Hello everybody! Welcome back to my kitchen

I know you love when I do baking

I know you love it even more when I do quick and easy treats

So today I am gonna show you how I created

five very quick, very easy things that you can do

if you're having a Christmas party or you're having

your friends around or you can pick and choose a couple

of your favourites to treat yourself on a cold, miserable

winter's day

So let's get started!

The first treat I'm gonna be chatting you trough

are some chocolate orange cookies

Now, I am using my lovely friend Tanya Burr's recipe

but instead of Daim bars I am adding tiny little

Terry's Chocolate Orange Segments which are flipping delicious

First thing you're gonna wanna do is put 200 grams of

unsalted butter at room temperature in a bowl

Next thing you want to add is 300 grams of caster sugar

Sounds like a lot, is a lot

obiviously eat these in moderation

And then using my trusty hand whisk

I'm gonna cream this together until it's really

soft and fluffy

Next you need to crack in one medium sized egg

and beat that in

If you don't have a hand whisk

ask for one for Christmas because

it honestly is just the best thing

Now it's time to add in all your dry ingredients

So we have 275 grams of self-rising flour

and 75 grams of cocoa powder

And then you also want to add a little bit of milk

just until you feel like the consistency isn't as dry

And back to whisk

Now all your ingredients are combined

and you have cookie dough

It's time to add your chocolate

I like to use Milkybar

I feel like if you're not the biggest fan of white chocolate

it really doesn't matter in these

because it just works

Generally I don't really eat white chocolate on its own

but in these cookies it's amazing

And then I'm gonna add a bit of Dairy Milk

And then my little segments of Terry's Chocolate Orange

This is essentially like

cholesterol in a bowl

These cookies are not for the faint hearted

okay, it's all I'm saying

Once you've combined everything together

on your baking trays lined with some baking sheet

you just want to grab a big old handful

Now I actually do put a lot

into one cookie

I'm not too sure if Tan is watching this

She might say I make them too big

but I quite like them like this

And just gonna shove a little orange segment

in the top of that one

Ooh, that's gonna be a good one

Once you've got them all lined out

on your baking tray

depending on the size that you wanna go for

I've gone to quite big so I've got seven out of that

But if you wanna go smaller you'll get a couple more

You want to pop them in a pre-heated oven

at 200 degrees celcius

for ten to eleven minutes

One thing that will confuse you a lot

is that they won't look baked

Take them out, it's absolutely fine

and then leave them to set on the side

for thirty minutes

before tucking into them

The second treat are very easy

very straightforward

gingerbread truffles

Now, I absolutely love gingerbread all year round

but I feel like this video would not be

a Christmas Treats video

if I didn't have some gingerbread in it

First thing you are going to want to do

is get an entire pack of gingernut biscuits

And using a blender or a processer

or something that is going to crush these

into very very fine breadcrumbs

you're gonna want to pop those all in there

This looks like it's sponsored by Nutribullet

It isn't

Now that you have a bowl

full of very fine gingerbread crumbs

you need to get yourself some cream cheese

and using a spoon you simply want to spoon in

a generous dollop

You wanna mix this together until you reach

the perfect consistency

So you want it so that as you roll it

it just forms a ball

You don't wanna make it too wet with the cream cheese

so you have to be quite careful with this bit

This is really messy

and very sticky

Tastes delicious though!

You now want to bring together

the mixture

and make small balls

like so

and pop them down on a tray with a baking sheet

Feel free to make these any size you want by the way

I like them kind of generously mouth-sized

so you can pop the whole thing in if you wanted to

if you are feeling daring

or you can bite it in half

and then you've got more in one

Now you want to pop these in the freezer

for thirty minutes

just so they go hard

Now that your little cheesecake balls have

hardened in the freezer

it is time

to dip them in melted white chocolate

which I have just melted

this isn't just something you can buy unfortunately

We would all love that

So, using a cocktail stick

you want to stick it into your ball

as far in as you can go

but don't go too far because then it will

come out the other end

And you simply want to

twist it in the chocolate

making sure to coat

every little bit

Once you've coated just tap it on the side of the bowl

and gently spin it

just to get off any excess chocolate

And then place it down on the paper

And you have to decorate it now

because they've been frozen

the chocolate sets quite quickly

So I'm using some chocolate sprinkles

and popping those on the top

So I've done four of them with the chocolate sprinkles

but the other remaining four

I'm gonna do slightly differently

So I'm gonna do what I did before

and coat them in the chocolate

and we're just gonna leave them there

Now with the last four I am just going to use

a squeezey tube of chocolate icing

and I'm gonna do some decorating

Like something from Thorntons

And there you go

That is your completed gingerbread cheesecake truffles

These next treats are Christmas tree brownies

which I saw on Pinterest and I just had to

give them a go because they looked amazing

First thing you need to do is to pre-heat your oven

to a 170 degrees celcius

and grease and line a brownie tin

though I have that already

Also, I'm using a brownie mix from a box

which I know some people won't wanna do

and that's fine if you can find the recipe

or you can make really kick-ass brownies

then you can use your own

But because I wanted to make this quite quick and easy

and actually the fun is in the decorating

I'm using trusty Betty Crocker today

So, you wanna do the really hard task of

emptying the bag into a bowl

Be careful

this could go very wrong

This is where I now open the bag

and it goes everywhere and actually does go wrong

Okay, there we go

Next thing you want to do is add

three tablespoons of vegetable oil,

five taplespoons of water

and one medium egg

And then all that's left for you to do

is mix that together

Then you literally wanna pour this into you baking tin

This then needs to go into the oven

for twenty to twenty-five minutes

Once your brownie has completely cooled down

Oops

You wanna take it out

of your tin

and peel it off

Then you want to cut your brownie

into Christmas tree shaped triangles

Once you have cut out your triangles from your brownie

it is time to make some very green

Christmas tree icing

And you can of course make this from a scratch

if you want to

but because we're trying to do this really quick and easy

and I've got all my guests arriving very soon

I'm going to use some more

Betty Crocker vanilla icing

And no, this video is not sponsored by Betty Crocker

So I'm gonna spoon that into a bowl

I'm then gonna add some Americolor electric green

You can get green food colouring

it's probably better to use a gel

I really like these, I got these on eBay

just because I feel like the American colours are really

actually very vibrant and that's exactly what I want

And then using our trusty food bag

we're gonna spoon the icing in

Twist it for your makeshift icing bag

and then snip off the corner

Now, you can snip off quite a big bit if you want your

Christmas tree swirls to be quite

wide and take up quite a lot of the brownie

or you can trim off a really tiny bit

I'm gonna go for a tiny bit on these ones

And then you just want to start at the top

and work your way down to the bottom

So now that you've done your little Christmas tree wiggles

it's time to decorate

So I have these, some gold and silver and white stars

I'm gonna sprinkle some of these on

Now, this bit is quite difficult

You want some stalks for your Christmas tree

So, we're gonna break some mini candy canes

where they bend

because we don't need the bent bit

And we're gonna stick it up the bottom

of the Christmas tree

And there we go

Your Christmas tree brownies

Yayy!

For this next treat I'm gonna show you how to make

chocolate rice krispie Christmas puddings

These are so cute

The first thing you're gonna need to do is

put 50 grams of unsalted butter into a sauce pan

and melt on low heat

You need to add a 180 grams of marshmallows

and continue to stir until the marshmallows

have fully melted

Once the marshmallows have fully melted

take them off the heat and add

100 grams of rice krispies and mix together

Leave that to the side and then in a bowl

over boiling water you need to melt

200 grams of milk chocolate

Once you have you rice krispies and marshmallow

and your melted chocolate

you want to combine the two together

All you want to do is simply roll them up

into little balls and pop them on a lined baking tin

Then you just need to pop this in the fridge

to chill for ten minutes

Now that your rice krispie balls have cooled down

in the fridge, all you need is

a freezer bag and some melted white chocolate

And you just want to pull that down into the corner

unless you have a lot of piping bags available