First up in the Hand Made Gift Guides is Edible Gifts. They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach and I couldn't agree more! I love giving home cooked treats as gifts. They are always well received and there are just so many options, sweet and savoury. Here are 20 of my favourites. There are ideas for boys and men and I hope these ideas inspire you to get ...
Christmas
November is Hand Made Gift Month
Buying gifts for boys and men in particular is hard enough, but choosing a gift to make is even trickier! With only 70 sleeps until Christmas (not that I'm counting), a lot of us are starting to think of what to buy and make for the Holiday Season's gift giving. To make the job easier, for the whole of November I'm going to be bringing you lots of inspiration for handmade gifts ...
Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich
For Laura's last cookie recipe, she has these fantastic loooking Chocolate Christmas Pudding Ice Cream Sandwiches. Quite a mouthful hey?! I could go one now, it's still very hot in our house! Head on over to Laura's blog to see her recipe here. I hope you've enjoyed all these Cookies...leave one out for Santa! ...
Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Cookies
Well this is my last recipe for 'A Very Cookie Christmas'. I've had lots of fun baking and testing all the different cookies and I hope you've enjoyed them too. If you've made up a batch, please leave a comment or post a message on the Facebook page and let me know. I'd love to know what you've made. I love these cookies! They're crunchy on the outside, but chewy and fudgy ...
Christmas Cookies with Hidden Presents
I think Laura's cookies are getting more impressive with each post. These cookies are just too awesome! Cookies are delicious enough on their own, but putting secret candy and goodies inside just takes them to a whole new level! If you want to make your own, take a look at Laura's recipe and tutorial. I love the idea of having these instead of the traditional crackers. ...
Cookie Puzzle
I've been so inspired by Laura's amazing decorated cookies (here and here) during this series, that I thought I would give it a go myself. I've never decorated cookies before, (I know?! I think I'm the only one) but in the middle of the night I got the idea for a Cookie Puzzle and had to give it a go! This makes a fun little gift, just make sure that if your cookies feel ...
Gingerbread House Tree Ornaments
I love Laura's idea of making mini Gingerbread houses to hang on your Christmas Tree. I think it's a great way to use up any dough scraps you have left over from making a larger house or other Gingerbread construction. The smell would be very inviting every time you walked past the tree. Laura has got the directions and templates here on her blog. ...
Savoury Seedy Snaps
I thought you might be getting overloaded with sugar from all these cookies, so today I've got a recipe for some Savoury Crackers for you. I loved watching the latest season of The Great British Bake Off and that is where this recipe is adapted from. Hubby and I have to watch it with snacks on hand because we get very hungry watching it. The original recipe uses 3/4tsp of ...
Sea Salted Double Choc Marzipan Chunk Cookies
Laura made these amazing cookies as part of The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. I love chunky cookies and I think it's always handy to have such an adaptable recipe in your stash. If you aren't a fan of chocolate and marzipan, leave them out and simply change the ingredients to suit. Nuts, dried fruit, cocoa nibs or even m&ms. I love that you can leave out the cocoa too ...
Pfeffernüsse
Hubby loves these German biscuits, but I must confess, I'm not a huge fan. A bit too much cinnamon for me! Anyway, I was looking forward to baking them to see if I liked them better if I'd made them myself.* This recipe is based on this one from London Eats. I've changed the ingredients slightly, but they're still packed with spice. The Spice Mix will make more mix than ...
Stollen Inspired Spiral Cookies
Today Laura has this fantastic sounding recipe for Stollen Inspired Spiral Cookies. I'm a huge fan of dried fruits and more so marzipan, I love the super sweet almond flavour. I love it so much, I even had a pet rabbit named Marzipan! I have added some Marzipan to the shopping list so I can make up a batch of these next time I get a Marzipan craving, which can't be far off! ...
Stained Glass Cookies
These are such pretty cookies. I've made them for Valentine's Day previously using heart cutters and they are always well received. I've stated that the recipe makes about 32, but I actually didn't use my whole batch of dough. It was about 36°C on the day I baked them and my dough was melting so quickly I gave up after cutting out the 6 I used in the photo. I put the rest of ...
