Edible Xmas gifts that can be made well in advance.....

pookiewn

This is lovely baileys recipe. Its very good with peppermint instead of vanilla too!

pookiewn

jollymummy could you do peppermint creams with your 5 yr old? They are easy to do. They look good green and blue too!

chelleway78

jollymummy have a look at netmums website (sorry can't post a link cos I'm a newbie!!!), so here's their chocolate fudge recipe, I made it last year with the help of my then 2 1/2 yr old!

This recipe for microwave fudge has a crumbly texture (like butter tablet), rather than a chewy one, and is much quicker and easier to make than traditional fudge.

• 100g (4oz) milk or plain chocolate, broken into pieces
• 100g (4oz) butter, melted (not low fat spread)
• 450g (1lb) icing sugar
• 45ml (3tbsp) milk
• a few drops of vanilla or other flavouring essence (optional)

Place the chocolate into a glass heatproof bowl and heat on medium for 2-3 minutes. Stop the cooking time and stir every 30 seconds or so, until just melted.
Add the butter, icing sugar, essence and milk, mix well.
Heat on high for 3-4 minutes, take out of the microwave and beat well every minute.
The mixture and bowl will be very hot, so take care.
When the mixture starts to set around the edges of the bowl and becomes thicker, it's ready to pour into a greased, 20cm x 15cm (8" x 6") dish.
Allow to set for a few minutes before marking into squares using a knife, and leave to cool before removing from the tin.
Place in paper sweet cakes and keep in an airtight container for upto a week.

Winged_one

I was rooting through my recipes last night and I think I have a couple of biscuit/cookie recipes I will use at the last minute, and peppermint creams, and truffles.

I want to make onion marmalade over the weekend, or an onion chutney.

And if I get to the plot, I will bring home some rosemary, and make some rosemary oil and a chilli oil with some chillis from supermarket. I think I will have enough at that stage.

Welsh_Poppy

Hi there

We are going to try toffee vodka having made blackcurrant and blackberry vodka last year.
Anyone know how to make vanilla vodka?

thanks

Why_oh_why

Many apologies if this is readily available (I never seem to have much luck with the search ). I would love to try and make some stem ginger for my mum. I have found a recipe on Yahoo Answers but was just wondering if anyone had a tried and tested recipe they'd be able to share please?

betterlife

my sil has just made black jack vodka with one of those long (about 6 inch) ones reaconed it had dissolved in a hour a tastes gorgious

alfieroux

Jollymummy - the best thing we make (now EVERY Christmas) is homemade after-eights.

Simply melt a big ol' bar of chocolate. Put a pack of Extra Strong Mints in a plastic sandwhich bag, let you child/ren bash them to bits with an assortment of rolling pins, saucepans, spoons etc. Mix melted chocolate with bashed mints and spread out onto foil/greaseproof.

Leave in the fridge. A bit more bashing to get it to bitesize pieces, bag up, pretty ribbon and name lable then store them in the fridge 'till the presents need to be given out and gobbled up with coffee. (Warning - all the people who receive these as presents will have doughy-eyed children begging for scraps!!):rotfl:

Hope this helps
Alfie

Gunna

alfieroux wrote: »

Jollymummy - the best thing we make (now EVERY Christmas) is homemade after-eights.

Simply melt a big ol' bar of chocolate. Put a pack of Extra Strong Mints in a plastic sandwhich bag, let you child/ren bash them to bits with an assortment of rolling pins, saucepans, spoons etc. Mix melted chocolate with bashed mints and spread out onto foil/greaseproof.

Leave in the fridge. A bit more bashing to get it to bitesize pieces, bag up, pretty ribbon and name lable then store them in the fridge 'till the presents need to be given out and gobbled up with coffee. (Warning - all the people who receive these as presents will have doughy-eyed children begging for scraps!!):rotfl:

Hope this helps
Alfie

Hiya

This sounds incredibly easy but i bet it is gorgeous......going to attempt to make some for christmas as we all love minty things.:T:T:T

How much chocolate do you use?

Tesco has their 70% on offer at moment 100g bar was 80p(when i last checked a few days ago) i was going to use that or would i need 200g and 1 packet of extra strong mints?

We love after eights,bendicks,and matchmakers so i am guessing these will go down well lol.

alfieroux

I have no idea about how big the bar of chocolate is in terms of grams - Use a big bar! 70% is the best. Remember a large amount of it gets pinched when your little one is breaking it up. Tesco Finest bars are the ones I usually have around - lets face it, you can't have TOO much chocolate! If it is on offer get a tonne of it:rotfl:

Alfie