Family Christmas Recipes

[Slaymill]

Reading another thread today about a chocolate Christmas cake made me think we must have a rich source of family heirloom recipes on Mumsnet.

Anyone care to share a much loved recipe for Christmas food/drink ?

Also I on the hunt for this box of Christmas cake decorations. I mislaid mine in a house move :(

Orange Truffles to start your off

8oz 225g Plain Chocolate
3oz 75g Unsalted Butter (room temp)
2 tablespoons double cream
2oz 50g ground almonds
finely grated rind of an orange
1 tablespoon drinking chocolate
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Melt the chocolate in a bowl gently over hot water add the butter little by little. Remove from heat add the cream, almonds and rind.

Cool until stiff enough to mould into balls and roll in powder & cinnamon.

Hopeful bump ( not having much luck at Christmas threads )

Lovely idea for a thread, hope some more people contribute. Your truffles sound perfect for taking to a friend's Christmas party.
Our favourite is Boxing Day pie: Christmas dinner leftovers (turkey, sausage, bacon, potatoes, veg, stuffing - make extra to be sure of leftovers). Chop, put in an oblong dish, make a white sauce and mix, top with shop bought puff pastry & cook c 40 mins . We make extra 'proper' gravy on Xmas Day but if not enough use gravy granules to make it speedy. Blooming gorgeous. I don't add any left over red cabbage or cranberry sauce, I reheat and serve separately.

I love a good pie and yours sounds like a brilliant Boxing Day treat @RockingMyFiftiesNot my DP would devour that as it's his idea of Christmas heaven. Sometimes the leftovers are the best part.

Thank you for answering

I always make nigellas sticky gingerbread for our christmas cake. DH and I hate dried fruit so traditional christmas cake is a no no.

We slice into squares and stack like a mountaim and sprinkle icing sugar on and use mini fir trees and deer and merry christmas sign similar to your missing decorations to decorate the mountain. I inherited the decorations from my nan.

Yum.

We have Christmas cake without the fruit and we call it Spice cake. You can eat it like a soft sponge or put butter on it.

Your post has brought a smile to me as we had those decorations every year when I was a child and I haven't thought of them in years.

Spice cake sounds ingenious and I've never tried the sticky gingerbread cake it sounds like it would go perfectly with after dinner coffee cut into mini squares.

Thanks @acabria I loved putting them on a squidgy Christmas chocolate roulade oozing with cream and dusted with icing sugar.

I hopeful someone might see them for sale on ebay/gumtree/facebook so I can buy them.