What are you baking/cooking today?

Baking red velvet cupcakes and small cake (wanting to test out the cake function in my rice cooker) with homemade cream cheese frosting.

Broccoli already in steam bags so they can go in the microwave.

Roasted cauliflower depending on if they need to be used up (going up to the in-laws on Boxing Day) so we don’t come home to moldy veggies.

Mostly whatever needs to be sorted before we leave on Thursday because I don’t want to do too much on Christmas Day.

Roasting a ham
mini quiche
cranberry sauce
gingerbread cookies
icing the cake

putting the gingerbread house together (although I’ll leave that to DC as it’s a shop bought kit rather than made this year)

😮think I may have been a little ambitious. Thought we might get out for a walk somewhere this afternoon but not so sure now!

better get on with it!

Nothing sadly, just Christmas dinner prep. Would love to make cheese scones but do not have enough flour and I would not venture near a shop today. I follow Delia Smith's recipe on YouTube but double the amount of cheese 🧀 😁

I have a spare packet of puff pastry. Is there anything I could make (savoury) that’s easy and wouldn’t necessarily mean going to a shop? I have lots of cheese, onions, pesto, Marmite, lots of herbs and spices.

I’d roll it out cut in half, pesto and grated cheese sandwiched between two layers and then slice and twist so it looks like cheese twists.

DH and I always have ribs and red cabbage on Xmas Eve so making those first as they need an 8 hour cook. Coffee and black treacle marinade this year.

And then proper gingerbread, the sticky kind. I use a mix of my grannies recipe and Nigella's - a mix of rye and white flour and lots of fresh ginger and black pepper for fire. Needs a long low bake so can go in with the ribs.

I have sacked off baking this year. I'm determined to have a non stressed Christmas! Any baked goods, I have bought for the first time. No one appears to have cared or noticed so far...

I'm currently cooking the ham. I will also make stuffing, pigs in blankets, red cabbage and prep all the other veg later.

Cooking the gammon, prep some of the veg & parboil the potatoes to save some time tomorrow!

It's dd's 7th birthday today and she has requested a gammon roast, so have a massive gammon to cook with leftovers for the boxing day buffet. Might also do some other prep for it if I have time/can be bothered!

I'm not baking today, but my DN is going to pop by later to drop off some of her delicious homemade cookies - she's a fabulous baker.

I have a spare packet of puff pastry. Is there anything I could make (savoury) that’s easy and wouldn’t necessarily mean going to a shop? I have lots of cheese, onions, pesto, Marmite, lots of herbs and spices.

Sausage rolls, cheese and pesto straws, mince pies, coconut buns.

Chocolate sponge snowmen, and gingerbread Christmas trees with green piped icing. My piping is much better after several glasses of fizz 😊

Maybe some more mince pies because ds is at the 'inhaling food' stage and I keep finding the tin empty.

Ham is already baked. I'll prep the veg last thing before bed.

Ham, stuffing, cheesecake and veg prep here today.

Sausage rolls

Meringues to go with the chocolate brownies I made yesterday, and going to try profiteroles. Also need to cook nut roast for dd1 to have on xmas day.

I’m late with the baking this year due to finishing work so late, but it’s a mince-pie-athon in our house today, followed by fresh bread…

I'll be making chocolate truffles (v easy Delia recipe) with my 9 yr old - it's a tradition which involves us and everything around us getting absolutely covered in chocolate...

Mince pies with the DDs. And then prep the veg and potatoes for tomorrow. Looking forward to today so much. All cleaning done, work finishing. Totally chilling out!!

Salmon en croute for this evening and a chocolate raspberry roulade for pud. For tomorrow, a limoncello and blueberry trifle.

Cheese scones for breakfast tomorrow.
Roasting a ham and brining the turkey. I used to prepare veg but I get it prepared from M and S now.

Nigella’s Yule log, two quiches, trifle and maybe cheese straws and a chocolate pie depending on fridge room.

Pavlova, lemon shortbread and marmite/parmesan pastry pinwheels

I'm cooking a Christmas eve feast for my european friends - I have to remake a carrot and coconut cake thst I made yesterday to mature as I forgot to add butter - that eill teach me to multitask. I'm making one of jamie oliver filo cheat quiches and I have a large salmon baking in the oven. I'm toying with the idea of cheese scones as well

I'm going to boil then bake the gammon later and have the first taste.

Might do a dessert thing later too, probably Nigella's sticky toffee pudding - not even a massive fan of sticky toffee pudding but her version is IMMENSE in every sense of the word.

643!!!!!

I’m making veggie sausage rolls. Some will have red onion chutney in and some will have a bit of crumbled Stilton. All will have squished Richmond veggie sausages.

I’m also doing a pile of stuffing balls to go in cobs tonight with Quorn turkey.

I might do a batch of spiced fairy cakes too, if I can be bothered.