Tag: Christmas
Christmas Cake – 2015 – Take Three
The final cake for Christmas 2015! We are hosting Christmas for the first time at our house this year, so this one is just for us lot. Another boozy 6-inch from the Bitesize Bakehouse kitchen. I modelled another Santa for the centre, and surrounded him with snowflakes. A little festive ribbon to cover the foot of …
Christmas Cake – 2015 – Take Two
Christmas cake number two was for my colleagues at work. I took Candelo Bloom‘s advice from my previous post and went down the Reindeer route. Meet (a slightly sad looking) Rudolph. His nose ended up so big that it covered his happy looking mouth. Whoops. This cake was much smaller than my first (6inch vs …
Christmas Cake – 2015 – Take One
There are three Christmas cakes coming out of the Bitesize Bakes kitchen this year -just the same as last year (see posts here, here and here). Hopefully, this year I made them look slightly more tasteful than last! This is number one. Number one saw it’s heavy-bottomed way to the annual family gathering last weekend …
Christmas Cake Prep
The Christmas cake preparations have begun! This year, I have baked three fruit cakes; (two 6 inch, one 8 inch) filled with lime, rum and raisins in place of the more traditional lemon, citrus peel and brandy. Recipe to follow… but for now I’m all ready to start feeding them for the next few weeks …
Mince Pie Mountain
You only get to eat them once a year so why not bake a mountain of mince pies? I baked mine in muffin cases essentially because I’m lazy… it’s a lot easier to wash up the tins this way. Pre-prepared puff pastry with ready made mincemeat layered in the middle. A cheats Christmas fix. Here’s …
Gallette de Rois
Who (like me) forgot about ‘Stir up Sunday’ a few weeks ago? If you haven’t heard of it before, it is the last Sunday before Advent starts. All the keen bakers out there get their dried fruits out to soak in their chosen alcoholic beverages and start the looooooong arduous process of creating their Christmas …
