All the homemade Christmas people over here please, lets share our ideas :) - SECOND EDITION :)

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We were all on about pinterest, jars, and where we are up to in our christmas planning :)

Lets go...

We wish you a good Christmas
It's not our usual flair
We've made these for you lovingly
Taste them (if you dare)

I have a stoopidly easy Baileys Fudge recipe...

Melt four cups of dark chocolate (I find that is about 4 x 100g bars)
In a seperate bowl, mix 1 cup of Baileys into 3 cups of icing sugar until blended and 'smooth' looking. Mix the melted chocolate into the icing sugar/baileys mixture, pour into a clingfilm lined tray and put in the fridge overnight until set. Cut into very small pieces then hide in a room and eat it all yourself

I am going to experiment with making this with orange juice at the weekend, as DH doesn't drink or like the taste of baileys boohoo more fudge for me

if you don't have measuring cups, btw, it doesn't matter - just think in terms of equal measures.

Ok I am going to admit to lurking on this thread a lot . I don't have the time or willpower to make half the stuff you lovely lot are doing. However I might pop up now and agian with a question, so feel free to skirt round me, as I cannot spend hours on here keeping up

TLBs That sounds amazing and baileys happens to be MIL's favourite, think she'll be getting a few squares of that in her stocking!

Hi Saltire, ask (and lurk) away :)

I found a fig mustard recipe here

going to bottle all my booze this evening, then work out what else we need to make. I may try a batch of cake batter bark at some point, since my lovely American friend brought me some Duncan Hines yellow cake mix! I also have coconut M+Ms so will be making some coconut bark with them on top!

Long time lurker (and repinner!), first time posting on this thread but I'm over excited to discover my lovely PIL have purchased my rather optimistic wish sewing machine from my amazon wishlist, for my birthday this month. So that's nearly 2 months to get making some of the lovely stuff from this thread and pinterest. I have the christmas pudding vodka already but I had stalled on everything else, and can't wait to get started properly.

Kveta Please can you post the recipe for coconut bark on here as i'm not on pinterest - it sounds bloody amazing!!!

Ahh Thunder my DD2's nursery made me that poem with her grubby little handprints on last year, have of course kept it but hadn't thought of framing it - great idea! :)

Nice one crumble. I'm a bit rubbish and always end up hand sewing things like hems and sock monkeys as I think my sewing machine is under the stairs beneath a load of DH's junk. You may have inspired me to dig it out. What were you thinking of making?

I should never have come here. Never.

Thanks to this thread, and the last one I have spent HOURS looking at pinterest and have now got at least 40 things I MUST try and make. Oh God!

Think that's why babydubs started this thread so early on in the year Shirley. FWIW I thought I was going to just sew an apron or two for nephews and nieces. Now I'm making everyone everthing, have probably spent just as much on essential homemaking goods fabric and ribbons and jars and sugar and am also having a table at a local Christmas craft fair!! So watch yourself indeed! :o :o

Thunder I love that poem. I'm going to steal it and do some hand prints with dd.

Deemented - bark here :) join pinterest, you know you want to!!

Flubba I'm the same. I was planning on getting some ideas for the older members of our families, maybe making some decorations as it'll be DC1's first Christmas and getting some good recipes for booze.

I'm making everything now, I've spent a fortune on molds and felt, my fingertips are toughening up from knitting and I'm doing a table at the Scout Christmas Bazaar

Thanks, Kveta - yes i do want to join pinterest, but not until January at least, when i can sit down and make a list of everything i can make when i'm sat on the sofa BF DC5 who's due in Feb. If i look now i'll never get anything done at all!!!

A late joiner to this thread but I have done homemade presents for the past few years - I do hampers for my mum, dad & stepmum, FIL, grandmother etc. So far this year I've made apple sauce, apple butter, apple chutney (we have had a lot of apples from our tree this year!), strawberry jam. Usually make my own mincemeat and Christmas cakes, have previously made lemon curd (really simple microwave recipe).

Besides food I have also made a cute sock monkey for DS2 which I'm really pleased with - might make them for my little niece and nephew if I get time. Been making loads of candles too in the past week (thanks to laurie's famous candle thread!) Last year I made some nice body scrubs but used most of them myself before Christmas

:o Toria :o

I can't pin this recipe, but found a fab way to preserve walnuts, in case anyone has a surplus! walnuts in honey I've been gifted a carrier bag full by a friend who has a very productive tree, so will give this a go I think!

twolittlemonkeys i'd love your lemon curd recipe please!

Easy Lemon Curd
Juice of 2 large lemons or 4 small limes
2 eggs
110g caster sugar
60g butter
Instructions
Mix the lemon (or lime) juice and eggs together and strain the liquid into a bowl. Stir in the sugar and then add the butter.
Cover the bowl with cling film and cook the mixture on high for 1 minute.
Remove the wrap and give the mixture a stir. Return the bowl, uncovered, to the microwave and cook on medium for 6 minutes, a minute at a time, until the lemon curd thickens. Whisk well after every minute, to prevent curdling.
Using oven gloves remove the bowl from the microwave and continue whisking until the mixture begins to cool down. Pour into a sterilised jar. Best kept refrigerated.

How much crud does that make, twolittlemonkies?

Curd, i meant curd