Christmas Baking Bonanza!

Over the Christmas period, as well as being busy with portraits and baubles and fairs, I was also busy baking up a storm! Some of them were for presents and some were just for a good ol' festive treat.

I made my super awesome brownies (because they're just awesome!) but for a festive twist I added Terry's chocolate Orange and cinnamon to the mix. They tasted - for lack of a better word - awesome!

I also made several batches of my super scrummy naughty spiced ginger biscuits, which have fast become a new favourite in my baking repertoire.

I made lots of new things this Christmas, like these brandy truffles. I didn't have any myself as I don't drink but I hear they're yummy. They were lots of fun to make though!

Another new thing was this chocolate fruit and nut loaf cake, which wasn't one of my favourites but was still pretty scrummy.

My favourite new recipe this Christmas has to be these - my chocolate hazelnut splat biscuits! They are addictively good and will definitely be made on a regular basis!

My most challenging bake this Christmas was definitely this - what I call my Epic Dessert (or chestnut and hazelnut macaroon). I had no idea what it would taste like but it was AMAZING! More of this please!

Then of course there were my two Christmas cakes (I have to make two because there are a lot of cake fiends in my family). One I decorate quite simply as that is the initial sharing cake, and the other I like to do a Christmas scene on. Here they are! 

Fun in the snow cake

Sewing box cake

So as you can see I had a very yummy Christmas!