Xmas baking with my children on xmas eve

Sugarhunny1

Hi folks,

I'm looking to get some basic xmas recipes for baking on xmas eve, something that we can do together with the kids but hopefully not make too much mess! I've searched online but i always end up back on MSE coz your a brainy bunch!

I was thinking of Scones, cakes and possibly biscuits.

I dont bake at all and may need to get baking tins etc so if i dont need these things then that would be better!

Thanks for all your help!

Sugar xxx

Pink.

Hi Sugarhunny,

There are some nice ideas on these older threads:

Easy peasy recipe for kids baking!!

Baking

New to baking

Easy Homemade Biscuits


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budicca

chocolate truffles!

cheap slab of chocolate sponge cake, get kids to break it all up small, add just enough orange juice to moisten & hold it together & make coatings stick ...

grab walnut size piece and roll into a ball - then the fun starts...

roll each ball into its coating of

grated milk chocolate
or
choccy sprinkly hundreds & thousands
or
grated white chocolate or grated milk chocolate AND grated orange peel
or
melted milk chocolate
or
melted white chocolate
or
melted white chocolate AND then choccy 100s & 1000s
or...
.... you get the picture

drop each truffle into an ickle paper bun case type and make an assortment on a pretty plate, dust with icing sugar snow, mmmmmm....

kids love this as no 'careful, don't burn your fingers' and chocolate gets everywhere and fingers have to be licked and spoons and bowl and...

...you get the picture!

Raspberry_Swirl

only make scones if you're going to eat them the same day as they dont' keep very well.

twink

i am doing a yule log, truffles, rice crispie biscuits and possibly christmas biscuits with the dgs's at the weekend

Chocmonster7

Raspberry_Swirl wrote: »

only make scones if you're going to eat them the same day as they dont' keep very well.

You can always put any leftover ones in the freezer!

beemuzed

We used to have a family tradition of making peppermint creams on Christmas Eve - mind you, everyone used to get covered in icing sugar!

Mutantk

My kids and I love making biscuits for the Xmas tree......we make a very basic biscuit recipe and use a Xmas tree shape cutter or a star one......then when you put it onto the baking sheet - cut a circle out of the middle and drop and boiled sweet into the hole. Also make a small hole in the top of the shape (the top of a biro lid is a perfect tool for this). When you bake them, the sweet melts to fill out the hole. After they cook, you must leave them on the tray to cool COMPLETELY. Once cool, you can thread ribbon through the smaller hole and hang on the tree. The boiled sweet creates a stain glass window effect in the biccie and looks great on the tree when the light catches it...........Sorry this explanation probably makes it sound much more complicated than it is but the kids love doing them.

moanymoany

Brandy snaps are easy and such fun to make. The can be made into fab shapes when they are hot. The only dodgy bit is not letting them burn, but otherwise very simple.

As I typed this I remembered something people did in New Zealand back in the 70's.

Get ordinary round ginger biscuits. Put them on patty tins and then put them in a medium oven - about 160. Leave them for about five minutes and test, when soft you can push them into the tins. Put them back if not quite ready. When they are soft and pushed into shape, leave them to cool. When cold fill them with whipped cream with stuff in it. Toasted coconut, chopped dried fruit, crystalised fruit, grated chocolate - whatever you like. They are very nice.

AussieLass

Moany- They are even more delicious with cheesecake mixture in them. :drool: I made them often as it's so much easier to grab 1, 2 or 3 from a table then muck about cutting up a cheesecake. The no-brand cheaper ginger biscuits do just as well.

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I am making almond tarts and mincepies. Its a tradition in the family.