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CHRISTMAS STRESS

CHRISTMAS STRESS

Personalised Birth Flower Scarf - £33

This is a gorgeous, soft pashmina scarf with an embroidered birth flower of your choice. This is a great mid weight scarf, which can be personalised with an embroidered name or initials.. It would make a great gift for a friend, a Mum or a Grandma and comes with a gift card with a print of the birth flower on it and a description of the characteristics of the flower and that month of birth.

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Chocolate And Salted Caramel Robins - £15

Using the most delicious Belgian milk chocolate, you two beautiful robbins to decorate the table It wouldn't be Christmas without a robin, bring the Christmas cheer with these fun festive birds. Using the finest Belgian milk chocolate, our two beautiful red breasted robins are filled with delicious salted caramel fudge and bound to delight someone this Christmas.

Personalised Vintage Wooden LED Bus Advent Calendar - £42

A gorgeous wooden advent calendar in the shape of a vintage London bus, complete with drawers to fill yourself! This stunning advent calendar alternative is perfect for filling with sweet treats to make the countdown to Christmas all the more exciting.

Kid's Eco White Igloo - £40

Environmentally friendly cardboard igloo playhouse. Our cardboard play houses are designed primarily for indoor use but are suitable for outside use in dry calm conditions. The cardboard play houses should be stored in a dry place.

Polar Bear Iced Bun Baking Kit - £19

Learn to make the cutest polar bear iced buns with this baking kit. Kit contains pre-weighed dry ingredients, decorations, as well as an easy to follow recipe card and greaseproof paper. Makes 6 polar bear buns. Just add butter, milk and an egg.

Letter From Santa Personalised Book - £23

A letter from Santa children's story book. Personalised with name and details and filled with gorgeous illustrations telling the story of Santa at Christmas. Santa shows you his house, reindeer and introduces his special elf helpers. You'll see him checking his list for your name, make and wrap the presents and delivering them on Christmas eve. Follow Santa as he prepares for the biggest day of the year, delivering a present to your child in time for Christmas!

Mince Pie Christmas Cookies I made up this recipe after having some left over mince meat in a jar and not wanting to waste it I came up with a few ways to use it up..

Method

1/ Combine the mince meat with the softened butter and both types of sugar in a mixing bowl until the mixture has gone pale in colour. 2/ Mix the egg and vanilla extract in a separate bowl and whisk together. Once whisked, add to the mince meat and sugar mixture. 3/ Add the porridge oats to the mince meat mixture and sift in the flour, bicarb of soda and all the spices and mix together well. Rest the mixture in the fridge for at leat 45 minutes. 4/ Turn on the oven and heat to 180 degrees. Whilst your mixture is cooling in the fridge, line 2 baking trays with greaseproof paper. 5/ This mixture should make around 20 cookies. Spoon out your dough using roughly a tablespoon sized amount of dough and roll into balls using the palms of your hands. Depending on the shape of cookie you want, you can slightly flatten down your balls or if you’d prefer, you can leave them as ball shapes, they will flatten slightly in the oven. Make sure you space the balls out well on your baking trays so they don’t stick together whilst cooking. 6/ Place in the oven for 15 minutes. After 11 minutes turn the tray around to ensure your cookies are baked evenly. The cookies will be ready once they have turned slightly golden in colour and look slightly darker around the edges. 7/ Remove from the oven and leave on cooling racks for at least 2 minutes before eating. These cookies will stay fresh for around 4 days if left in an airtight container. Ingredients * 200g Mince Meat (mince pie filler) * 100g Light Muscovado Sugar * 100g Caster Sugar * 120g Un-Salted Butter * 80g Rolled Porridge Oats * 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract * 1 Medium Egg * 150g Plain Flour * 1/2 Teaspoon Bicarb-Soda * 2 Teaspoons Cinnamon * 1/2 Teaspoon Mixed Spices

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