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I've been trying to catch up with Christmas crafts today.
This is a inscence burner/ candle holder the candle should light up the window and door while an insence cone should look like smoke coming out the chimney.
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I used the left over clay to make gift tags/ decorations.
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I haven't done macrame in ages but I saw these round bottomed vintage wine bottles in an antiques shop and I had to make a couple of these hanging vases for Christmas presents I'll have to buy some dried flowers to put in them.
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Getting ready for a small Christmas biscuits stall at the Potteries Animal Rescue Christmas Fair in Kidsgrove on Saturday.

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I am sadly no longer able to do the kind of big stall I used to pre-Covid with a two weeks nonstop baking orgy with about 30 different varieties (incl. vegan and gluten-free options and alternatives) but I have concentrated on my usual bestsellers so that there is plenty of them - including my gingerbread guinea pigs, chocolate and almond balls (plain and with kirsch liqueur), two batches of mincemeat filled Christmas shortbread, Basler leckerli (a Christmas spiced local speciality going back 600 years) and some traditional Viennese vanilla & almond shortbread crescents.

Drop by if you are coming on Saturday! :)

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Wiebke said:
Getting ready for a small Christmas biscuits stall at the Potteries Animal Rescue Christmas Fair in Kidsgrove on Saturday.

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I am sadly no longer able to do the kind of big stall I used to pre-Covid with a two weeks nonstop baking orgy with about 30 different varieties (incl. vegan and gluten-free options) but I have concentrated on my usual bestsellers so that there is plenty of them - including my gingerbread guinea pigs, chocolate and almond balls (plain and with kirsch liqueur), two lots of mincemeat filled Christmas shortbread, Basler leckerli (a Christmas spiced local speciality going back 600 years) and some traditional Viennese vanilla & almond shortbread crescents.

Drop by if you are coming on Saturday! :)

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You mean "drop by while you can", because it disappears with surprising speed!
 
Wiebke said:
Getting ready for a small Christmas biscuits stall at the Potteries Animal Rescue Christmas Fair in Kidsgrove on Saturday.

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I am sadly no longer able to do the kind of big stall I used to pre-Covid with a two weeks nonstop baking orgy with about 30 different varieties (incl. vegan and gluten-free options) but I have concentrated on my usual bestsellers so that there is plenty of them - including my gingerbread guinea pigs, chocolate and almond balls (plain and with kirsch liqueur), two lots of mincemeat filled Christmas shortbread, Basler leckerli (a Christmas spiced local speciality going back 600 years) and some traditional Viennese vanilla & almond shortbread crescents.

Drop by if you are coming on Saturday! :)

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Wow they all look great. The piggie biscuits are fabulous. 🤩
 
Lorcan said:
You mean "drop by while you can", because it disappears with surprising speed!
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The Christmas shortbread usually seems to evaporate rather quickly. :)

Poor Swissgreys had a bit of a shock when I started selling biscuits while still setting up my stall and didn't get time to come up for breath until about three hours later. Her kind offer to help me was more like offering herself to being swallowed whole by Jaws with a very sweet tooth. :D
 
In other years I've also made these piggies here from mixing patches of vanilla and chocolate biscuit dough; the more often I clump the dough leftovers together and roll them out for more cutting, the more of a mottled effect I get.

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The added cocoa powder makes the chocolate dough a little drier so I add a spoonful of water to have the same consistency. I alwas have some only vanilla or chocolate piggies for the more particular children and the rule: you can take your time to choose but as soon as you touch a biscuit, you have to buy it.
 
My mum and I did some pre-christmas baking this weekend:
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Vanillekipferl, a traditional Austria christmas biscuit (@Wiebke called them Viennese vanilla & almond shortbread crescents, but we do them with hazelnuts).

Cookies with chocolate and hazelnuts - not very good looking but very tasty - and cocunut balls (called Kokosbusserl)
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'Kokosbusserl' is Austrian German for 'coconut kisses', or macaroons made with desiccated coconut. :) Everybody has their own favourites and recipes - there are hundreds of them with their own regional, family or personal tweaks in the German speaking countries during advent and for Christmas. I like coconut macaroons best with chopped candied ginger, lime zest and a bit of dark chocolate glaze over the top. :)

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