12 days of Christmas | Day 3

On the third day of Christmas Stacey gave to me, three recipes, two cute doggies and a new blog post every day.

I've been doing a lot of baking recently, so I thought, what would be more fitting than three quick and easy recipes?!

 

Homemade Hot Chocolate

 

I'm currently sat at my computer sipping away at this recipe- it's quick, easy, and tasted delicious!

 

Ingredients:

A mug of milk

A chocolate bar of your choice

Squirty/fresh cream (optional)

 

1. Pour milk into your mug so you know how much you will need to heat for your hot chocolate.
2. Pour this into your pan and heat on a low heat so you don't burn the milk and stir often.
3. Add the chocolate of your choice (I went for Dairy Milk Caramel and it was amazing!) I added three squares of chocolate but you can add more or less depending on how milky or chocolaty you would like your hot chocolate. Continue to stir.
4. Once the chocolate has melted and the milk is hot, pour your hot chocolate back into your favourite mug, add fresh or squirty cream and decorate as you wish!

 

 

 





Fairy Cakes 

Ingredients:

100g margarine

100g caster sugar

100g self-raising flour

2 medium eggs

1. Preheat the oven to 180°.
2. Cream together the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a little flour with each. Then fold in the remaining flour.
4. Place cupcake holders into the a tray and spoon in the mixture.
5. Leave in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
6. Once baked, leave to cool.

You can then decorate the cakes as you wish, but I decided to make butter icing (mixing butter and icing sugar) and covering them in pink sprinkles.

 

Shortbread Biscuits

Ingredients:

225g plain flour

110g caster sugar

110g margarine

1 medium egg

teaspoon of water

1. Preheat the oven to 180°.
2. Mix together the flour, sugar and chopped margarine using your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs
3. Add the egg and teaspoon of water. Mix together until it starts to form a ball. Use your hands towards the end.
4. Flour your surface and rolling pin. Roll out the dough to the thickness of approximately a pound coin.
5. Either cut the shapes yourself or use cookie cutters.
6. Place the biscuits on a baking tray and leave to bake for 10-15 minutes.
7. Take out the biscuits and leave to cool.
8. Decorate as you wish. I sprayed the stars with edible glitter and used coloured icing to decorate the teddy bears with a face and bow tie!

 



 

I hope you enjoyed this blog post as I realise it is something very different to what I normally do!

 

See you tomorrow!

 

Cheerio x