Cranberry Jam

This is a festive recipe for cranberry jam, it will be perfect with your roast turkey on Christmas day.
During the year I collect my empty jars from jams and salsas etc so when it’s jam time you don’t have to waste your money on jars!

Makes 1 large jar.

This is what you need;

300g frozen cranberries
1tsp cloves
1 cinnamon stick
2 oranges, zest and juice
1 tbsp lemon juice
500 ml water
300g caster sugar

Add all your ingredients to a saucepan, put the cloves and cinnamon stick in a muslin, let this simmer for 2 hours and stir occasionally. Sterilize your jar and once the jam is done pour over and cover the opening with baking parchment, once cooled, put the lid on and leave it in the fridge until it’s ready to use. Will keep in the fridge for up to 3-5 months.
Tip – Use your leftover turkey and make a nice sandwich for lunch and spread a thick layer of this jam and Christmas will be in every bite.

Cookies

This is an amazing recipe where you can experiment by adding flavors, here are my top 5.

Makes 20

This is what you need:

• Base Dough

225g butter
300g self-raising flour
1 pinch of salt
1 tbsp vanilla paste
1tsp Baking Soda
2 eggs
200g caster sugar

Start by preheating your oven to 150 degrees, gas mark 3, then in a bowl start by whisking the sugar, butter and vanilla paste gradually add the eggs one by one, whisk until you have a thick paste.
Sift your dry ingredients, if you do a chocolate base remove 2 tbsp flour and add 2 tbsp cocoa powder, into the bowl. Start mixing it all together, if you want to add chocolate chunks or cranberries this is your que. Now for uniform cookies I measure mine, I used 40g of dough for each of these cookies, roll into a ball and put on a grease proof baking trey or paper and bake in the middle of the oven for 9 minutes. Leave them to cool for a few minutes before moving them to a cooling rack.

• White chocolate / cranberry

60g of white chocolate chunks
75g of dried cranberries

• Chocolate chunk caramel melt

60g of milk chocolate chunks
20 smashed up pieces of caramel chocolate (smash one by one square and put on the top of your dough ball)

• Chocolate chunk / peanut butter

30g milk chocolate chunk30g dark (70%) chocolate chunks
20 1/2 tsp smooth peanut butter (make a little whole in the top of the dough ball and fill with peanut butter)

• White Chocolate heaven

200g of white chocolate (make your dough ball then push one square of white chocolate into the ball and keep rolling)

• White / Milk chocolate peace cookies

half and half dough of chocolate and white chocolate dough (weigh out 20g of each and put next to each other then roll)

Now stack them up and take a big bite!