Mince Pie Bundt Cake

Mince Pie Bundt Cake, using Cottage Delight's delicious Luxury Tipsy Mincemeat

Prep: 20 minutes Cook: 1 hour Serves: 10

Ingredients

• 250g unsalted butter

• 220g golden caster sugar

• 200g light muscovado sugar

• 4 large eggs

• 350g plain yoghurt

• 2tsp mixed spice

• 1 jar Cottage Delight Luxury Tipsy Mincemeat 

• 320g plain flour

• 2tsp bicarbonate of soda

• Tiny pinch of salt

• 1tsp ground cinnamon

For decoration

• 170g icing sugar 

• 1 egg white at room temperature

1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 

• Thinly sliced orange or frozen berries (preference)

Method

• Preheat the oven to 175ºC/150ºC fan/gas 3.

• Grease the bundt pan with melted butter and dust with flour.

• In a stand mixer, mix the butter and sugars until pale and fluffy.

• Add the eggs one at a time and mix together.

• Mix the plain yoghurt and Luxury Tipsy Mincemeat together and add to the mixer.

• In a separate bowl, measure and sieve out the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and all the ground spices.

• Sieve in the flour gradually and stop when the flour is evenly mixed in.

• Pour the mix into a greased and floured tin and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean.

• The cake will pull away from the edge of the tin when it is ready.

• Leave the cake to cool fully before removing from the tin. While waiting to cool, make your icing sugar drip. Place icing sugar, egg white and lemon juice into your mixer. Beat on med-high for around 5-7 minutes until it forms soft peaks and is loose enough to drizzle. Pour over and allow to cool/set. Finish with sliced oranges or frozen festive berries (your own preference!).

To learn more about Cottage Delight and to put in some pre-Christmas orders please visit them on https://www.cottagedelight.co.uk.

That's Books and Entertainment: Failed Redemption

That's Books and Entertainment: Failed Redemption: Failed Redemption is a new novel from author R. A. Jordan's John England  series of books. At the beginning of the story we find John En...

Uh Oh Milo! The Excited Elf

In Uh Oh Milo! The Excited Elf Kate Wogan and Helen Faulkner have produced a very good Christmas present for the little ones in your life.

They will learn all about The Excited Elf. The Excited Elf has a very important job. Before Santa arrives and glides down the family's chimney, the children of the house must be sound asleep. 

But who helps them fall asleep on Christmas Eve? The Excited Elf, that's who!

But unfortunately The Excited Elf is far too excited about his exciting job to be able to perform his elfly duties to make certain the children are asleep.

So, what will happen to The Excited Elf? What will happen to the children Milo and Mary if they are too excited to go to sleep?

This has all the hallmarks of turning into a bit of a disaster. But what if their Granny stepped in and offered her expert help and guidance to get The Excited Elf to calm down, just enough, to get his important Christmas task completed and help Milo and Mary to fall asleep before Santa arrives to go down their chimney?

The simple and compelling words of Kate is beautifully complemented by the vibrant and awesome illustrations provided by Helen.

This book, along with the other three books in the Uh Oh Milo! series of books, The Impolite Imps, The Tantrum Trolls and The Beastly Bogels are must haves for the four-year-olds in your life.

They are £7.99 each and, in our opinions, worth every penny.

You can buy them, and other fantastic books and gifts at https://uhohmilo.com.

Pumpkin season - but for your face!

Organic Shop Pumpkin Honey Serum

Organic Shop Pore Minimizing Face Serum for oily skin Pumpkin and Honey (30ml) £4.99

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With Organic Pumpkin Oil and Honey for oily skin

This face serum is everything you'll require when it comes to minimising the appearance of pores. It's formulated for all oily skin.

Formula, based on organic pumpkin oil and honey, helps control skin oiliness, and provides it with nourishment.

Made with 99% natural origin ingredients.

Certified COSMOS Natural by BDIH.

Organic Shop Balancing Face Mask for oily skin Pumpkin and Honey (75ml) £4.99

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This mask helps balance out moisture and control excess sebum production.

Formula, based on organic pumpkin oil and honey, helps control skin oiliness, and provides it with nourishment.

Made with 99% natural origin ingredients.

Certified COSMOS Natural by BDIH.

Organic Shop Mattifying Face Cream for oily skin Pumpkin and Honey (50ml) £4.99

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Try this cream to help restore skin natural balance and leave it with a matte finish.

Formula, based on organic pumpkin oil and honey, helps control skin oiliness, and provides it with nourishment.

Made with 99% natural origin ingredients.

Certified COSMOS Natural by BDIH.

These will be ideal Christmas presents for the organic skin care fans in your life.

BiGDUG launches a Ltd Edition ‘Christmas Mega Deal’

What's included in this Christmas Mega Deal? A whole host of items including:- 

Garage Shelving Unit

Garage Corner Shelving Unit

Garage Shed Workbench

15x Plastic Storage Boxes

24x Plastic Parts Bins

If you have a husband, wife, aunt, uncle, cousin or best friend who needs some new stuff for their home workshop, their garden shed or their garage, then BigDUG has exactly what you need to buy them for Christmas 2022.

So, this Christmas, forget the worrying about a stocking filler when you can gift your loved one/s a whole garage filler, thanks to the Christmas Mega Deal from Storage Solutions specialist BiGDUG.

This limited-edition, festive-red bundle includes everything they will ever need to organise their garage or shed – and they’ll love you snow much for it!

The BiGDUG Christmas Mega Deal features two adjustable steel shelving units – with one being a handy corner unit that fits nice and snug while utilising space, a matching powder-coated red workbench, 15 lidded storage boxes and 24 plastic part bins for the ultimate storage solution.

Sleigh the gift-giving game and treat the special person in your life with the Christmas Mega Deal for just £194.46 from Christmas Mega Deal Shelving BiGDUG. Christmas are decorations not included, you'll need to supply them yourself!

BiGDUG saves you time, space and money by offering the best storage solutions, to bring order and efficiency to your space. Or the space of your loved ones!

BIGDUG offers everything from shelving and racking to workplace products and packing and will provide customers with the best quality products at the best prices.

BiGDUG was founded in 2004 and is now part of the global business equipment group, TAKKT. It already sells storage products to over 250,000 customers and continues to welcome them each day to its trust, customer-focused business.

For more information or to make your Christmas purchases, visit: https://www.bigdug.co.uk.

New Vegetarian Box - Quicke's Letterbox Range

Quicke's Letterbox Range

Quicke's Vegetarian box is the latest addition to their Letterbox range, the perfect way to enjoy the delicious taste of Quicke's traditional clothbound cheeses, delivered straight through your letterbox. 

We at That's Christmas feel that these would make ideal Christmas presents for the vegetarian cheese lovers in your life.

The New Vegetarian Box is perfect for the turophile (that's a lover of cheeses!) in your life. The recyclable box contains all five of the Quicke's vegetarian clothbound cheeses - Goat's Milk Cheese, Oak Smoked Goat's Milk Cheese, Elderflower Cheese, Double Devonshire Cheese and Devonshire Red Cheese.

Each cheese has been carefully handcrafted using milk from their very own grass-fed cows or locally sourced goat's milk, before being clothbound only using vegetable oil and left to mature in the cool, quiet of their Cheese Cathedral. This box also contains tasting notes, each with its own flavour wheels and pairing suggestions. Available at quickes.co.uk : £24

Postage is included in the cost for all UK mainland postcodes.

These convenient packs are also available in three different variations; Cheese and Chocolate, The Cheese Taster and The Cheese Picnic. 

Quicke's Goats Cheese, Honey and Thyme Pizza

Enjoy Quicke's take on a bianca pizza, with the creamy nutty goats cheese, freshness of thyme and a hint of sweetness from the honey.

Serves 4 - Prep time: 15 mins - Cook time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

X 4 Sourdough Pizza Balls 

300g Quicke's Goats Cheese grated 

Honey 

Sprigs of Thyme

Method:

Take the dough balls out from the freezer. Defrost overnight (at least 12 hours) in a refrigerator covered with a clean cloth or cling wrap to prevent drying out.  

Remove 2 hours prior to use and bring up to room temperature allow to double in size.  

On a floured surface, either hand stretch or roll out using a rolling pin to your required size.  

Place in a pre-oiled pizza pan and spread grated Goats cheese evenly across the base sprinkle on the thyme and bake for 8 – 10 minutes until crisp. 

Remove from oven and drizzle over a bit of honey and serve.

Incidentally, I have learned something new. Apparently I, as a confirmed lover of cheese, am a turophile! And I'm cool with that.

Magical Mulled Wine Jam Trifle

Using Cottage Delight Magical Mulled Wine Jam

Prep: 40 minutes Cook: 6 hours chill Serves: 8

Recipe:

For the trifle:

1 x 340g jar Cottage Delight Magical Mulled Wine Jam

2 oranges, peeled and sliced in halves

420g sponge swiss roll

480ml custard

360ml double cream, whipped to soft peaks

500ml mulled wine (ready-made or using recipe below)

135g pack raspberry jelly

Fresh/frozen berries, to decorate

Ground cinnamon, to decorate

For the mulled wine jelly:

Option - make your own mulled wine using the recipe below or use ready-made mulled wine.  

For home-made mulled wine: 

500ml red wine

2 bay leaves

1 star anise

1 orange, thinly sliced

8 cloves, whole

2tbsp sugar 

2 cinnamon sticks

1 packet raspberry jelly

Method for mulled wine jelly:

• Combine all ingredients (not including raspberry jelly) in saucepan and heat gently. Do not boil. Hold at gentle simmer for at least 10 minutes. 

• Remove from heat and strain the liquid.

• Return liquid to pan and dissolve in jelly cubes (if jelly cubes do not dissolve, put some gentle heat underneath).

• If using bottled mulled wine, heat according to bottle instructions before dissolving in the jelly cubes. 

To assemble the trifle: 

1. Make your mulled wine jelly in advance, using recipe and method stated above. Pour jelly mixture into a small rectangle or square baking tin, so it’s roughly 1 inch high. Leave it in the fridge to set (approx. 3 hours)

2. To assemble, line the bottom of a trifle bowl with half of your cake slices. Press slices half way up along the sides of the bowl. 

3. Arrange halved orange slices around side of bowl.

4. Arrange half of the jelly squares over the cake mixture. 

5. Pour over half of the custard. 

6. Spoon over half of the Magical Mulled Wine Jam evenly.

7. Repeat steps 2 to 6.

8. Cover the top with plastic wrap and leave in the fridge for at least 4-6 hours or even better, overnight.

9. When you’re ready to serve, add whipped cream and fresh or frozen berries to decorate before dusting with cinnamon. 

To learn more about the Cottage Delight range or to make your purchases please visit https://www.cottagedelight.co.uk.