A day full of baked goodies :-)

Well as the weather was pants today,I had the perfect excuse to bake.
From left Hot Nuts - As seen on the Fabulous Baker Brothers, caramel with salt and chilli flakes , melt until golden them add about 225g nuts, take off heat and put on baking parchment, leave to cool then break into pieces

Mince pies -as before, need a stash for Christmas..

Peppermint creams dipped in chocolate - 1 large egg white, mix in a few drops of peppermint essence then add 350g of icing sugar. Mix into a paste. Put some corn flour onto work top and roll out the paste and stamp out your desired shape, put-on baking parchment and leave to dry overnight, then dip In chocolate! Yum!

I had lots of leftover pastry from my mince pies so made some cinnamon and chocolate swirls, just covered with butter and cinnamon, Chocolate chips then rolled and cut into small slices. Coat again in butter then put in a 200 degree oven for 15 mins
I can never resist a chocolate chip cookie, and as I had the oven On just had to make some, I followed the recipe from the Great British Bake off, using dark choc chips , great with a cup of tea