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12 Creative Ways To Recycle Your Christmas Cards!
Don't throw your Christmas cards away! There are so many creative ways to use your Christmas cards, many of which you can do with your kids. We have brought together some ideas below.
Christmas jigsaw game:
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Christmas Recipes: Cakes & Tarts. No.1 of 7 - Mincemeat & Marzipan Tart
Christmas recipe serves: 8
calories per serving: 780
preparation time: 1 hour and chilling
cooking time: 45 minutes
suitable for freezing after step 4
Christmas recipe ingredients:
* white flour, plain 225 g (8 oz)
* salt, a pinch...
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Christmas Recipes: Cakes & Tarts. Nos. 4 of 7 - Date & Ginger Cake
Christmas recipe makes: 16 slices
calories per serving: 210
preparation time: 20 minutes
cooking time: 60 minutes
suitable for freezing
Christmas recipe ingredients:
* oil
* dates, stoned 125 g (4 oz)
* stem ginger, in syrup 50 g (2 oz)
* bicarbonate of soda, 2.5 ml (half tsp)
* milk, 50 ml (2 fl oz)
* butter, 125 g (4 oz)
* sugar, soft brown 125 g (4 oz)
* eggs, 2
* syrup, golden 150 g (5 oz)
* treacle, black 150 g (5 oz)
* flour, plain 225 g (8 oz)
* ginger, ground 7.5 ml (1.5 tsp)
* salt
Christmas recipe instructions:
1. Take a square 9 inch cake tin, grease and line with non-stick baking paper. Mix the bicarbonate of soda with the milk and chop the stem ginger and dates into rough pieces.
2. Blend together the sugar and butter, then add the beaten eggs. Stir in
the stem ginger, dates, milk, treacle and syrup.
3. Blend in a pinch of salt the ground ginger and the sifted flour. Place into the cake tin and bake at gas mark 2 (150 degrees centigrade, 300 F) for about 60 minutes. Another test is to put a skewer into the mixture and it should come out clean. After baking leave the cake in the tin for 1 hour, then remove fron the tin and place on a wire rack.
4. Wrap in greaseproof paper when cool.
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