What's yours?
Recipes welcome!
Mine will probably be: Cookies with icing Cupcakes with icing Cupcakes with filling Perhaps a fruit salad
Doesn't sound very Christmassy to me. Where's the mince pies, the Christmas pudding, the christmas cake? Our cake (well, not mine (yet)) has been made for about three weeks and has been fed with several doses of cherry brandy and Ameretto so far. Will be marzipanned and iced on xmas eve.
Buche de noel. My favorite is a recipe from delia smith, flourless chocolate cake base, chestnut - cream filling and whipped cream and melted chocolate frosting.
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/t...stnut-log.html
It's nice because it's gluten free if such things matter. But mostly, it's easy, tastes great and even a clumsy cook can make this.
I'm also going to make almond toffee and nougat if i get a chance, and maybe a pumpkin pie.
It sure sounds tasty!
Proper homemade English Christmas cake, à la Delia.
We get given lots of panettone from Italian friends and what I make is a sort of bread and butter pudding with chocolate.
Break panettone into oven dish
Grate/break Toblerone or other chocolate and mix in.
Make a custard/creme anglais and pour over the panettone
Grate more chocolate over the top.
Put in oven till chocolate melted and hot
Enjoy
Calories should stop looking for me...
Black forest trifle- dark 70+ chocolate cake and kirsch, cook 2 jars of black cherries with a little cornflour, sugar and more kirsch, cool and pour on cake. Add layer of custard (add a bit more vanilla essence and cream for delicious taste, and cover with whipped cream- decorate with a few black cherries and grated dark chocolate.
Aunty Evie's chocolate pudding - wholemeal breadcrumbs (Aunty Evie was Scottish after all - waste not, want not) Demerara sugar, espresso, good quality chocolate powder. Mix together then alternate in a large glass bowl with layers of unsweetened whipped cream starting and finishing with a layer of cream. Decorate with chocolate twirls. More thinner layers are better than fewer fatter ones. Add a sprinkling of brandy or baileys to the chocolate layers if that is your poison. Decorate with chocolate shavings.
Very definitely make it at least 24 hours in advance - it improves with a little keeping.
Golly I'd forgotten about this recipe, used to make it in the 70s- it is indeed excellent. Perhaps will try to make a black forest version- with a middle layer or blackcherries in kirsch cooked with a little cornflour and cooled. Thanks for reminding me.
Can one do this without kirsch? Is a liquid replacement necessary? As to the cherries, I've only ever seen the red cherries (Herzkirschen) in Migros/Coop. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Do you mix the breadcrumbs, sugar, espresso and chocolate powder all together and then just alternate that with whipped cream.
This is obviously a dessert I missed out on when growing up or maybe I just forgot about it as it contains all the things I dislike. ( coffee flavoured anything, chocolate and cream) It does however sound like a very simple dish to make which also looks impressive and I may give it a go as dessert for our guests on Friday.
They have black cherries in plastic sachets in the fridges in the fruit and veg section of our Migros ( where they have fresh herbs and prepared salads and stuff.)
In other words real cherries, not the ones with artifical colouring to make them look red
I will make a tiramisu because that is about the only dessert that I can make.
18 year old blond Santa knows that ,it`s on the wish list
Thanks for this - small Migros' only seem to stock raspberries, if you are very lucky you run into blackberries, but I've never seen frozen cherries. Will keep a look out for them! Are they frozen with the pits still in? Probably not but if they are I'd need to buy a pitting machine
I just found these on the Migros site - perhaps they're the ones Odile's referring to. Good thing my Migros seems to stock them
You forgot the sugar - but they are very good as a replacement energy binge if you can't get hold of a caffeine source
They're not frozen they're just chilled in the chiller cabinet in the fruit and veg section and they are already pitted.
They seem to sell frozen black cherries too also already pitted.
Are they the Anna's Best ones or in one of the links I posted above? Don't want to get the wrong ones. Thanks
Yes they're the first ones you posted. The Anna's best ones.
https://produkte.migros.ch/annas-bes...77a&tokenPos=5
The ones in the tins that you posted are really bright red and sweet.
Christmas pud.