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To be honest,  I don’t actually like cheese, I think it is a great snack for Christmas Eve…. I just eat the crackers!

I have used:

• Jacob’s Selection of Crackers
• Cambozola
• Port Salut
• Australian Smoked Cheese
• Edam
• Boursin

Thanks for reading..

Sparkle Girl xx

This is a cute little present for someone who loves cups and sweets!

You will need:

• A nice mug/cup
• Mini Marshmallows
• Big Marshmallows
• Chocolates

Method:

• Make sure the mug/cup is clean
• Fill it up with big marshmallows and chocolates
• Using the mini marshmallows, fill in the gaps
• If you want to keep it safe or save it, cover the top with clingfilm!

Thank you for reading,

Sparkle Girl xxx

These are some tasty little treats for you to enjoy over Christmas!

Fruit Pastry Cups:

Ingredients:

• Blueberries
• Raspberries
• Shortcrust Pastry
• Honey

Method:

• Roll out the pastry and using a large round pastry cutter, cut the pastry into circles (I only did 6 but you can always make more)
• Sprinkle flour into a cake tray and then put the pastry circles into the cake tray
• Cook these at 160C until they are almost fully cooked
• Put the fruit into the pastry and then return to the oven for 2 minutes maximum
• Cool them on a cooling rack for 5-10 minutes
• Drizzle honey on the top of them and enjoy

Chocolate Leaves:

Ingredients:

• Shortcrust Pastry
• Milk Chocolate

Method:

• Roll out some pastry and cut leaf-like shapes into the pastry
• Put the leaves into the oven for 5-10 minutes
• While the pastry is baking, melt the chocolate in the microwave until it is liquid
• Dip the leaves into the melted chocolate and then place them on a cooling rack to dry
• Now eat them!

Hope you enjoyed reading,

Sparkle Girl xx

This is a cute cake for the whole family!

Ingredients:

• 125g Unsalted Butter
• 125g Caster Sugar
• 125g Self-Raising Flour
• 2 Medium Eggs
• Vanilla Essence
• White Fondant Icing
• Orange Fondant Icing
• Blue Fondant Icing
• Black Fondant Icing
• 1tsp Baking Powder

Method:

• Heat the oven to 180C and line the baking tin with baking parchment and butter
• Beat the sugar and the eggs together until they look a bit like buttercream
• Whisk the eggs together until they have lots of bubbles
• Sieve the flour – optional
• Gradually – while mixing the butter and sugar a bit more – add in the flour and the eggs
• While doing this add in 1tsp of Baking Powder and a few drops of Vanilla Essence
• Bake in  the oven for 20-30 mins – or until a knife comes out of the mixture/cake clean

Decoration:

• Roll out the white fondant icing until it is roughly a 1cm thick, cover the entire cake in this (you may need to cut excess icing off)
• Roll out the blue fondant icing, and cut a long strip of it out
• Cut a triangle out of the blue icing for the hat, put this on the top of the cake – using the picture below to copy from:
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• On the strip of blue icing leftover, put small marks vertically across it copy the picture above if you need to
• Roll out some orange icing into a sausage-like shape, press the top of the icing gently to create a nose and this time put small line marks horizontally across it
• Roll out a little bit of the black icing into little flat balls and place them where they are in the picture above

Now enjoy the cake! 🙂

Thanks for reading,

Sparkle Girl xx