Gingerbread Overload (Christmas Edition!)

Hiya guys so I'm back with a lovely new festive baking post. It had to be gingerbread and since I've never made gingerbread I used Zoella's recipe for gingerbread cupcakes, my own favourite buttercream recipe to ice the cakes and a BBC good food recipe for little gingerbread biscuits to top the cakes and to make so extra biscuits with! 

Okay for the Cakes  I used Zoellas Recipe posted below, I found it actually very easy to use and they turned out really well, so I have no real amendments for these little cakes!

I've linked her post below as it's Hugggggggeee

Zoella Gingerbread Cupcakes

Okay for the Buttercream I used my own tried and tested recipe which I LOVE and it comes out perfect everytime. 

Ingredients 

1 cup of soften unsalted butter

3 cups of icing sugar

1 tsp of vanilla essence 

2 tbs of milk

Cream all the ingredients together and you'll have a lovely sweet and creamy buttercream. 

Okay for the gingerbread I found this recipe from BBC good food, which I thought could do with a bit more butter to bind the mixture together! 

Gingerbread Recipe

I cut these into little circle to put on top of the cakes and make the rest into big star shapes but feel free to go mad! 

Hope you enjoy this post and it gets you in the christmas spirit!

Love Carly

xoxo

Terry's Chocolate Orange Cheesecake Recipe (Christmas Edition!)

Hiya loves so I'm back with a new foodie friday post today....CHEESECAKE

Okay so this image is from online, I forgot to take a picture of mine, sorry but this looks pretty much identical to mine! 

This recipe is my fall back dinner party recipe, it's so easy to make and it's so very popular and I think chocolate and orange are just a lovely combination for christmas time so here goes...

Ingredients

1 Terry's chocolate orange

2 tubs of full fat cream cheese

1 Packet of HobNobs 

1 cup of butter (melted)

1 and 1/2 cups of icing sugar 

3 teaspoons of sugar

1. Okay start by bashing your hobnobs into crumbs making sure there's no big biscuit chunks and that  you have a bowl of nice chunky crumbs!

2. Add in the melted butter and sugar gradually  and mix well, make sure the mixture looks damp throughout but not greasy and soaked, feel free to add more or less depending on how it looks. Pat this mixture into the bottom of a cake tin and thats you! 

3. Add to the two tubs of cream cheese in a bowl and add in the icing sugar gradually staring until it tastes sweet, you may not need all of it its personal preference but its essential to use the icing sugar as it helps set the mixture.

4. Melt about 3/4 of the chocolate and add gradually again this is to personal preference and depends on how chocolatey you like it. 

5.Add this on top of the crumb mixture and pop in fridge to set for two hours.

6. Use the remaining chocolate to decorate, I melted it this time.

7.ENJOY

Carly xx

*Side note, check out my Instagram (@carlymcleary) for loads of pictures of my cheesecake making I've made many over the years and you can edit this recipe and use any type of chocolate!