Candy Cane Creations

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Christmas is the perfect time to give your favourite, tried and tested recipes a bit of reworking so they have a more festive feel about them. This is great on so many levels – not only do you have a great excuse to remake (and quality test!) your favourite recipes, but you don’t have to worry about things going pear shaped!

So that’s exactly what I will be doing over the next couple of days – sharing my favourite festive twists on tried and true High Tea with Dragons treats.

First up: white chocolate & bailey’s fudge! I shared this idea with the lovely ladies at my Christmas baking class on Saturday, so they can attest to just how quick and easy it is – not only to make, but to festify!

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Mondayitis

Happy Monday!

What a busy and wonderful weekend! After being lucky enough to head along to the Taylor Swift concert on Friday night (which was amazing, by the way), I hosted a group of lovely ladies for a fabulously festive Christmas baking class on Saturday. But it wasn’t until yesterday that Christmas really kicked off – by Midday we had the tree up and dressed, our special ornaments up and fairy lights donning the house… We do love Christmas!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend too and are feeling the festive spirit. Here are five things to help get your week off to a great start.

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A Handmade Christmas

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Happy December everyone – it’s officially time to get ready for Christmas!

I must admit, I kicked things off just a little early this year by hosting a Christmas baking class yesterday on – gasp – the last day of November. Having not hosted any classes since July, I was pretty excited about the whole thing – what could be better than spending an afternoon preparing delicious Christmas treats with a group of lovely people?

We had a very busy afternoon. I was ambitious, and decided we’d try and take on four different recipes in just a couple of hours – that included making, chilling, dipping, decorating and packaging… phew!

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Christmas Crinkles

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This time of year is always pretty busy for us. Not only is Christmas creeping closer, but we have loads of birthdays to celebrate – there are six birthdays in December alone! Considering one of these birthdays is Kevin’s, life can get a little bit crazy.

Which is why I love having festive cookies sitting in the cupboard, ready to feed all those unexpected visitors you get at this time of year – and to scoff (I mean, enjoy) after dinner! The trouble is finding a recipe that is suitably Christmassy that doesn’t require intricate icing or decorating – I don’t know about you, but I never seem to have time to do that.

This is where these Christmas Crinkle Cookies come in. Packed with flavour and spice, these biscuits are a one bowl wonder that can be whipped up in next to no time – easily in under 30 minutes (and that’s including the bake time).

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Mondayitis

Happy Monday!

Can you believe it’s a month till Christmas Day? I’m so excited you can’t even imagine – and for us, Christmas kicks off next weekend with my Christmas gift baking class, collecting the tree and stringing our lights.

Being this close to Christmas also means we’re close to something else… there’re less than two months left until our wedding! Needless to say we’ve been a very busy household this weekend, helping get both Christmas and the wedding a little more organised – phew!

I hope you had a lovely weekend. Here are five things to get your week off to a great start…

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Christmas Baking Round-up

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Guess what? We’re exactly one month out from Christmas! How exciting (and slightly frightening) is that?! In just one week we’ll be busily decorating out Christmas tree and decking the house in fairy lights – then comes all the Christmas shopping, baking and celebrating… needless to say, the next four weeks will be more than a little busy!

One of the things I find most time consuming is working out which treats I want to bake as gifts this Christmas, and working out all the recipes – it can take such a long time! I figured I can’t be the only person who faces this problem year after year, so decided to help out by doing a little round-up of my favourite Christmassy recipes and tutorials on High Tea with Dragons.

Each of the recipes below is Christmas themed, either in appearance, use, or flavour. If you’re hunting for ideas of treats that aren’t necessarily festively themed, pop over to my recipe index – there are dozens of great ideas in there!

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A Taste of Christmas

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Who else is excited about Christmas?

Kevin and I are well and truly into Christmas planning mode – we’re eyeing up new decorations, organising lights for the outside of our house, brainstorming gifts and (of course) planning our Christmas baking! It won’t be long until the tree is up and we’re officially festive – just 10 days in fact (woo hoo!)

Since Christmas is now little over a month out away I’ve decided it’s now totally acceptable to start sharing a little bit of Christmas spirit with you all. I tested the water with you on Facebook last week, and luckily it looks like most of you agree.

So to kick things off I’ve made a festive version of one of my favourite treats… Marshmallow balls! I’m sure you remember these classic treats from your childhood – I know I do – so hopefully you appreciate this Christmassy twist on the favourite recipe… Candy Cane & Marshmallow Balls!

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Mondayitis

Happy Monday!

Wow, it’s been a full on weekend! Poor Norm got sick so a late-night trip to the emergency vets was in order on Friday, while the rest of the weekend was spent busily baking, wedding and Christmas planning – phew! But on the upside, Norm is on the mend and we got lots done – a successful weekend all round.

I hope you had a lovely weekend and managed to get a chance to head out and enjoy the sunshine. Here are five things to get your week off to a great start…

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