Christmas Cupcakes

It's officially December. This means Christmas.

Christmas is my favourite time of year.

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!

Did I make that clear?

I have some good things to look forward to this month! Handing all my work in, finishing university for the Christmas break, my sister's birthday and of course, Christmas and Boxing Day where I get to see family and I'll be helping my Mum make Christmas dinner!

Best of all though, I'm going to Paris for 3 nights with my lovely boyfriend :) It was his 21st birthday present from me. I cannot wait!

My sisters and I did a cupcake decorating class 2 weeks ago with Teach Me Sugarcraft. We didn't realise that it was a Christmas theme. 

I don't think it was worth the £70 that the course normally costs! We only paid £10 each as there was a deal on KGB Deals. There were 10 of us squashed around a table in a leisure centre and we only had 3 of each thing on the table, which meant you had to wait and I felt like they rushed us. They had already made the cakes and icing, we just had to pipe, roll, cut and stick.

I think that we could have easily copied the designs from seeing a picture from the internet, we didn't really need to be 'taught', as everyone had basic decorating knowledge.

Ahh well, it was good anyway. Their icing tasted nice.

What do you think?

Zoe x

Easy Roast Beef Dinner

I realise these pictures aren't the best, but what are you more interested in, good pictures or good food? 

Its the latter for me!

I was staying at home with my sisters while my parents were away, and one of my sisters that has been at uni for a few weeks was complaining about not having roast dinners anymore, so I decided to make one!

This has to be one of the easiest roast dinners I have ever cooked!

This was the meat I used, here is the link to it on the Tesco website, because they have changed the packaging for it. 

You literally cook it as it says on the packet; take the plastic off, pour the gravy over, cover with foil, cook for 45 minutes at 180 degrees, remove the foil, cook for another 10 minutes, then remove from the oven, wrap it in foil again and leave to stand for 10 minutes. Simple. 

You need to decide, preferably before hand, what you will accompany your meat with. 

We had; 

- Butternut squash, peeled, chopped, drizzled in oil and roasted - 20 minutes

- Carrots, peeled, chopped and boiled (you can buy it already prepared) - 15 minutes

- Broccoli and cauliflower (pre-prepared) boiled, 10 minutes

- Yorkshire puddings (Aunt Bessie's frozen) - 4 minutes in oven

- Peas and sweetcorn - 3 minutes in microwave, from frozen

- Gravy, Bisto 'favourite' gravy granules, made with boiling water that the vegetables were cooked in, with added beef juices!

Simple enough? 

Enjoy, 

Zoe x