Snowflake Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookies are probably one of the most versatile of all cookies. You can get cookie cutters in so many shapes these days that you can make them to suit every holiday or occasion. I already have an obscene amount yet still more seem to find their way into my online shopping basket. I decided…

Mini Pepperami Pizza

Mini Pepperami Pizzas are perfect finger food for a festive soiree, or in this case, an office fuddle. To save time, you can make the dough the night before and let it prove overnight in the fridge. The cool of the fridge will retard the dough, and it will prove slowly. This is a good…

Coconut Ice

If you like coconut, then you will love coconut ice! It’s soft, and coconutty and oh-so-sweet. This recipe is soft, melt in the mouth. You can make it firmer by adding more icing sugar, coconut, or by leaving it out longer to allow the icing to set. The best thing about this recipe is that…

Dark Chocolate and Walnut Fudge

Fudge is one of those things that people say to me all the time, they wish they could make it. Well, you can! I realise that it appears to be like some kind of alchemy, and I suppose in some way, it is as you are changing the structure of the sugar crystals via intense…

chocolate bark

Cranberry and Pistachio Chocolate Bark

Chocolate Bark is something that has been growing in popularity over here in the UK the last few years. I first saw it in Hotel Chocolat about 5 years ago, and it was quite expensive. I am not sure why it has taken me this long to have a go at making it, as it…

Pfeffernüsse

With a frost on the ground, and bitter winds outside, we are well into the middle of winter. I am getting over the annual cold, and glad to be indoors. However, Christmas baking stops for no woman – cold, or no cold. So today, in between sneezing fits, I have been baking Pfeffernüsse as another…