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christmas treats

I baked only a few things for Christmas this year as I ran out of time.

Gingerbread Rudoff Reindeer, sugar plums and fruit mince pies ( Donna Hay).

Ginger Bread Bickies
350g plain flour
2tsp ground ginger
1 tsp bicarb soda
115g butter
175g brown sugar
1 egg
3 tbs golden syrup

Blitz flour, ginger and bicarb in a food processor to combine
Add butter, blitz again so it looks like bread crumbs.
Add sugar, egg and syrup.
Blitz till it comes together
Turn onto surface and knead (might be crumbly at first but it’ll get there, depends on the temperature of the butter) Roll out and cut as required
Bakes at 180 -190 deg for 8-10 minutes

To make the reindeer; Before baking, press on pretzel antlers, mini m&m eyes and red 'christmas m&m noses.

Three chocolate mousse torte

The first time I made this was for Christmas Day lunch. then my Nanna requested it for her birthday.

There is a sponge base then a dark chocolate mousse layer followed by a white chocolate mousse covered with dark chocolate ganache. The first version I decorated with almond Praline the second with toffee braclettes. I arranged the bracelettes to represent a crysanthamum with dots of toffee in the centre.

This is my own recipe, it's fantastic.

strawberry charlotte

Strawberry Charlotte (10 in)

Lady finger sponge biscuts with a Strawberry bavarian cream filling (from here).

On top are chocolate curls and toffee bracelets.

This cake was fantastic, I very happy with how the sponge fingers turned out, though the recipe made heaps I think next time I'll halve it. This time around I was satisfied with dipping the leftovers in chocolate fondue >;)