3 quick and easy Christmas baking recipes
Got a festive bake sale coming up that you completely forgot about? Here are three super simple recipes that can get made in no time. Merry Quickmas!
Snowmen sticks
Makes 30
Ingredients
- 90 medium/giant marshmallows
- 30 wooden skewers
- Black icing pen
- Orange icing pen
- 60 pretzel sticks
Method
- Push three marshmallows onto each wooden skewer.
- Draw eyes and a mouth on the top marshmallow and buttons on the middle one with a black icing pen.
- Draw a carrot nose on the top marshmallow with the orange icing pen (or you could stick on an orange-coloured sweet using some icing as the glue).
- Stick two pretzel sticks into the sides of the middle marshmallow for arms, and your snowman is complete!
Festive chocolate bark
Serves 30
Ingredients
- 1kg white chocolate (you can buy relatively cheap 100g bars in most supermarkets)
- Sprinkles (we recommend red and green)
- An assortment of small chocolates or chocolate you can easily break up (we recommend M&Ms, Rolos, squares of chocolate etc.)
Method
- Line three baking trays with parchment paper. If you only have one, you can repeat the method three times. A standard baking tray should hold 10 servings.
- Half-fill a saucepan with water and bring it to a simmer (don’t get it to boiling point or it will burn the chocolate).
- Break up the white chocolate into chunks and put it in a heatproof bowl that fits into or on top of your saucepan. If you’re only using one baking tray, only use a third of the white chocolate.
- Put the heatproof bowl on the simmering water and stir until all the white chocolate is melted.
- Pour the melted chocolate into the baking tray, smooth it out with a knife or spoon and decorate with your chocolates and sprinkles.
- Put the baking tray in the fridge until the chocolate hardens, then snap sections off into chunks. You could put individual servings into cellophane bags and tie them together with colourful ribbon to sell at an event!
Mince pies
Makes 30 (or 60 mini pies)
Ingredients
- 400g plain flour
- 150g caster sugar
- 275g butter
- Jar of mincemeat (there will be plenty of leftovers)
- One egg/dash of milk (optional)
Method
- Cut the butter into cubes (make sure it’s cold, straight from the fridge) and rub it into the flour.
- Add in the sugar and mix together.
- Roll the mixture with your hands until it warms and forms a ball of dough.
- Grease a muffin tin or line one with cupcake cases.
- Take a walnut-sized piece of dough and flatten it into the muffin tin to make the base for your mince pie.
- Spoon some mincemeat into the base – but don’t overfill it! We recommend filling around two-thirds of the base.
- You can top the pies by cutting out a thin circle of pastry or by using a star-shaped cookie cutter. Pinch the top to the base to keep it in place.
- Brush beaten egg or milk over the top if you like for a shiny finish once baked.
- Bake for 20 minutes on 200°C/180°C fan/gas mark 6 until golden, or for 15 minutes if you’ve made mini pies.
If things go a bit wrong, you could always get premade pastry and a jar of mincemeat – or even pop a few shop-bought pies in the oven, no one will know!
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