December - Fabulously Festive

Delicious Festive Treats

For our December meeting we went with what only seemed natural for this time of year: "Fabulously Festive". Various festive bakes were made - including some savory ones this time - and we had a good old Christmas shindig, complete with cheesy Christmas songs, crackers and paper crowns! We also had a bit of a growth spurt this meeting - clearly baking is everyone's cup of tea!

There are a mixture of experienced and beginner amateur bakers in the group, but yet again the quality of the bakes were astounding. Craig's second ever attempt at baking was equally as successful as the first, with some lovely cinnamon and almond puds. Charlie's gingerbread biscuits were both delicious and beautifully decorated, and Joy's nut-roast tartlets went down a treat! Stacey bought in a few "cupcake selection boxes" containing 3 different varieties of Christmassy cupcakes. As for our new-comers, Rosie and Angel, being of Swiss and Bulgarian descent (respectively) bought us some traditional festive treats based on their mother's recipes- from Rosie a Swiss chocolaty biscuit and from Angel a Bulgarian feta-filled pastry (both of which I've forgotten the real names of, but I'm sure Rosie and Angel will update!) Sally baked some amazingly gooey spiced chocolate orange cookies, Catherine treated us to some pear and cranberry pies as well as some traditional gingerbread, and Sarah blew us all away with her sausage rolls, veggie rolls and cuter then cute reindeer cupcakes!

Doggybag time!

Although there were more mouths to feed this time, there were also more bakers present so we ended up with a lot more leftovers, and each took away a decent sized doggy-bag!

Looking forward to next time already!