New Year Nails!

French Manicure on natural nails

Gingerbread Men/Reindeer!

I made Gingerbread Men and Reindeers for Christmas, easy to make (Be-ro recipe) and a great treat for children... and adults alike!!!

Gingerbread Men

Turn them upside down and they make great reaindeers!!

Nannan Brooker's Trifle

Hope you all had a great Christmas!

 

I have had a very enjoyable Christmas! I cooked dinner for my boyfriend and his parents yesterday and made a trifle for dessert. It's my Nannan Brooker's recipe, she used to make it when we went to visit when my brother and I were kids. It's a quick and easy recipe but tastes delicious! I've added the recipe to the 'Favourite Recipe' section.

 

Nannan Brooker's Trifle!



 

 



Christmas Nails!

Rice Pudding (Jamie Oliver's recipe)

I made rice pudding for our dessert the other day, I've posted the recipe in the 'Favorite Recipes' section why not take a look!

Leftovers!

After making my mince pies the other day I had some mincemeat leftover, therefore I decided to try and find a recipe to use it up. Here are my Mincemeat Muffins which is a recipe from Aldi's website, they have used a cinnamon cream icing to decorate theirs but since I had some marzipan and icing left from decorating the Christmas cakes yesterday I thought I would use that. I've also made a Mincemeat Sponge as a quick dessert for after our tea tonight, done in the microwave in a matter of minutes!!!

I've added these recipes to the 'Favourite Recipes' section if you fancy having a go!!

Ready for the oven!

  

All done...with added edible glitter for extra Christmas sparkle!

 

 

Christmas Cheer!

Today I have spent the day playing with icing! I have really enjoyed making snowmen, Christmas trees and snowballs for the decorations for two Christmas cakes (made by Sue Rowlston, my boyfriends mum). I used ready to roll marzipan and white icing to cover the fruit cakes, using a apricot jam glaze between the layers to help them stick. I then made the snowmen and tree using regal coloured icing, I've using cocktail sticks to make sure that they stay in place on the cakes.   

Work in progress...

adding the details to the figures.

Do you want to build a snowman?

The finished design!