I do love Christmas time. Love the festivity of it, the warmth shared amongst family and friends and the generosity that you see. These very cute watermelon Christmas trees make such an easy Christmas Treat. I can take no credit for the idea! The lovely Jessica from Apples and Jam, sent me a photo of [...]

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This post is part of my 10 week Christmas Preparation Plan for 2011. I have had a super busy last couple of days. Last night we held our first Community Blogging event which was so inspiring! I will talk more about it tomorrow. Then today I had my daughter’s 8th birthday party, so I have [...]

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I was really looking for a recipe to make what we used to call Vanilla Peanuts. You know those reddy coloured sugar coated peanuts? As a kid we would have them every Christmas and loved them. I still quite like them even though I know they are a peanut simply encrusted in sugar! I couldn’t [...]

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My kids love these Ninjabread Men. But the don’t like the gingerbread flavoured biscuit so I use my basic cookie cutter recipe to make them. I received these very cute cookie cutters from my lovely friend Lou, but if you like them and want some you can get them on ebay for about $15. I [...]

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This Snowballs recipe is very different from the Chocolate Snowballs recipe I posted a few months ago. This is a now bake recipe and is more suitable as a lunch box treat. It is sort of a combination of chocolate balls and rice bubble slice! Pink Snowballs Recipe Ingredients: 100g marshmallows (which is about 1 [...]

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This very cute Chocolate Christmas Tree is easy to make and a perfect treat to get the kids in the kitchen to work on. I made this one with my 6 and 4 year old. If you were to make it on your own, you can be more precise with the layer shape and size, [...]

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