Christmas - Scones + More

Christmas

Royal Icing

23 December 2022

If you have been following my Christmas cake baking over the last few weeks you will know that I always make a Glacé Fruit Christmas Cake – I love the light crumbly texture and sparkling jewelled fruits. It’s also great if you need an emergency last minute cake. I made […]

Christmas, Cakes

Glacé Fruit Christmas Cake

10 December 2022

This Glacé Fruit Christmas Cake is ideal if you need a last minute Christmas cake or are looking for an alternative Christmas cake to the traditional rich fruit cake. It is also known as Light Christmas Cake but I really like to call it Glacé Fruit Christmas Cake. I first […]

Christmas, Desserts

Christmas Pudding

16 November 2022

This Sunday November 20th, the last Sunday before advent, is ‘Stir Up Sunday’ – the traditional day for making your Christmas Pudding. The Collect for this Sunday starts: ‘Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people…’, and is an apt reminder that it is time […]

Christmas, Mince Pies, Mincemeat, Pies, Slow Cooker

Slow Cooker Orange Mincemeat

11 November 2022

Mid-November is the perfect time for making preserves so that they have time to mature and develop full flavour by Christmas. I like this Slow Cooker Orange Mincemeat so much that I always use it now to make my Christmas mince pies. I came up with this Slow Cooker Orange […]

Chutney, Christmas

Christmas Chutney

24 November 2021

I just love making preserves – jams, jellies, marmalades, pickles and chutneys. They each have their season – jams and jellies mainly in the summer, marmalades in January and February when the Seville oranges are available, and pickles and chutneys in the autumn, ready for Christmas. When I look in […]