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Today my lovelies I bring to you my Best Christmas Biscuit Recipe. I modified this from  http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/863657/spiced-and-iced-christmas-trees. Well let us begin! You Will Need: 100g butter, chopped 175g dark muscovado sugar 85g golden syrup 350g plain flour, plus extra for dusting 1 tbsp ground ginger ¼ tsp ground cloves 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 egg, beaten (Plus your choice of icing) The Steps: Gently melt the butter, muscovado sugar and syrup in a large pan until the sugar dissolves. Mix the flour, spices and ½ tsp salt.  Cool the butter mixture a little, then stir in the bicarb. Immediately add half the spiced flour and beat well. Add the egg and the rest of the spiced flour, then beat well again until the mixture comes together as a soft dough.  Tip onto a sheet of foil, flatten to a large disc, then cool and chill until firm (This took me 30 mins). Will freeze for up to 6 weeks. ...

Jesus Blogmas is going past quickly! (Excuse the pun) and today I thought I'd do a little getting to know me questions and answers. But of course as Christmas is upon us this will be Christmas themed/related. Please do feel free to copy this idea for you own blogs and comment so I can check your ones out! So here it goes (don't judge me too harshly): 1. What colour is your tree decorated this year (if you have one which you should as this is a Christmas quiz)? This year I decided to decorate my tree with garlands of little gold balls and red ornaments, I will upload a picture below for those interested: 2. What is your favourite Christmas Drink? Now this is a tricky one as I have quite a few. I love a hot chocolate but tbh I drink them all year round anyway so it's not very Christmassy. If I'm ill then I'll fix myself a hot honey and lemon but my ultimate Christmassy drink would probably have to be a good mulled cider (or wine if I'm feeling ...