Hope
you all are gearing up for Christmas and New Year. Do you have the tradition of exchanging Christmas
gifts to you near and dear ones? Well, I didn’t actually until I moved to U.K.
The only time I exchanged gifts was when we played the game of Christmas
friend/ secret Santa in school and college and that was the most exciting bit
for me during those days. Now exchanging gifts is like a tradition for me
especially for my close friends. This year we kicked of our Christmas ritual a
bit early. BY “WE” I meant my fun gal gang, Nisha( My kitchenantics),Gayatri ( mummyandme ) and Suchi (Kitchen karma). We met for a Sunday brunch to exchange
gifts in a cosy place!
We
were all so excited about the whole gift thing and couldn’t wait for it. I have
to say I was really gobsmacked to see all gifts ! They were all home- made and
they were all packed and wrapped with so much love! Perfect gifts in all sense ..
Gayatri took a lot of effort by giving us a
basket full of homemade goodies. Homemade panettone, chocolates, mulling
syrup, garam masala salt and stolen! That was the first time I ate stolen and
panettone ever and I couldn’t stop eating it!
Picture courtsey - Gayatri |
Nisha gifted us home made candles in a pretty vintage cup along with some bath bombs in three diffrent flavours! I am saving those cuties for Christmas holidays to have a spa day!
My spa gifts from Nisha and Suchi ! |
Here goes the recipe ..
(Recipe adapted from Nigella )
Ingredients(
makes 24 bars)
Rich
tea biscuits – 200 gm
Marshmallows
– 100 gm
Dark
chocolate (70 % cocoa) – 300 gm
Butter
( unsalted) – 125 gm
Golden
syrup – 3 tbs
Cashewnut
chopped -2 tbs
Raisins
– 2 tbs
Icing
sugar (for dusting)
Method
- Place the biscuits in a plastic bag and bash them with a rolling pin taking care to leave enough biscuit pieces to bite too.
- Melt butter, chocolate and golden syrup in a saucepan.
- Measure and save ½ cup or 125 ml of the melted mixture for later.
- Add marshmallows to the saucepan and mix.
- Add in the biscuit crumbs and pieces together with cashewnuts and raisins and fold in.
- Transfer it into a 9 inch square foil tray and spread it evenly as possible.
- Pour the reserved melted chocolate on top and smoothen it.
- Refrigerate for few hours or overnight.
- Dust it with icing sugar and cut them into pieces.
6 comments:
the gifts that you received and the ones that you made all look so good... even I would get super excited with such gifts, hehe...
lovely gift exchange,Vinee..all the gifts look so adorable n yummm too..Rocky road bars rocks too !!
What is the pink stuff in the bar Vinee? These bars look perfect for the edible gifts!!
@shibi, its pink marshmallows..I used pink and white marshallows to make it more colourful :)
wow so beautiful looking bars
I saw this and did it rightaway. Even posted my version on my blog with a link to yours. Thank you for sharing and I can't stop praising your photography skills. They all look so great!
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