Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year to create tablesettings. This red and white festive holiday tablesetting features Royal Albert’s “Poinsettia” Bone China dinnerware produced by the company from c.1976-1997. I am fortunate enough to have six placesettings of this pretty china.
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Toffee Bits and Pistachio Cookies
These delightful Toffee Bits and Pistachio Cookies have a short tender texture owing to the cornstarch in the ingredients. Fabulously tasty bites, they are great on cookie trays, packaged in tins or boxes for gifts, and suitable for cookie exchange events. They go very well with a fine cup of tea or coffee, too.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Recipe
These Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are such fun cookies with their frosty white crinkles contrasting the chocolate. But the real bonus is how tasty they are. When the cookies expand as they rise in the oven, they split on the top to form the characteristic “crinkle” appearance from the icing sugar in which they were rolled.
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I think Panna Cotta is one of the simplest desserts to make. It’s seriously nothing more complicated than heating cream and sugar and stirring in some “bloomed” gelatine to set the mixture. There are many variations to the basic Panna Cotta and, today, I am sharing my recipe for a divine seasonal Eggnog and Pomegranate Panna Cotta.
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