Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Yum.......*edited to add recipes:)*

I wandered to the shops this morning and bought the supplies to make these treats :D I made rumballs,mini christmas puddings and chocolate truffles all of which are super dooper easy and kd friendly (except the rum lol) I taste tested the lot and omg devine!!Especially the mini christmas puddings they melt in your mouth mmmmmm yummy! If anyone wants me to put up the recipes let me know and i'll put them here :)

Thats one more of my "to-do's" done yay!Tomorrow im seeing Nic and the always gorgeous Jakob and Sammy to give them all their pressies :D I love giving out presents!!So much fun!Almost as fun as shopping for it all lol

Okies im off to clean up my cooking mess lol

Flowery hugs

Krissy xx

Here are the recipes :D

Rumballs

Rum Balls ::

9 Vita Brits or Weet Bix
½ cup coconut
1 cup chopped raisins
2 tabsp. Cocoa
1 tin condensed milk
3 tabsp. Bundaberg rum
extra coconut

Mix together well in a bowl.
Cover in the fridge for ½ hour.

Shape into balls and roll in coconut.

Mini Christmas puddings

Ingredients:

1 x 800gm Dark Fruit Cake (cheap brand)
½ - 1 cup Orange Juice
1 cup Coconut
Icing Sugar
Red & Green Jelly Lo


Method:

  1. Break Fruit Cake into crumbly pieces.
  2. Pour a little Orange Juice at a time into crumbled cake - until moistened
  3. Roll mixture into balls (a little smaller than a golf ball)
  4. Chill in Fridge
  5. Mix Icing Sugar with Orange Juice
  6. Decorate top of balls with icing
  7. Cut up Lollies into pieces & decorate on top of the icing to make it look like holly.
  8. chill and serve

  9. Chocolate truffles
  10. 200g dark cooking chocolate
  11. 1/4 cup of cream
  12. 30g butter
  13. 50g chocolate cake crumbs
  14. 2 teaspoons of dark rum (optional)
  15. 1/2 cup of sprinkles or cocoa powder to roll them in
  16. Method:Place chocolate in a medium mixing bowl.Combine cream and butter in a small pan and stir over a low heat until the butter melts and the mixture is just boiling.Pour hot cream over the chocolate and stir until the chocolate melts and the mixture is smooth.2) Stir in cake crumbs and the rum:combine well.Refrigerate for 20 minutes stirring occasionally or until it is just firm enough to handle.Roll heaped teaspoons full of the mixture into balls and roll them in the sprinkles.Refrigerate for a further 30 mins or until firm and serve in small patty pans :)Enjoy!
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10 comments:

Fiona said...

they look delicious Krissy :)

Anonymous said...

Lovely chrissy treats and yes I would love the recipes too. You've done some great layouts and cards too. Merry Christmas!

Kerry O'Meara said...

They look great krissy!! Merry christmas, and yes i would love the recipe.

Kirsty said...

*****droooooooooool****

Kate said...

delicious krissy!! i like those choc balls!!

Aussie TM5 Thermomixer said...

ooh YUM! I have bought the ingredients to do the mini puddings to take to Jai's playgroup on Thursday. So we'll see how we go making them.

Cherie said...

They look super Yum Krissy :)

I would love the recipe too.

Jody-lee said...

Do you really need to ask if we want the recipe.....
yes please luvy

Aussie TM5 Thermomixer said...

oooh the mini puddings are different to the ones I thought hehe. Yours sound even better!! I have been trying to register for WP forum but noone has got back to me yet. Do you know anything about it??? Would love to join back in over there if you'll have me LOL ;P

Kate said...

they look soooo yummy Krissy!!!
Merry Christmas gorgeous :)