christmas treats help please

mardatha

Can some kind soul with a working brain help me I'm looking for recipes/ideas for home made xmas sweeties and treats. I have the recipe for Fifteens but would like more... maybe there's a thread on this somewhere?

cornishchick

Morning Mar,

Would this help....?

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/christmas-sweets

[Deleted User]

MAR I make this as pudding every year because the girls love it but it would cut into fingers and pack very easily to go as part of a present

Chocolate Biscuit Cake

4 oz plain chocolate
1 tablespoon Golden Syrup
4 oz butter
2 tablespoons double cream
4 oz crushed up Gingernut Biscuits
2 oz sultanas
2 oz ground almonds

Line a sponge/deep plate with butteref foil. Melt the chocolate over a pan of hot water in a basin then add in the butter and golden syrup and cream and stir until the butter is melted and everything is well mixed. Add all the other ingredients and mix well. Put into the lined tin, smooth the top and refrigerate until set. Dust with cocoa powder or icing sugar to serve.

It's so easy to do and very yummy, Lyn xxx.

babyshoes

We generally do packs of home made sweeties for small presents. We tend to make some combination of:

Chocolate coated coffee beans (any whole beans will be ok though medium roast is usually best, you want lots of flavour without too much bitterness),
Chocolate coated nuts or nut clusters depending on what nuts we've bought,
Chocolate coated dried fruit such as cherries, mango or strawberries - we try to find something a bit different. Sour cherry is great in dark chocolate!
Fudge in a couple of flavours,
Crystallised orange peel - I can't provide a recipe as my OH just bungs stuff into a pot, measuring by eye! Sure auntie Google will know a good recipe though...

The last two are generally the most popular, but take the most time and effort to make, which is why we add other simple sweeties to bulk out the present. Chocolate dipped stuff can look great if you decorate some of it with drizzles of another colour of chocolate. Don't spend loads of money on branded chocolate for this either - the supermarket brands taste just fine.

If we had kiddies to make for I'd investigate that coloured crafting chocolate for making moulded lollipops etc.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And please, the choccie bits are really for the children. Think mince pies for the adults!

torbrex

To add to babyshoes pot

Marzipan fruits, shaped and coloured to be virtually any fruit you want, orange, banana, pear, apple etc.

Try soaking stoned cherries in brandy overnight before covering in chocolate.

Stoned dates with a marzipan filling.

You can also use fancy shaped ice-cube trays as moulds for chocolate sweets.

pandora205

I'm making one of these - not sure what I'll fill it with yet though.
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/16789/Fairy-Tale-Cottage-Mould

daisiegg

Argh stupid iPad I just typed a whole message and lost it stupid tabs autorefreshing!

Ok, to summarise (I may come back and add more detail):

Rocky road
Mince pies/other fruit pies for children who don't like mince pies. Tradition in my family is cherry pies.
Iced biscuits in Christmas shapes. Do not need to be hard, spicy lebkuchen. You can use an American sugar cookie recipe and ice them to look Christmassy. Great for children.
We love Nigella's sticky gingerbread (recipe available on google) which also freezes beautifully. I usually make it a few weeks in advance and freeze ready for Christmas.
It is not something sweet, but sausage rolls are a must for Christmas treats!

mardatha

Ok brilliant ty everybody, forgot about rocky road and I can do that. Wrote that recipe down MrsL ta. Off to the BBC now. Like idea of strawbs dipped in choc - does it stick ok? They all hate gingerbread though.

ebaybaby

pandora205 wrote: »

I'm making one of these - not sure what I'll fill it with yet though.
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/16789/Fairy-Tale-Cottage-Mould

Me too!! Waiting for mine to be delivered.
What about peppermint bark? I also ordered one of these:

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/18503/Peppermint-Bark-Mould

if you search "Christmas Candy" on Pinterest there are loads of gorgeous stuff.

Can I ask, what are fifteens?

babyshoes

mardatha wrote: »

Like idea of strawbs dipped in choc - does it stick ok?

Never had any issues with dried strawbs. They can sometimes be a bit sweet depending on which type you can find; sometimes they are partially 'candied' rather than simply dried. If so, use dark choc. Both types are yummy!