Food Glorious Food - Recipes - Gingerbread Popcorn.

Hi!!!

Welcome to Blogmas Day Eighteen. Call me Jamie Oliver, because I'm back with another recipe and a questionable amount of skill (I hardly ever do posts like these but it is Christmas and Christmas is a time for food). Anyway, today I'm going to be sharing a recipe for the ultimate festive movie marathon snack - Gingerbread Popcorn. It does take a while to make, but it tastes great and so I think it's worth it if you have a bit of spare time.

This recipe will make two servings but feel free to scale up or down - you can never have too much popcorn, can you?

You Will Need:

50 grams of butter

40g of popcorn

70g of brown sugar

1 teaspoon of black treacle

2 and a half teaspoons of golden syrup

1 and a half teaspoons of ground cinnamon

2 teaspoons of ground ginger

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Here's How You Make It:

Preheat the over to 110°C or 90°C for fan ovens.

Grease a shallow roasting tin and a mixing bowl, so you have less of a battle on your hands later on.

Make the popcorn according to the instructions on the packet and allow to cool.

Heat the butter, sugar, treacle, syrup, spices and vanilla extract in a medium sized pan over a low heat until the butter melts.

Bring to the boil and cook for three minutes, stirring frequently.

Take the pan off the heat and pour the mixture over the popcorn.

Stir until the popcorn is coated in the mixture.

Spread the mixture over the prepared tray.

Bake for an hour, stirring every 15 minutes.

Remove from the oven and leave to cool before eating all of it in one go - it's in the instructions so you officially have permission to do so.

Thanks for joining me for Blogmas Day Eighteen.

What are your favourite Christmas treats? Do you have any other comments or suggestions for posts you'd like to see as part of Blogmas? Leave a comment and let me know.

See you tomorrow!

I hope you have a brilliant day!

GingerSnaps xxx

Food Glorious Food - Food - Spiced Orange Pancakes.

Hi!!!

Welcome to Blogmas Day Thirteen. For today's post, I'm going to be sharing a recipe with you for the ideal Christmas-time brunch (or mid-afternoon snack) - Spiced Orange Pancakes.

These pancakes are so easy to make and taste lovely. Orange and cinnamon are two of my favourite festive flavours and they work so well in these pancakes.

This recipe makes at least 6 pancakes - although if you make smaller pancakes like I did, then it stretches rather a lot further.

You Will Need:

200g self raising flour, 300ml milk, 1 medium/large egg, 1 orange, 2 teaspoons of cinnamon.

(OPTIONAL - but totally recommended) orange segments/ice cream/cinnamon/sprinkles to serve.

You'll also need a large mixing bowl, a whisk (ideally an electric one) and a large spoon or small ladle.

You Will Need To:

Whisk together the flour, milk and egg in the large mixing bowl.

Finely grate the orange zest and add that to the bowl, followed by the cinnamon and the juice of the orange - I actually cut the segments into three and added the juice and the inside of the orange segment to the bowl which worked really well.

Whisk the mixture.

Let the mixture rest for at least 3-5 minutes (a boring step, but worth it).

Melt half a tablespoon of butter in a pan (I used a small pan because I wanted to keep the pancakes quite small).

Spoon or ladle some of the mixture into the pan, adding more depending on how big you want your pancakes to be.

Cook for 4 minutes on one side and then flip it and cook for another 4 minutes on the other side.

Keep going until you've made all your pancakes.

Serve warm with optional toppings of vanilla ice cream, orange segments, a sprinkle of cinnamon and/or some hundreds and thousands sprinkles.

Eat the pancakes, obviously.

Thanks for reading today's Blogmas post.

What are your favourite Christmas treats? Do you have any other comments or perhaps suggestions for future posts? Feel free to leave a comment to let me know.

I hope you enjoyed today's post - and that you enjoy the pancakes if you try them out.

I hope your day is delightful.

GingerSnaps xxx

Food Glorious Food! - Recipes - Three Festive Treat Recipes.

Hi!!!

Welcome to the fifth "A Dash Of Ginger Festive Five" post! It's Christmas Eve, you guys!!! I'm so excited for Christmas tomorrow. I'm my family's resident baker and I'm often in the kitchen at Christmas so I thought that I'd share some festive recipes with you for you to try out over the festive period. Since Christmas is a time for overindulgence when it comes to food, I thought that some cupcake recipes and a festive drink recipe would be the perfect fit. So, without further ado, here is my first ever recipe post!

Gingerbread Cupcakes (makes 12) Ingredients List.

• 125g butter
• 100g sugar
• 2 medium sized free range eggs
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla essence
• 125g self raising flour
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons black treacle

12 Gingerbread Cupcakes (makes 12) Method.

• Preheat your oven to 200 degrees Celsius and put paper cases in a 12 hole muffin tray.
• Cream the butter and sugar together.
• Beat in the eggs one at a time.
• Add the vanilla essence.
• Fold in the flour, the ginger, the cinnamon, the nutmeg and the treacle.
• Put the mixture into the paper cases and cook for 20 minutes.
• Leave to cool.
• Enjoy!

Orange and Cherry Christmas Morning Muffins (makes 12) Ingredients List.

• 125g butter
• 100g sugar
• 2 medium sized free range eggs
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla essence
• 125g self raising flour
• The zest of 1 orange
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
• A tub of glace cherries

Orange and Cherry Christmas Morning Muffins (makes 12) Method.
 
• Preheat your oven to 200 degrees Celsius and put paper cases in a 12 hole muffin tray.
• Cream the butter and the sugar together.
• Beat in the eggs one at a time.
• Add the vanilla essence.
• Fold in the flour.
• Fold in the orange zest and the cinnamon.
• Put the mixture in the paper cases.
• Put two or three glace cherries on the top of each muffin and sprinkle an extra bit of sugar over the top.
• Bake for 25 minutes.
• Leave to cool.
• Enjoy!

White Chocolate and Peppermint Hot Chocolate (serves two) Ingredients List.

• 2 cups of milk
• 12 squares of white chocolate
•  2 peppermint candy canes
• Whipped cream/squirty cream (optional)
• 2 handfuls of mini marshmallows (optional)

White Chocolate and Peppermint Hot Chocolate (serves two) Method.

• Pour the milk into a small saucepan and warm over a low heat.
• Add the broken squares of chocolate in small amounts and stir until melted. Repeat until all the chocolate has been used up.
• Continue to heat the mixture until the milk/chocolate mix is hot.
• Pour the milk/chocolate mix into two mugs.
• If you are using the cream/marshmallows toppings, add those on top before hanging a candy cane over the side of each mug so that it sits in the hot chocolate.
• If you aren't using the toppings, simply hang the candy cane over the side.

I hope that you've enjoyed this post with the very first recipes post on this blog.

Are you going to try out any of these recipes? Which one do you most like the sound of? Would you like to see more posts like this? Do you have any comments or suggestions for future posts? Let me know in the comments.

I hope you're all having a magical Christmas Eve! Thanks for reading.

 

Have an exceedingly good day!

GingerSnaps xxx