter eggs

Forget big plastic boxes and cheap chocolate - make your own homemade Easter eggs for maximum taste (and fun!). Equipment and...

Hot Cross Buns

create perfectly decorated fruit buns PREP: 30 MINS COOK: 20 MINS plus proving MORE EFFORT MAKES 15 For the buns 300ml full-fat...

Chocolate nests

Here's one the Children can make, maybe with a little help from mum. so easy and so much fun READY IN 20 minutes COOKING TIME 0 minutes...

Easter Egg Brownies

As I only have a few days left of my one year Challenge I thought I would end the last few days with Easter recipes. I shall still post...

30th March is National Hot Chicken day

Nashville Hot Chicken Ultra-crispy fried chicken doused with a cayenne-infused glaze, and by 'glaze' I mean melted butter and lard. For...

27th March is National World Whisky Day

One of my favourites - cooking with alcohol Marmalade & whisky bread & butter pudding PREP: 15 MINS COOK: 1 HR plus 30 mins soaking ...

20th March is National Ravioli Day

I have skipped a few days, have you ever made/cooked ravioli, you need to have a nice peaceful day, and feel like cooking. Pork and...

17th March is National “Eat Like an Irishman” Day

(Can you believe that ) Irish stew PREP: 20 MINS COOK: 40 MINS plus 2 hours 30 minutes to make the stock Ingredients 3 middle necks of...

16th of March is National Artichoke Heart Day

Not one of my favourite vegetables, A little information about this vegetable for you, Confusingly, three different, unrelated plants are...

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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)

Needles and Threads ,

A Challenge, Dancing in the Rain, A Cool Glass of Beer, All Thing Shiny & Sparkly , Mad Hats and Mad Shoes