A Week in Pictures

So, I've not done one of these before, but I thought it'd be a nice little post.

It started off a little bit sad, and angry, well, no, a lot sad and angry, and one of my best mates was home for the weekend and he took it upon himself to pop round and bring some flavoured vodka and cheer me up.
What a guy. Seriously, any lovely ladies out there? He's a total babe! So yeah, he made me feel much, much better by making me laugh and making me listen to horrific music.

Then the day after that was my mates birthday night out, which was...a very, very weird night.

I've done a fair bit of cooking and baking this week too!

Also visited one of my bestest in her new flat...and got a sneaky Dominos.....

Then on Saturday, I went out for a birthday do-over with my friend because the last one was odd....I also wore pink....I've never worn pink before.

Also got back into running this week to try get back in shape.....I'm trying, I'm trying.

Might do one of these a week?

Christmas Shortbread.

I'm going to post a couple of Christmas themed recipes over the next couple of weeks leading up to Christmas. I love baking so I thought I'd share some of my favourites with you!

I'm being quite thrifty this christmas because college and my equipment has killed off my bank account!

So I am making little hampers for people, with bits and bobs in. I'll post some ideas ASAP!

Today, it's shortbread.

I'm not a huge fan myself, but my family love the stuff so it's always appreciated!! :) and I can make vegan versions of most of these for my friends too!

Ingredients:

125g/4oz butter (or vegan option)
55g/20z caster sugar
180g/6oz plain flour

(makes about 20-24 fingers, I halved the ingredients because there was only my Mum and I eating them!)

you can add a splash of vanilla extract too if you like, but just a splash or they won't taste much like shortbread!! I put vanilla in most things, love it!

Pre-heat the oven to 190c/375f/gas 5

In a mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugar until smooth. Then,. slowly stir in the flour until combined and it has formed a dough ( not a super firm dough though).

Turn out on to a work surface and gently roll out until its is 1cm/1/4 inch thick.

Cut into shapes, fingers, rounds or whatever you fancy! I made stars!

Sprinkle with a little bit of icing sugar and chill in the fridge on a baking tray for 20 mins/half an hour.

Once chilled, bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.

Mine only took about 12 minutes, because I have a fan oven and it gets stupidly hot and burns things so I had to keep a close eye on them!!

Once they cooled, I put them on a plate and sprinkled loads of cinnamon sugar on them, because I love cinnamon and I think it's a nice warm christmassy spice!!


I just realised how crap this post is because I didn't have time to take a picture of the finished product....they got snapped up too quick!!

These also make a nice little gift if you bag them up all nice and finish off with some cute christmas ribbon!!

Good Luck!

Let me know if you make them!!