It's poncetastic 2019!

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Since no one has started it yet, I thought I would.

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Hello :)
Today I started thinking about the decorations for my annual christmas do. Is white with gold and silver accents classy or tacky?
Dreaming of a long table with a white tablecloth, white napkins, sugar cookies with white icing and golden writing as place cards and gold and silver baubles arranged on real fir branches as a centrepiece, together with maybe a string of lights or two.
The tree won't fit the decoration, simply as it's become a bit of a tradition to have sweets and biscuits hanging from the tree and people picking them whenever they fancy something.

I think white and gold sounds lovely. It doesn't matter if the table looks different to the tree.

@Christmasglitterfairy sounds gorgeous.

Egremont If you' don't do alcohol, the solid marmalade could be melted gently in a large pot, blended with a hand held blender after adding fizzy water or still , until you like the flavour. For a nice drink for the children or whoever ! Or added to a homemade cake\pudding.

The possibilities are endless

Oh It's nice to join this thread again, if a bit worry making ! Though I don't make an Xmas cake now we don't like it. I'll make one of the lighter ones probably a chocolate log.

@ppeatfruit love a chocolate log!

Me too Whitecandle The Delia Smith flour free one is the best IME. With the lovely marscapone and chocolate ganache filling! Yum

@ppeatfruit 😳 I will be making that one this year!! Sounds lush

I have a (fake) Kilner jar and a litre of vodka to do the cranberry vodka! I can't wait!

ppeatfruit have you ever blended marmalade into water yourself, or is it more theoretical? I just imagine it being gloopy and gritty...

I think I will probably go for marmalade and bay leaf gin and see how DH feels about ham for Christmas dinner.

Oh I love the poncetastic threads, but they cost me a lot of time and money. I'm not really allowed to start making until mid November. It's the law.

Last year I made ribbon garlands and sold lots, made £100 or so, and rude sweary cards in traditional styles on brown paper with my trusty alphabet stamps. And quilted wreaths.

So far this year I've made salt dough gingerbread scented tree decs because I want to do a cookie themed tree.
And my cake (but that was because Dh wanted a Christmas cake for his birthday cake, so I made 2)

I am saving tuna tins to make mini cakes as gifts. I've also bought a vintage tea set to do mini aloe plants in teacups on saucers for teachers gifts (price 30p each, get in!)

Right. Must wipe this thread from my memory now!!

Well you do have to have a powerful blender, which can 'smooth out' anything it's not got grit in it has it Egre ? If so you can put it through a muslin after the blending. I do make raspberry coulis sauce with fresh raspberry jam and you have to put that through a muslin cloth to refine it. It's true

Tuna tins to make mini cakes! Why have I never thought of that?

Tweedle they need to be the ones you open with a can opener, as the ring pull ones have a ridge round the rim. I made a sample one when I made my main cake and it worked really well (obviously timing etc needs to be adjusted) and I reckon I'll get 8/9 from a 1kilo fruit mix

@thenewaveragebear1983 thanks. How long did you bake them for? They'll be so tiny

They took about 45 mins on a low setting. They are surprisingly chunky actually, it was easily a 2 slice portion I reckon.

Trial and error, you'd have to watch them (and obviously get to eat the spoils!)

Ok, off I go to eat some tuna!

theaverage That is a brilliant idea about the vintage tea set with aloe plants in them, I'd have loved one of those as a teacher (instead of the talcum powder and stuff I was given )

Loving the tuna tin cake pan idea. Must eat the tuna that’s been languishing at the back of the cupboard now.

Signing in, I LOVE the Poncetastic threads!

Can I join this year? I've finally got the building work finished and a sort of tidy house and the whole family for the whole of Christmas so I can feel a poncetastic one coming on! I finished my Christmas cross stitch last month but need to frame it (picture to come!), the Rumtopf is coming along nicely and I've got a couple of bottle of sloe gin ready to go!

And I've just bought the Nigel Slater book from further up the thread. Sorting out the freezer tonight so I can start cooking!

Cranberry vodka is go!

We just used a BBC recipe, which is 250g cranberries, 175g caster sugar and 1l vodka.

My mum used to make me my own Christmas cake in a medium sweetcorn tin which was a good size @didireallysaythat

tinnitsarina I have only just read the whole of the thread dh and I are basically gluten free. I use rice flour in place of normal flour in all the recipes that need flour, of course, and have found it nicer than GF flour. In rich cakes like brownies I use ground almonds which really does make a difference if you don't overbake them!

Poncing with Christmas cards this morning. Very amateur & rustic but I like them. & Recycled/recyclable (I know there is a bit of glitter..... Shush!!)