White Chocolate TuttiFrutti

    This is my favourite white chocolate recipe. I have been making it every Christmas for the last few years.

Ingredients:

200g White Chocolate
50g Butter
6 Rich Tea Biscuits (Biscuit Marie)
6 Glace Cherries
2 Tablespoon Raisins
1 teaspoon Cut Mixed Peel (candied citrus peel)

Melt White Chocolate and butter in microwave for 30 sec, stir once then put back in again for 30 sec. Repeat until chocolate completely melted.
Stir mixture together until smooth & set aside to allow to cool. In the meantime, cut the glace cherries into pieces.  Crush the biscuits into little pieces using your hands.  Stir the biscuits and the rest of ingredients into the melted  chocolate. Chill for 30 min.

Tear off a sheet of cling film. Place half of the mixture on a sheet of cling film, shape into long sausage & then wrap it up with cling film. Put it in fridge to firm up. Unwrap and carefully cut into 1 cm thick rounds.

Apricot Truffles

I was looking into a different recipe of truffles and I came across this recipe and I had to try it....It is really good & healthy!

Ingredients:

100g ready to eat Apricots (dried - no soak)
40g Cut Mixed Peel ( Candied Citrus Peel)
50g Walnuts chopped
50g Raisins or Sultanas
1 tablespoon Orange juice or Orange liqueur

Chop the Apricot into small pieces, and mix all the ingredients together.  With a small spoon scoop up a bit of the mixture, roll into balls.

Roll the balls in dried coconuts or sesame seeds.

Bascot ElQuaker (Oat Cookies)

 Bascot ElQuaker was my Dad’s favourite type of cookies. He introduced us to oats and porridge after his trip to the UK...

Ingredients:

3 cups Flour

1½ cup Butter (softned)

2 cups Sugar

2 cups Oats

1 cup Walnuts

1 cup Raisins

3 Eggs

2 teaspoon Cinnamon

2 teaspoon Baking Powder

Pinch of salt

4 tablespoon of sugar with ½ tsp of cinnamon (for decoration)

     Rub flour, oats and butter between your hands.

 Add the rest of ingredients and mix all together to make dough. Mix sugar & cinnamon (for decoration) in tea saucer. Pinch a bit of dough and roll it up into a ball between your hands.

Then flatten it a bit. Dip it in the tea saucer so the top of the cookie is coated with the sugar mix.

Place it on greased baking tray. Repeat until the tray is full, leaving some space between the cookies.

 Bake in preheated oven gas mark 6(200C/ 400F) for 15-20 mins or until they are done.