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Favourite Christmas Treats

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Blogmas Day 3: Hey Guys, Today I’m going to be talking about my favourite Christmas treats. Today you can pretty much buy the majority of Christmas sweets throughout the whole year but I like to keep some of them especially for Christmas. My most favourite treat is Lebkuchen, it’s a German biscuit that’s kind of like gingerbread. At Asda, they have a selection box of the biscuits with different toppings on. Some are glazed, some have milk chocolate on them and dark chocolate. There is quite a selection. They really are amazing. I love having anything minty at Christmas time. And all the good stuff seems to appear around this time of year. I love After Eights, and Benedict’s. I love Matchmakers and this year they have bought out a limited edition salted caramel flavour which has made me extremely happy.  I really like Cadbury’s snowy selection, so the snowballs and the snow bites. The snowballs are amazing and have to be one of my favourites because you can bite the t...

Ant's Birthday Cake

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Mmmmm, How delicious does that cake look? Trust me it does taste delicious too. Hey, This is my Boyfriend's birthday cake, it took me about 4 hours to make and decorate. But it was worth it because he loved it and so did everyone else. I definitely cheated when it came to making this cake. I wanted to make him a cake I knew he was going to love. He loves chocolate fudge cake, so I thought this is similar so I'll give it a try. This cake is a  Betty Crocker  Devil's Food cake mix. It can be bought from any super market and only requires 3 ingredients to make the cake. To make Ant's cake I wanted four layers so I bought two boxes of cake mix and followed the instructions on the box to make them. I them cut the cakes in half and waited for them to completely cool. My future sister-in-law makes the best buttercream icing I have ever tasted in my life so I asked for a helping hand on that. She mixed icing sugar and butter together with a splash of milk to creat...