chocolate salami italian chocolate fruit and nut slice

 wow, this was one of the most amazing things i have ever tried, it was so easy to make too and is a great Christmas gift idea,

this recipe makes one large one or two smaller ones, which i decided to do.

it looks like a salami but it tastes a cross between ganache and rocky road Just like a fridge cake.

chocolate orange pretzels

i thought it would be great to invent this soft pretzel flavour for Christmas,

i added cocoa and orange zest into the dough and then decorated them with melted chocolate and orange zest, they tasted really good.

sunday show off linky party

hi every one i hope you have had a good week,

mine didn't start very well i dropped my beloved camera and broke the lens,

luckily i managed to find a second hand one that was affordable,

the last thing i wanted to buy just before Christmas!.

thankfully the new lens arrived today and its all working fine again.

 i got around to putting my Christmas tree up.

i have decided to just decorate the one room this year rather than the lounge and dining room.

any way that's my week, lets get on with the party

i cant wait to see what you have to share this week,

Portuguese egg custard tarts pastel de nata

 i only tried these for the first time recently and i was wowed by how amazing they tasted.

 they don't really look like much but if you have tried one then you will know what I'm going on about so i set about trying to make my own,

usually they would have black parts on top but mine just had it around the edge.

tiramasu cake

i thought it would be fun to create this tiramasu cake,

i made a swiss roll sponge and cut it into three then i used two pieces for the bottom layer and one for the top. i made a coffee chocolate syrup and drizzled it on then added some mascapone frosting and rolled it up like a roulade and turned it on its side.

i then added some lady fingers around the outside.

red velvet churros recipe

 i dreamt up this recipe the other day, and they tasted amazing.

if you love churros and you love red velvet cake then imagine the two together.

 

sunday show off linky party

hi every one, i hope those of you in America had a wonderful thanksgiving.

its the first of December tomorrow so i think i will start putting the tree up, im a little behind this year and i am not organised at all.

did you take advantage of any black friday deals? we actually had some shops doing black Friday here in England this year.

here are my features for this week

cranberry mojito and diy beaded cocktail stick

 

cranberry mojitos are perfect for holiday gatherings, they are a quick and easy cocktail to whip up if you have a few quests coming over. 

i made some beaded cocktail sticks to go in them.

i used some beads from wholeport.com and glued them onto kebab sticks and then cut them down to size.

chocolate spoons for the holidays

if you have friends and family coming to spend the holidays with you then these are a quick and easy way to make a normal cup of hot cocoa or coffee a little special,

they take no time at all to put together.

pink grapefruit and rosemary cake

i decided to add rosemary to this gratefruit sponge cake to add some extra flavour, i dont genually like grapefruit but it tastes really nice in a cake,

i decorated it with fresh rosemary and sifted icing sugar over it.

sunday show off llinky party

hi everyone i hope you have had a good week,

i cant believe its the first of December next week i feel really unprepared this year.

the year seems to have gone so fast.

i am looking forward to making all kinds of Christmas things,

 it has always been my favourite time of year.

I'm so glad you have came to link up, here are my features from last week

orange and pomegranate cake

i really don't like traditional Christmas cakes so i decided to make up a normal sponge cake with seasonal fruit instead.

i made a orange curd to go in between the layers as i had egg yokes left over from some meringue i made,

i squeezed some pomegranate juice into the frosting, and added orange zest into the sponge.

i made some candied orange peel to decorate the cake with and added some pomegranate on top.

christmas smores egg nog marshmallows and spiced graham crackers

i thought it would be fun to change the traditional smores flavours into a festive treat,

 i made eggnog flavour marshmallows with rum and nutmeg, then i made gingerbread style graham crackers.

they would make a great adult gift for Christmas, if you want to make them child friendly you could always make peppermint marshmallows instead and swap the rum for mint extract.

candy stripe meringues

i thought these meringue would be cute for winter as they look like candy canes,

i found a new method that makes the mixture super thick and glossy,

 i baked them so they were still soft in the middle i think they taste better like that,

the recipe is easy to remember just double the sugar to the amount of egg whites,

you will need weighing scales and a stand mixer.

sunday show off linky party

hi everyone i hope you have had a great week.

i have been busy baking and thinking of edible Christmas gift ideas.

i have searched everywhere for a martini glass as i thought it would be fun to share some Christmas cocktail recipes but i haven't found one yet.

we are going to the Christmas lights switch on in town tonight, theres going to be music and fireworks so it should be fun.

red velvet cake with white chocolate cream cheese frosting

this cake is a perfect celebration cake for the holidays, i used small cake tin so i could make it with different size layers so it looked more of a centrepiece, its fine to make it in two 9 inch tins though if you want.
 i decided to make cream cheese frosting with white chocolate in to cover it with.

i cut the top parts off the sponge so i was level and decided to use it to decorate the cake with.

ginger and orange roll cake

i wanted to make something festive so i decided to make this gingerbread style swiss roll. 

i added ground ginger and stem ginger and orange zest so its full of flavour,

i added orange to the cream cheese too. 

it tastes just like a gingerbread cake.

churros with cinnamon sugar

 churros are Mexican style doughnut strands made with a fried choux pastry mixture,

i rolled then in cinnamon sugar.

it was my first time trying them and i have to admit im a convert, they taste so good.

sunday show off linky party

hi everyone i hope you have had a good week,

the weather has moved from Autumn to winter its got quite cold here in England,

i have had quite a boring week with nothing much to tell you,

so i will get on with the features

alfajores dulce de leche cookies

alfajores consist of two layers of thin sweet pastry filled with dulce de leche,

they are popular in south America,

i rolled them in some coconut to finish them off.

they tasted really good, because of the amount of butter they were crumbly like shortbread.

you can either buy the dulce de leche or boil a tin of condensed milk for 8 hours in a pan of water or put it in a jar in a crock pot with water for 10 hours. I have also came across a faster method using the oven, you put the condensed milk in a heat proof bowl and place it in a tray of water and put it in the oven at 220c for 1hour 30 minutes