HM Sweets for Xmas Presents - cheap recipes?

sandy2_2

I have some recipes collected from this site,that might help. What sort of thing were you looking for

ceridwen

Hi

Being more specific re what sweets. The person I am thinking of making sweets for likes toffees/boiled sweets/milk chocolate/liquorice - I guess a lot of the sort of things a child would like.

There is a different set of tastes I wouldnt mind finding recipes for as well - ie mine. My tastes are for things like dark chocolate/dried fruit/nuts/as little sugar as possible (in fact prefer things sweetened some other way if poss - eg honey) and I dont like any of the ones in first para except for milk chocolate.

sandy2_2

Not sure my recipes will be any good then, eg truffles, honeycomb,mintoes, fudge, coconut ice, macaroons, nougat.

Have you tried a google search

http://www.thewelshsweetshop.com/acatalog/Make_Sweets_at_Home.html

greenwichgirl

hello Old Stylees!

Am usually a DFW but occasionally lurk here and thought of you guys for help with this!

I am thinking I would like to make cookies and chocolate truffles etc for gifts and extra bits for Christmas for a few people and was going to shop tonight and cook tomorrow but seems have about 4 quid in my purse. Anyone got any mega cheap but tasty recipes? About the only thing ingredients wise I have in is 3/4 pint of milk and about half a small bag of sugar, probably some flour too but doubt not much and certainly no eggs - its not that I don't cook, just not usually sweet things!

Thanks!

GG

FrenchMaid_2

oat biscuits:
1 cup shortening(or half butter half shortening)

1 cup white sugar

1/2 brown sugar (I sometimes reverse and make brown sugar the dominant one!!cm)

one beaten egg

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 1/2 cups quick rolled oats

3/4 cup finely crushed walnuts or pecans

1 teaspoon vanilla (pure extract please)

1 teaspoon almond extract (my secret for a richer tasting cookie!!-cm)



Cream the first three ingredients then add the beaten egg. Sift the dry ingredients (or just mix thoroughly- that's what I do! cm)
Then add oats, nuts, vanilla and almond extract.

Chill in the fridge for an hour. The put walnut sized pieces on a greased cookie sheet. Butter the bottom of a small glass and dip it in granulated or sanding sugar and flatten out the piecs. Just keep doing this- you don't need to rebutter the glass bottom just resugar it each time.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes.

greenwichgirl

Ooh thank you Frenchmaid!

Just one stupid question - how much is a cup? Or could I just use ratios e.g. 1 cup = 100g?

Told you I didn't bake much!

FrenchMaid_2

229 gram per cup

Pink.

Hi greenwichgirl,

I've merged your thread with a recent one on making sweets that has some links to recipes. If you have a look on the Christmas board & Special Occasions board there are more threads there that may help:

Home made sweets /chocolates

homemade sweets help

Making sweets as presents

Home-made sweets

Easy Sweets for Christmas

Home made Christmas Sweets

Pink

totalnewbie_2

iv been reading through threads trying to get my head around it all and i keep seeing the same thing HM in sentances
im prob gonna sound real dumb but what does it stand for?
also are there any links for homemade sweets like peppermint creams ect?

Sagz_2

totalnewbie wrote: »

iv been reading through threads trying to get my head around it all and i keep seeing the same thing HM in sentances
im prob gonna sound real dumb but what does it stand for?
also are there any links for homemade sweets like peppermint creams ect?

It does take some time to get your head around the all the DS's, OP's and HM's