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Chocolate Goody Filled Christmas Pudding

25 Sep

Exactly what it says on the tin! Our chocolate goody filled xmas pudding is the perfect homemade surprise treat for Christmas Eve. Everyone needs a Christmas pudding!!! See more of our Magical Christmas Traditions and Fun! Here’s how we did it.

Deceptively Fun Dinner

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Deceptively Fun Dinner

15 Sep

I decided to do the kids a fun dinner with a difference….all was not as it seemed but it was still a healthy tea! Here’s what was on the menu. We had dessert first… Shepherd’s Pie.

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Ice Cream Making

31 Jul

Today we decided we wanted to make our own ice cream flavours, we decided on the easy option of adding our ingredients to ready made ice cream and decorating our cones with chocolate and yummies. We started by shopping for our ingredients, chocolate, wafer cones, soft scoop ice cream and sweeties…

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‘Frozen’ Glacier Edible Mint Ice Castle

25 Apr

This yummy activity requires a substantial amount of imagination, lol, we had a vision of an amazing castle of ice shards…. Instead this is how it turned out. We may have bitten off more than we could chew but the girls loved making it and the fun was not only in the trying but also in the devouring afterwards 🙂… View Post

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Cake Decoration Competition

16 Apr

We bought value sponge cakes for 58p each, some sweeties, a block of butter and some icing sugar…we already had food colouring in the cupboard. We made cake stands using a food tin topped with a circle of cardboard covered with a doily, we mixed butter with icing sugar to make the cake covering and icing sugar with water and… View Post

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Baguette Battle Picnic Competition

22 Mar

With a love of Subway in tow we decided to head to the forest for a springtime picnic with a difference… We were going to have a baguette battle & compete in making our own deliciously filled baguettes. We had a few other activities on the agenda including duck feeding, fairy door building & searching for signs of spring, but… View Post

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Wonkalicious Dinner

11 Mar

Everybody loves Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.Willy Wonka rocks! This is one of the kids favourite themed teas we’ve done & very simple to do, an upside down back to front teatime treat based around Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. A proper healthy dinner and pudding consisting of shepherds pie followed by sponge cake and filo strawberry tart…but all with… View Post

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