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Vanilla Sea Salt
By meadows
These great recipes in a Mason Jar are perfect gifts for Christmas!
- ½ cup sea salt
- 2 Vanilla pods split lengthwise and scraped (seeds reserved)
- Mason Jar
Kids Cake Pop Pops
By Laurapackham
Crumble cake into a bowl until it appears as fine crumbs
- Chocolate Cake, pre-prepared
- Chocolate Frosting
- 1 box white chocolate, 1 box dark chocolate
- Cake pop sticks
- Sprinkles
Fudge
By kerbear1985
put all ingredients into a heavy bottomed saucepan and melt and combine together
- Can of Condensed Milk
- 150ml milk, baileys or Amarula
- 450g Demerara Sugar
- 115g Butter
Macaron
By ynasira
Blend the ground almonds and icing sugar in a food processor until well combined
- Macaron
- 125g/4oz ground almonds
- 200g/7oz icing sugar
- 3 free-range egg whites
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
- pinch powdered food coloring/ cocoa powder
- For the chocolate filling
- 200g/7oz dark chocolate, chopped
- 200 ml/7 fl oz double cream
- 15g/½oz unsalted butter
Chocolate chunk pecan cookies
By nikita
You can't beat American-style cookies with big chunks of chocolate and nuts
- 200g dark chocolate, broken into squares (we like Green & Black's)
- 100g butter, chopped
- 50g light muscovado sugar
- 85g golden caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg, beaten
- 100g whole pecans
- 100g plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Custard & White Chocolate Biscuits
By clacannon
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4
- 140g butter, softened
- 175g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 225g self-raising flour
- 85g custard
- 85g white chocolate, chopped into small chunks
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