Now this is a good idea (not mine but my Lovely Husband’s). No sauce in your house for ice cream? Not to worry, use Bailey’s instead. Yum! Now I need an afternoon snooze though…
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It’s not Easter without chocolate nests!
It’s 11.30pm here and I have to be up extra early to ensure that we have time to go to the supermarket in the morning to pick up some bunny ears for the Little One to wear to school tomorrow. Why have I decided to punish myself with a trip to the supermarket with two … Continue reading »
Homemade Ice Cream
One of the presents that the girls got for Christmas was an ice cream maker that you need to turn by hand (thank you Dad!) The girls said they wanted to start an ice cream business when we visited a lovely gelato shop in San Francisco and so this was the start of their business! … Continue reading »
The best ice for a gin and tonic
There is no need for an ice machine here in Crested Butte. We just pop out onto the balcony and break an icicle off the roof to pop into our gin and tonics!
Fun Christmas plate to make
I found this on the internet (the wonder of Pinterest!) and it took 20 minutes. 10 minutes of that was opening the sweets which were all individually wrapped! So unwrap the sweets and arrange them on a piece of baking parchment on a tray. You can put them in any pattern you like. We used … Continue reading »
What to do with too many chocolate brownies
Ok, I admit it. We don’t often have extra chocolate brownies hanging around. They disappear with amazing speed in our house. But I did have some I’d stashed in the freezer which I wanted to use up. What better than making a Christmas tree out of them, decorated with Smarties?
Elf Escapades 10th December
The Elf didn’t have time to hide this morning as he was too busy making marshmallow snowmen. The girls were very pleased with the first course of their breakfast!
Doughnuts for breakfast!
It’s the weekend and in celebration of getting a lie in (6am this morning when the Little One came in to see us, asked if she could get up and then promptly went back to sleep and 7.30am for the Big One, when the huge amounts of giggling the girls were doing forced us out … Continue reading »
Reindeer biscuits
Here are some Christmassy biscuits we made this week. I made the shortbread dough and the girls decorated them… …then ate them!
A North Pole Breakfast to welcome our Elf
Every 1st December a little elf comes to stay with us. He stays with us until Christmas Eve, when he has to return home to help Father Christmas with the deliveries. His job is to watch the girls and report back to Father Christmas on whether the girls should be on the Nice List or … Continue reading »
