Yes, I know. I blogged about mini Mississippi mud pies just a few days ago. But this is a regular-sized pie and is peppermint (aka Christmas) inspired. I realise that Christmas is now officially over (unfortunately). But that doesn’t mean that we have to deprive ourselves of Christmas-based desserts straight away. I mean, we all…
Category: Desserts
Recipes suitable for any sweet tooth.
Cranberry & White Chocolate Blondies
I’ve given you brownies in multiple forms. Now you get to have a Christmas-inspired blondie. What is a blondie, you ask? A blondie is simply a brownie without cocoa powder. Some recipes use white chocolate in the batter, others do not. I have omitted white chocolate from the batter because it is added to the…
Mini Mississippi Mud Pies
I have no idea why, but America’s love of pies has always confused and amazed me. I feel like everything gets turned into a pie. I mean, I guess I could say the same thing about the UK and crumbles or puddings, but I don’t have the same weird obsession with them. They don’t appeal…
Spiced Carrot Cupcakes
Here’s a Christmas spin on a classic – the carrot cake. I never used to like carrot cake that much when I was younger. I only ever wanted the cream cheese frosting. I would claim to like carrot cake just to get the frosting and smother the cake in it to make it more acceptable…
Slow Cooker Almond & Pretzel Chocolate Mounds
Yes, you’re right. That title is quite a mouthful. But so are these bites of deliciousness. Sweet, salty and crunchy. Yum. Okay, so I have to admit, the raw almonds do leave almond bits in your mouth after you’ve eaten these chocolate mounds, but I love raw almonds. If you wanted to avoid this, you…
Lemon Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
The one thing I always remember about supermarkets in the US is the sugar cookies. Every bakery section within a supermarket, big or small, had a box of frosted sugar cookies. The dessert-fiend inside me loved it. Even if we didn’t buy any, I loved (and still love) perusing the bakery sections of US supermarkets….
Peppermint Chocolate Fudge
You know it’s Christmas when peppermint-flavoured EVERYTHING comes out. And that’s the same for me. Although, at least so far I’ve given you cranberry and orange, ginger and molasses, truffles, and other gift ideas. But these. These are pure indulgence, that you really do not need much of at one time. Bite-sized morsels of pleasure/sin,…
Ginger Molasses Cookies
It seems to be a very American thing, to spend the entirety of December baking cookies in the build up to Christmas. I’m not complaining, I love cookies, but it just seems so extreme in American kitchens. Granted, I’ve mainly been looking at food-based Instagram and Pinterest board and blogs, but there is suddenly a…
Homemade Truffles
I hope you didn’t think that my Christmas gift ideas had run their course. I’ve got so many recipes and ideas up my sleeves. Just you wait. And today, you get another one! I’m all about the Christmas spirit in theory, but my panicked side is slowly starting to show, given that I still have…
Peppermint Brownie Cups
I struggled to come up with a title for these, because they’re so much more than just peppermint brownies, and they’re not just cups either. I was inspired while browsing the internet the other day, and read a blog post about these – but then never bookmarked or saved the recipe, so I had to…
Cranberry & Orange Shortbread Biscuits
I went to the supermarket the other day, and got excited by fresh cranberries (I mean, it is the season), because I have either a) never noticed them before or b) never had them in my supermarket before. Normally we just have dried cranberries (“craisins”), which I use in my homemade granola sometimes. Anyhow, I…
Chocolate Salami
Christmas is just around the corner, which means an indulgent months of cocktail parties, pre-Christmas catch ups over mulled wine, Christmas carols with mince pies, and Christmas lunches and dinners with friends and family that you won’t see on Christmas Day. I love Christmas, I really do. My Christmas starts on the 2nd of December…
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