Happy New Year!

Now that 2012 is here and the holiday season is well and truly over, it’s time for me to catch up and blog about all the things that I did over Christmas/New Years.

I’ve got a lot to blog about, ideally I would have blogged as I made things, but time was against me, so I’m having to do it after the event, but here’s what’s to come…

I marzipanned and royal iced my Christmas cake which I made weeks ago and can be found in this blog post.

I made cinder toffee (honeycomb toffee) and gave it out as homemade gifts…

I bought tiny gingerbread man sprinkles to use on my gingerbread cupcakes…

We had a friend round for a Christmas Eve, Eve get together and I put together a cheat’s party.

I replicated the delicious creamed kale crostini that my husband and I tried at The Taste of Christmas, made by Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall of River Cottage.

I bought some fresh cranberries at the supermarket with a view to do *something* with them…I then saw a recipe for Pear and Cranberry Chutney, which I made…

I decided to dunk some pretzels in melted chocolate and give them out as gifts too…

I finally bagged up my jars of Snowman Soup…

We had Christmas Eve Dinner Party (lunch!) with my husband’s parents, with me cooking a complete vegetarian meal.

For Christmas Day I had pre-made Jamie Oliver’s get-ahead gravy and of course, a traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings. I made Nigella’s Chestnut Chocolate Pots for dessert.

In the evening I whipped up a batch of Mince Pie Pinwheels, using just 2, store bought ingredients – sweet mincemeat and puff pastry! So easy!

With all the leftover turkey I made Jamie Oliver’s Leftover Turkey & Sweet Leek Pie…

I made my final batch of cupcakes of 2011 – Mint Choc Chip Cupcakes…

And finally another cheat’s buffet for New Years Eve…unfortunately my kitchen is about to be re-modelled so the backdrop wasn’t the most elegant >_>

Phew! I get tired looking at everything I did this season and have got close to 20 blog posts now to write! Be sure to subscribe so that you don’t miss any!

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