Tagged: Christmas
Christmas Tree Cake
It’s not quite finished yet – we have to add a whole load of presents around the tree. Morgan has been working hard on those. Otherwise progress on the Christmas Tree themed Christmas Cake is coming on well. Even if I do now literally have green fingers thanks to all of the green food colouring!...
The Christmas Cakes are a Coming
Another sleepless night last night thanks to the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers. We started off by taking the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts to the Railway Inn and The Victoria in Borth so that they could sing carols at the Mad Friday punters and collect some money. They did OK and the people of Borth...
Christmas is Coming
Christmas arrives in the Cole Household.
Busy Busy Busy – Here Comes Christmas
So busy here at the moment that’s there’s simply no time for blogging. So, here’s a few photos from our recent pre-Christmas family visit to Gloucestershire. After a quick visit to Ikea on the way there, we spent most of Saturday morning shopping, then had a Christmas crafts afternoon with the family followed by a party dinner. I...
Christmas Cake Baking
If you haven’t already done so, then it’s time to think about baking your Christmas Cake. I know some people do it much earlier than this, but the half term holidays seems like a perfect time to do it. We have about 8 weeks until Christmas itself, which give me plenty of time to ‘feed’...
Christmas Traditions with the Cole Family
Christmas started for us on Monday afternoon once Anna had finished work for the day. It started with the traditional supermarket battle as we joined everyone else by buying our last minute supplies for the holidays. It wasn’t too bad really, yes it was busy, yes the shops were running out of things, yes the...
Christmas Cake Decorating
The time had come or some Christmas cake decorating. I made the cakes a few weeks ago and then fed them with alcohol for a couple of weeks before coating them with marzipan last weekend. This weekend it was time to cover them with icing and then decorate them. A Chocolate Christmas Cake I started...
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Christmas Cake – The Marzipan Stage
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas… Well, it’s not actually as Morgan is still ill as am I and we still have loads to do and another full week of work and school next week yet. Even so, I found time to work on the next stage of the Cole Christmas Cake today,...
