Freckled Kirsty

Hello! Doing the rounds at this festive time is a Malteser Cake in the style of a Christmas pudding, and one of my friends has challenged me to make this, so being one to thrive at the thought of a challenge I gave it a go! I basically have made a chocolate cake in a Christmas pudding bowl, sliced and iced then covered in Maltesers. Pretty simple but looks fairly impressive.  This recipe will make you the Christmas pudding and some spare batter, so you can pop in 12 cupcakes as well! Ingredients: 350g plain flour 350g caster sugar 50g cocoa powder 1 tsp bicarb of soda 150g dark chocolate chips 435ml vegetable oil 1 cup of buttermilk (sour cream can be used as an alternative) 3 large eggs For the icing: 350g icing powder 250g softened butter Cocoa powder to flavour Two large share packs of Maltesers Melted white chocolate A couple of cherries Method: Preheat your oven to 170C. Line a 12 hole muffin tin and grease a Christmas Pudding shaped bowl. I used

Hi everyone, One of the things I love about winter is lighting the fire and curling up in front of the TV on a Saturday or Sunday evening to watch the likes of Strictly Come Dancing,  X-Factor, Downton Abbey and probably my favourite guilty show, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. And what do I love to do whilst watching these? Why, eat yummy treats I have rustled up earlier in the day!  Viennese Swirls are a blast from the past - I remember having these for tea when I was a child, either made by my parents or the Mr Kipling variety, and having never baked them before I thought I would give them a shot. And they impressed very much - short, crumbly, sweet sandwiches of rich butter cream and raspberry jam, perfect but super simple to whip up! Ingredients: For the biscuits: 250g very soft butter 50g icing sugar 50g cornflour 250g plain flour 1/2 tsp vanilla extract For the icing: 100g butter 200g icing sugar Raspberry jam Method: Preheat the over to 190C