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Chocolate Peppermint Christmas Milkshake

This Chocolate Peppermint Christmas Milkshake is the perfect way to enjoy a milkshake during the holiday season. Made with After Eight mints, it’s fully of chocolatey, pepperminty goodness. You’ll totally love it!

This Chocolate Peppermint Christmas Milkshake is the perfect way to enjoy a milkshake during the holiday season. Made with After Eight mints, it's fully of chocolatey, pepperminty goodness. You'll totally love it!

Woo it’s Day 2 of my Christmas Countdown. Yesterday I realised that I had as many Christmas recipes left to post as days ’til Christmas, so I’m posting one Christmas recipe a day up to, and including, Christmas Eve. Yesterday was amazing Spiced Caramel and today it’s this yummy Chocolate Peppermint Milkshake. 

This Chocolate Peppermint Christmas Milkshake is the perfect way to enjoy a milkshake during the holiday season. Made with After Eight mints, it's fully of chocolatey, pepperminty goodness. You'll totally love it!

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Bounty Coconut Chocolates

Bounty Coconut Truffles

 Hello from Atlanta! Well, technically Kennesaw these days, but I’m not here to fuss around on technicalities! I love the city, I love cities in general, I’m definitely the kind of person that prefers to be surrounded by tall buildings and lots of people over countryside and nature! But as much as I love the city, I have to admit it is beautiful up here in the ‘burbs. I’m staying at Leah’s mum’s house and it’s gorgeous, it’s a beautiful house in beautiful surroundings – hopefully in my next post I’ll include a few photographs for you, because it is lovely up here. The weather has become much warmer than it has been here too, I’m choosing to believe I brought the warmth with me as the temperature has apparently dropped a lot in the UK since I left on Monday!

Bounty Coconut Truffles

I did intend for this post to be out on Wednesday, but I was having a bit of bloggers block and combined with how exhausted travelling had left me (I was travelling for 20 hours, no fun!) it just wasn’t happening. But it’s all worked out in the end, because today is Fiesta Friday which is the best day of the week! It’s even better this week (for me, that is) because I am co-hosting the party for the first time! When Angie asked me if I’d like to co-host, I pretty much tripped over myself to say yes! I can say with all honesty that Fiesta Friday is the best link party out there, and if you haven’t joined yet let today be your first, I guarantee fun! Fiesta Friday is a great way to gain exposure for your blog and posts, lots of bloggers link up every single week who will be coming over to see your wonderful posts – but I think the best thing about Fiesta Friday is how social it is, everybody is so friendly and welcoming whether it’s your first link up or your 45th! We’re not just here for exposure, we’re here to make friends and have fun! 

Bounty Coconut Truffles

 

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Chocolate Magic Cake

Chocolate Magic Custard Cake

Magic cake you guys! It’s actually magic! Or it’s science, which is kind of like magic to those of us who don’t understand science (i.e. me). You mix up one cake batter, pour it into a pan, bake it and voila – you have three separate layers when it’s done. A dense, chewy layer. A creamy custard layer. And a light sponge layer. It’s magic!! I’m very excited about it!

Chocolate Magic Custard Cake

 

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Glazed Donuts

Glazed Donuts

Today is Great British Bake Off day! Yay! And tonight’s theme is advanced dough and they are making donuts, so I figured today is the best day to post these yummy treats! This isn’t my entry for advanced dough week, I have something else planned for that. These are just to celebrate it being Wednesday aka GBBO day! If you watch tonight’s episode, I’d love to hear your thoughts on who baked well and the choices of star baker and who got sent home!

Glazed Donuts

 

I love donuts. Who doesn’t love donuts? Are there people in the world that don’t like happiness? Anything is possible I guess! I have made baked donuts before, which were yummy but let’s be honest with ourselves, nothing beats the real fried dough! I’d never made real donuts because frankly I was terrified of all that hot oil, I’m the kind of person that falls UP the stairs so I thought if I was in charge of that much hot oil I’d end up burning my face off somehow. But then Stephanie at The Cozy Cook posted her glazed donuts and everything changed! I was drooling over her photos and just couldn’t resist her literal mountain of donuts and decided to throw caution to the wind and give them a go, after some advice from her!

Glazed Donuts

 

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Ferrero Rocher Cupcakes

ferrero rocher cupcakes

Do these Ferrero Rocher cupcakes even need an introduction? These are the kind of cupcakes that walk into a party and everybody turns their head to stare! They’re the A-Lister of cupcakes, I mean look at them! Moist, rich chocolate cake filled with chocolate hazelnut ganache and topped with chocolate hazelnut swiss meringue buttercream – who doesn’t love chocolate and hazelnut together? They’re the classic couple, the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers of food pairings! What I’m trying to say is these cupcakes are to die for, if you like Ferrero Rocher these cupcakes are for you! 

ferrero rocher cupcakes

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