Xmas baking with my children on xmas eve

bananakinz

Ferro Rocher (well as near as you will get )

12 crushed Ryvita (brown ones ) crush these with a rolling pin very fine but not powdery .

Buy a Jar of Nuttella and mix it all together in basin when it all moulded together roll it in balls and put in sweet cases.
Put them in the fridge for about an hour then they are ready to eat

Thats all there is to them and they're healthy cos they've got ryvitas in them

Justamum

Mutantk wrote: »

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.

I've often thought about doing this. One question though - how long do you keep them on the tree for? Don't they go soft and inedible?

Crazychik

Twink's Hobnobs is a good one, not so messy, and quick & easy to do also

(sorry I cant do links, but perhaps someone can do it for me)

Crazychik

Ive copied & pasted from another thread. This if from Twink.


8oz sr flour
8oz sugar
8oz porridge oats
8oz margarine
1tbsp golden syrup
1tbsp hot water
1/2 tsp bic soda

mix flour, oats and sugar, melt marg, syrup and water in a pan stir in bic soda and add to dry mix, mix well, make smallish balls and put on greased tray and flatten slightly with a fork, 180oc for 15 mins, cool on the tray, you just want them golden in oven not brown

They are lovely!

jcr16

how about simple rice cripies cakes or cornflake cakes.

just melt chocolate and mix in rice cripies or cornflakes when done.

you could even use shredded wheat and make little nest's.

Raspberry_Swirl

christmas cooking with children: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/christmas/essentials_kids.shtml

dlb

Tiffin Cake is quick and easy and involves no cooking.
1 packet of digestive biscuits crushed
2-3oz of butter
1tblsp cocoa
2tblsp- golden syrup
1 tspn mixed spice
handfull of fruit eg cherries raisions,sultanas

Melt butter, mix all ingredients together with melted butter
Put into baking tray (greased)
Then put in fridge until set, then cover in chocolate.
Dont pack the mixture down as this makes it too dense, if making this for adults you can soak the fruit in brandy of rum overnight to give the cake a added kick!!

Coconut tartlets
Shortcrust pastry
2oz marg
2oz sugar
2oz coconut
egg
Line bun tins with pastry
Cream marg and sugar
Add coconut and mix well
Blod of jam coconut mix in each
Gas mark 5 for 15-20 mins.

Pizza Swirls
Leftover pastry
Tomatoe sauce
Oregano
Grated cheese
Roll pastry into oblong, spread with tomatoe sauce, sprinkle with cheese and herbs, dampen 1 edge and roll like a swiss roll.
Then cut into 2 inch pieces stand on cut end on baking tray and cook on gas mark 5 15-20 mins.

Macaroons
4oz shortcrust pastry
2oz sugar
2oz ground almonds
1 egg
Line bun tins with pastry, mix sugar and almonds with enough beaten egg to amke a soft mixture.
Blob of jam in each pastry case blob of almond mix on top,make crosses with pastry on top sprinkle with sugar gas mark 6 15-20 mins.