Gingerbread Biscuits

I love gingerbread biscuits and they feel so christmassy and gingery!

You Will Need:

75g of Light Brown Sugar

3 tbsp of Golden Syrup

1 tbsp of Water

1 tsp of Ground Cinnamon

1 tsp of Ground Ginger

95g of Butter

1/2 tsp of Baking Powder

280g of Plain Flour

Mix the sugar, syrup, water, cinnamon and ginger together over a medium heat.

Add the butter and mix with a wooden spoon.

Take off the heat and add the baking powder, mix and then add flour gradually while mixing until it forms a non-sticky dough.

Roll the dough out on a floured surface and cut out using different Christmas themed cookie cutters.

 Place the cut out shapes onto lightly buttered baking trays and leave for 30 minutes to rest the dough.

Place in the oven for 10-15 minutes or too golden brown at 180c.

Take out of the oven and leave on the side to cool, you can decorate with icing if you want too.

Mince Pies

As its Christmas time I thought I would have to make mince pies, so here is how I made them!

You Will need:

350g of Mincemeat

200g of Plain Flour

40g of Caster Sugar

75g of Ground Almonds

125g of Unsalted butter

1 Egg

Milk (to glaze)

Mix the flour, sugar, almonds and butter together in a bowl, so they look like breadcrumbs!

Mix in the egg and bring the mixture together with your hands.

Roll out the dough on a floured work surface and cut the dough, using cookie cutters, so half of the circles are bigger then the other half.

Place the smaller circles in a lightly buttered cupcake tin.

Add the mincemeat to the cups using a teaspoon.

Put the larger circles on top, glaze the top with milk and then stab with a fork.

Put in a preheated oven for 20 minutes at 190c.

Take out the oven and leave to cool or eat warm!

Peanut Butter Fudge

I thought this recipe looked really nice and interesting so i thought i would give it go!

You Will Need:

125g of Butter

500g of Light Brown Sugar

120ml of Milk

250g of Crunchy Peanut Butter

3 tsps of Vanilla Extract

300g of Icing Sugar

Melt the butter in saucepan and heat, while stirring.

Stir in the brown sugar and milk and boil for 3 minutes without stirring.

Remove from the heat and stir in the peanut butter and vanilla extract.

Pour into a bowl with the icing sugar in and stir using a wooden spoon until smooth.

Pour into a square baking tray and leave in the fridge to cool, preferably overnight.

Take the fudge out of the fridge and cut into squares with a knife, its no ready to eat!!!