We held a Christmas baking competition! - 59 recipes
Members entered the recipes they baked over the holiday season to win one of three retro-style kitchen appliances!
1st prize was a beautiful blue De'Longhi espresso maker, 2nd prize, a raspberry red Kenwood hand mixer for future bakes and cakes and 3rd prize, cream Salter baking scales to never fail a recipe again! See the winning recipes!
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Top Recipe
Vanilla Cookies Dipped In Chocolate - Little Hearts
By agrawal.shweta.n, Merry Tummy
Details
Level of difficulty Average
Preparation time 10
Cooking time 10
Cost Average budget
- For Cookies
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups self rising flour
- For Chocolate Layer
- 200 grams of dark chocolate
- 1 tablespoon butter
- Some sprinkles (optional)
I used heart shaped cookie cutter and then dipped them in liquid chocolate
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Christmas fruit and spiced chocolate cake
By michabedford, chezgaycountrykitchen
A christmas cake unlike no other
- For the cake
- 150g mixed dried fruits
- 1 orange, zest and juice
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 225g self raising flour
- 400g dark muscovado sugar
- 150g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 220g unsalted butter
- 4 eggs
- 300ml warm water
- 300ml evaporated milk
- For the drizzle
- 100g dark muscovado sugar
- 125ml water
- 125g dark chocolate
- 45ml whiskey
Luxury Mince pies
By ah_har_ashley
Lovely rich mince pies with double shortcrust pastry for Christmas
- 350g ready to roll short crust pastry
- 1 jar luxury minced meat
- icing sugar for dusting
Christmas Manchester Tart
By ashley_cv2004
Tarts filled with raspberry jam and custard, top with coconut
- 1 packet short crust pastry
- 3 tablespoon raspberry jam
- 500ml milk
- 3 tablespoon custard powder
- 2 tablespoon sugar
- 3 tablespoon desiccated coconut
Bakewell Tart
By ashley_cv2004
a sweet and crispy tart with a sweet almond filling
- For the short crust pastry:
- 200g plain flour
- 50g lard
- 50g margarine
- 1 pinch of salt
- 8 teaspoon of cold water to mix
- For the filling:
- 2 free range eggs
- 100g margarine (soften)
- 100g caster sugar
- 70g SR flour
- 25g ground almonds
- ½ teaspoon almond essence
- 2 tablespoon apricot jam
- 3 tablespoon flaked almonds
Raspberry and Rhubarb Crumble
By ashley_cv2004
Delicious and simple to make pudding ideal for a busy mum on Christmas
- 250g frozen raspberries
- 250g Rhubarb (frozen)
- 100g castor sugar
- For the crumble:
- 150g flour
- 75g butter
- A pinch of salt
- 50g castor sugar
Cranberry and apple Christmas pie
By ashley_cv2004
These pies are delicious and simple to make
- For the short crust pastry:
- 200g plain flour
- 50g lard
- 50g margarine
- 1 pinch of salt
- 8 teaspoon of cold water to mix
- For the filling:
- 4 tablespoon cranberry sauce
- 4 tablespoon apple sauce
Melted snowman cookies
By michabedford, chezgaycountrykitchen
Cute little cookies to have on the Christmas table for all to nibble at
- 250g butter, softened
- 140g castor sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 300g plain flour
- pinch of cinnamon
- 20 small white marshmallows
- chocolate decorating pen
- sugar candy balls
- 175g royal icing
Cream Tea Scones
By ashley_cv2004
These scones are crumbly. They are lovely to serve with afternoon tea with a few friends on Boxing
- 200g SR flour
- ½teasp. salt
- 50g butter
- 25g caster sugar
- 125ml milk
- ½ egg yolk (glaze)
- Icing sugar for dusting
Cherry biscuits
By ashley_cv2004
Lovely crunchy biscuits taste lovely With a cup of tea on a Christmas afternoon
- 100g caster sugar
- 150g margarine
- 225g SR flour
- 20g chopped cherries
- ½ an egg beaten
- 1 tsp. Lemon rind
Millionaire Chocolate ball Shortbread
By Vick11, Foodie
This shortbread biscuits are rich and crispy cover with caramel and chocolate and top with chocolate ball
- For the shortbread base :
- 200g plain flour
- 100g butter
- 50g caster sugar
- For caramel filling:
- 50g butter
- 50g soft brown sugar
- 200g condensed milk
- For the topping:
- 150 milk chocolate
- 1 large bag of chocolate balls
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Cherry Berry Christmas Cake
- 1 cup strong Jasmine flower tea
- 50g dried cranberries
- 50g Goji berries
- 50g glace’ cherries
- 50g raisins
- 25g candied peel
- 175g butter
- 175g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 250g SR flour
- Rind of 1 lemon
- 1 teasp. mixed spice
- 1 teasp. essence of rose water
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Ginger Bread Children
- 350g plain flour, plus extra for rolling out
- 1 tsp sodium bicarbonate
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground mixed spice
- 125g butter
- 175g brown sugar
- 1 free-range egg
- 4 tbsp golden syrup
- To decorate:
- 300g icing sugar
- A few drops of colouring
- cake decorations
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Chocolate Yule Log
- 3 large eggs
- 85g caster sugar
- 70g flour 20g cocoa
- Icing:
- 200g soften butter
- 1 tablespoon cocoa
- 400g icing sugar
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Alcohol and Preservative Free...
- Raisins - 1 cup Sultanas - 1 cup Other dried fruit - 2 cups (I used prunes, apricots, cranberries, figs)
- Almonds - 1 cup (toasted and roughly chopped)
- Plain Flour - 1 3/4 cups
- Granulated Sugar - 1/2 cup
- Light Brown Soft Sugar - 1/2 cup
- Eggs - 2
- Softened Butter - 1/2 cup
- Apple Juice - 1 cup
- Orange Juice - 1 cup
- Clove buds - 4 (ground)
- Mixed Spice Powder - 1 teaspoon
- Ground Cinnamon - 1 teaspoon
- Ground Ginger - 1 teaspoon
- Ground Nutmeg - 1/2 teaspoon
- Vanilla - 1 teaspoon
- Zest of 1 Lemon
- Zest of 1 Orange
- Salt - 1 teaspoon
- Baking Powder - 1 teaspoon
- Baking Soda - 1 teaspoon
- To make the lemon and orange peel:
- Lemon - 1
- Orange - 1
- Water - 1/3 cup
- Sugar - 1/4 cup
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Christmas Shortbread
- 125g butter
- 50g caster sugar
- 100g plain flour
- 50g cornflour
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Alternative Christmas pork &...
- 500g pork mince
- 1 large cooking apple
- 8 dried apricots, chopped
- 30g pine nuts
- small bunch of flat leaf parsley, chopped
- olive oil to drizzle
- 2 tbsp dried sage
- 1 chorizo, about 80g
- seasoning
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Chocolate Cookies
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour/maida
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 large egg
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Swedish almond cake
- Cake:
- 3 eggs
- 150g caster sugar
- 150g plain flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp milk
- 75g melted butter (plus a little extra for greasing)
- Topping:
- 50g butter
- 100g flaked almonds
- 50g caster sugar
- 2 tsp plain flour
- 3 tbsp cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 9" baking tin
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Snowman Cookies
- Softened Butter - 1 cup
- Sugar - 1/2 cup
- Water - 1 teaspoon
- Almond Extract - 1/4 teaspoon
- Plain Flour - 2 1/2 cups
- Red and Green Gel or Liquid Food Colours
- Black, Red and Green Writing Gel for eyes and buttons
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Unplanned Chocolate Cake
- All purpose flour - 1 ¼ cup
- Cocoa powder(Unsweetened) - 3 tablespoon
- Baking powder - 2 teaspoon
- Sugar - 1 cup
- Vanilla Extract - 2 teaspoon
- Milk/Water – ½ cup
- Vegetable oil- ½ cup
- Eggs – 2
- Icing sugar-1 tablespoon
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Spiced currant & walnut biscotti
- 120g melted butter
- 120g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 220g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- Pinch ground cloves
- 100g dried currants
- 100g chopped walnuts
- 1 egg white lightly beaten
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Turkey, Stuffing and Cranberry Pies
- For the pastry:
- 600g Plain Flour
- 330g Butter
- Approx. 6-10 Tbsp Ice Cold Water
- For the filling:
- 200g Leftover Turkey (cooked), shredded
- 200g Stuffing
- 3 Tbsp Crème Fraiche
- Salt and Pepper, to season
- 12 Tsp Cranberry Sauce
- 1 Egg, beaten
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